Data Protection Report

JANUARY 16, 2020

Earlier this week, Hong Kong’s Panel on Constitutional Affairs (the Panel ) released its discussion paper ( LC Paper. CB(2) 512/19-20(03 ) (the Paper ) seeking views on changes to Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (Cap.486) Written by Partner Anna Gamvros and Associate Libby Ryan, both based in the Hong Kong office.

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) held its Summer 2019 National Meeting (Summer Meeting) in New York City from August 3 to 6, 2019. The amended regulation took effect on August 1, 2019, for annuity products and will become effective on February 1, 2020, for life insurance products.

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Insurance Paper Risk Analytics 68

IT Governance

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Welcome to the second part of our round-up of 2019’s information security stories. Laxman Muthiyah, a security researcher, was awarded a $30,000 (£24,000) bug bounty after discovering a vulnerability that could have led to Instagram accounts being hacked in ten minutes. You can read the first part here >> July.

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Data breaches Personal data GDPR Ransomware 78

IT Governance

AUGUST 29, 2019

That’s about 10 percent of the monthly average coming into the month. Internet hosting provider Hostinger resets users’ passwords after security breach (14 million). Idaho’s Nampa School District resorts to pen and paper after suspected ransomware attack (unknown). Cyber attacks. Ransomware. Virginia’s New Kent Co.

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Data breaches Phishing Ransomware Personal data 111

Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Having just gone through the BYOD process with my 10-year old son at school (and witnessing the confusion and disinformation from parents and teachers alike), now seemed like a good time to outline some fundamentals whilst sitting on a plane heading down to Sydney to do some adult-related cyber things!

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Privacy Access IT Education 140

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. The March 7, 2019, exposure drafts of the CFR Model Laws have been revised to address those comments as well as certain other comments received from interested parties.

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Insurance Blockchain Big data Risk 68

Data Matters

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (the NAIC) held its Fall 2019 National Meeting (Fall Meeting) in Austin, Texas, from December 7 to 10, 2019. 2019 Revisions to the Credit for Reinsurance Model Law and the Credit for Reinsurance Model Regulation.

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Insurance Risk Artificial Intelligence Privacy 60

Data Matters

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (the NAIC) held its Fall 2019 National Meeting (Fall Meeting) in Austin, Texas, from December 7 to 10, 2019. 2019 Revisions to the Credit for Reinsurance Model Law and the Credit for Reinsurance Model Regulation.

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Insurance Risk Artificial Intelligence Privacy 60

Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2019

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Paper Copy. AESDDoS bot exploits CVE-2019-3396 flaw to hit Atlassian Confluence Server. Microsoft removes Password-Expiration Policy in security baseline for Windows 10. 10KBLAZE exploits could affect 9 out of 10 SAP installs of more than 50k customers.

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Security Passwords Ransomware Paper 51

Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2019

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Paper Copy. SAP Patch Day – July 2019 addresses a critical flaw in Diagnostics Agent. A flaw could have allowed hackers to take over any Instagram account in 10 minutes. CVE-2019-6342 flaw allows hackers to fully compromise Drupal 8.7.4 Kindle Edition.

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Security Mining Ransomware Data collection 53

Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2019

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Paper Copy. Nine 2019 Cybersecurity Predictions. First Google security patches for Android in 2019 fix a critical flaw. Microsoft January 2019 Patch Tuesday updates fix 7 critical vulnerabilities. Three security bugs found in the popular Linux suite systemd.

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Security Manufacturing Paper Ransomware 53

Hunton Privacy

JULY 28, 2020

The Beta phase of the Regulatory Sandbox was launched in September 2019 as a pilot and involves the assessment of ten products and services that use personal data in innovative ways. The ICO introduced the Regulatory Sandbox service with the goal of demonstrating that data protection can be combined with real world innovative solutions.

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IT GDPR Personal data Compliance 91

Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2019

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Paper Copy. CVE-2019-9510 flaw allows hackers to bypass Windows lock screen on RDP sessions. 0patch experts released unofficial Patch Available for Recent Windows 10 Task Scheduler Zero-Day. Crooks stole about $10 million from GateHub cryptocurrency wallet service.

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Security Paper Data breaches Communications 51

Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2019

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Paper Copy. Annual RSA Conference Exclusive 2019 Edition of Cyber Defense Magazine is arrived. Microsoft enabled Retpoline mitigations against the Spectre Variant 2 for Windows 10. Microsoft enabled Retpoline mitigations against the Spectre Variant 2 for Windows 10.

Security 51

Security Sales Paper Ransomware 51

Krebs on Security

JUNE 3, 2020

I did write about my suspicions that Intacash’s ATMs were up to no good when I found they frequently canceled transactions just after a PIN was entered, and typically failed to provide paper receipts for withdrawals made in U.S. See the video and everything. There are two episodes. They made a telenovela. Marcu: I see. It’s bad.

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Paper Access Communications Marketing 357

Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2020

In October 2019, someone hacked BriansClub , a popular stolen card bazaar that uses this author’s likeness and name in its marketing. McCoy and fellow NYU researchers found BriansClub earned close to $104 million in gross revenue from 2015 to early 2019, and listed over 19 million unique card numbers for sale. Source: NYU.

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Sales Retail Military Paper 343

The Last Watchdog

APRIL 29, 2019

Semperis is a security company, launched in 2014, that is entirely focused on AD – or, to put it more precisely, on delivering state-of-art AD cyber resilience, threat mitigation and rapid recovery from cyber breaches. I had the chance at RSA 2019 to visit with Semperis CEO Mickey Bresman.

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Ransomware Healthcare Paper Access 207

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Ransomware, which in the second half of 2019 hid in every second malicious email, almost disappeared from the mailboxes in the first six months of this year with a share of less than 1 percent. Secure web- phishing. These findings confirm adversaries’ growing interest in Big Game Hunting.

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Phishing Ransomware Data collection Sales 101

IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 8, 2024

Since its release in 2019, 5G broadband technology has been hailed as a breakthrough technology with big implications for both consumers and businesses. Since its release in 2019, 5G broadband technology has been hailed as a breakthrough technology with big implications for both consumers and businesses.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 28, 2020

’s Cybersecurity Challenge , which tries gamify computer security concepts and highlight potential careers in cybersecurity roles. .’s National Crime Agency , which saw success with a related campaign for six months starting in December 2017. A Google ad campaign paid for by the U.K.’s ’s National Crime Agency.

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Cybersecurity Risk Paper IT 245

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 17, 2021

NTT Research opened its doors in Silicon Valley in July 2019 to help nurture basic research in three subject areas that happen to be at the core of digital transformation: quantum physics, medical informatics and cryptography. Along the way, of course, cybersecurity must get addressed. NTT Group, for instance, typically spends more than $3.6

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Digital transformation Encryption Analytics Privacy 222

Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2019

In November security researchers Chris C. Demchak and Yuval Shavitt published a paper that detailed how China Telecom has been misdirecting Internet traffic through China over the past years. The post Recently a large chunk of European mobile traffic was rerouted through China Telecom appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Paper Communications Marketing Security 105

IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 14, 2024

Since its rollout in 2019, 5G wireless networks have been growing in both availability and use cases. This is largely due to its ability to move large volumes of data swiftly and securely between connected devices at speeds never achieved before. How much of that is true and how much is just hype? What is 5G?

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Cloud IoT Energy and Utilities Artificial Intelligence 60

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) system provides a reference-method for publicly known information-security vulnerabilities and exposures. According to Matthew Scholl, chief of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s computer security division, the AI will replace human analysts by October 2019.

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Artificial Intelligence Paper Information Security Security 83

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

This week, we discuss a security flaw affecting 1Password, Dashlane, KeePass and LastPass; the prevalence of historic vulnerabilities in corporate IT systems; the increase in formjacking attacks; and Wendy’s $50 million data breach settlement. Hello, and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Thursday, 21 February 2019.

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Passwords Data breaches Retail Government 76

Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In parallel with its development of the new model, the Privacy Working Group is continuing to draft a white paper on data ownership and use rights. The Privacy Working Group expects to expose an initial draft of the white paper in advance of the Fall 2022 Meeting. 43R — Loan-Backed and Structured Securities (SSAP No.

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Insurance Paper Privacy Risk 78

Data Matters

DECEMBER 4, 2019

On November 18, 2019, the UK Jurisdiction Taskforce, which is part of The English Law Society’s LawTech Delivery Panel , published its Legal Statement on the status of cryptoassets and smart contracts (the Legal Statement).

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Blockchain Financial Services Healthcare Marketing 60

Data Matters

DECEMBER 4, 2019

On November 18, 2019, the UK Jurisdiction Taskforce, which is part of The English Law Society’s LawTech Delivery Panel , published its Legal Statement on the status of cryptoassets and smart contracts (the Legal Statement).

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Blockchain Financial Services Healthcare Marketing 60

Data Matters

JANUARY 21, 2021

Building on prior initiatives, in 2019 the Commission announced six key priorities (since supplemented by the COVID-19 recovery plan) that would shape the coming five years of policy making. Indeed in November 2020, the Commission published its Proposal for a Data Governance Act.

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Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity Digital transformation GDPR 109

Data Matters

MARCH 28, 2022

For example, the number of breaches of unsecured electronic Personal Health Information (“ePHI”) reported to the OCR affecting 500 or more individuals due to hacking or IT incidents increased 45% from 2019 to 2020. implement a security awareness and training program for all workforce members pursuant to the HIPAA Security Rule.

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Cybersecurity Privacy Insurance Risk 88

Data Matters

DECEMBER 28, 2020

groupwide supervisor located within a “Reciprocal Jurisdiction” as described in the 2019 revisions to the Credit for Reinsurance Model Law, and the Credit for Reinsurance Model Regulation that recognizes the U.S. The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) held its Fall 2020 National Meeting (Fall Meeting) December 3-9, 2020.

Insurance 68

Insurance Paper Risk Analytics 68

ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

In security, some may refute that there is “no savings to worry about" if no investment has been made to begin with, arguing that they’ve been “just fine so far” In this blog, we will argue there is a cost in doing nothing. A 2019 Ponemon study revealed that the cost of a data breach is $4.88 million dollars.

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Retail Data breaches Cybersecurity Paper 52

ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

In security, some may refute that there is “no savings to worry about" if no investment has been made to begin with, arguing that they’ve been “just fine so far” In this blog, we will argue there is a cost in doing nothing. A 2019 Ponemon study revealed that the cost of a data breach is $4.88 million dollars.

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Retail Data breaches Cybersecurity Paper 52

Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Valuation of Securities (E) Task Force Adopts an Amendment to the Purposes and Procedures Manual to Add Instructions for Review of Funds. The P&P Manual currently grants the NAIC’s Securities Valuation Office (SVO) discretion when determining whether a fund’s use of derivatives is consistent with a fixed income-like security (i.e.,

Insurance 88

Insurance e-Delivery Paper Sales 88

Data Matters

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The white paper identifies best practices currently used in a number of states and provides guidance for regulators in implementing those best practices. The initial round of field testing is anticipated to begin on March 1, 2019, and participation will be voluntary. This post summarizes the highlights from this meeting.

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Insurance Paper Risk Big data 68

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

JANUARY 15, 2020

The French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) published new Guidelines (French only) on December 10, 2019 applicable to whistleblowing schemes, following a public consultation process. For instance, information related to data subjects can be sent by e-mail or provided on a personally-delivered paper form.

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GDPR Personal data Compliance Data collection 71

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2019

The operations at the hospitals were severely impacted for 10 days during which the hospitals kept treating people, but new patients were sent to other hospitals in Birmingham or Mississippi. ” The systems at the hospitals have been infected with a variant of the Ryuk ransomware , internal staff reverted to using paper files.

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Ransomware Insurance Paper Government 75