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NEW TECH: This free tool can help gauge, manage third-party cyber risk; it’s called ‘VRMMM’

The Last Watchdog

Turn the corner into 2019 and we find Citigroup, CapitalOne, Wells Fargo and HSBC Life Insurance among a host of firms hitting the crisis button after their customers’ records turned up on a database of some 24 million financial and banking documents found parked on an Internet-accessible server — without so much as password protection.

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The Scammers’ Playbook: How Cybercriminals Get Ahold of Your Data

eSecurity Planet

According to statistics from the FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report , complaints to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) have been rising since 2017. To talk about which targets scammers pick, we’ll be looking at two categories: individuals and businesses. of cyber attacks IBM handled. billion in reported losses. Individuals.

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Scanning for Flaws, Scoring for Security

Krebs on Security

Earlier this year, FICO began touting its Cyber Risk Score (PDF), which seeks to measure an organization’s chances of experiencing a data breach in the next 12 months, based on a variety of measurements tied to the company’s public-facing online assets. Data accidentally released by FICO about the Cyber Risk Score for ExxonMobil.

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Delaware amends data breach notification law

Data Protection Report

————————————— Norton Rose Fulbright nominated for Cyber Law Firm of the Year. Norton Rose Fulbright has been shortlisted for ‘Cyber law firm of the year’ at the Insurance Insider Cyber Ranking Awards 2017.

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US Senators introduce IoT cybersecurity bill

Data Protection Report

On August 1, 2017, US Senators unveiled a bipartisan bill to mandate baseline cybersecurity requirements for internet connected devices purchased by the federal government. ————————————— Norton Rose Fulbright nominated for Cyber Law Firm of the Year.

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“But the emails” – companies’ SEC filings reflect ransomware risks

Data Protection Report

Similarly, Repsol addresses ransomware in its 40-F filings as one of the cyber risk factors for the company. IBM’s most recent 10-K identifies ransomware as a cyber risk that could impact the company’s business by causing “the loss of access to critical data or systems.”. Here is how some companies have addressed it.

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German court: monitoring of employees by key logger is not allowed

Data Protection Report

The German federal labor court held in a recent decision ( Bundesarbeitsgericht , 27 July 2017 – case no. ————————————— Norton Rose Fulbright nominated for Cyber Law Firm of the Year.