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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 Thankfully, we understand how the breaches may have occurred and how to protect ourselves, which I will share with you now. At a overview level, many large data breaches occur through an attack called spear phishing.

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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.