Jurisdictions are creating privacy laws with competing interests of protecting consumer data without unnecessarily impeding companies’ ability to do business…
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On July 21, 2020, The New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) filed its first charges under its Cybersecurity…
A popular brand of VPN software recently had usernames, passwords, and IP addresses published on a dark web hacker forum…
A well-known New York-based financial institution is the most recent financial services firm to report a pair of data breaches…
The SEC’s “Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (“OCIE”) issued an Alert today regarding “Select COVID-19 Compliance Risks for Investment…
As a cybersecurity consultant, I am often asked if some of the threats we industry practitioners talk about are overstated….
Financial firms have a bigger target on their backs at the moment, according to a new risk alert issued July…
FINRA recently deployed a new security feature for users of the Web CRD and IARD systems which is being rolled…
Financial institutions are down to one week left to update their privacy notices and privacy practices in order to comply…
Google Data Reveals 350% Surge In Phishing Websites During Coronavirus Pandemic More financial firms have shifted to a remote workforce…
In advance of National Data Privacy Day today, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE)…
Now that we are in mid-January, a few things are evident. We have likely broken one or more New Year’s…