Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2019

The Maryland Department of Labor announced it has suffered a data breach announced that exposed personally identifiable information. . The Maryland Department of Labor suffered a data breach, hackers accessed databases containing personally identifiable information (PII). ” continues the Department. .

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 16, 2021

The Court held that OCR’s civil monetary penalty for alleged violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) Privacy Rule and HIPAA Security Rule was “arbitrary, capricious, and otherwise unlawful.”. OCR investigated and imposed the $4.3 Read the court’s holding here.

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 15, 2013

On March 5, 2013, the German Federal Ministry of the Interior published proposed amendments (in German) to the German Federal Office for Information Security Law.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

million civil monetary penalty against Children’s Medical Center of Dallas (“Children’s”) for alleged ongoing violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) Privacy and Security Rules, following two consecutive breaches of patient electronic protected health information (“ePHI”).

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CGI

JANUARY 22, 2016

This blog focuses on the new Network and Information Security Directive (NISD) which was agreed at the same time and also has significant implications for business. The likely implications will be: Organisations will need to be able to demonstrate that they have taken ‘appropriate security measures’.

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Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 30, 2013

On August 29, 2013, the FTC announced that it had filed a complaint against LabMD, Inc. According to the complaint, LabMD, which performs various laboratory tests for consumers, exposed the personal information of more than 9,000 consumers on a peer-to-peer (“P2P”) file-sharing network.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

On November 22, 2016, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) announced a $650,000 settlement with University of Massachusetts Amherst (“UMass”), resulting from alleged violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) Privacy and Security Rules. .

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Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 7, 2013

On August 6, 2013, the Obama Administration posted links on The White House Blog to reports from the Departments of Commerce , Homeland Security and Treasury containing recommendations on incentivizing companies to align their cybersecurity practices with the Cybersecurity Framework.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 9, 2013

On May 7, 2013, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it issued letters to ten data broker companies warning that their practices could violate prohibitions against selling consumer information under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”).

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Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 27, 2014

An earlier version of the law was published in March 2013. Critical Infrastructure” and Security Requirements. The revised Draft Law will amend a number of laws and provisions relating to IT security. Powers of Federal Office for Information Security. Current Status and Next Steps.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

On February 12, 2014, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”) issued the final Cybersecurity Framework , as required under Section 7 of the Obama Administration’s February 2013 executive order, Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity (the “Executive Order”).

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 20, 2014

Security researchers estimate that approximately 25% of the 500,000 to one million computers infected worldwide are located in the United States. Cryptolocker, which first appeared in 2013, encrypts the computer files of its victims and forces victims to pay a ransom to unlock the files. Read the FTC’s Consumer Information blog post.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 13, 2016

According to the complaint, the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team issued a vulnerability note in June 2013 indicating that the form of data protection used in Dentrix G5 software was a “weak obfuscation algorithm.”

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 20, 2011

The proposal would require data users in the public sector and in the banking, telecommunications and insurance industries, and data users with large databases, to prepare and submit data user returns. Assuming the Hong Kong Privacy Commissioner proceeds with the proposal, it is estimated that it would be implemented in 2013.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

On November 14, 2013, the Minister of the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (the “Minister”) announced that Malaysia’s Personal Data Protection Act 2010 (the “Act”) would be going into effect as of November 15, marking the end of years of postponements. It is unclear exactly what is meant by “a regular practice” in Malaysia.

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IT Governance

MARCH 11, 2024

Source (New) Transport USA Yes 3,815 Okta Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Cyber security USA Yes 3,800 Shah Dixit & Associates, P.C. Source (New) Finance USA Yes 3,494 Woodruff Sawyer Source (New) Insurance USA Yes 3,087 Blackburn College Source (New) Education USA Yes 3,039 CAIRE Inc. Organisation(s) Sector Location Data breached?

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2019

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. “All we know is MONEY! Tik Tak, Tik Tak, Tik Tak!” The attackers demanded $76,000, paid in Bitcoin, for a decryption key. A poll of IT pros in the U.S., The median was $10,310.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2021

Leaky and poorly-secured APIs like the one Demirkapi found are the source of much mischief in the hands of identity thieves. Earlier this month, auto insurance giant Geico disclosed that fraudsters abused a bug in its site to steal drivers license numbers from Americans. ” reported KrebsOnSecurity. .”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2020

The man operated the Cardplanet site between at least early 2009 through at least August 2013. The membership also requested a sum of money, normally $5,000, as insurance. In November, the suspect has been extradited to the US to face criminal charges.

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Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

Information security is not yet a science; outside of the handful of issues falling under the field of cryptography, there is no formalized system of classification. The most prepared cybersecurity programs of today will not attempt to implement a static, “out-of-the-box” solution to cyber risk. Principle 2. Principle 3.

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IT Governance

APRIL 29, 2024

iSharing is used by more than 35 million users. The company has fixed the issue, blaming it on a vulnerability in the app’s groups feature. Data breached: >35 million people’s data. 117 of them are known to have had data exfiltrated, exposed or otherwise breached. Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Finance USA Yes 498,686 J.P.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

Information security products , services, and professionals have never been in higher demand, making for a world of opportunities for cybersecurity startups. With evolving attack methodologies due to machine learning, quantum computing, and sophisticated nation-state hackers, security startups are receiving record funding.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Apple, too, maintains that Bloomberg is wrong – following its company statement and a letter to Congress from its vice president of information security, George Stathakopoulos, Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, even took the unusual step of telling BuzzFeed this week: “There is no truth in their story about Apple. Here are this week’s stories.

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