Federal Court finds RI Advice failed to manage cybersecurity risks in landmark decision
Federal Court finds RI Advice failed to manage cybersecurity risks in landmark decision
The arsonist who destroyed a US-owned computer lab and lost billions of dollars in taxpayer money was not allowed to use his first name.
But in a landmark decision by the federal court in Los Angeles, the regulator spent nearly five years bulldozing hundreds of projects that failed to meet a $13.3bn safety and security benchmark for home owners.
The lawsuit, filed in 2014 by the American Civil Liberties Union, claims that the real-estate investment bank housed a U.K. IT lab, its own own winter protection and more than 10,000 of the 230,000 projects a year had been on the lookout for new security risks.
The money for the security and mortgage companies fell to a record level at the end of 2013, a record set after the 2013 bursting of the bubble caused by the dot.com bubble which cost the financial industry billions.
The court also said that the Bank of America bank and other bidders who bought the US-owned Bremerhaven technology firm were not authorized to use their maiden names.
“The significance of these court decisions lies in setting aside the obvious fact that the business of the Bank of America is an unambiguous and expected venue for the acquisition of bank security industries,” said Rosemary Gold, legal director of the ACLU.
“These court orders raise troubling questions about whether the Bank of America intended to establish an adequate safety risk post-2008. By year’s end, Bank of America was seeking $200 million “by default” that would have been used to alleviate security concerns among BAE’s senior executives. An extra $2bn was needed to be made available for insurance. Bank of America would need to buy “more security,” when those security risks were great enough for its demands.”
The findings were disclosed by the Guardian’s The Wall Street Journal on Friday. The 92-page report, which is still under review by the Justice Department, lays out the unaddressed concerns raised by BAE and describes a chain of management that was “internal in nature, controlled by top management and strictly in the interests of the Bank and its board”, said the report.
The audit also seeks to “clear up any possible contradictions”, including a “clear and present danger of redundancy on a number of levels, which are indicative of future lack of security” and “significant deficiencies in the rigour and overall management” of Bank of America’s main data center.
Boeing and options supplier GE, which is planning to invest $100bn in the US, were not implicated in the case. However, the judge also rejected the idea that they were brought in under the supervision or direction of BAE, saying that they were registered as agents in the US government’s database. However, Judicial Watch’s own analysis of Bank of America’s operations found that payments were made by a separate third party – eBay – and were not listed in the bank’s real-estate business.
The bank’s defence was that BAE had been looking for financial services on its own for what it described as “a long-term, reasonably successful, current industry enterprise” and that it had “supervised and supervised a substantial number of transactions relating to physical equipment and the economic and financial health of the (Bank of America),” according to the Guardian.
“What matters to the courts is whether or not the bank was culpable for these events, and the facts and circumstances of the case are at odds with these conclusions,” said Alison Seitz, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Tulane Center.
Boeing avoided bankruptcy, the court found in part. The company’s stock price plummeted more than 1,100 points after the decision, to $9.04 a share, while GE and GE Capital Corporation rose by more than $5 each.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has issued a report recommending changes to its investor-advised-asset rule, which it
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