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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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Security Compliance & Data Privacy Regulations

eSecurity Planet

See the Top Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Tools. are subject to laws such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (the HITECH Act), as well as regulations such as the Clinical Laboratory Improvements Amendments (CLIA).

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MY TAKE: A primer on how ransomware arose to the become an enduring scourge

The Last Watchdog

However, that’s more a function of hackers targeting individuals less, and companies and governments more. insurance giant Beazley Worldwide reported that the average ransomware demand in 2018 was more than $116,000, a figure admittedly skewed by some very large demands. Here’s a timeline of recent ransomware advances: •2013-2014.

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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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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.