Cybersecurity

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U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Rob Portman (R-OH) introduced a bipartisan bill to require the Department of Homeland Security to establish a Cybersecurity State Coordinator program.

Data protection regulators have imposed $126 million (EUR114 million) in fines under the GDPR regime for a wide range of GDPR infringements, not just for data breaches. 

New York Senator David Carlucci introduced Senate Bill S7289 that would ban the paying of ransom.

The City of New Orleans, La. says the recent cyber attack on its networks will cost more than seven million dollars.

A tax themed email phishing campaign is targeting ADP users. 

A class action settlement has been proposed in a case against Equifax Inc., relating to the data breach that Equifax announced in September 2017, which affected approximately 147 million U.S. consumers. 

Weak passwords were one of the most common cybersecurity vulnerabilities in 2019, causing 30% of ransomware infections in 2019.

NIST released Version 1.0 of the NIST Privacy Framework: A Tool for Improving Privacy through Enterprise Risk Management. 

They are already here. And they might already outnumber us.