Hunton Privacy

JULY 1, 2022

On June 24, 2022, the New York State Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS” or the “Department”) announced it had entered into a $5 million settlement with Carnival Corp.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

According to the press release published by the Department of State , the Lockbit ransomware operators carried out over 2,000 attacks against victims worldwide since January 2020. The NCA and its global partners have secured over 1,000 decryption keys that will allow victims of the gang to recover their files for free.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The cybersecurity regulation ( 23 NYCRR 500 ) adopted by the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) is nearly two years old. Leading up to that date, companies have had to meet several milestones including hiring a CISO, encrypting all its non-public consumer data and enabling multi-factor authentication.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2021

The American multinational investment bank and financial services firm Morgan Stanley discloses a data breach caused by the hack of an Accellion FTA server of a third-party vendor. The security breach was first reported by BleepingComputer that also shared a copy of the data breach notification letter sent to the impacted customers.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Like other ransomware gangs, Cuba used ‘double extortion’ techniques which means that it exfiltrates data from the target systems before encrypting them and demanding a ransom payment, threatening to publicly release it if payment is not made. “FBI has identified a sharp increase in the both the number of compromised U.S.

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Companies should take note of two imminent developments in New York in the area of cybersecurity regulation: enforcement of the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) Cybersecurity Regulation (Regulation) and the effective date of the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act (SHIELD Act or Act).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

Security experts from Cybereason Nocturnus team discovered a new piece of Android malware dubbed EventBot that targets banks, financial services across Europe. Researchers from Cybereason Nocturnus team discovered a new piece of Android malware dubbed EventBot that targets banks, financial services across Europe.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Today, additional criminal charges against Kondratyev were unsealed in the Northern District of California related to his deployment in 2020 of ransomware against a victim located in California.” The NCA and its global partners have secured over 1,000 decryption keys that will allow victims of the gang to recover their files for free.

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Data Protection Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The latter is the 2019 data security law known as the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security (SHIELD) Act. When you enter personal information on our Site, we encrypt transmissions involving such information using secure protocols.” EyeMed neither admitted nor denied the AG’s findings in the settlement.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2021

million Windows systems between 2018 and 2020. million unique email addresses, NordLocker found, for an array of different apps and services. These included logins for social media, online games, online marketplaces, job-search sites, consumer electronics, financial services, email services, and more.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2021

Researchers from security firms Profero and Security Joes linked a series of ransomware attacks to the China-linked APT27 group. Security researchers from security firms Profero and Security Joes investigated a series of ransomware attacks against multiple organizations and linked them to China-linked APT groups.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Tue, 11/17/2020 - 06:44. Given this, healthcare organizations need to advance their security efforts to adapt to this shifting environment. and GDPR in the EU dictating strong security controls for safeguarding medical data and sensitive personal patient data. ransomware). COVID-19 accelerates healthcare digitalization.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2020

“On Saturday 14 March 2020, HMR was subjected to a targeted and sophisticated attack by cyber criminals. “We’re sorry to report that, during 21–23 March 2020, the criminals published on their website records from some of our volunteers’ screening visits. A criminal group called Maze has claimed responsibility.”

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The internet is fraught with peril these days, but nothing strikes more fear into users and IT security pros than the threat of ransomware. All of your files are encrypted with RSA-2048 and AES-128 ciphers.” Attackers will inform the victim that their data is encrypted. IMPORTANT INFORMATION !!! Screenshot example.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 24, 2020

On Wednesday, July 22, the New York Department of Financial Services (the “NYDFS”) announced that it had filed administrative charges against First American Title Insurance Co. A hearing on the matter will be held on October 26, 2020 at the office of the NYDFS. NYCRR 500.14(b):

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 10, 2024

This follows the invalidation of the EU-US Privacy Shield, by the Court of Justice of the European Union on 16 July 2020. This nuance is a critical aspect of the cloud responsibility model, reminding organizations that they bear the ultimate responsibility for securing their data, regardless of where it resides.

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Data Protection Report

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Although California has recently captured the lion’s share of attention with respect to privacy and security, on October 23, 2019, New York’s amended security breach law goes into effect, and on March 1, 2020, new security safeguards go live (N.Y. Readers may recall that New York’s security breach notification law (N.Y.

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Data Protection Report

JANUARY 7, 2019

The two-year transitional period under the New York State Department of Financial Services (“DFS””) Cybersecurity Regulation , 23 NYCRR 500 (the “Regulation”), will expire on March 1, 2019, with the final remaining requirement becoming effective. Third-party service provider risk management program.

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Data Matters

OCTOBER 8, 2020

On October 1, 2020, the U.S. Ransomware attacks use malware, often injected through phishing schemes, to encrypt a victim’s data files or programs, followed by a ransom demand by the threat actor that offers the decryption key in exchange for payment. financial institutions or firms that perform “critical financial services.”.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

It includes multi-disciplinary risk and compliance management solutions and tools, including: IT & security risk management. Archer was named a Leader in Gartner’s 2020 Magic Quadrant for IT risk management and IT vendor risk management tools. Additionally, Forrester named it a Contender in its Q1 2020 GRC Wave.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

It includes multi-disciplinary risk and compliance management solutions and tools, including: IT & security risk management. Archer was named a Leader in Gartner’s 2020 Magic Quadrant for IT risk management and IT vendor risk management tools. Additionally, Forrester named it a Contender in its Q1 2020 GRC Wave.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

And like everything else in 2020, these next few weeks promise to be a disaster. Virtual credit cards similarly allow online shoppers to mask their financial accounts. Be similarly wary of turning over your address, phone number or, worse, Social Security number , to unsolicited callers. Browse online using secure networks.

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

MAY 13, 2019

Of particular concern to state-level policymakers and enforcement authorities are business practices that in their view may contribute to security incidents. The insurance industry has not been immune from such scrutiny, and the imposition of business practice requirements intended to enhance cybersecurity sector-wide.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JULY 30, 2019

Effective cybersecurity requires organizations to move beyond perimeter defense of their own network to protecting sensitive data in the hands of service providers. From a security and legal perspective, service provider cybersecurity requires significant attention and coordination by all parties both before and after hitting the breach.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

As reported on the Hunton Insurance Recovery blog , on February 4, 2021, the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”), which regulates the business of insurance in New York, has issued guidelines, in the Insurance Circular Letter No.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Rock the Blockchain: Thales and DigiCert Secure the Data. It’s a staggering statistic, but 39% of companies are still not using robust data security measures. billion data records were breached, quadrupling in 2020 to 36 billion globally. With risks so high, what is the hold up on implementing security? In 2019 alone, 7.9

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

The message published by the gang on its leak site emphasizes that they didn’t encrypt data to avoid causing malfunctions to the hospital’s medical equipment. The cybercrime group claims to have stolen 1 TB of data from the hospital and threatens to leak it.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 21, 2020

For it’s State of Cloud Security 2020 survey, Sophos commissioned the polling of some 3,500 IT managers across 26 countries in Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa. Sophos found that fully 70% of organizations experienced a public cloud security incident in the last year.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

But even when passwords are secure, it’s not enough. Initially, security vendors only offered two-factor authentication. Since then, security vendors have introduced new methods for authentication, which can be layered to create a multi-factor authentication solution. This post has been updated for 2021. Something you have.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

Since the inception of data forensics almost forty years ago, methods for investigating security events have given way to a market of vendors and tools offering digital forensics software (DFS). Under their Security Suite products, OpenText provides industry-renowned EnCase. Paraben Corporation.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Tue, 12/01/2020 - 07:53. In the November 3, 2020, election California voters upped the consumer digital privacy ante by passing Proposition 24, the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA ). Social Security number, driver’s license number, etc.), Thales can help enhance your security to achieve and maintain compliance.

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Data Matters

MAY 17, 2022

Two months later, on July 19, 2021, the National Security Agency (NSA), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and FBI assessed that People’s Republic of China state-sponsored malicious cyber activity is a major threat to U.S. and Allied cyberspace assets. 19, 2022). supply chain attacks).

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 2, 2022

Anyone who has anyone in the information security community is usually melting under the hot Nevada sun. And by de I'm an analyst at Javelin strategy and research where I do security risk and fraud for the financial services industry. Vamosi: Welcome to the hacker mind and original podcast from for all secure.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 27, 2021

With almost every aspect of business becoming more digital, enterprise network security software minimizes the impact of cyberattacks — especially as guarding against them protects a company’s operations and safeguards its competitiveness in a fast-moving marketplace. Top network security tools. Network Security Product.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

Information security products , services, and professionals have never been in higher demand, making for a world of opportunities for cybersecurity startups. With evolving attack methodologies due to machine learning, quantum computing, and sophisticated nation-state hackers, security startups are receiving record funding.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 11, 2021

As the presidential election unfolded in the fall, for example, there were revelations about how mobile apps used by political candidates were rife with security flaws that played right into the hands of propagandists and conspiracy theorists. Newer versions of Android provided more security and privacy benefits.

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