Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2020

Security firms have monitored the activities of a dozen groups at least since 2010. . Millions of Magecart instances were detected over time, security experts discovered tens of software skimming scripts. Hacker groups under the Magecart umbrella continue to steal payment card data with so-called software skimmers.

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Data Matters

MARCH 12, 2019

Over the last few years, States have enacted increasingly aggressive legislation concerning data privacy and security, raising concerns that companies will be subject to a patchwork of different standards. Aligning the Safeguards Rule with State Regimes.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Mr. Davies was charged with murder and fraud after he attempted to collect GBP 132,000 in her life insurance payout, but British prosecutors ultimately conceded they did not have enough evidence to convict him. Davies’ fourth wife, and that the two were married in 2010. THE SWISS AND UKRAINE CONNECTIONS.

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IT Governance

JUNE 27, 2019

After a rampant start to the year for data breaches and cyber attacks, it’s about time we went one month without at least one massive security incident. Security breach costs Ripple cryptocurrency holders 23 million XRP (12). EatStreet food ordering service discloses security breach (6 million). Hackers stole $1.75

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 12, 2013

following a security breach that affected over 600,000 individuals. Following the submission of a breach report to the HHS Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”), an investigation determined that WellPoint had not complied with HIPAA Privacy and Security Rule requirements. million settlement with WellPoint Inc.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

On November 8, 2010, Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Thomas Sullivan announced that Health Net of Connecticut, Inc. (“Health Net”) had agreed to pay $375,000 in penalties for failing to safeguard the personal information of its members from misuse by third parties.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 14, 2010

Prior to 2009, HHS divided civil enforcement responsibility for HIPAA between OCR, which enforced the HIPAA Privacy Rule, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”), which enforced the HIPAA Security Rule.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller announced on October 29, 2010, that he has sued health insurer WellPoint, Inc. The state alleges that WellPoint was notified of the security breach on February 22, 2010, and again on March 8, 2010, but did not begin notifying customers of the breach until June 18, 2010.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 8, 2010

On July 8, 2010, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to modify the Privacy, Security and Enforcement Rules promulgated pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 4, 2010

The Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) received numerous comments on its proposed modifications to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Privacy, Security and Enforcement Rules, which were issued on July 8, 2010. Security Rule. Some highlights from the comments are outlined below.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 26, 2012

On enforcement, in both the blog post and the Information Rights Strategy document, the Commissioner affirmed the ICO’s current prioritization of action in health, credit and finance, criminal justice, Internet and mobile services, and information security.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 6, 2010

On January 1, 2010, two important state data security and privacy laws took effect in Nevada and New Hampshire. The laws create new obligations for most companies that do business in Nevada and for health care providers and business associates in New Hampshire.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 7, 2012

On May 24, 2012, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley announced that South Shore Hospital agreed to a consent judgment and $750,000 payment to settle a lawsuit stemming from a data breach that occurred in February 2010. Belmont Savings Bank and Briar Group, LLC.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 17, 2013

The Final Rule comes two and a half years after the proposed rule was published in July 2010.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 13, 2016

The proposed Consent Order will prohibit Schein from misrepresenting whether, and to what extent, the product or service offers industry-standard encryption, helps customers meet regulatory obligations, or maintains the privacy, security, confidentiality and integrity of personal information.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 15, 2010

for allegedly failing to secure private patient medical records and financial information involving hundreds of thousands of Connecticut enrollees and promptly notify consumers endangered by the security breach. On January 13, 2010, the Attorney General filed a motion for a preliminary injunction.

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Data Matters

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Cybersecurity insurance was a relatively new—and far from prevalent—concept. D-Link Systems Corp) focused on one company’s failure to “take reasonable steps” to secure sensitive consumer information against “reasonably foreseeable risks of unauthorized access.” Moreover, their powers are growing.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2022

was originally launched in 2010 with the goal of helping e-commerce sites validate the identities of customers who might be eligible for discounts at various retail establishments, such as veterans, teachers, students, nurses and first responders. For more on the benefits of using a Security Key for MFA, see this post. McLean, Va.-based

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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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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 4, 2010

On May 28, 2010, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office issued a press release stating that it has been notified of more than 1,000 data security breaches since it began keeping records in late 2007. There is no mandatory reporting requirement in the UK, so the actual number of breaches is likely to be significantly higher.

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Unwritten Record

OCTOBER 12, 2021

From the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) there are public service and safety announcements relating to flood insurance and securing emergency telephone numbers; from the Bureau of the Census there are posters promoting participation in the 2010 Census with special posters for Puerto Rico; from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) there (..)

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Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 19, 2010

On August 10, 2010, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed the Employee Credit Privacy Act , which prohibits most Illinois employers from inquiring about an applicant’s or employee’s credit history or using an individual’s credit history as a basis for an employment decision.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

It was clear most readers had no idea these new and more invasive requirements were being put in place at the IRS and other federal agencies (the Social Security Administration also is steering new signups to ID.me). says it has approximately 64 million users, with 145,000 new users signing up each day.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The Report contains 50 recommendations covering the regulatory framework, the scope and types of banking data that should be shared, privacy and security safeguards, the technical mechanisms for data transfers as well as proposals on implementation and beyond.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

On November 14, 2013, the Minister of the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (the “Minister”) announced that Malaysia’s Personal Data Protection Act 2010 (the “Act”) would be going into effect as of November 15, marking the end of years of postponements.

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Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 28, 2009

On August 17, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) issued a final rule (“FTC Final Rule”) addressing security breaches of personal health records (“PHRs”). Full compliance is required by February 22, 2010. The FTC Final Rule requires PHR vendors and PHR related entities to notify U.S.

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Robert's Db2

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Fast forward to 2010. A few months after rejoining IBM (I'd previously worked for Big Blue from 1982 to 2000), I was working with people at an insurance company where Linux on System z was being put through a trial run. So do advantages in the areas of performance and security. Can you run Linux on System z without z/VM?

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

In the criminal complaint against Mann (PDF), a New York FBI agent said the CEO admitted that starting in 2010 or 2011 he began borrowing large sums of money from banks and financing companies under false pretenses. ” “Mann estimated that he fraudulently obtained about $70 million that he has not paid back. .”

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 5, 2023

The healthcare industry’s heavy reliance on legacy systems, regulatory and security challenges are significant hurdles for its journey toward digital transformation. HR digital transformation In 2010, SingHealth needed to consolidate the disparate HR systems across its hospitals, specialty centres and polyclinics.

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Import.IO

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Companies choose to work with us because we deliver high quality web data reliably in a secure and compliant manner – as if they were doing it themselves. Web data from hundreds of insurance companies ensure that health care patients in the US are getting the right care at the right price. How we work with our customers.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Related: Applying ‘zero trust’ to managed security services. Fortunately, the identity management space has attracted and inspired some of the best and brightest tech security innovators and entrepreneurs. Efforts to balance security and productivity sometimes backfired. It’s not for lack of trying.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 11, 2023

The concept of zero trust has been around since 2010, when Forrester Research analyst John Kindervag created the zero trust security model. As security breaches continue to happen hourly, sooner or later zero trust requirements are going to be forced upon all organizations, given the impact and cost to society.

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KnowBe4

MARCH 14, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #11 | March 14th, 2023 [Heads Up] Employees Are Feeding Sensitive Biz Data to ChatGPT, Raising Security Fears Robert Lemos at DARKReading just reported on a worrying trend. In a recent report, data security service Cyberhaven detected and blocked requests to input data into ChatGPT from 4.2%

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 8, 2019

The proposed changes primarily would align the Privacy Rule with changes implemented by Congress through the Dodd-Frank Act in 2010 and the FAST Act in 2015, which modified the annual privacy notice requirement under GLB. The proposed changes would add more detailed requirements on how financial institutions must protect customer information.

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Data Protector

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Where the Information Commissioner gives notices to data controllers, she can now secure compliance, with the power to issue substantial administrative penalties of up to 4% of global turnover. How then will we secure adequacy without adhering to the charter? Where she finds criminality, she can prosecute.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

“Commissioned by organizers to predict worst-case scenarios for the Munich games, [Georg] Sieber came up with a range of possibilities, from explosions to plane crashes, for which security teams should be prepared. Mobile devices allow users to access content from anywhere, which presents security and privacy risks. 2020, p 1). “As

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The threat landscape of cybersecurity changes daily, with hackers and cybersecurity professionals in a perpetual cat-and-mouse chase; hackers discover new ways to infiltrate and exploit their targets, and the cybersecurity industry looks for vulnerabilities, tries to anticipate new threats and responds when cyber security issues arise.

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