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Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Mark Warner (D-Va.) reintroduced the Data Breach Prevention and Compensation Act to hold large credit reporting agencies (CRAs)-including Equifax-accountable for data breaches involving consumer data. 

President Trump signed an Executive Order directing the federal government to take critical steps to strengthen America’s cybersecurity workforce. 

Cyberattacks by nation states and parties affiliated with them represent 23 percent of data breaches, up from 12 percent in 2018 and 19 percent in 2017, according to the Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR).

Two prolific dark web marketplaces have been taken down in simultaneous global operations supported by Europol: the Wall Street Market and the Silkkitie (known as the Valhalla Marketplace). 

More than 1,900 breaches were reported through March 31, exposing approximately 1.9 billion records, according to the Data Breach QuickView Report. 

Nearly half (47 percent) of security professionals are already using, planning or exploring deployment of PAM solutions in the cloud, according to the Thycotic 2019 RSA Conference Survey. 

The FBI reported that 106 law enforcement officers were killed in the line of duty in 2018, an increase from 94 officers who died a year earlier.

San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to pass the Stop Secret Surveillance Ordinance, which would ban the city and county law enforcement agencies from retaining, accessing or using facial recognition systems.