Data Matters

JANUARY 14, 2019

On December 19, 2018, Ohio adopted the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) Insurance Data Security Model Law. See CT Gen Stat § 38a-999b (2015) ; 23 NYCRR 500. (For 11 to the Ohio Revised Code. The Act does not, of course, supersede federal privacy or data security laws, such as HIPAA.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

11, when the company’s Twitter account started fielding reports from users who said they were no longer receiving messages. VFEmail’s Twitter account responded that “external facing systems, of differing OS’s and remote authentication, in multiple data centers are down.” Or, I really pissed someone off.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

This week, in our last podcast of the year, we revisit some of the biggest information security stories from the past 12 months. As is now traditional, I’ve installed myself in the porter’s chair next to the fire in the library, ready to recap some of the year’s more newsworthy information security events. caused problems of their own.

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Data Matters

AUGUST 6, 2020

The 9/11 Commission recommended a number of measures to improve the sharing of information within the intelligence community, but also recommended greater oversight to ensure equilibrium between privacy and national security interests. Key takeaways from the Sidley Monitor-Side Chat include: Mission, Operation and Access of PCLOB.

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The 2015 amendments to Rule 26(b)(1), however, were meant to resolve any doubt, returning the proportionality factors to their original place as part of the very definition of what is discoverable. The principle of proportionality in civil discovery is hardly new.4 5 In keeping with that aim, the scope of discovery has always been cabined.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 21, 2018

That harm extends all the way from those in data breaches feeling a sense of personal violation (that's certainly how I feel when I see my personal information exposed), all the way through to people literally killing themselves (there are many documented examples of this in the wake of the Ashley Madison breach).

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Elie

DECEMBER 20, 2018

reuse of passwords found in data breaches and phishing attacks. Arguably, this behavior should be considered harmful to Internet ecosystem security, as it tends to create an unhealthy competition between sites to entice users to use different systems and install many apps. 2015 old version of Alexa top 1000 sites.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Hearing on "Securing Consumers' Credit Data in the Age of Digital Commerce". Mister Chairman and Members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today concerning the security of credit data. My name is Bruce Schneier, and I am a security technologist. Before the. Committee on Energy and Commerce.

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CGI

AUGUST 11, 2015

Tue, 08/11/2015 - 08:00. Clearly, everyone knows that a data breach can be costly. Last year, I had an opportunity to brief a corporate board on their security program. Blog moderation guidelines and term of use. Cyber dashboards demonstrate value to executives. But why is this? Add new comment.

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Data Matters

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

The Bill aims to safeguard the privacy of individuals, by providing privacy and security protections over their “personal data” that are managed by “data controllers.” Among them is the establishment of a new local Data Protection regulator (i.e.,

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

This was a list of 320 million passwords from a range of different data breaches which organisations could use to better protect their own systems. This was a lot of work to parse varying data formats and if you read the comments on that blog post, you'll get a sense of how much people wanted this (and why it was problematic).

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