Data Matters

MAY 4, 2022

. – Sidley announced today that David Lashway and John Woods have joined as partners in the firm’s Privacy and Cybersecurity practice in Washington, D.C. Mr. Lashway and Mr. Woods join Sidley from Baker McKenzie where they started and led the global cybersecurity practice group for over 10 years. political parties.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

CyberEdBoard Executive Member, Charmaine Valmonte, guest speaks at ISMG Virtual Cybersecurity Summit Asia: Financial Services Volmonte is VP, IT security and IT infrastructure, Aboitiz Group of Companies. She has more than 30 years of experience in the U.S. military and the private sector.

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Data Matters

JUNE 29, 2022

–Sidley announced today that Jennifer Seale and Jonathan Wilan have joined as partners in the firm’s Privacy and Cybersecurity practice in Washington, D.C. Seale and Mr. Wilan join Sidley from Baker McKenzie where they played key roles in the Global Cybersecurity practice.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Resecurity has uncovered a meaningful link between three major ransomware groups, BianLian, White Rabbit, and Mario Ransomware. Resecurity’s HUNTER (HUMINT) unit spotted the BianLian , White Rabbit , and Mario ransomware gangs collaborating in a joint extortion campaign targeting publicly-traded financial services firms.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 20, 2024

For highly regulated industries, these challenges take on an entirely new level of expectation as they navigate evolving regulatory landscape and manage requirements for privacy, resiliency, cybersecurity, data sovereignty and more. Read to learn more about cloud adoption within financial services?

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Cybersecurity company Resecurity has published the 2024 Cyber Threat Landscape Forecast. Resecurity, a Los Angeles-based cybersecurity company protecting Fortune 100 and government agencies worldwide, has compiled a comprehensive forecast outlining the imminent threats and novel security challenges anticipated in the upcoming year.

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Data Matters

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

On November 18, 2021, a group of federal bank regulators announced a final rule requiring banks to notify their primary federal regulator of any “significant computer-security incidents.” Further, bank service providers are now required to promptly notify all affected banks whenever a cybersecurity disruption lasts for four or more hours.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Paul Greene , CIPP/US, CIPP/E, CIPM, FIP, Harter Secrest & Emery’s Privacy and Data Security practice group helps clients respond to data security incidents of all kinds. The firm operates its own 24-hour Cybersecurity Incident and Breach Response Line to assist companies and organizations responding to a cyberattack or data breach.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Securing sensitive data in an evolving landscape Advancements like those in AI and quantum computing can pose new challenges to customers, especially those in highly regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, telecommunications and more.

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Data Protection Report

MAY 25, 2022

In this article we distil critical lessons from the Federal Court’s recent decision in Australian Securities and Investments Commission v RI Advice Group Pty Ltd [1] and practical actions to be taken by Boards and executive management. Lesson 1 – Context is everything.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A financial cybercrime group calling itself the Disneyland Team has been making liberal use of visually confusing phishing domains that spoof popular bank brands using Punycode , an Internet standard that allows web browsers to render domain names with non-Latin alphabets like Cyrillic. com — which was created to phish U.S.

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 23, 2018

The FSB is developing the cyber lexicon to address cybersecurity and cyber resilience in the financial sector and hopes that it will boost cross-border cooperation on cybersecurity. According to the note, “[t]he FSB has formed a working group, chaired by the U.S.

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2019

Chinese APT group Emissary Panda has been targeting government organizations in two different countries in the Middle East. The Emissary Panda APT group has been active since 2010, targeted organizations worldwide, including U.S. defense contractors , financial services firms, and a national data center in Central Asia.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 18, 2021

. “That statement demonstrated that First American’s senior management was not properly informed of the prior report of a vulnerability and a failure to remediate the problem,” wrote Michael Volkov , a 30-year federal prosecutor who now runs The Volkov Law Group in Washington, D.C. “That’s a high-risk vulnerability.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 25, 2022

” “As soon as the issue was uncovered, the company initiated cybersecurity incident response measures to protect and secure its information; and notified law enforcement and regulators,” MSF wrote. ” According to the Native American Financial Services Association (NAFSA), a trade group in Washington, D.C.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 11, 2023

suffers second ransomware attack in months Having been struck by a ransomware attack in October by the BlackSuit group , which led to operations and appointments being postponed, Akumin Inc. has suffered a second attack, this time by the BianLian ransomware group. Akumin Inc. Data breached: 5 TB.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 12, 2023

As a leading financial group in Spain, CaixaBank has long been an innovator by taking a technology-first approach by placing innovation, digital transformation, customer experience and sustainable banking at the forefront of its strategy. CaixaBank is continuing its initiative to increase cloud absorption.

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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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Data Matters

JANUARY 2, 2018

This past year was marked by ever more significant data breaches, growing cybersecurity regulatory requirements at the state and federal levels and continued challenges in harmonizing international privacy and cybersecurity regulations. A Pivot Toward Asia for Privacy and Cybersecurity Laws. After years of EU-U.S.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 28, 2015

754 – Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 (“CISA”) by a vote of 74 to 21. Chamber of Commerce and various financial industry groups. The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association’s President and CEO Kenneth E. 1731, the National Cybersecurity Protection Advancement Act of 2015 and H.R.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) published a joint advisory that provides technical details about the gang’s operations, including tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and indicators of compromise (IOCs) associated with Cuba ransomware. ” reads the report.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2022

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) published a joint cybersecurity advisory warning of AvosLocker ransomware attacks targeting multiple US critical infrastructure. The advisory was published in coordination with the US Treasury Department and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). Consider installing and using a VPN.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2021

Recently Cyber researchers for Cyble investigated an attack suffered by on May 30, 2021, by Nucleus Software, an India-based IT company in the Banking and Financial Services sector. Nucleus Software declared that it does not store customers’ financial data. ” reads the post published by Cyble.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Agent Tesla , first discovered in late 2014, is an extremely popular “malware-as-a-service” Remote Access Trojan (RAT) tool used by threat actors to steal information such as credentials, keystrokes, clipboard data and other information from its operators’ targets.

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Data Matters

MAY 17, 2022

Statement by President Biden on our Nation’s Cybersecurity (March 21, 2022). Defense Information Technology , Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Sec. In response, the Biden Administration has made cybersecurity defense a key agenda item. Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act of 2022, S. Agency (Feb. 14,028, 86 Fed.

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Data Matters

AUGUST 22, 2018

On August 7, a group of regulators from 11 jurisdictions published a consultation (the Consultation) on the Global Financial Innovation Network (the GFIN), which aims to promote international cooperation on innovation and the use of technology in financial services (FinTech) and in regulatory processes (RegTech).

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The Security Ledger

MARCH 26, 2021

In this week’s Security Ledger Podcast, sponsored by Trusted Computing Group, we’re talking about securing the hardware supply chain. » Related Stories Episode 201: Bug Hunting with Sick Codes Episode 200: Sakura Samurai Wants To Make Hacking Groups Cool Again. . » Read the whole entry. »

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Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

Recent guidance from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on disclosure and enforcement actions by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) make clear that cybersecurity is no longer a niche topic, but a concern significant enough to warrant the oversight of corporate boards of directors. Adopting the NIST Cybersecurity Framework.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2023

According to a joint advisory published by cybersecurity agencies, the LockBit ransomware group has successfully extorted roughly $91 million in about 1,700 attacks against U.S. The group targeted municipal governments, county governments, public higher education and K-12 schools, and emergency services (e.g.,

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Data Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Kate has strong experience involving complex privacy and data security matters and represents several large, multinational companies, as well as startups, in the healthcare, technology and financial services sectors, among others. Kate is a member of the firm’s Privacy and Cybersecurity, Healthcare, and Commercial Litigation groups.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 16, 2024

Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Professional services USA Yes 56,457 Highlands Oncology Group Source 1 ; source 2 ; source 3 (Update) Healthcare USA Yes 55,297 Charm Sciences, Inc. Drug Mart Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Healthcare USA Yes 36,749 Elliott Group Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes 31.5

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Data Matters

MARCH 21, 2022

Congress has passed a significant new cybersecurity law that will require critical infrastructure entities to report material cybersecurity incidents and ransomware payments to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) within 72 and 24 hours, respectively. See Section 2240(6)(B).

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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. It has been estimated that the group has targeted approximately 100 companies across the world between December and January. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2021

Nearly 26 million login credentials (emails, login credentials) were stolen from almost a million websites, the data were categorized into 12 different groups based on the type of website. million unique email addresses, NordLocker found, for an array of different apps and services. The 26 million login credentials held 1.1

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2023

CISA and ENISA enhance their Cooperation CISA adds Qlik bugs to exploited vulnerabilities catalog Report: 2.6

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Recent demonstrations from cybersecurity researchers have shown how it’s possible to hack into medical devices like pacemakers or insulin pumps. There are also instances of hospitals being unable to perform fundamental services. Also, nonprofits may feel overwhelmed about where to start as they learn about cybersecurity.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

APRIL 20, 2021

This introduces a data lifecycle security framework, and represents the key guideline for handling personal and other financial information by financial institutions (i.e. similar to the PIS Specification, but focused on the banking and financial services industry). Level 1: public data.

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