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News BriefT-Mobile reaches $31.5M settlement with FCC over multiple data breaches
T-Mobile, which experienced three huge data breaches in the past three years, agreed to pay $31.5 million in penalties and remediation for failing to protect millions of its customers’ personal information as part of a settlement with the Federal Communications Commission.
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PremiumReport: Human error driving growing number of data breaches
Verizon’s annual data breach report shows trends in cybersecurity incidents, including more ransomware and extortion attacks last year.
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News BriefFCC finalizes $196M in fines against telecoms for sharing location data
The Federal Communications Commission fined telecommunications giants T-Mobile, Sprint, AT&T, and Verizon a total of approximately $196 million for allegedly selling customers’ location data to third parties without consent.
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PremiumDOJ official: Expect more cybersecurity false claim enforcements
The announcement of a record year in several areas of False Claims Act enforcement at the Department of Justice was accompanied by a warning that more significant cases are coming, particularly regarding cybersecurity-related claims.
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News BriefVerizon unit to pay $4.1M in cybersecurity false claims case
Verizon Business Network Services agreed to pay approximately $4.1 million to settle allegations levied by the Department of Justice regarding false claims caused by failure to fully implement cybersecurity controls required of a government contractor.
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PremiumVerizon report: Lion’s share of data breaches linked to organized crime
About 83 percent of data breaches are perpetrated by external bad actors and not employees, with 70 percent of those breaches linked to organized crime groups with financial motives, according to the latest research.
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ArticlePart 5: Waiting for payout a grueling test of tenacity for whistleblowers
The road to a payout for whistleblowers is long, lonely, and full of obstacles. Commitment to the idea that they are doing the right thing helped our whistleblower subjects endure years of hardship to bring their cases to conclusion.
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ArticleIreland GDPR report: Big fines coming soon for Big Tech?
Ireland’s data regulator has 27 ongoing cross-border inquiries into Big Tech firms, according to its latest annual report. It expects several cases to be resolved in the coming year.
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ArticleFive cyber-security lessons from the pandemic
Verizon Public Sector Counsel David Kessler, winner of CW’s “Excellence in Compliance: Cyber-Security” award, offers five lessons garnered from the pandemic to assist companies with their cyber-security compliance.
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VideoEIC2020 Winners: David Kessler (Cyber-Security); Kalisa Barratt (Data Privacy)
CW’s first-ever Excellence in Compliance Awards recognizes Verizon’s David Kessler as winner of the Excellence in Compliance (Cyber-Security) award and Atrius Health’s Kalisa Barratt as Excellence in Compliance (Data Privacy).
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ArticleFor some companies in the age of coronavirus, ethics pays
Despite slow governmental response to the coronavirus outbreak that is grinding the world economy to a halt, several businesses have decided it is worth going above and beyond to help customers and employees.
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ArticleFCC proposes fines against T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon, Sprint
The FCC proposed fines against the four largest wireless carriers in the United States for allegedly selling access to their customers’ location information without taking reasonable measures to protect against unauthorized access.
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ArticleVerizon finds payment security declines for 2nd consecutive year
Although the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) launched back in 2004, 15 years later, most organizations still struggle to adhere to it.
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Senators accuse mobile carriers of throttling practices
Senate Democrats are alleging violations of net neutrality principles by mobile data carriers who they claim, backed by recent research, are slowing down online traffic.