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“Bot Herder” Slapped With Federal Prison Sentence

Hunton Privacy

A former computer security consultant was sentenced Wednesday to four years in federal prison for fraud stemming from his involvement with a cyber-crime ring that used botnets to infect an estimated 250,000 computers. He has also been ordered to pay $20,000 in restitution to companies defrauded by the scheme. million in fines.

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Summary – “Industry in One: Financial Services”

ARMA International

Shaped by several financial catastrophes of modern history, such as the Great Depression of 1929 and the Great Recession of 2007, the U.S. Generally, those regulations cover data privacy and information security, and include limitations on data retention and requirements for data disposition. financial institutions.