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Security News for the Week Ending September 29, 2023

Writers Guild Settles Strike With Anti-AI Provision The Writers Guild has tentatively agreed to a new contract with Hollywood that has some sort of anti-AI provision as writers don’t want to be replaced by a computer for much less money. The details have not yet been released, but will likely be copied in many contracts […]

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New SEC Cyber Incident Disclosure Rule – Helps Even Small Companies

You probably haven’t thought about this if you are privately owned. You might not even heard about it. Effective September 5th, publicly traded companies have four business days to disclose a material breach. That disclosure, on a form 8-K, will be publicly available on the SEC’s EDGAR public company reporting site. The same place they […]

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Insider Threat Problem is a Growing Issue

A US government worker has been arrested and charged with spying for Ethiopia. The problem is so bad that companies with government contracts have to create an insider threat program, provide annual training for all employees and designate an officer to be the Insider Threat Program Senior Official (ITPSO) – the person who will get […]

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Security News for the Week Ending September 22, 2023

Dallas Mavericks Owner and Crypto Guru lost $1M to Scam Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who fancies himself a crypto guru just got a crypto wallet drained of about a million bucks. He says that he may have downloaded a fake version of a crypto wallet app. Oh, well, so now instead of being a […]

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Cyber Insurance Claims Increase in Severity and Frequency

Coalition Insurance, which is pretty aggressive in refusing to insure customers unless they have better than average security practices released their mid-year update on claims. Here is the summary: Overall claims frequency increased by 12% in the first half of 2023, however, Coalition customers experienced 64% fewer claims compared to the broader market, with 52% […]

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