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First American Financial Pays Farcical $500K Fine

Krebs on Security

The SEC says First American derives nearly 92 percent of its revenue from its title insurance segment, earning $7.1 Title insurance protects homebuyers from the prospect of someone contesting their legitimacy as the new homeowner. Title insurance is not mandated by law, but most lenders require it as part of any mortgage transaction.

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We Infiltrated a Counterfeit Check Ring! Now What?

Krebs on Security

In a report released in 2019 (PDF), Agari profiled a group it dubbed “ Scattered Canary ” that is operating principally out of West Africa and dabbles in a dizzying array of schemes, including BEC and romance scams, FEMA and SBA loans, unemployment insurance fraud, counterfeit checks and of course money laundering. Image: Agari.

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Automated Security and Compliance Attracts Venture Investors

eSecurity Planet

In 2013, Adam Markowitz founded Portfolium, an edtech startup that matched college students and graduates with employers. “I First of all, cybersecurity is becoming a “must have” for businesses and governments. In the case of Lemonade – an online insurance company – it spent over 200 hours on the process.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 16–22 October 2023

IT Governance

Breached organisation: BHI Energy, providing staffing solutions to the nuclear, fossil, wind, hydro and government energy markets. Another small firm suffers a serious ransomware attack: Cadre Services gets mauled by AlphV Date of breach: 19 September 2013 (AlphV uploaded first part of data to its website on 19 October 2023).

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Events I'm attending in April & May

ChiefTech

Jive''s Getting Serious With Social Business dinner, evening of the 10th April - this event will feature ACE Insurance, NBNCo, REA Group, Commonwealth Bank of Australia and PwC. Government 2.0 Later in the month: Sydney University''s Digital Disruption Research Group, 17th April - hosted by Kai Riemer.

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SEC Releases Observations from Recent Cybersecurity Examinations of Broker-Dealers and Advisers

Hunton Privacy

Conducted by the SEC Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (“OCIE”) from 2013 through April 2014, the examinations inspected the cybersecurity practices of 57 registered broker-dealers and 49 registered investment advisers through interviews and document reviews.

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Chronicle of a Records Manager: Controlling the Chaos of Disaster Response and Recovery

ARMA International

I have been a member of the OAR staff at the ANO since March 2013. The plan was to meet the insurance coordinator at the Howard Avenue office at 8:30 a.m. I was aware that I would need documentation on damage and losses for insurance and internal purposes. The insurance coordinator proposed stabilizing in place.