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The Impact of Data Protection Laws on Your Records Retention Schedule

ARMA International

Certain sectors, such as banking, financial services, health, and insurance have their own data protection and privacy requirements. Enforcement of the Laws : The enforcement has been primarily focused on consumer or non-financial employee data (e.g., 2016/679 (EU, April 27). 2016/679, Art. 2016/679, Art.

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Experts found a new TrickBot module (rdpScanDll) built for RDP bruteforcing operations

Security Affairs

TrickBot is a popular banking Trojan that has been around since October 2016, its authors have continuously upgraded it by implementing new features. For example, in February 2019 Trend Micro detected a variant that includes a new module used for Remote App Credential-Grabbing.

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Who’s Behind the ‘Web Listings’ Mail Scam?

Krebs on Security

For example, this press release from 2o11 says Mark Scott is the contact person for a company called Appco Group UK which bills itself as a market leader in face-to-face marketing and sales. weblistingsinc.net 2016-02-09 ENOM, INC.,ENOM, weblistingsinc.net 2016-02-09 ENOM, INC.,ENOM, What do all of these domains have in common?

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MY TAKE: Coping with security risks, compliance issues spun up by ‘digital transformation’

The Last Watchdog

Consider that it was a misconfigured open-source Web Application Firewall , running on Amazon Web Services, that gave a former Amazon IT staffer a path to crack into this financial services giant. One example is Redis, which stands for R e mote Dictionary Server. it’s almost a perfect storm.

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Open APIs: A coming of age

CGI

Fri, 12/02/2016 - 04:15. One of the hottest topics at this year’s Sibos conference in Geneva, Switzerland was open APIs (application programming interfaces), and how their introduction is causing concern among some financial institutions, while offering promising opportunities for early adopters. Open APIs: A coming of age.

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EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Passes Its Third Annual Review

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

On 12 July 2016, the European Commission issued its adequacy decision concerning the Privacy Shield framework for the transfer of personal data from the EU to the U.S. In a nutshell, the report of the third review found that the U.S. Background. This covers most U.S. Annual Review.

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New York State Department of Financial Services Challenges OCC Authority on Fintech Charters

Data Matters

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) announced its decision (the Fintech Charter Decision) to begin accepting applications from financial technology (fintech) companies for special purpose national bank charters. The Fintech Charter Decision is discussed in greater detail in a prior Sidley Banking and Financial Services Update.