Remove 11
Remove 2019 Remove Communications Remove Groups Remove Insurance
article thumbnail

The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 13 – 19 November 2023

IT Governance

a property management company in Kentucky Incident details: The ransomware group Hunters International has added Homeland, Inc. According to databreaches.net , the group exfiltrated tenant information, service management information, financial data, business data, property data, employee data and sensitive business information.

article thumbnail

2019 end-of-year review part 1: January to June

IT Governance

A royal baby, a fire at Notre-Dame, the highest grossing film of all time and more than 12 billion breached data records: 2019 has been quite a year. IT Governance is closing out the year by rounding up 2019’s biggest information security stories. Part one covers January to June, and will be followed by part in the coming days.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Regulatory Update: NAIC Summer 2018 National Meeting

Data Matters

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) held its Summer 2018 National Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, from August 4 to 7, 2018. NAIC Continues its Evaluation of Insurers’ Use of Big Data . The NAIC is also considering insurers’ use of big data in underwriting life insurance products.

article thumbnail

UK businesses are reporting fewer data breaches, but is this as positive as it sounds?

IT Governance

A third of businesses and a fifth of charities were hit by a cyber attack or data breach in the past year, the UK government’s Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2019 has found. More medium-sized (31% vs 19%) and large businesses (35% vs 24%) have invested in cyber insurance.

article thumbnail

Ransomware Protection in 2021

eSecurity Planet

As organizations move toward cloud environments, vulnerabilities rooted in vast internet communications are coming to light. Ransomware attacks increased by 130% in 2020 ( Beazley Group ). In 2019, Danish company Demant paid $85 million after losing access to 22,000 computers in 40 countries. Adaptive Monitoring and Tagging.

article thumbnail

SEC Chair: Sweeping New Cybersecurity Rules Are Coming Soon

Data Matters

Assess All Public Statements: As the SEC is focused on communications that may affect investor decision-making, companies should ensure that legal and IT review all public statements concerning cyberevents or cybersecurity. 11 But the SEC declined to go that far when it adopted Reg SCI. 11 See Securities Exchange Act Release No.

article thumbnail

Privacy and Cybersecurity Top 10 for 2018

Data Matters

In Carpenter , the government obtained months’ worth of a suspect’s cell phone location records pursuant to the Stored Communications Act (SCA). These cases have been a central part of post-9/11 privacy law. and perhaps even on the model clauses, although ultimate decisions on the merits may easily reach into 2019 or beyond.