IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 22, 2024

The photo will expedite the recovery process and help when filing a police report or a possible claim with your insurance company. Hackers know this might be your first instinct, and some types of ransomware notice restart attempts and cause additional harm, like damaging Windows or deleting encrypted files.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In the first week of January, the pharmaceutical giant Merck quietly settled its years-long lawsuit over whether or not its property and casualty insurers would cover a $700 million claim filed after the devastating NotPetya cyberattack in 2017. The 9/11 attacks cost insurers and reinsurers $47 billion. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 9, 2019

The new requirements include the following: Expanded Definition of Personal Information. HB 1071 expands the definition of “personal information.” As reported by Bloomberg Law , on May 7, 2019, Washington State Governor Jay Inslee signed a bill ( HB 1071 ) amending Washington’s data breach notification law.

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Data Matters

MARCH 12, 2019

Of particular note, the Safeguards Rule NPRM proposes to align the FTC’s requirements with those of the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”), as found in its cybersecurity regulations, and the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (“NAIC”), as found in its insurance data security model law.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The definition of Web3 is a bit fuzzy. According to Ryan Lackey, Chief Security Officer at cryptoasset insurance company Evertas: “For example, a system may work one way — though differently than specified — in practice, then a user might design a relying system with the expectation that the altered behavior will continue.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 23, 2015

A brief summary of the data security requirements for health insurers and state contractors is set forth below: Health Insurers. Encrypt personal information being transmitted or while stored on a portable device. On July 1, 2015, Connecticut’s governor signed into law Public Act No. State Contractors.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

For ransomware attacks where network data gets encrypted , backups are the definitive method for restoring network infrastructure. Whereas before, ransomware gangs would only encrypt a network’s data and (maybe) release the decryption key upon payment, today’s attackers are taking their network access a step further.

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 3, 2018

The law applies to unencrypted computerized data or encrypted computerized data when the encryption key or code is also compromised.

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Data Protection Report

JANUARY 29, 2018

Companies regulated by federal law, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), that have procedures for a security breach that follow the rules of their primary regulator, would be deemed in compliance with the proposed law. under HIPAA).

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 24, 2015

unsecured protected health information (as that term is defined in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) Privacy Rule). unsecured protected health information (as that term is defined in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) Privacy Rule).

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Guidance on where notification may not be required is provided, for example where: (i) the compromised data is already in the public domain; (ii) if the data is securely encrypted; or (iii) availability is not compromised because the controller has access to other sources of the data. This is a helpful clarification.

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

MARCH 14, 2019

The proposed Rule would expand the definition of “financial institutions” to include “finders,” meaning those who charge a fee to connect consumers who are looking for a loan to a lender, which would bring the Rule into accord with the CFPB’s Regulation P. Specific information security measures.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

The CCPA’s definition of “consumer” is equally broad. This definition therefore not only encompasses a “consumer” in the traditional sense (i.e., The business community is already lobbying the California legislature to narrow this definition. The International Association of Privacy Professionals estimates at least 500,000 U.S.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The CCPA’s definition of “consumer” is equally broad. This definition therefore not only encompasses a “consumer” in the traditional sense (i.e., The business community is already lobbying the California legislature to narrow this definition. The International Association of Privacy Professionals estimates at least 500,000 U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2023

Managed Detection and Response Product Guide Top MDR Services and Solutions Encryption Full disk encryption, sometimes called whole disk encryption, is a data encryption approach for both hardware and software that involves encrypting all disk data, including system files and programs.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

And this often happens when the hacker, the so-called threat actor, starts encrypting the computer systems. Encrypting computer systems can bring business operations to a standstill, partially because attacks usually occur when the company is least ready to respond e.g., at Christmas, during the summer, and on weekends.

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Data Matters

MAY 9, 2019

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) held its Spring 2019 National Meeting (Spring Meeting) in Orlando, Florida, from April 6 to 9, 2019. Other notable revisions include the following: The definition of “Reciprocal Jurisdiction” was broadened to include U.S. This post summarizes the highlights from this meeting.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JULY 30, 2019

Proof of adequate cyber insurance coverage. Audit and assessment provisions that allow you to evaluate the effectiveness of the service provider’s cybersecurity program.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

AUGUST 23, 2021

Definition of Personal information and Sensitive Personal information “Personal information” means any kind of information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, either electronically or otherwise recorded, but excluding information that has been de-identified or anonymised.

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KnowBe4

APRIL 25, 2023

link] [Head Scratcher] More Companies With Cyber Insurance Are Hit by Ransomware Than Those Without? In an interesting twist, new data hints that organizations with cyber insurance may be relying on it too much, instead of shoring up security to ensure attacks never succeed. Date/Time: Wednesday, May 3, @ 2:00 PM (ET) Save My Spot!

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 5, 2023

35 TB of data exfiltrated from Henry Schein, plus ALPHV/BlackCat re-encrypted the newly restored files As we first reported last month , the US healthcare solutions provider Henry Schein announced on 15 October that it had suffered a cyber attack that caused disruption to its manufacturing and distribution businesses.

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IT Governance

MARCH 5, 2024

Affected information includes users’ names, email addresses, IP addresses and encrypted passwords. Only 5 definitely haven’t had data breached. TB Turtlemint Source (New) Insurance India Yes 1,800,000 Chunghwa Telecom Source (New) Telecoms Taiwan Yes 1.7 The threat actor, KryptonZambie, listed a 5.93

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Data Matters

MARCH 30, 2018

Alabama exempts from the definition of breach the good faith acquisition of sensitive personally identifying information by an employee or agent of a covered entity, unless the information is used for a purpose unrelated to the business or subject to further unauthorized use.

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IT Governance

MARCH 11, 2024

Glosbe dictionary exposes almost 7 million records The multilingual online dictionary Glosbe left a MongoDB instance unsecured last year, exposing nearly 7 million users’ information, including personal data, encrypted passwords and social media identifiers. Only 3 definitely haven’t had data breached.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 16, 2024

Only 4 definitely haven’t had data breached. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: full list This week, we’ve found 249,142,212 records known to be compromised, and 108 organisations suffering a newly disclosed incident. 94 of them are known to have had data breached. Organisation(s) Sector Location Data breached?

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 11, 2023

So you may not have a CS degree, but you will definitely need a OSCP cert to get work professionally hacking for a living. So, before we begin, we should set some definitions. This is a good definition in that it allows a lot of leeway. They're basically entirely encrypted. And you know, I'm not an insurance guy.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

That's quite a narrow definition. What can they do within the workforce, although this sort of job and sort of landscape we try and work out what they can do, which is the definition of authorization, essentially, this is Simon, what can he do today? Well, actually, well, if you encrypt the password, it can be decrypted.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

DV is easy and indeed automation is a cornerstone of Let's Encrypt which is a really important attribute of it. Plus, long-lived certs actually create other risks due to the fact that revocation is broken so iterating quickly (for example, Let's Encrypt certs last for 3 months) is a virtue. Indian Income Tax Department. We got one!

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 30, 2018

In this industry, there's everything from income-producing equipment to conferences to charitable donations to an organisation like Let's Encrypt that can reduce your tax bill (obviously get expert advice on this if you're not sure). Free legal money and there are many, many ways to do it.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Cyber insurance will become more popular and more comprehensive. It’s led to a growing trend for organisations to purchase cyber insurance, which Forbes contributor Emil Sayegh believes will continue in 2022. This market squeeze will certainly affect the cyber insurance industry itself. “We

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Data Protector

OCTOBER 11, 2017

We may need seriously to look at the lack of definition of “substantial public interest” as a basis for processing sensitive data, or even of public interest. This is welcome, but there may perhaps be issues around definitions of who and what is covered by the phrase “archiving in the public interest”.

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Data Matters

JUNE 26, 2018

The CCPA also exempts data covered by Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and consumer report data governed by the Fair Credit Reporting Act. The definition of personal information under the law is broad — in many ways echoing the European standard. What Is Personal Information. Regulatory Enforcement.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Labor Department’s inspector general said this week that roughly $100 million in fraudulent unemployment insurance claims were paid in 2020 to criminals who are already in jail. Fraudsters involved in filing jobless benefit claims have definitely taken notice of ID.me’s efforts. To screen out fraudsters, ID.me

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