Long Article on GM Spying on Its Cars’ Drivers
Schneier on Security
APRIL 26, 2024
Kashmir Hill has a really good article on how GM tricked its drivers into letting it spy on them—and then sold that data to insurance companies.
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Schneier on Security
APRIL 26, 2024
Kashmir Hill has a really good article on how GM tricked its drivers into letting it spy on them—and then sold that data to insurance companies.
IG Guru
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
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The Last Watchdog
AUGUST 24, 2020
Purchasing life insurance once meant going to an insurer’s office or booking an appointment with an insurance agent. Today’s generation is used to getting everything done fast and easy, so life insurance providers had to get with the times and cover all customers’ needs and requirements.
Data Protection Report
MARCH 21, 2023
The French Information and Digital Security Experts Club ( CESIN ) has estimated that 54% of French companies were subject to cyberattacks in 2021, [1] while France Assureurs has put cyberattack risks on top of all other risks for the sixth year in a row. [2] 12-10-1 into the French Insurance code. However, in the end, Article L.12-10-1
Schneier on Security
JULY 1, 2021
Here’s one more contribution to that issue: a research paper that the insurance industry is hurting more than it’s helping. Although it is a societal problem, cyber insurers have received considerable criticism for facilitating ransom payments to cybercriminals. News article. Often, that’s paying the ransom.
KnowBe4
MAY 22, 2023
Food for thought as discussed on May 18, 2023, an article posted in The Australian Insurance Council: Banning paying a ransom to cyber hackers is counter-productive where Andrew Hall, the Chief Executive of the Insurance Council of Australia (ICA), stated that “attempts to ban businesses from paying ransoms for cyber attacks risks eroding trust and (..)
DLA Piper Privacy Matters
MARCH 27, 2023
LOPMI introduces amendments to the insurability of losses and damages paid in response to cyber-attacks, including in relation to ransom payments – requiring that the payment of insurance compensation be conditional on the filing of a complaint, within a 72 hour time frame, to competent authorities.
IBM Big Data Hub
DECEMBER 4, 2023
IBM can help insurance companies insert generative AI into their business processes IBM is one of a few companies globally that can bring together the range of capabilities needed to completely transform the way insurance is marketed, sold, underwritten, serviced and paid for.
IBM Big Data Hub
JUNE 23, 2023
Although interest rates have increased at an unprecedented rate over the past year due to efforts by central banks to curb inflation, insurers are locked into low-yielding investments, and it will take several years for their investment yields to improve. Core modernization (processes and technology) is a top priority for every insurer.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 7, 2024
Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Experts spotted a new macOS Backdoor named SpectralBlur linked to North Korea Merck settles with insurers regarding a $1.4 A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived!
Security Affairs
MARCH 17, 2024
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Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 25, 2024
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eSecurity Planet
AUGUST 9, 2022
Regulatory compliance and data privacy issues have long been an IT security nightmare. GDPR (among other legal requirements in the EU and elsewhere) can expose multinational organizations to hefty financial penalties, additional rules for disclosing data breaches, and increased scrutiny of the adequacy of their data security.
Schneier on Security
APRIL 12, 2018
Good article about how difficult it is to insure an organization against Internet attacks, and how expensive the insurance is. In my new book -- out in September -- I write: There are challenges to creating these new insurance products. There are two basic models for insurance. BoingBoing article.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 26, 2023
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Hunton Privacy
OCTOBER 25, 2022
million fine to Interserve Group Limited for failing to keep employee personal data secure, which violates Article 5(1)(f) and Article 32 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), during the period of March 2019 to December 2020. On October 24, 2022, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) issued a £4.4
Security Affairs
JULY 24, 2022
A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs for free in your email box. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 375 by Pierluigi Paganini appeared first on Security Affairs. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
JANUARY 16, 2024
As set out in its Article 2, DORA applies to the entire financial services sector. That includes banks, insurances, payment institutions, stock market, and many financial management firms (trading, crypt-assets, etc). The adoption of cloud computing is a way to improve the security and the resilience of ICT services.
Lenny Zeltser
JULY 1, 2020
To achieve this, the scammer: Obtains the victim’s personal information , including name, date of birth, social security number, address, and probably employment history. I wrote this article to help other victims of this unemployment insurance fraud and identity theft scam. I believe in this scheme.
Hunton Privacy
NOVEMBER 27, 2017
On November 3, 2017, Securityroundtable.org published an article highlighting the vulnerabilities businesses face in a world of e-commerce and interconnectivity, and spotlighted a crisis-planning panel hosted by Hunton & Williams held on November 1. For a recap of the event, read the full Securityroundtable.org article.
Security Affairs
APRIL 25, 2021
Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 311 appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.
IT Governance
JANUARY 9, 2024
LockBit claims responsibility for Capital Health security incident The LockBit ransomware group has claimed responsibility for an attack on Capital Health , a healthcare provider in Pennington, New Jersey, last November. They accessed 41.5 The compromised data allegedly includes names, email addresses and phone numbers.
The Last Watchdog
OCTOBER 29, 2018
The headlines immediately attempted to lay the blame, in large part, on the fact that Equifax’s chief information security officer was a music major and did not have a background in technology. The FTC considers that ‘reasonable security’ doesn’t mean ‘perfect security.’ Even the best security program is not bulletproof.
KnowBe4
AUGUST 24, 2022
Reporter Aaron Holmes just published an article that is an eye opener for sure. Here is s short extract and I recommend you reading the whole article, link is below. It's great budget ammo for security awareness training. You saw the title and are reading this, so I think you agree.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 4, 2020
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Security Affairs
APRIL 24, 2022
A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 362 by Pierluigi Paganini appeared first on Security Affairs. Patch them now! Patch them now!
Security Affairs
APRIL 30, 2023
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Security Affairs
JULY 10, 2021
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Security Affairs
OCTOBER 1, 2023
Experts warn that the recent attack on building automation giant Johnson Controls may have exposed data of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The company provides HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning), solutions for building automation, fire and security systems, and components for energy management. “The
Security Affairs
JULY 21, 2021
Experts found a DB containing sensitive health insurance data belonging to customers of US insurance giant Humana. An SQL database containing what appears to be highly sensitive health insurance data of more than 6,000 patients has been leaked on a popular hacker forum. What was leaked? Drug prescription listings).
Hunton Privacy
APRIL 11, 2013
As the number of security breach incidents and privacy violations continues to increase, so too has the volume of lawsuits—particularly class action lawsuits—seeking damages for actual and future harms resulting from unauthorized disclosures of personal information. In a recent article entitled That Was a Secret!
Krebs on Security
APRIL 27, 2023
Until being contacted by this reporter on Monday, the state of Vermont had at least five separate Salesforce Community sites that allowed guest access to sensitive data, including a Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program that exposed the applicant’s full name, Social Security number, address, phone number, email, and bank account number.
AIIM
MARCH 12, 2018
Over 100 eBooks, Guest articles, and Tip Sheets from the past year or so -- 107 of them to be exact. Information Privacy and Security: GDPR is Just the Tip of the Iceberg. Getting Ahead of the Disruption Curve is Critical for Insurance Companies. Information Security and Compliance Through the Prism of Two Industries.
Hunton Privacy
AUGUST 10, 2017
Circuit reversed the dismissal of a putative data breach class action against health insurer CareFirst, Attias v. 1, 2017), finding the risk of future injury was not too speculative to establish injury in fact under Article III. . CareFirst, Inc. , 16-7108, slip op. Amnesty Int’l USA , 568 U.S.
Schneier on Security
JANUARY 19, 2022
Doctors Clinical Lab, the lab Center for COVID Control uses to process tests, makes money by billing patients’ insurance companies or seeking reimbursement from the federal government for testing. Read the article for the messy details. The companies will keep making money for the rapid tests they collect, he said.
HL Chronicle of Data Protection
MAY 13, 2019
In the past two years, multiple state bills that have been introduced in the US to provide for cybersecurity requirements and standards to the insurance sector, with recent legislative activity taking place in particular within the States of Ohio, South Carolina, and Michigan. NYDFS: Setting a new bar for state cybersecurity regulation.
Krebs on Security
APRIL 15, 2019
The security experts said Wipro’s customers traced malicious and suspicious network reconnaissance activity back to partner systems that were communicating directly with Wipro’s network. “Wipro has a multilayer security system,” the company wrote. On Friday, Apr. “A total of 44.4 “A total of 44.4
Hunton Privacy
MARCH 21, 2014
President Obama’s Executive Order 13636 on Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity identified “insurance liability considerations” as an incentive that might improve security. Over the course of the year since the Executive Order was issued, there has been an increase in the marketing of cyber insurance products.
DLA Piper Privacy Matters
OCTOBER 25, 2022
The ICO found that Interserve had failed to put appropriate technical and organisational measures in place to secure personal data (in contravention of Articles 5(1)(f) and 32 GDPR) for a period of ~20 months. This emphasises the importance of remediating any gaps in security measures promptly to meet the legal standard of care.
Hunton Privacy
JANUARY 31, 2014
Recent media attention focused on the security breach that affected millions of Target customers has increased interest in cyber insurance to cover the financial losses associated with these types of events.
eSecurity Planet
MARCH 18, 2022
Many security professionals think that if they have done the hard work of securing their organization, that should be enough. Even though drafting IT security policies can be a pain, formal policies provide a valuable resource to protect both the IT team and their organization. Written security policies.
CGI
AUGUST 31, 2016
Insurers’ role will be critical in improving cybersecurity standards. Cyber insurance can be obtained to cover such costs as crisis management, media management, incident management, technical remediation, legal fees, call management, data subject notification, breach investigation and many other losses resulting from a cyber-attack.
Hunton Privacy
JUNE 16, 2014
As companies seek out ways to prevent these events and recoup losses associated with a data breach, cyber insurance is increasingly discussed as an effective method of recovery. In a recent article published in the Daily Journal , Hunton & Williams’ Insurance Coverage Counseling and Litigation attorney William T.
IT Governance
OCTOBER 11, 2022
One of the most common mistakes that organisations make when addressing cyber security is that they consider it a one-off event. This process should be embedded within your overall cyber security measures in what experts refer to as cyber defence in depth. What is threat management?
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