Pig butchering scams

A Pig butchering scam (殺豬盤) (Yale: saat jyū pùhn, Pinyin: shā zhū pán) is a type of financial fraud in which scammers build long-term relationships with victims to gain their trust - fatten them up - before finally defrauding them of assets and money - butchering them. This scam gained global notoriety during the COVID-19 pandemic as criminals exploited the increased time people spent online. Scammers used social media, dating apps and messaging platforms to groom victims, or fatten them up, taking advantage of the internet’s borderless nature to operate across jurisdictions - making resolution of these crimes complex. ...

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Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC)

Further reading NIST Releases First 3 Finalized Post-Quantum Encryption Standards (NIST News, August 2024) Post-quantum cryptography (Wikipedia) Post-Quantum Cryptography (NIST CSRC) Begin Transitioning to Post-Quantum Cryptography Now (Gartner); Sept 2024 Next steps in preparing for post-quantum cryptography (NCSC) Related pages Quantum Cryptography

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Pre-mortem technique

Pre-mortem technique uses prospective hindsight to identify potential failures before they occur. By putting yourself into the place and time where a project has already failed, team members can then work backwards to determine what might lead to that failure and take proactive steps to mitigate those risks. Further reading Back to the future: Temporal perspective in the explanation of events - Journal of Behavioural Decision Making Pre-mortem: how to anticipate failure with prospective hindsight - Ness Labs Pre-mortem - Wikipedia The Power of Prospective Hindsight - Pennyworth Hindsight – it’s not just for past events - Oliver Burkeman/Guardian

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Principles for Operational Resilience (POR) | BCBS

The Principles for Operational Resilience (POR) were published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) in March 2021. The POR defines operational resilience as the ability of a bank to continue to deliver critical operations while undergoing disruptive events. Further reading Principles for operational resilience (BIS)

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Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD)

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) is an independent statutory body in Hong Kong responsible for overseeing and enforcing the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance, the territory’s primary data protection law. Further reading PCPD website Six Data Protection Principles (PCPD)

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