Data Matters

JANUARY 24, 2020

Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) recently published their examination priorities (together, the Examination Priorities) for the 2020 calendar year. Focus Areas for Both Broker-Dealers and Investment Advisers.

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Data Matters

MAY 9, 2019

As a general matter, the latest exposure drafts provide for further deference to the terms of the Covered Agreements and limit the application of commissioner discretion to the extent that the exercise of such discretion is inconsistent with the Covered Agreements. reinsurer that is not licensed in the state of domicile of a U.S.

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Data Matters

MAY 17, 2022

At the end of 2021, DDoS attacks had grown more than 24%, while the total number of smart attacks (advanced, often targeted, DDoS attacks) had increased by 31% when compared to the same period in 2020. In December 2020, Mandiant informed the public about an advanced cyberattack, which later became known as the SolarWinds attack.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

pic.twitter.com/GyVCTkOErO — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) January 30, 2020 Nothing bad will happen to him following this photo. The first point here is super easy and for anyone working in the same industry as I do, it's also super obvious: kids should never have admin rights on machines. What say you, internet?

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 2, 2020

After 11 months of a very intensive process culminating in many months of exclusivity with a party I believed would ultimately be the purchaser of the service, unexpected changes to their business model made the deal infeasible. The point is the net was cast very wide.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 5, 2021

As the industry develops, several vendors refer to advanced BAS solutions as security validation. Here are 11 of the top movers in the BAS market. Named a Gartner Cool Vendor for Cyber and IT Risk Management in 2020, CyCognito identifies attacker-exposed assets to enhance visibility into the attack and protect surfaces.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2021

Alternative social media platforms, also known as “alt” or alt-tech, were catapulted into the spotlight near the end of 2020 due to US President Donald Trump’s claims of election interference. Parler was said to have 10 million users (4 million active) as of November 2020. Network requests 34 11. Original Post at [link].

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 3, 2021

The comment is intended to normalise the data breach and downplay its significance, the exact opposite of what we want to encourage in this industry. I suspect there's little risk posed by the exposure of the data other than that it simplifies the exercise of analysing the nature of the groups people have created.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 1, 2021

In some ways, this is foolhardy – like predicting that the election would drive 2020, only to see it overwhelmed by COVID-19. Google does in 2021 what I predicted it would in 2020. Back in 1987 I was a cub reporter covering the technology industry. And off we go… 1. And what was that? That Google zags.

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