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What is not included in a Cyber Insurance Policy

CyberSecurity Insiders

Ever wondered what is covered and what is not in your Cyber Insurance Policy? If not, you better review the guidelines and inform all your C-level employees on strategies to cope with the losses that remain out of the cyber insurance cover. Otherwise, the cyber insurer will not offer any policy coverage.

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The Hacker Tool to Get Personal Data from Credit Bureaus

Schneier on Security

The new site 404 Media has a good article on how hackers are cheaply getting personal information from credit bureaus: This is the result of a secret weapon criminals are selling access to online that appears to tap into an especially powerful set of data: the target’s credit header.

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Data Brokers: What They Are and How to Safeguard Your Privacy

IT Security Guru

Data brokers are businesses or individuals who collect and sell people’s personal information, including phone details and browsing behavior. In this post, we will look at how data brokers operate and some critical steps we can take to protect our personal information better.

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Senators Urge FTC to Probe ID.me Over Selfie Data

Krebs on Security

for “deceptive statements” the company and its founder allegedly made over how they handle facial recognition data collected on behalf of the Internal Revenue Service , which until recently required anyone seeking a new IRS account online to provide a live video selfie to ID.me.

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How to Help Protect Your Digital Footprint

Identity IQ

Your digital footprint is the trail of data you leave behind when you use the internet and digital devices. It describes the sum of your online activities, from social media interactions to website visits and online transactions. Close or delete outdated email addresses, social media accounts, and online services you no longer use.

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AON ACQUIRES CYTELLIGENCE, A LEADING INTERNATIONAL CYBER SECURITY FIRM WITH DEEP EXPERTISE IN CYBER INCIDENT RESPONSE AND DIGITAL FORENSIC INVESTIGATIONS

Cytelligence

Global cyber insurance premiums are expected to grow from $4 billion in 2018 to $20 billion by 2025. As the number of network intrusions, data breaches, ransomware attacks, and similar threats continues to increase in both frequency and severity, expertise in cyber incident response becomes critical to organizations and insurance companies.,”

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US Democrat Bill Seeks to Enforce Privacy and Security Rights for Health Information

Hot for Security

Absent a clear commitment from policymakers to improving our health privacy laws, as this important legislation seeks to accomplish, I fear that creeping privacy violations and discriminatory uses of health data could become the new status quo in health care and public health.”.