Update: Richard Santalesa of the Sm@rtedgeLaw Group was interviewed by Eric Parizo of SearchSecurity.com for the story Verizon PCI report: Pen testing, passwords cause PCI assessment gaffes to discuss PCI and the 2014 Verizon PCI Compliance Report. Verizon’s 2014 PCI Compliance Report (“PCR”) is now available for free download in “pre-release.” Along with Verizon’s annual […]
Category: Cyber Crime
SEC Steps up Review of Cyber Attack & Breach Response Plans
Is your company ready for 2014? Are your Written Information Security Programs, Risk Management Procedures and Data Incident Response Plans up-to-date, tested and up to today’s dynamic threat landscape? Are you sure? Officials at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) recently announced plans to increase scrutiny of how assets managers at companies subject to […]
2 Million Online Fraud Complaints – And Growing…
A dubious milestone was recently reached at the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). IC3, which sounds like an arthritis and sore muscle liniment, was formerly known as the Internet Fraud Complaint Center, and is a U.S. governmental partnership between the National White Collar Crime Center, FBI, and Bureau of Justice Assistance. Sadly, however, November 9, 2010 […]
Amendment to the Electronic Fund Transfer Act Would Shift Risk of Loss to Banks
Just a step below widows and orphans on the sympathy scale, at least when it comes to ripoffs and theft, sit school districts, boards and local municipalities. And in a era of tight budgets, when school districts are robbed of tax monies from halfway around the world via ACH/wire fraud, state and federal politicians take […]
