Topics covered

• Banks urging shoppers not to avoid breached retailers - Companies that get breached impact card holders minimally, at least as far as we can tell, right?
  • http://www.kcentv.com/story/26887771/local-bank-leaders-no-need-to-avoid-hacked-retailers-during-holidays
• Federal officials (FBI, US SS) are making a big push to be your source for cyber-security help - Interesting that this comes up at a time when everyone is fighting back against government meddling/surveillence
  • http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/10/20/secret-service-fbi-hack-cybersecuurity/17615029/
• The FCC flexes its muscle in a pair of fines totalling a paltry $10m for egregious security violations - Of course, the people who have had their privacy and security violated see none of this big-telco pocket-change...
  • http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/10/24/with-a-10-million-fine-the-fcc-is-leaping-into-data-security-for-the-first-time/
• Congress doesn't crant FBI ability to prevent mobile encryption .. undoubtedly ushering us into "a very dark place" - for once, Congress did something useful by doing what it's famous for, nothing
  • http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/22/fbi_apple_grapple_congress_kills_cupertino_crypto_kibosh/
• Insurance companies fighting to get data breach coverage removed from general liability policies - isn't this obvious? I think this is one of the last shoes to drop before things move forward, finally
  • http://www.businessinsurance.com/article/20141026/NEWS07/141029850

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