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Security Compliance & Data Privacy Regulations

eSecurity Planet

Regulatory compliance and data privacy issues have long been an IT security nightmare. And since the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect May 25, 2018, IT compliance issues have been at the forefront of corporate concerns. GDPR-style data privacy laws came to the U.S. Location Matters.

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Data Privacy and the Cybercrime Economy

SiteLock

For example, in a study just published by Russian security firm Kaspersky , the number two target for phishing attacks around the world in 2013 was the financial community. Any guess what the number one target for phishing was? That includes banks, credit card companies, and payment systems like PayPal and Western Union.

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3 of the Worst Data Breaches in the World That Could Have Been Prevented

Security Affairs

Eliminating the risk of a data breach is nearly impossible, but some things can be done to reduce it significantly. Here are three of the worst data breaches that could have been avoided: Yahoo. In 2013, Yahoo suffered one of the worst data breaches in history, exposing over 3 billion user accounts. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Episode 212: China’s Stolen Data Economy (And Why We Should Care)

The Security Ledger

In this episode of the podcast (#212), Brandon Hoffman, the CISO of Intel 471 joins us to discuss that company’s latest report that looks at China’s diversified marketplace for stolen data and stolen identities. Data leaks, data breaches and data dumps are so common these days that they don’t even attract that much attention.

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MY TAKE: COVID-19’s silver lining could turn out to be more rapid, wide adoption of cyber hygiene

The Last Watchdog

Still, over time, they’ve been woven into baseline data security regulations far and wide. NIST specs are echoed in the data loss disclosure and data privacy laws that have cropped up in many U.S. organizations between January 2013 and July 2019. states, for instance. million from U.S.

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Cybercrime Year in Review: 2013

SiteLock

In its annual Data Breach Investigations Report , published at the beginning of 2013, Verizon revealed that businesses with fewer than 100 employees made up the single largest group of victims of data breaches. Early in 2013, Chinese hackers were easily able to breach the extensive defenses the Times had in place.

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Top Cybersecurity Companies for 2021

eSecurity Planet

But constant breaches of organizations large and small, and a trail of victims to ransomware and phishing opened a massive opportunity. The privacy compliance technology company has ridden data privacy laws like GDPR and CCPA to become the fastest-growing company in America, according to Inc. Founded: 2013.