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UK's Information Commissioner gets expanded powers in Criminal Justice and Immigration Act -- will be able to impose steep fines on organizations

2008-05-15 00:00:00 by Shannon Kellogg in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...fines on organizations that "deliberately" or "recklessly" violate the U.K.'s "Data Protection Act", or DPA, of 1998. In a little noticed amendment to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act of 2008, the 1998 DPA was updated to enable the Information Commissioner to impose serious fines on organizations. This change in the UK's data...
 
Tags: information commissioner, information, fines, immigration act, criminal justice, organizations, levy fines, data protection act, large-scale data breach
 
 
 
 
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Got PCI? Another aspect of data security and PCI, I did not know

2007-12-06 17:17:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...fines (the fines dont make a dent), it is too complex for the leaders etc My theory is this retailers who are best in class, have to be operationally best-in-class as well. They must have the best logistics, high-end analysis capabilities for a streamlined operation that lowers their costs (retail is a thin-margin game). As part of this,...
 
Tags: pci, pci boxes, best-in-class, class, pci perspective, best-in-class retailers, retailers, pci compliance, high-end analysis capabilities
 
 
 
 
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Speeding Tickets and Agenda

2008-03-28 13:42:02 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...fines. So they're turning the cameras off Perhaps a better solution would be to raise the fines to the remaining speeders to make up for the lost revenue
 
Tags: speed cameras, cameras, lost revenue, fines, agenda, story, function, speeders, raise
 
 
 
 
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Cornerstone Fitness for Women information found in discarded file cabinet

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2008-05-05 14:01:48 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...fines? More laws mean more compliance. More compliance means more cost to companies. More cost to companies means more expensive goods and services. Seems that the same argument holds true for fines Maybe we should stop using a single identifier for all things personal (i.e. Social Security numbers). Do you think that the credit bureaus and...
 
Tags: information, secure personal information, sensitive information, handle personal information, personal, credit card information, cornerstone fitness, cornerstone tells newschannel, newschannel
 
 
 
 
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10 things you should be doing to protect your company against email risks

2007-11-02 23:30:15 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
...fines. In addition, you need to be able to quickly search and access messages in case you need to retrieve emails on a court order 10: View reports on usage ; Check how the email policy is being implemented by looking at email usage reports. Find out what attachments users are sending and their size. View reports on email policy violations...
 
Tags: policy, email policy violations, email-policy, email policy rules, rules, email policy, risks, email risks, email
 
 
 
 
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Estonia fines Russian for DoS 'cyber war'

2008-01-26 03:37:24 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
20 year old ethnic Russian man is the first person to be convicted for taking part in a "cyber war" against Estonia.Dmitri Galushkevich was fined 17,500 kroons (830) for an attack which blocked the website of the Reform Party of Prime Minister Andrus Ansip
 
Tags: cyber war, dmitri galushkevich, estonia, ethnic russian, reform party, kroons, website, attack, fined
 
 
 
 
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Record fine of over $2.5M for UK insurer

2007-12-17 22:28:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
The FSA (Financial Services Authority) in the UK has fined Norwich Union a record $2.5M (or 1.26M GBP) for incompetence. Seems like criminals pretended to be customers and cashed in on policies worth GBP 3.3M 2.5M - thats a large sum for a fine. The previous high was Nationwide Building Society for GBP 980K , earlier this year. Seems like the...
 
Tags: fined norwich union, policies worth gbp, financial services authority, 26m gbp, record, fine, gbp 980k, fsa, previous
 
 
 
 
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PCI Compliance not going away - 42% not compliant

2008-02-20 14:57:00 by Ryan Shopp in practical risk management
 
...fines (up to $25,000) until they meet and sustain data security compliance requirements Now that is some attention grabbing marketing and I plan to be on that virtual seminar Almost half (and that's not a stacked number including small US merchants) is a very surprising number. I looked around trying to find information behind the survey...
 
Tags: compliant, completely compliant, daily basis, virtual seminar, attention, survey results, merchants, numerous advertisements, half
 
 
 
 
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House panel kills provision in controversial copyright bill

2008-03-06 14:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Cooler heads prevailed in the House of Representatives as lawmakers expunged controversial portions of a copyright-enforcement bill that could have led to fines as high as $1.5 million for a "pirated" 10-song mix CD
 
Tags: 10-song mix cd, house, cooler heads, controversial portions, bill, led, representatives, million, lawmakers