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President Biden Signs Two Bills Aimed at Enhancing Government Cybersecurity

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The Cybersecurity Act amends certain provisions of the Homeland Security Act of 2002. Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) and state, local, tribal and territorial governments, as well as corporations, associations and the general public.

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US citizens lost more than $68M to SIM swap attacks in 2021, FBI warns

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In 2018, the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received complaints for 1,611 SIM swapping attacks, while the number of complaints in the period between 2018 e 2002 was 320 causing a total of losses of $12 million. Do not store passwords, usernames, or other information for easy login on mobile device applications.

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Spanish police dismantled SIM swapping gang who stole money from victims’ bank accounts

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With this, they deceived the employees of phone stores to obtain duplicate SIM cards and, in this way, have access to the bank’s security confirmation messages. In this way they could operate in online banking and access bank accounts to empty them after receiving security confirmation messages from the banks.”

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House Passes Two Cybersecurity Bills

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3523), which is aimed at facilitating the exchange of cyber threat intelligence information between the government and certain private entities. In addition, the House approved the Federal Information Security Amendments Act of 2012 (H.R. Federal Information Security Amendments Act.

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FTC Investigating Privacy Risks to Data Stored on Digital Copiers

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Congressman Markey had urged the FTC to investigate this issue after a CBS News exposé showed that almost every digital copier produced since 2002 stores on its hard drive images of documents that are “scanned, copied or emailed by the machine” – including documents with sensitive personal information.

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FTC Announces Significant Updates to GLB Safeguards Rule

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Promulgated in 2002 pursuant to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the Safeguards Rule obligates covered financial institutions to develop, implement and maintain a comprehensive information security program that complies with the Rule’s requirements. Security Programs.

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European Data Privacy Day Expert Panel Provides 30-Year Retrospective on UK Data Protection

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Howe set up the first system of registration for data users (as they were then called), encouraged the development of sectoral codes of practice, provided education, raised awareness of data protection and managed privacy-related complaints. A Period of Significant Legislative Change – 1994 to 2002.