Tag Archives: data security

Data Breach! New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) Drops The Hammer On First American Title Insurance Co.!

An excellent article appeared this week in the Eye on Privacy blog at the law firm Sheppard, Mullin, concerning an event in the title insurance industry that highlights a gross violation of the New York cybersecurity rules that became effective in March 2017!  The event occurred in 2018 when a data breach was announced by First American Title Insurance […]

Data Security 101 For Law Firms!

As a title insurance firm, data security and the protection of non-public information are both key components of our privacy pledge to clients and partners, much as it is for companies across the business spectrum! But with the prevalence and ever-increasing sophistication of the bad guys when it comes to trying to infiltrate the technology […]

WARNING! Fake “Incoming Fax Reports” And The Crypto-Virus Malware!

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The threat of malware infecting your personal or business computer systems is ongoing and, as the perps get more sophisticated and creative, getting more dangerous all of the time! The danger of course is not only from the malware itself and the damage and havoc that it can cause, but that an unsuspecting employee or […]

Danger! Your Digital Copier May Be Holding Secrets! (Video)

Do businesses sufficiently consider the proprietary Information and data security risks posed by their digital copiers? Attending a conference yesterday, one of the speakers touched on a topic that many in the audience had never thought of or considered…The data and information risks posed by their innocent looking copy machine! Consider that if a survey was to […]

Is your business adequately managing cybersecurity risk? (Survey)

For better or worse corporations, utilities and individuals alike now have an unbreakable link to technology and the internet! And that fact is not going to change in the future as instead we will likely become even more dependent on technology in our personal and business lives, not less. So are we as a nation […]

Email Encryption: Does your business have a plan?

Non-public Personal Information or NPI! Regular readers of Hallmark Abstract Service articles are hopefully aware that along with what we believe to be interesting information, every once in a while we will write an article containing what we believe to be critical information! This is one of those times for the latter as the sanctity […]