Krebs on Security

JUNE 4, 2019

Securities and Exchange Commission , LabCorp. 1, 2018 and March 30, 2019. AMCA has advised LabCorp that Social Security Numbers and insurance identification information are not stored or maintained for LabCorp consumers.” But today’s disclosure by LabCorp. In a filing today with the U.S. ” ANALYSIS.

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Data Protection Report

JUNE 2, 2021

million settlement with two related insurance companies, relating to violations of two different requirements of the NYDFS cybersecurity regulation during the period 2018 to 2019. This matter began when insurance affiliate #1, licensed by NYDFS, discovered a phishing email in September of 2018.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

This stolen booty reportedly included social security numbers, phone numbers, names, home addresses, unique IMEI numbers, and driver’s license information. For T-Mobile, this is the sixth major breach since 2018. This further reinforces that doing security correctly at any organization is a cultural characteristic.

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Data Matters

JANUARY 28, 2022

The advisory was promptly endorsed by the National Cyber Security Centre, a division of Government Communications Headquarters (“GCHQ”), a UK intelligence agency. Require multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all users. The following are the best practices highlighted by the Advisory, Microsoft report, PANW report, and Mandiant report.

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

On December 3, 2018, twelve attorneys general (“AGs”) jointly filed a data breach lawsuit against Medical Informatics Engineering and its subsidiary, NoMoreClipboard LLC (collectively “the Company”), an electronic health records company, in federal district court in Indiana. 3, 2018). See Indiana v. Informatics Eng’g, Inc. ,

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The FCA is proposing amendments to: the UK onshored versions of EU technical standards on strong customer authentication (SCA) and common and secure methods of communication (UK SCA-RTS); its Approach Document on Payment Services and Electronic Money (Approach Document); and. its Perimeter Guidance Manual (PERG).

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

According to the security company Resecurity , which discovered the listing, the data included victims’ name, age, gender, address, passport number and Aadhaar number (a 12-digit government identification number). It secured its systems, notified law enforcement and began investigating the incident. Boeing is “assessing the claim”.

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

MAY 13, 2019

In the past two years, multiple state bills that have been introduced in the US to provide for cybersecurity requirements and standards to the insurance sector, with recent legislative activity taking place in particular within the States of Ohio, South Carolina, and Michigan. NYDFS: Setting a new bar for state cybersecurity regulation.

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Data Matters

AUGUST 27, 2018

Companies subject to New York’s Cybersecurity Regulation are acting quickly to finalize their compliance obligations as the fifth “due date,” September 4, 2018, quickly approaches. Looking ahead, Covered Entities will be required to meet one final compliance deadline for the NYDFS on March 1, 2019.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

From June 2018 to January 2019: cyber criminals targeted and accessed at least 65 healthcare payment processors throughout the United States to replace legitimate customer banking and contact information with accounts under their control. Conduct regular network security assessments to stay up to date on compliance standards and regulations.

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Data Protection Report

APRIL 22, 2021

On April 14, 2021, the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) announced a $3 million settlement with insurance company National Securities Corp. NSC), relating to violations of three different requirements of the NYDFS cybersecurity regulation during the period 2018 to 2020. NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation.

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Data Matters

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Regulators worldwide, including the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong, have issued guidelines for reducing and mitigating hacking risks. In the Global Risks Report 2018 , the World Economic Forum anticipated that cybercrime would cost businesses US$8 trillion over the next five years. standard login passwords).

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Data Matters

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Regulators worldwide, including the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong, have issued guidelines for reducing and mitigating hacking risks. In the Global Risks Report 2018 , the World Economic Forum anticipated that cybercrime would cost businesses US$8 trillion over the next five years. standard login passwords).

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Data Protection Report

JULY 8, 2019

The issue giving rise to the financial penalty was a security breach relating to the company’s website notified by a user to the CNIL on 12 August 2018. According to SERGIC, the website’s security breach could have impacted around 29,440 users.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 17, 2019

Arizona and 15 other states (the “Multistate AGs”) filed the suit in December 2018, asserting claims under the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (“HIPAA”) as well as various applicable state data protection laws. million individuals. failed to encrypt the sensitive ePHI.

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Data Protection Report

OCTOBER 24, 2022

On October 18, 2022, the New York Department of Financial Services announced a settlement with EyeMed, a licensed life, accident, and health insurer, with respect to a security incident that occurred in 2020. Nevertheless, EyeMed certified its compliance with the Cybersecurity Regulation annually, from 2018-2021. Background.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Enacted in May 2018, the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act rolls back some of the restrictions placed on banks in the wake of the Great Recession of the last decade. By Mail: Equifax Security Freeze. By Mail: Experian Security Freeze. Today, those fees no longer exist. view your credit file).

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Adam Levin

JULY 8, 2020

Far from being jealously guarded assets with Fort Knox-level security, a new study of Forbes Global 2000 Companies suggests many domain names are imminently hackable. A whopping 97 percent failed to use DNSSEC , a domain security protocol designed to address core vulnerabilities in the foundations of the internet itself.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 24, 2019

The Web site for Fortune 500 real estate title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. based First American is a leading provider of title insurance and settlement services to the real estate and mortgage industries. billion in 2018. No authentication was required to read the documents. Image: Linkedin.

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Data Protection Report

AUGUST 29, 2017

Earlier this month, Delaware revamped its data breach notification law, with changes to go into effect April 14, 2018. Most notably, the new law requires any entity that has suffered a data breach that includes social security numbers to provide free credit monitoring services to affected residents for one year.

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Data Protection Report

JANUARY 7, 2019

Entities covered by the Regulation, which includes not only banks and insurers, but also other financial service institutions and licensees regulated by the DFS that utilize third-party service providers, will be required to implement third-party risk management programs by March 1. Third-party service provider risk management program.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 24, 2024

Learn how organizations can use IBM Guardium® Data Protection software to monitor data wherever it is and enforce security policies in near real time. The UK Data Protection Act 2018 The Data Protection Act 2018 is, essentially, the UK’s version of the GDPR.

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Information Matters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Issue 6 (27 November 2018). Getting value from your data under GDPR – Information Age, 15 November 2018. Algorithms tame ambiguities in use of legal data – Financial Times, 15 November 2018. Harnessing the value of NHS patient data – The Lancet, 16 November 2018. The Business of Data. Follow the Data?

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 24, 2018

On April 11, 2018, Arizona amended its data breach notification law (the “amended law”). The amended law also defines “personal information” to include “an individual’s user name or e-mail address, in combination with a password or security question and answer, which allows access to an online account.”.

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Data Protection Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

February 15, 2018, is quickly approaching and any entity subject to New York’s cybersecurity regulation (23 NYCRR Part 500) must file its first annual certification of compliance with the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) by that date.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

MAY 5, 2020

Heeding the call, the European Commission issued some communications, such as the communication on “Europe on the Move” (COM(2018) 293 final), to guarantee a smooth transition towards a European mobility system which is safe, clean, connected and automated. geolocation data; biometric data; etc.) Categories of data being processed.

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Data Protection Report

JANUARY 29, 2018

Last week, South Dakota moved closer to implementing a data breach notification law, while Colorado legislators introduced a new bill requiring “reasonable security procedures,” imposing data disposal rules and shortening the time frame in which to alert authorities regarding a breach. South Dakota. Healthcare Data. under HIPAA).

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

MARCH 14, 2019

The proposed changes to the Safeguards Rule add a number of more detailed security requirements, whereas the proposed changes to the Privacy Rule are more focused on technical changes to align the Rule with changes in law over the past decade. It includes general, high level elements of a security program, but lacks detailed security steps.

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Data Matters

OCTOBER 24, 2019

In the summer of 2018, the California Legislature drafted and passed the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) in record time. Need for Security Measures. First, the business may verify consumers who using the existing authentication procedures for the account. Visit the CCPA Monitor for a collection of all our CCPA insights.

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Regulators, industry experts, and researchers provided insight into health privacy and security enforcement trends, emerging threats, and new tools at a recent conference focused on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (HIPAA) regulatory framework. million settlement in 2018. Emerging Trends in Breaches.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

On May 10, one of the hospitals detected malicious activity on its Microsoft Windows Domain Controller, a critical “keys to the kingdom” component of any Windows enterprise network that manages user authentication and network access. The HSE Security Operations team requested that the Server team restart servers.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2020

” Security news site Bleeping Computer reported on the T-Systems Ryuk ransomware attack on Dec. “The authentication for that was entirely separate, so the lateral movement [of the intruders] didn’t allow them to touch that,” Schafer said. Department of Homeland Security. In our Dec.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

Is there something more secure? Simon Moffatt from CyberHut joins The Hacker Mind to discuss how identity and access management (IAM) is fundamental to everything we do online today, and why even multi-factor access, while an improvement, needs to yield to more effortless and more secure passwordless technology that’s coming soon.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2019

Related: ‘Cyber Pearl Harbor’ happens every day Some 15 months earlier, in March 2018, Atlanta was hit by a similar assault, and likewise refused to pay a $51,000 ransom, eating $17 million in damage. Best security practices are a must. A top-down security mindset absolutely must be instilled and nurtured.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This guide will provide a high level overview of encryption and how it fits into IT through the following topics: How Encryption Works To understand how encryption works, we need to understand how it fits into the broader realm of cryptology, how it processes data, common categories, top algorithms, and how encryption fits into IT security.

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Data Matters

OCTOBER 22, 2019

In the summer of 2018, the California Legislature drafted and passed the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) in record time. Today we look at consumer notice. Check back daily for the next installment, or visit the CCPA Monitor for a collection of all our CCPA insights. Intro and Background. a link to the business’s privacy policy.

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IGI

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Drivers include digital transformation, an uptick in acquisitions and mergers around the globe, as well as the 2018 deadline for implementation of the EU data privacy requirements (GDPR). So as the benchmark study reported, the need for long-term digital preservation and access capabilities is pervasive.

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