The recent, and largest, cyber attack ever on a state government in the US, shows that attacks on third-party credentials - which can be used in identity theft frauds - are becoming more and more commonplace.
- CATHERINE EYRES
- InfoSecurity
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Wednesday, 15 October 2025
London, UK: ISACA, a global IT association with 100,000 members in 180 countries, teamed up with the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) to issue a user guide on Service Organization Control ReportsSM that help evaluate risk, reliability and compliance issues regarding outsourced tasks or functions. The guide, titled SOC 2SM User Guide for Report on Controls at a Service Organization Relevant to Security, Availability, Processing Integrity, Confidentiality or Privacy.
- HANNAH RAFFERTY
- InfoSecurity
- Posted On
While the EU is in the process of revising their consumer privacy policies, especially with respect to PII, the US is beginning to rethink its definition of personal data. Policy makers at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) earlier in the year released Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of Rapid Change. If you hadn’t read this for your homework assignment, don’t worry, Varonis has the key take-aways and what it might mean for companies going forward.
- ANDY GREEN, TECHNICAL CONTENT SPECIALIST, VARONIS
- InfoSecurity
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35% of UK financial institutions surveyed acknowledge they are behind the curve and have no current intention to drive improvement
London: Out of a recent survey of 120 mid-to large-sized companies in the UK, over a third (35%) of the 24 financial institutions, which responded, are aware that they are bottom tier business-to-business integration performers and have ‘no current intention to drive improvement’. The survey, by IT Analyst Freeform Dynamics, was commissioned by Liaison Technologies, a data integration specialist.
- LAUREN DEW
- InfoSecurity
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