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ROUNDTABLE: What happened in privacy and cybersecurity in 2021 — and what’s coming in 2022

The Last Watchdog

In 2021, we endured the fallout of a seemingly endless parade of privacy controversies and milestone cyber attacks. On the privacy front, California beefed up its consumer data privacy regulations even as Facebook and Apple publicly feuded over how each of these tech giants abuse of consumer privacy and loosey handle sensitive data.

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First American Financial Pays Farcical $500K Fine

Krebs on Security

The SEC says First American derives nearly 92 percent of its revenue from its title insurance segment, earning $7.1 Title insurance protects homebuyers from the prospect of someone contesting their legitimacy as the new homeowner. Title insurance is not mandated by law, but most lenders require it as part of any mortgage transaction.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 11 – 18 December 2023

IT Governance

We’re also introducing two new categories this week: ‘AI’ and ‘Key dates’. At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. ALPHV claims to have 8 TB of data, including data sets from Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble, and Pepsi.

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California Enacts Broad Privacy Laws Modeled on GDPR

Data Matters

Jerry Brown signed into law the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (AB 375). This legislation was enacted on an extraordinarily accelerated timeframe as part of compromise with the sponsor of a comparable privacy ballot initiative, which had qualified to be placed before state voters on Election Day in November 2018.

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The Impact of Data Protection Laws on Your Records Retention Schedule

ARMA International

These records are typically organized by grouping them by function or department and then described as either an individual record or grouped together into a record category. Certain sectors, such as banking, financial services, health, and insurance have their own data protection and privacy requirements.

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List of Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in October 2022 – 9.9 Million Records Breached

IT Governance

As always, you can find the full list of data breaches and cyber attacks below, divided into their respective categories. However, it’s a warning sign for all organisations about the dangers of misconfigured Internet-facing servers. Cyber attacks.

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ICO issue fine of £4.4 to Interserve for security failings

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

On 24 October 2022, the ICO issued a penalty notice (MPN) to Interserve Group Limited (Interserve), imposing a fine of £4.4m A phishing email was sent to a group employee which was designed to appear as though the attached document needed urgent action. Authors: Ross McKean , Henry Pelling. The Incident.