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A week in security (July 25 – July 31)

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The most important and interesting computer security stories from the last week.

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Criminals using compromised social media accounts to “post indecent images of children” says UK cybercrime organization

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UK based Action Fraud is warning of hacked social media accounts posting indecent images of children. We dig into available information.

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IT security: An opportunity to raise corporate governance scores

Credit to Author: Christine Barrett| Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2022 16:00:00 +0000

Corporate Governance scoring is increasingly important to boards of directors, executive leadership, and the investment community. Governance frameworks now incorporate aspects of IT security. Communicating the security message in ways that impact a company’s governance score is important to getting attention and investment from corporate leadership. This post examines a leading governance framework from Institutional Shareholder Services, Governance QualityScore, and the specifics of how IT security can increase a company’s score.

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Banks face a WhatsApp reckoning as regulators clamp down on messaging apps

Credit to Author: Matthew Finnegan| Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2022 03:01:00 -0700

As regulators hand out hundreds of millions of dollars in fines for record-keeping failures related to the use of social messaging platforms such as WhatsApp, the finance industry faces a choice: properly enforce bans on the use of these apps or find ways to make them compliant.

“The explosion of new electronic communications channels — and the pervasive use of these — raises lots of red flags for the regulators,” said Anthony Diana, a partner at law firm Reed Smith’s Tech & Data Group. “The fear is that, if bad things are happening, they’re happening on these personal apps, not on the sanctioned communication channels that are surveilled.”

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Anthony Diana, a partner at law firm Reed Smith’s Tech & Data Group.

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