category security-breach 
The Last Watchdog
JANUARY 30, 2019
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.
Krebs on Security
DECEMBER 12, 2018
Is it fair to judge an organization’s information security posture simply by looking at its Internet-facing assets for weaknesses commonly sought after and exploited by attackers, such as outdated software or accidentally exposed data and devices? the security posture of vendor partners). Image: US Chamber of Commerce.
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Data Protection Report
AUGUST 29, 2017
Earlier this month, Delaware revamped its data breach notification law, with changes to go into effect April 14, 2018. Most notably, the new law requires any entity that has suffered a data breach that includes social security numbers to provide free credit monitoring services to affected residents for one year.
Data Protection Report
SEPTEMBER 11, 2017
The Equifax breach will likely devour the entire breach news cycle in the near term, given the size of the incident and that it gets to the essence of the company’s business of maintaining some of the most sensitive consumer information. Here is how some companies have addressed it. General ransomware risk disclosures.
Data Protection Report
AUGUST 8, 2017
The German federal labor court held in a recent decision ( Bundesarbeitsgericht , 27 July 2017 – case no. Such monitoring is only allowed when an employer has a concrete suspicion of a criminal offense by an employee or any other serious breach of duty in a specific case.
Data Matters
AUGUST 5, 2019
On July 25, 2019, Governor Cuomo signed the two bills into law, one which amended the state’s data breach notification law, and another that created additional obligations for data breaches at credit reporting agencies. The Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act.
ARMA International
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
A company in Wisconsin had a “chipping party” in 2017 to implant microchips in some of its employees to make it easier for them to access the buildings and systems and to buy food in the company break room. [1]. As with other connected devices, the tracked data can be hacked, breached, or otherwise exploited. Benefits and Risks.
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