The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has fined Citigroup Global Markets Inc. $1.25 million for failing to conduct timely or adequate background checks on approximately 10,400 non-registered associated persons spanning a seven-year period.
NY Governor Cuomo signed the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security - or SHIELD - Act, which imposes stronger obligations on businesses handling private data to provide proper notification to affected consumers when there is a security breach.
NIST’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence is seeking industry comments on its newly released draft guidance for corporate-owned personally enabled (COPE) mobile devices.
Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA) and Rep. Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) introduced the Wireless Infrastructure Resiliency during Emergencies and Disasters (WIRED) Act, legislation to allow states to require wireless companies to deploy resilient infrastructure in order for cellphone networks to better withstand disasters.
The Utah Attorney General announced a historic $600 million nationwide settlement with Equifax concerning the 2017 Equifax data breach affecting more than 147 million Americans, and more than 1.2 million Utahns
The National Domestic Violence Hotline (The Hotline) received more calls, online chats, and texts, also known as “contacts”, in 2018 than in any other year since the organization’s inception.
Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) reintroduced two pieces of legislation to address cybersecurity in cars and on airplanes in the age of the Internet of Things.
Oregon will allow students to take "mental health days" just as they would sick days, expanding the reasons for excused school absences to include mental or behavioral health.
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