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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 11, 2018

According to the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report , two in five global healthcare organisations (39%) experienced a data breach in the last year, and that’s using today’s relatively modest and well-understood web systems. There must be no question at any point over the integrity of the data or the medical device itself.

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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. However, in an attempt to be “better” many organizations have leaned heavily on emerging technologies such as cloud, blockchain and IoT – aka digital transformation.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The headlines immediately attempted to lay the blame, in large part, on the fact that Equifax’s chief information security officer was a music major and did not have a background in technology. The technologies existing in 2018 will undoubtedly differ from those that exist in 2020. Equifax was not special in this regard.

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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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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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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

com via Domaintools.com shows the domain was assigned in 2015 to a company called “ Shanghai Blazefire Network Technology Co. In 2018, Dr.Web expanded its research when it discovered the Triada malware installed on 40 different models of Android devices. com is the domain name for Shanghai Qianyou Network Technology Co.,

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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. Today, the vast majority of enterprises (94%) are using sensitive data in cloud, big data, IoT or mobile environments.

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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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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 23, 2021

With many employees now working remotely, securing company data isn’t as straightforward as it used to be. As of 2018, more than 2 million people were working abroad for U.S. While most governments won’t likely do anything nefarious with this information, it does heighten the risk of a data breach.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 5, 2018

One of the top findings from the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report, Financial Services Edition was that data breaches in U.S. Not only are breaches at record highs – with 65% of U.S. Two other key drivers are digital transformation and poor investments in IT security tools needed to protect data.

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 18, 2019

A massive leak of unprotected data on a server belonging to the Oklahoma Securities Commission was discovered in December 2018. Three terabytes of data were leaked, including evidence from hundreds of FBI investigations. The FBI and the Oklahoma Securities Commission have both declined to comment.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 1, 2018

Around the world, enterprises are anxious about May 25, 2018, the day enforcement begins for the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We at Thales have blogged about the GDPR , its global impact, reach, and penalties. This shows a rapid adoption of an only recently commercialized technology.

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 24, 2019

The data leak was initially found by Bob Diachenko of SecurityDiscovery.com on Shodan, an IoT-centric search engine. This raises the question of how charities and non-profits with limited resources can afford to safely manage millions of sensitive files,” wrote Diachenko in a blog detailing his findings.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

com via Domaintools.com shows the domain was assigned in 2015 to a company called “ Shanghai Blazefire Network Technology Co. In 2018, Dr.Web expanded its research when it discovered the Triada malware installed on 40 different models of Android devices. com is the domain name for Shanghai Qianyou Network Technology Co.,

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

Phishers are enjoying remarkable success using text messages to steal remote access credentials and one-time passcodes from employees at some of the world’s largest technology companies and customer support firms. That’s down from 53 percent that did so in 2018, Okta found. Image: Cloudflare.com. According to an Aug.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 14, 2020

Today’s innovations and technologies provide tremendous opportunities for enterprises. Along with innovation and technology proliferation, new challenges that will shape business during 2020. The importance of data and the power of being an insights-driven enterprise are increasing the amount of damage that data breaches can cause.

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Centraleyes

MAY 6, 2024

Every few decades, the world experiences a technological disruption that changes our lives. Initiatives NAIC Model Bulletin In December 2023, the NAIC’s Innovation, Cybersecurity, and Technology (H) Committee adopted the Model Bulletin on the Use of Algorithms, Predictive Models, and Artificial Intelligence Systems by Insurers.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 23, 2018

As convenience technologies evolve, look for more risks to consumers and retailers. Protecting Consumer Data is Priority #1. retail respondents for not deploying data security was “lack of perceived need” (52%). Protecting sensitive data has to be a priority or data breaches in the retail sector will continue.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

To further prove to be good stewards of customer data, they can also assure data security service level agreements are in place with the third parties that they share your data with. Today, as data breaches increase in severity and scale, preventative measures like putting up a wall to keep out intruders will only go so far.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 5, 2018

Healthcare’s IT evolution has brought numerous security challenges including regulations, the use of digitally transformative technologies that have created huge amounts of data to store and protect, and the extraordinary value of electronic personal health information (ePHI) to cybercriminals. Almost all (96%) of U.S.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 8, 2021

Six years later, Kaseya’s customer portal was still exposed to the data-leaking weakness. Mandiant notified Kaseya after hearing about it from Alex Holden , founder and chief technology officer of Milwaukee-based cyber intelligence firm Hold Security. The Kaseya customer support and billing portal. Image: Archive.org.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Personal Identifiable Information (PII) is the top target for cybercriminals, according to the annual Cost of a Data Breach report by IBM and Ponemon Institute. The 2020 analysis found that customer data was by far the most-commonly compromised type of record with 80% of breached organizations saying that customer PII was affected.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

In previous years, we have discussed the efforts of businesses to digitally transform their processes to maintain or gain a competitive advantage and many of these transformative technologies involves moving to the cloud. The 2020 Thales Data Threat Report-Global Edition indicates that we have reached a tipping point.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

In security, some may refute that there is “no savings to worry about" if no investment has been made to begin with, arguing that they’ve been “just fine so far” In this blog, we will argue there is a cost in doing nothing. A 2019 Ponemon study revealed that the cost of a data breach is $4.88

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

In security, some may refute that there is “no savings to worry about" if no investment has been made to begin with, arguing that they’ve been “just fine so far” In this blog, we will argue there is a cost in doing nothing. A 2019 Ponemon study revealed that the cost of a data breach is $4.88

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

diplomacy and national security, with emphases on technology trends in cyberwarfare, cyberdefense, and cryptography. Internal information sources include gathering data from your system through: * Log files. And as stated by a Harris Poll conducted in 2018 , more than 60 million Americans are affected by identity theft every year.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

This post seeks to document the extent of those attacks, and traces the origins of this overwhelmingly successful cyber espionage campaign back to a cascading series of breaches at key Internet infrastructure providers. From early 2014 until December 2018, ns0.idm.net.lb From early 2014 until December 2018, ns0.idm.net.lb

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 24, 2018

November 2017 saw one of Australia’s biggest ever data breaches, in which sensitive personal information regarding almost 50,000 consumers and 5,000 public servants was exposed online. billion Indian citizens was reported to have been made publicly available when the country’s national ID database was breached.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The age of Big Data is upon us. And, as more data is available for analytical purposes, more sensitive and private information is at risk. In a world where data breaches are all to common, Pivotal Greenplum has partnered with Thales eSecurity to ensure its Big Data is also safe data. respondents.”.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Another day, another breach. Barely a day goes by where we don’t hear of a data breach. Affecting big companies and small in virtually every vertical and hitting government institutions at the local, state and federal level, sensitive data is routinely exfiltrated, stolen and leveraged with shocking regularity.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 24, 2018

With more than 65,000 employees in 56 countries, Thales is a global leader in technology solutions for the aerospace, transport, defence and security markets. to discuss the findings of the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report, Federal Edition. There also appears to be some confusion over how to best protect critical data.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, March 2021. UK fashion retailer FatFace angered customers in its handling of a customer data theft hack. How not to disclosure a Hack. conduct employee phishing tests. Stay safe and secure.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 6, 2018

Gartner defines digital risk management as “the integrated management of risks associated with digital business components, such as cloud, mobile, social, big data, third-party technology providers, OT and the IoT.” Some smaller companies have even gone out of business as the result of a data breach.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 12, 2018

In this blog post, and in one by my colleague Sandy Carielli from Entrust Datacard, we discuss big data analytics and how it is enabling the evolution of new behavior-based authentication for easier and more robust identity management. This is how big data analytics is enabling behavioral biometric-authentication mechanisms.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 20, 2018

The urgency around data security is increasing. Over the years, the federal government has developed a wide range of cyber policies, programs and technologies, yet data breaches are occurring with increasing frequency. Data security is a matter of law. This is why training is important, the participant said.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

JUNE 23, 2021

In addition to a classification of incidents involving information and communications technology (ICT) assets, depending on their severity, the Regulation strengthens the notification system regarding such incidents and provides for several security measures that Operators included in the NCSP shall implement within specific timeframes.

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