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Spanish police dismantled SIM swapping gang who stole money from victims’ bank accounts

Security Affairs

In 2018, the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received complaints for 1,611 SIM swapping attacks, while the number of complaints in the period between 2018 e 2002 was 320 causing a total of losses of $12 million. Do not store passwords, usernames, or other information for easy login on mobile device applications.

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President Biden Signs Two Bills Aimed at Enhancing Government Cybersecurity

Hunton Privacy

The Cybersecurity Act amends certain provisions of the Homeland Security Act of 2002. On June 21, 2022, President Biden signed into law, the State and Local Government Cybersecurity Act of 2021 (S. 2520) (the “Cybersecurity Act”) and the Federal Rotational Cyber Workforce Program Act (S.

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FTC Announces Significant Updates to GLB Safeguards Rule

Hunton Privacy

Promulgated in 2002 pursuant to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the Safeguards Rule obligates covered financial institutions to develop, implement and maintain a comprehensive information security program that complies with the Rule’s requirements.

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2024 Cybersecurity Laws & Regulations

eSecurity Planet

Enacted in 2002 and updated by the Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA) of 2014, FISMA requires agencies to implement a risk-based approach to security. Education Educational institutions handle various sensitive information, including student records and research data.

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FTC Investigating Privacy Risks to Data Stored on Digital Copiers

Hunton Privacy

Congressman Markey had urged the FTC to investigate this issue after a CBS News exposé showed that almost every digital copier produced since 2002 stores on its hard drive images of documents that are “scanned, copied or emailed by the machine” – including documents with sensitive personal information.

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Judging Facebook's Privacy Shift

Schneier on Security

Societies will regulate Facebook, and the quality of that regulation requires real education of legislators and their staffs. We wrote a similar essay in 2002 about judging Microsoft's then newfound commitment to security. Most of the people who understand how these systems work understand them because they build them.

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CloudNine Highlighted in 2018 JD Supra Readers’ Choice Awards

eDiscovery Daily

These award s highlight the educational component of simplifying eDiscovery, and we continue to be grateful to have JD Supra as a partner in these important education efforts.” . “Our goal as an eDiscovery technology company is to simplify eDiscovery for data and legal discovery practitioners. CloudNine on JD Supra.