Data Privacy News
A selection of top headlines from today’s best sources for Data Privacy News:
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White House names GSA senior leaders
The Biden-Harris administration tapped former officials to senior slots at the General Services Administration, but the nomination of an administrator is still to come.
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Austin tackles cyber and social policy in nomination hearing
Senators question defense secretary nominee about cyber and racism as several National Guardsmen removed from inauguration duty.
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For feds, mask mandate, diversity training reversal on Day 1 of Biden presidency
President Joe Biden is expected to reverse a raft of Trump-era federal workforce policy, but some executive actions will take time.
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Trump issues last-minute order targeting foreign cyber threats
A Jan. 19 executive order from Donald Trump in the waning hours of his presidency aims to force cloud providers to keep more complete records about their customers to support U.S. investigations of hacks and other computer crimes.
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FCW Insider: Jan. 20
The latest news and analysis from FCW's reporters and editors.
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Quick Hits
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OPM says federal employee job satisfaction is up
Full results of the delayed Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey won't be out until the spring, according to the Office of Personnel Management, but a preliminary look at topline results suggests federal employee job satisfaction is improving.
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Haines looks to restore IC workforce morale
If confirmed, Avril Haines says that one of her top priorities as the Director of National Intelligence will be "institutional" issues, like renewing public trust in the intelligence community and improving workforce morale.
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SolarWinds hack blights the Trump administration's cybersecurity record
The consequences of the SolarWinds Orion hack are far from clear, but analysts and lawmakers say that officials at CISA and NSA made notable strides to improve the government's cybersecurity posture.
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Mayorkas calls for review of Einstein, CDM
The president-elect's nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security said he will review the government's two major cybersecurity programs in the wake of the SolarWinds hack.
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Get Security into Your CI/CD Pipeline
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Why can't security teams overlook the benefits of Collaboration & Automation?
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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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Free Auditing Tool Helps Detect SolarWinds Hackers' Malware
FireEye Also Describes Hackers' Tools and TechniquesSecurity firm FireEye has released a free auditing and remediation tool on GitHub that it says can help organizations determine if the hacking group that targeted SolarWinds used similar techniques within their network to[…]
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Trump Orders IaaS Providers to Track Foreign Users
Under Executive Order, Cloud Providers Must Vet Foreign CustomersIn the waning hours of his presidency Tuesday, Donald Trump issued an executive order requiring U.S. infrastructure-as-a-service providers and other cloud service providers to maintain detailed records on foreign clients that could[…]
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Malwarebytes CEO: Firm Targeted by SolarWinds Hackers
Threat Actors Accessed 'Limited Subset of Internal Company Emails'The CEO of security firm Malwarebytes says the hackers who attacked SolarWinds also targeted his company and gained access to a "limited subset of internal company emails."
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'FreakOut' Botnet Targets Unpatched Linux Systems
Researchers Says Malicious Network Could Be Used to Launch DDoS AttacksResearchers at Check Point Research are tracking a new botnet dubbed "FreakOut" that's targeting vulnerabilities in Linux systems. The malware is creating a malicious network that has the potential to[…]
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