by Ron Samson | | Network Security
FinTech innovations worry federal regulators while state officials create a new enforcement team. The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is out with new guidance that warns banks about the risks and rewards of FinTech and related innovations....
by Ron Samson | | Network Security
Public and would-be public companies are required to list the risks they face so investors are fully informed about what could happen to their money. Pre-IPO companies in particular offer lengthy recitations of what could go wrong that are usually restricted to things...
by Ron Samson | | Uncategorized
At a recent lunch meeting of Wall Street investors, the topic of the day was cybersecurity. A few of the people in the room had invested in new security technologies, but most were more interested in the inability to slow or stop the attacks that make it into the...
by Ron Samson | | Network Security
More than 900 times each day in 2018, someone complained to the Federal Bureau of Investigation about a cyber-related crime. During the 12 months that ended in December 2018, nearly 352,000 incidents were reported to investigators that resulted in more than $2.7B in...
by Ron Samson | | Network Security, Newsletter
Researchers at vpnMentor have discovered an unprotected database on a Microsoft Cloud server that contains the personal information of ~80 million US households, including sensitive information like income and marital status. However, the team who found the...
