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It’s a Holiday Security Breach Blowout

SiteLock

The next notification I received was for an earlier intrusion, the 2013 compromise of 2.4 For end users and consumers, protection against data breaches is difficult as we all now trust others to be good stewards of our personal details. million student records from the local community college system I attend.

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“CRTC encourages businesses to start preparing for Canada’s anti-spam legislation”

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

Canada’s Anti-Spam Law (CASL) is expected to enter into force in 2013, together with two sets of regulations that will […].

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Me on the Equifax Breach

Schneier on Security

Hearing on "Securing Consumers' Credit Data in the Age of Digital Commerce". Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection. And even those only protect consumers from some of the harms, and only those suffered after Equifax admitted to the breach. Before the. Committee on Energy and Commerce.

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CASL: 3 Next Steps in 2012

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

As many of us now know, Canada’s Anti-Spam Law is now expected to enter into force in 2013. Don’t expect […].

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Security Compliance & Data Privacy Regulations

eSecurity Planet

Financial Data Protection Laws. financial data must comply with consumer-protection laws such as the Electronics Fund Transfer Act (EFTA) and a litany of regulations enforced by the SEC (such as Sarbanes-Oxley), CFTC, FISMA, and other financial regulatory bodies. Health data and patient data in the U.S.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: EP 69 Self-Healing Operating Systems

ForAllSecure

And, and that did that for 13 years and because of my involvement in critical infrastructure, I was asked by the White House to assist in developing the NIST cybersecurity framework in 2013. Oh, one of the things so we developed a time travel debugger.