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CSO Executive Seminar Series on Data Protection and Encryption…
Just a reminder that tomorrow I will be speaking at the CSO Executive Seminar at the Hilton, Tysons Corner VA – http://public.cxo.com/conferences/index.html?conferenceID=64. The topic will be “5...
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TJX Hacker gets 20 years…
Last week, Albert Gonzalez, the “brains” behind the TJX hack , Heartland Payment Systems, 7-Eleven and many other notable cybercrimes was sentenced to 20 years. Part of his punishment is the forfit of...
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Countrywide Financials Data Loss leads to $20m class action suite…
Following on from the Countrywide Financial data breach back in 2008, they now find themselves saddled with a class action lawsuit for $20,000,000. Countrywide Financials problems all started when...
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Countrywide additional $600m class action..
Following from the recent $20m class action suit against Countrywide Financial, they, and their owners Bank of America just got slammed with an additional $600m class action suit regarding improper...
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European Commission requests the UK to strengthen Data Protection Regulation…
This week the European Commission requested the UK to strengthen its data protection legislation to align with the EU Data Protection Directive. Claiming the UK regulations offered less protection than...
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Mexico Passes data-leak prevention law…
Effective as of July 6th 2010, the new la Ley Federal de Protección de Datos Personales en posesión de los particulares, or ”Federal Law for Protection of Personal Data held by Private Persons”...
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Zurich Insurance hit with $3.5m fine…
David Meyer from ZDNet reports that Zurich Insurance was hit with a $3.5m fine by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) in the UK for failing to secure customer data. This comes from an incident when...
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5 Steps To Data Protection Nirvana..
This week as many of you know I’ve been working out of our South African office in Johannesburg, and in particular presented 4 sessions at the McAfee Executive Summit here. ITWeb, who co-sponsored the...
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Two charged with data theft from June ’10s AT&T hack…
Reported today by infosecurity-us and others, the two men (Andrew Auernheimer, 25, of Fayetteville, Ark., and Daniel Spitler, 26, of San Francisco, California) who had fleeting fame after publishing...
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Two London, UK councils fined $100,000+ each for lost laptops..
Reported by Julien Weston of WIREDvc today, two London councils, Ealing Council and Hounslow Council, were fined over $100,000 each for failure to properly protect personal information of a total of...
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