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FBI Releases Guidance on Defending Against VTC Hijacking and Zoom-bombing

Posted on April 5, 2020 by Dissent

From the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office for Civil Rights FBI Releases Guidance on Defending Against VTC Hijacking and Zoom-bombing 04/02/2020 11:39 AM EDT The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released an article on defending against video-teleconferencing (VTC) hijacking (referred to as “Zoom-bombing” when attacks are to the Zoom VTC platform).  Many organizations…

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Zoom banned from New York City schools due to privacy and security flaws

Posted on April 4, 2020 by Dissent

Ainsley Harris reports: A few weeks ago, New York City’s 75,000 teachers scrambled to learn how to use videoconferencing services like Zoom as novel coronavirus cases began to rise and schools prepared to close their doors and institute remote learning. Now, the city’s teachers will have to scramble once more, after Department of Education Chancellor…

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Alert from OCR: Individual Posing as OCR Investigator

Posted on April 3, 2020 by Dissent

From OCR, this alert: It has come to OCR’s attention that an individual posing as an OCR Investigator has contacted HIPAA covered entities in an attempt to obtain protected health information (PHI).  The individual identifies themselves on the telephone as an OCR investigator, but does not provide an OCR complaint transaction number or any other…

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MT: DPC launches investigation after over 330,000 voters’ personal data leaked in security breach

Posted on April 1, 2020 by Dissent

Matthew Vella reports: The data protection commissioner will be launching an investigation after a massive security vulnerability – in a database containing information on 337,384 voters from Malta that was being held by a Maltese IT company – led it to be exposed without security. The data includes ID numbers, names, addresses, gender, phone numbers…

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UK: Morrisons not liable for 2014 data breach, says Supreme Court

Posted on April 1, 2020 by Dissent

Alex Scroxton reports: Supermarket chain Morrisons has succeeded in its appeal to the Supreme Court against judgments that held it liable for an insider data breach caused by a disgruntled employee. In its unanimous judgment, the Supreme Court said previous judgments had fundamentally misunderstood the principles governing vicarious liability in a number of ways, most notably because…

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The UK Cabinet is meeting on Zoom… here’s the meeting ID

Posted on April 1, 2020 by Dissent

Yesterday, Graham Cluley wrote: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Twitter this afternoon that he was chairing the first ever digital Cabinet, while he self-isolated himself at Downing Street after revealing he was suffering “mild symptoms” of Coronavirus. Johnson included in the tweet a screenshot of his desktop, showing there were 35 participants on the Zoom…

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