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NEW TECH: This free tool can help gauge, manage third-party cyber risk; it’s called ‘VRMMM’

The Last Watchdog

Turn the corner into 2019 and we find Citigroup, CapitalOne, Wells Fargo and HSBC Life Insurance among a host of firms hitting the crisis button after their customers’ records turned up on a database of some 24 million financial and banking documents found parked on an Internet-accessible server — without so much as password protection.

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GDPR fines are coming and here’s why

IT Governance

Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: organisations that fail to meet the requirements of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) face fines of up to €20 million (about £17.3 These incidents were all reported to the ICO in November 2017, meaning the supervisory authority spent more than a year investigating.

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Top 12 Cloud Security Best Practices for 2021

eSecurity Planet

Leading IaaS and platform as a service (PaaS) vendors like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure provide documentation to their customers so all parties understand where specific responsibilities lie according to different types of deployment. This should confirm that they are meeting the agreed upon security terms.

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IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access

Krebs on Security

The agency says that by the summer of 2022, the only way to log in to irs.gov will be through ID.me , an online identity verification service that requires applicants to submit copies of bills and identity documents, as well as a live video feed of their faces via a mobile device. If your documents get accepted, ID.me McLean, Va.-based

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FTC Hosts Workshop on Informational Injury

Hunton Privacy

On December 12, 2017, the Federal Trade Commission hosted a workshop on informational injury in Washington, D.C. On December 12, 2017, the Federal Trade Commission hosted a workshop on informational injury in Washington, D.C. One panelist called for more research on what prevents harm from happening.

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Meet the World’s Biggest ‘Bulletproof’ Hoster

Krebs on Security

Those include a large number of cybercrime forums and stolen credit card shops, ransomware download sites, Magecart-related infrastructure , and a metric boatload of phishing Web sites mimicking dozens of retailers, banks and various government Web site portals. The company says he moved to St. Petersburg company by the same name.

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FINRA Issues Its 2019 Risk Monitoring and Examination Priorities Letter

Data Matters

Firms also should be prepared to explain their compliance and supervisory policies in these areas in their upcoming FINRA examinations and provide documentation of relevant reviews. FINRA will also focus on applicable contingency plans related to government securities repo funding and adequacy of firms’ liquidity pools. Wells Notices.

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