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President Biden Signs Two Bills Aimed at Enhancing Government Cybersecurity

Hunton Privacy

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

Security Affairs

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. and mobile carriers: Educate employees and conduct training sessions on SIM swapping. Pierluigi Paganini.

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

Security Affairs

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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First Cyber Defence & Information Assurance courses to receive CILIP accreditation

CILIP

As with our information and knowledge Learning Providers, these degrees have been judged against the Professional Knowledge and Skills Base tool (PKSB) and demonstrate the breadth of experience and attributes required for a skilled information professional in the security sector? Since the establishment of the UK?s

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Judging Facebook's Privacy Shift

Schneier on Security

In security and privacy, the devil is always in the details -- and Zuckerberg's post provides none. Better security for collected user data. Facebook has a large and skilled product security team that says some of the right things. Shutting down a feature based on internal security analysis would be a clear message.

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FTC Investigating Privacy Risks to Data Stored on Digital Copiers

Hunton Privacy

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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House Passes Two Cybersecurity Bills

Hunton Privacy

In addition, the House approved the Federal Information Security Amendments Act of 2012 (H.R. 4257), which modifies the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 to provide for automated and continuous monitoring of the security of government information systems. Federal Information Security Amendments Act.