The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2019

Turn the corner into 2019 and we find Citigroup, CapitalOne, Wells Fargo and HSBC Life Insurance among a host of firms hitting the crisis button after their customers’ records turned up on a database of some 24 million financial and banking documents found parked on an Internet-accessible server — without so much as password protection.

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) held its Summer 2021 National Meeting (Summer Meeting) August 14-17, 2021. Highlights include, among others, adoption of revised risk-based capital bond factors for life insurers, amendments to SSAP No. NAIC Adopts Revised Risk-Based Capital Bond Factors for Life Insurers.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

AUGUST 23, 2021

Express, informed consent must generally be obtained from data subjects for all processing of personal information. The PIPL sets out limited consent exemptions, including (inter alia) in connection with some employee data handling or emergencies , but in practice we doubt organisations will rely on them.

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Data Matters

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Businesses, consumer advocates, and privacy watchers have thus been eagerly waiting for over a year for the Attorney General to propose the regulations the CCPA requires him to promulgate. As laid out below, the nature and breadth of the Attorney General’s proposed regulations explain why they took so long to produce. HIGHLIGHTS.

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Data Matters

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Businesses, consumer advocates, and privacy watchers have thus been eagerly waiting for over a year for the Attorney General to propose the regulations the CCPA requires him to promulgate. As laid out below, the nature and breadth of the Attorney General’s proposed regulations explain why they took so long to produce. Highlights.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This guide will provide a high level overview of encryption and how it fits into IT through the following topics: How Encryption Works To understand how encryption works, we need to understand how it fits into the broader realm of cryptology, how it processes data, common categories, top algorithms, and how encryption fits into IT security.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 30, 2023

So we we categorize threats into multiple different groups, typically, by their motivations, nation state in a party are generally going to be more motivated by information. And so with ransomware, we would put it in the criminal category, we track over 30 Different ransomware groups. By no means.

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