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Adventures in cyber litigation: Frozen crypto-assets and the role of cyber insurance

Data Protection Report

Given the level of interest in the case, we have prepared a deeper-dive into the facts and the implications of the decision, with a focus on the important role played in the case by cyber insurance. For some time, cyber exposure has been at or near the top of every major company’s risk register. This is set out below.

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How to Decrypt Ransomware Files – And What to Do When That Fails

eSecurity Planet

First, call the cyber insurance company that issued the organization’s cybersecurity policy. Most insurance companies require specific incident response vendors, procedures, and reporting that must be met to meet the standards to be insured. Insured companies often will not have options. Eliminate attacker access.

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Global Scamdemic: Scams Become Number One Online Crime

Security Affairs

Threat hunting and adversarial cyber intelligence company Group-IB published a comprehensive analysis of fraud cases on a global scale. For example, a scheme of fake branded social media accounts (typical of the financial sector) affected over 500 fake accounts per bank on average in 2020. million in one year . Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #19 [Watch Your Back] New Fake Chrome Update Error Attack Targets Your Users

KnowBe4

With 30+ years of experience as a computer security consultant, instructor, and award-winning author, Roger has dedicated his life to making sure you're prepared to defend against ever-present IT security threats like phishing. No worries — register now and you will receive a link to view the presentation on-demand afterwards.

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SEC Chair: Sweeping New Cybersecurity Rules Are Coming Soon

Data Matters

For example, SEC guidance from 2018 emphasizes that there is a range of factors that may affect whether an incident should be disclosed to investors beyond the bottom-line financial costs to respond to the incident. Public Companies and Service Providers. Public companies currently must disclose material cybersecurity incidents.

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Catches of the month: Phishing scams for January 2020

IT Governance

For example, the browser that the login apparently came from is “chrome” with a lowercase C. Victims are presented with a series of screens asking them to confirm their personal details, including their billing address, payment card details and email address.

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FRANCE: THE CNIL PUBLISHES ITS DATA PRIVACY IMPACT ASSESSMENT (DPIA) GUIDELINES AND A LIST OF PROCESSING OPERATIONS SUBJECT TO A DPIA

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

In the continuity of this accompaniment, the CNIL published on November 6th 2018 its DPIA guidelines supplementing the G29 Working Party’s opinion on DPIA along with its DPIA list which gives concrete examples of data processing operations likely to result in a high risk. in the automotive insurance sector); Monitoring.