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Congress is working to secure the nation’s power grid because the power grid is facing a major cyberattack because:
The IRS is asking a D.C. federal judge to bar a suit against one of its data breaches on the grounds that the IRS is immune from suit.
Lexis Nexis Legal Room | IRS Says Data Breach Suit Barred By Sovereign Immunity
Anthem Inc. responded to a class action lawsuit concerning a data breach affecting 80 million by focusing on the 1 hot botton issue legislatures and regulators are focusing on:
whether the person whose personal information was hacked suffered any actual damages
Why is this response from Anthem important? Because courts, legislatures, and regulators have come down on all sides of whether actual damages is required in a data breach suit.
Anthem also provided all 80 million customers with 2…
When did the Inspector General testify that U.S. Department of Education data is not safe? While testifying at a November 17, 2015 hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
Why is federal education data vulnerable to hackers?
What type of student data does USED keep?
McAfee Labs 2016 Threats Predictions puts hacking cars as the top security risk, & here’s why:
Findlaw | Technologist | Car Hacking Tops List of 2016 Cybersecurity Threats
California’s state auditor released a report on the California’s technology department that:
The audit recommends:
Security Experts say health care data is 4 to 12 times more valuable than credit card data to hackers.
Why is health care data so valuable?
Courts and legislatures have differed as to whether a person can bring a lawsuit when their personal data is stolen, but the data has not been used to harm the person.
What happened in this administrative law case? The FTC has been trying to enforce sanctions against a health care company for a data breach.
The FTC legalese is that the health care company’s ” purported failure to institute reasonable data security constituted an unfair trade practice under section 5 of the FTC Act,…
Morgan Stanley’s chief information officer of technology and risk information told the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association’s annual conference that there are 4 industries at the highest threat level for cyber security attacks:
Think Advisor | 3 Emerging Cyber Threats to Watch in 2016: SIFMA
Morgan Stanley’s chief information officer of technology and risk information told the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association’s annual conference that there are 3 new cyber security threats emerging: