Graham Cluley

AUGUST 4, 2023

Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog. Newly-released research reveals the eye-watering costs that the manufacturing sector has suffered in recent years at the hands of ransomware.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 18, 2018

As retailers expand their digitization, they need to continually address cybersecurity since the challenge to secure critical and confidential data will only increase. It also suggests that while retailers are increasing IT security spending this year, they admit having been breached in the last year. Nearly 95 percent of U.S.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Yesterday, I wrote the first part of this 5-part series on fixing data breaches and I focused on education. The next few parts of this series all focus on cures - how do we fix data breaches once bad code has already been written or bad server configurations deployed? Best of all, it's about prevention rather than cure.

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Data breaches Data collection B2B Mobile 132

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 3, 2018

RSA Conference 2018 is just under two weeks away, and there isn’t a better moment to talk about data security and privacy. Late last year, Equifax suffered one of the biggest data breaches to date and continues to affect more customers than previously reported. I wrote more about this skills gap in my previous blog post.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 25, 2018

This morning we announced, in tandem with our partner 451 Research, the Global Edition of the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report. It’s abundantly clear that medium to larger enterprises (the focus of the report and underlying survey) are finding it harder than ever to protect their sensitive data. First – The breaches.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

. “Snatch threat actors have been observed purchasing previously stolen data from other ransomware variants in an attempt to further exploit victims into paying a ransom to avoid having their data released on Snatch’s extortion blog,” the FBI/CISA alert reads. Details after contacting on jabber: truniger@xmpp[.]jp.”

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Ransomware Accountability Cybercrime Backups 215

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 7, 2018

August is two-thirds of the way through year, and we have already seen a number of serious, far-reaching data breaches making headlines, some occurred in 2018, and some from 2017 that are now being disclosed. When it comes to data breach notification laws, things can get tricky and complex, varying state-by-state.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 6, 2018

This year, the major regulation that will be implemented, is the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) , which takes effect on May 25, 2018. GDPR enables consumers to view, limit and control how companies collect and process their personal data. Jim DeLorenzo also blogs about DEFCON 658 here.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 20, 2017

However, with just days left of this year, it’s time to turn our attention from reflection to preparation, looking at what 2018 has in store for the payments industry. In 2018, we’ll see these smaller markets able to innovate further, without being held back by infrastructure and processes that come with being a big industry player.

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Retail Marketing Mobile Digital transformation 83

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 4, 2018

As we close in on the final few days of the year and look ahead to the clean slate that 2019 represents, I wanted to take a few moments to reflect on 2018 – specifically, what tech innovations and predictions held true, which fell a bit flat and which were entirely unexpected. Looking back at 2018, something that no one could have predicted?

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IoT Cryptocurrency Technology Data privacy 70

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2018

This past year featured some 150 blog posts , but as usual the biggest contribution to this site came from the amazing community of readers here who have generously contributed their knowledge, wit and wisdom in more than 10,000 comments. Rest assured, that long-overdue change will be coming soon in 2019. Thanks for your patience.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

Clout IT hosting company Netgain is is one of a number of vendors that experienced a breach that hit the health care community in the first half of 2021.( “File:NetGain Technologies.png” by Emily.cedargren is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 ). Notable, ongoing data exposure via PACS. Canada, the Netherlands, and Singapore.

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Data breaches Insurance Ransomware Hacking 67

Troy Hunt

AUGUST 2, 2018

pic.twitter.com/yq5hXOGABt — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) August 3, 2018. Fashion Nexus suffered a data breach ("Is there an official statement?" The 5 stages of data breach grief (companies can deny all they want, but if they've been breached, eventually they'll reach the acceptance phase).

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 26, 2018

pic.twitter.com/lifCZRcICF — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) March 20, 2018. I couldn’t help myself pic.twitter.com/zvx3myyItn — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) March 20, 2018. pic.twitter.com/i2EFDFgLem — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) March 20, 2018. pic.twitter.com/hzXmVWq2KD — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) March 20, 2018.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

As data breaches continue to plague organisations worldwide, South Africa is taking extra measures to protect its citizens by rolling out new legislation. South Africa’s Information Regulator is expected to put the Act into force in the second half of 2018.

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Encryption Government Risk Technology 66

Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Other than that, it's business as usual: more keyloggers on payment forms, more data breaches and a massive extended validation smack-down. Scott published his blog post about Magecart coming for you (then right after that the NewEgg breach was announced). References. Oh - and PayPal still has no EV either ??.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 30, 2021

We have new information on the T-Mobile data breach that compromised the personal information of millions of customers just a couple weeks ago. The data breach resulted in the personal information of approximately 54 million customers being accessed by the hacker. T-Mobile data breach details.

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Mobile Data breaches Wireless Internet 92

SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

GoDaddy responds to data breach. GoDaddy's Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Demetrius Comes says once the breach was detected GoDaddy contacted authorities immediately and blocked the third-party user, determined to be a malicious hacker. This is the third data breach GoDaddy has experienced since 2018.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 6, 2018

I only wrote the one short blog post this week, but I spent a heap of time on the Twitters arguing with people instead so. It'll be a fun blog post ??. link] pic.twitter.com/Tgs3gpIIax — The Tor Project (@torproject) July 2, 2018. pic.twitter.com/MJu9FDphWS — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) June 30, 2018.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 25, 2018

I've been in Sydney this week talking at one of our big banks and as I say in this week's update, getting out there amongst companies dealing with their unique cyber challenges is always interesting: #cyber pic.twitter.com/CIMDhPfKIP — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) May 23, 2018. Want to get your company to run a bug bounty? Watch this course!

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Data breaches Passwords Banking Engineering 111

Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The thread on the hacking forum with the samples of alleged TikTok data has been deleted and the user banned for “lying about data breaches” [link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) September 5, 2022 "Lying about data breaches" Ugh, criminals are so untrustworthy!

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 20, 2020

Cyber coverage drivers According to the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Landscape for 2018, extreme weather events, natural disasters, and cyberattacks are the risks that you are most likely to face, with a likelihood score of 4.40, 4.17, and 4.01; respectively. All of these cost victims around $1.3

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2019

Now the software giant Citrix provided more details about the data breach and confirmed that hackers had access to its network for roughly five months. ” reads the notice of data breach sent by Citrix. At the time of writing it is still unclear how many people have been impacted by the data breach.

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Data breaches Passwords Advertising Software 87

Troy Hunt

MAY 31, 2018

Catch me at the panel about data breaches at 13:20 today pic.twitter.com/x7plUhWkY4 — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) May 30, 2018. jamver) May 31, 2018. Remember also, this has all only happened because I started writing a blog in 2009 , in fact I discuss that in the aforementioned talk about hacking your career.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 3, 2019

Here's my 2018 highlights, starting with travel: Travel "Oh yeah, I'm totally gonna travel less this year" - me every single year In reality, my travel ended up looking like this: That's the same number as last year, 4 more days and another 8,000km. Probably with my 2018 events page which lists everything I did of a public nature.

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Passwords Technology Government InfoSec 203

The Last Watchdog

APRIL 4, 2022

According to Forbes, “the first half of 2018 was marked by an increase in API-related data breaches, with the 10 largest companies reporting the loss of 63 million personal records.” A breach should always trigger a comprehensive crisis communication plan involving the board, C-suite, and other stakeholders.

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Hacking Penetration Testing Data breaches Authentication 222

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The historic amount of coverage that data breaches have produced in 2018 has exposed executives and consumers to the importance of security, like no year before. You can also check back in on the blog, as my colleagues will be writing about RSA-related topics during and after the show.

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Digital transformation Risk Encryption Technology 61

Heimadal Security

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The fine received by WhatsApp is the result of an inquiry that began in December 2018 after the privacy watchdog, the Data Privacy Commissioner (DPC), received several complaints about WhatsApp data processing operations from “individual data subjects” (both users and non-users).

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Data privacy Data breaches Cybersecurity 92

Malwarebytes

AUGUST 4, 2023

After having taken Meta to task for various privacy violations and data breaches, Meta is now having to provide European users with a way to opt out of behavioural advertising. Two complaints from the European Center for Digital Right (NYOB) back in 2018 set the wheels in motion.

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Advertising Data breaches Data collection Marketing 90

Troy Hunt

AUGUST 24, 2018

This week, there's no new blog posts due to travel commitments so it's a bit shorter, but there's still the usual array of goings on. I’m also a guy who sees a lot of data breaches and no-way no-how will I ever resort to installing this sort of product on either of my kids’ devices. I've gotta stay home more.

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Spyware Data breaches 106

The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 29, 2018

That being said, there is no body of evidence that indicates a direct correlation exists between an information security stakeholder’s non-technical background and the likelihood of a breach. The technologies existing in 2018 will undoubtedly differ from those that exist in 2020. Note that this is an organic expectation.

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Data privacy Data breaches Insurance Information Security 164

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 2, 2019

For its part, the United Kingdom incorporated GDPR into its Data Protection Act 2018 3 and the NIS Directive into its NIS Regulations 2018 4 , a political choice showing that the UK strategically desires to be aligned and, to a certain extent, compliant with the new EU regulations. Governing the transfer of data.

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Cybersecurity Data breaches Government Encryption 117

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 10, 2020

On December 8, the cybercriminal gang responsible for deploying the Conti ransomware strain (also known as “ Ryuk “) published more than 10 gigabytes of data that it claimed to have removed from TSYS’s networks. Conti claims prepaid card data was compromised, but TSYS says this is not the case.

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Ransomware Financial Services Cyber threats Banking 331

Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Retail’s great “digital transformation” sped up, as did the number of data breaches impacting retail. The costs that follow a data breach are trending upward year over year. Data breach costs rose from $3.86 million, according to IBM and the Ponemon Institute’s Cost of Data Breach Report 2021.

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Retail Cybersecurity Data breaches Passwords 86

Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2019

BlankMediaGames disclosed a data breach that affects millions of players of the popular role-playing game Town of Salem. The BlankMediaGames suffered a data breach that impacted more than 7.6 Exposed data includes usernames, emails, passwords, IP addresses, game and forum activity. ” continues Dehashed.

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Hacking Data breaches Passwords Advertising 81

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In this blog post I will discuss just a few of these insights. While digital government is at the heart of future societal and economic growth for all of the countries involved in the survey, significant government data breaches have occurred. Users are prepared to act to protect their data. million customer records.

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Data breaches Government Media Retail 71

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 31, 2018

Data breaches are the new normal. According to our 2018 Global Data Threat Report , 67% of enterprises have been breached, with that percentage rate growing every year. As organizations move to the cloud, it is critical that they consider new security measures to protect their data.

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