Data Privacy News
A selection of top headlines from today’s best sources for Data Privacy News:
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Biden's OPM nominee appears headed for confirmation
A vote on the nomination of Kiran Ahuja to head the Office of Personnel Management is expected before the Senate goes into recess at the end of next week.
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FCW Insider: June 11, 2021
The latest news and analysis from FCW's reporters and editors.
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Biden's pick to lead GSA: 'We can't implement government policy if we can't get the damn websites to work'
Robin Carnahan said she will focus on making General Services Administration's offerings more user friendly and digitally secure while improving governmentwide cybersecurity efforts.
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New White House guidance for feds returning to the office and the future 'hybrid' federal workforce
A new OMB memo provides instructions on how to bring feds back to government offices on a large scale and asks agencies to consider long-term planning for a drastically different workplace.
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Biden's top cyber nominees face the Senate as the country reels from cyberattacks
Jen Easterly, selected to head the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and Chris Inglis, the former National Security Agency deputy director picked to fill the new national cyber director role, faced lawmakers concerned about the spike in ransomware attacks.
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Biden revokes Trump's unenforced Chinese app bans
President Joe Biden's administration is establishing a new timetable to assess risks posed by using web services from foreign adversaries like China - while revoking his predecessor's final actions against Beijing.
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FCW Insider: June 10, 2021
The latest news and analysis from FCW's reporters and editors.
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OMB wants budget boost to rebuild workforce
OMB Acting Director Shalanda Young said some offices within her agency remain 30% below 2012 staffing levels.
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Live Webinar | Disrupting Watchlist Screening with Modern Technologies
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Protecting Financial Institutions against New Ransomware and Tech Supply-Chain Attacks
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ENISA: Software vulnerability prevention initiatives
The European Network and Information Security Agency, ENISA, has compiled a list of existing initiatives focused on finding and preventing software vulnerabilities.
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Accounting of Disclosures Under the HITECH Act
A notice of proposed rulemaking from the HHS Office for Civil Rights that would modify the HIPAA Privacy Rule standard for accounting of disclosures of protected health information and add new requirements for access reports.
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FFIEC Final Authentication Guidance
The Final FFIEC Guidance has been issued and its main intent is to reinforce the 2005 Guidance's risk management framework and update the Agencies' expectations regarding customer authentication, layered security, or other controls in the increasingly hostile online environment.
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Annual Report to Congress on Breaches of Unsecured Protected Health Information
The Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights provided a report to Congress on health information breaches from September 2009 through 2010, as required under the HITECH Act. Nearly 7.9 million Americans were affected by almost 30,800[…]
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Al-Jazeera News Service Says It Foiled Hacking Attempts
Attack Targeted Takeover of News PlatformThe Qatar-based Al-Jazeera news service has said that it was subjected to a series of cyber-hacking attempts to penetrate some of its platforms and websites this week. It did not explain if this was a[…]
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Security Firm COO Charged in Attack on Medical Center
Experts Say Odd Case Offers Forewarning to OthersThe chief operating officer of a network security firm serving the healthcare sector has been charged by federal prosecutors with crimes stemming from an alleged cyberattack on an Atlanta, Georgia-area medical center in[…]
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McDonald's Breach Exposes Korean, Taiwanese Customer Data
Company Says Phone Numbers, Delivery and Email Addresses ExposedFast-food giant McDonald's is acknowledging a data breach that affected some customer and company data from its locations in Korea and Taiwan. Phone numbers, delivery and email addresses were exposed. Payment data,[…]
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U.K. Plans for Enhanced Cybersecurity Role
Joint Effort with US to Maintain a Black List of Hackers Among Plan proposalsThe U.K. says it plans to turn the country into a global leader in cybersecurity, in partnership with the U.S, to counter threats ranging from ransomware to[…]
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