Graham Cluley

MARCH 6, 2024

Ukraine claims its hackers have gained possession of "the information security and encryption software" used by Russia's Ministry of Defence , as well as secret documents, reports, and instructions exchanged between over 2,000 units of Russia's security services. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In my last blog, I explained why taking the approach of setting up perimeter defenses, restricting data access, patching vulnerabilities, applying sensors to data movement, and encrypting data is no longer solely effective at stopping data breaches in today’s threat landscape. appeared first on Blog.

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Heimadal Security

AUGUST 24, 2021

After its systems had been encrypted and its data stolen in a cyberattack carried out by the Conti ransomware group, the Nokia subsidiary SAC Wireless is now revealing it had suffered a data breach.

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PCI perspectives

AUGUST 10, 2021

Too often, data breaches happen as a result of vulnerabilities that are entirely preventable. In this 8-part back-to-basics series , we highlight payment security basics for protecting against payment data theft. Today’s blog focuses on using encryption to make payment data unreadable.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Cost of a Machine Identity Data Breach with Yahoo! Consequences from the Yahoo Data Breach. Though it’s easy to focus on the cost of a data breach, the ramifications of Yahoo!’s s breach were vast and equally as destructive. accounts and other important data were targeted, Yahoo! billion to $4.48

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2023

Western Digital is notifying its customers of a data breach that exposed their sensitive personal information, the incident took place in March. The company is sending customers data breach notification letters to confirm that threat actors have stolen sensitive personal information in the March attack.

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Webroot

APRIL 5, 2024

From 2018 to 2023, healthcare data breaches have increased by 93 percent. Healthcare organizations can’t afford to let preventable breaches slip by. Globally, the average cost of a healthcare data breach has reached $10.93 Unfortunately, providers will skip it if the encryption tool is difficult to use.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2021

At-home laboratory services provider Apex Laboratory discloses a ransomware attack and consequent data breach. “On July 25, 2020, Apex Laboratory of Farmingdale, NY (“Apex”) discovered that it was the victim of a cyber-attack and that certain systems in its environment were encrypted and inaccessible.”

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 13, 2019

At the 2019 RSA Conference, Pure Storage and Thales introduced Vormetric Transparent Encryption for Efficient Storage – the IT and security industries’ first end-to-end data encryption framework that realizes storage array data reduction. Data Security: Low Adoption Amidst Increasing Requirements.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Peter Carlisle, Thales eSecurity’s VP of Sales, EMEA, recently shared his thoughts on the Cathay Pacific data breach. According to the airline, hackers were able to access the personal data of up to 9.4 Leaked data includes passengers’ names, dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses and passport numbers.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 20, 2017

This week, I've been writing up my 5-part guide on "Fixing Data Breaches" On Monday I talked about the value of education ; let's try and stop the breach from happening in the first place. A fundamental part of fixing data breaches is that we need to collectively strive to do better. But here we are.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 24, 2021

This spring, data breaches picked up right where they left off in 2020, with recent incidents at a dating website. The post Entrust and Prime Factors spotlight US and UK application-level encryption trends appeared first on Entrust Blog.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2019

Poshmark, a social commerce marketplace where people in the United States can buy and sell new or used clothing, shoes, and accessories, disclosed a data breach. On August 1, the US social commerce marketplace Poshmark disclosed a data breach. users by email and has published the information on his blog and in the app. .

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 18, 2018

It also suggests that while retailers are increasing IT security spending this year, they admit having been breached in the last year. In fact, this year’s report showed a massive increase in data breaches, with 50 percent of U.S. retailers experiencing a breach in the last year. Data shows that 67 percent of U.S.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 12, 2019

At the 2019 RSA Conference, Pure Storage and Thales introduced Vormetric Transparent Encryption for Efficient Storage – the IT and security industries’ first end-to-end data encryption framework that realizes storage array data reduction. Data Security: Low Adoption Amidst Increasing Requirements.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 7, 2019

For many years, encryption has been viewed as a burden on businesses – expensive, complex and of questionable value. In just the past few years (and hundreds of high-profile breaches and £Trillions of economic damage later), cyber threats became impossible for the boardroom to ignore. Enter encryption. How things have changed.

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Heimadal Security

MARCH 15, 2023

Rubrik, the cybersecurity giant, confirmed a data breach. GoAnywhere is a secure data transfer business solution for encrypted files. The announcement comes after the Clop ransomware published a sample of the stolen data.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 5, 2018

That was followed by a wave of successful ransomware attacks in which attackers targeted healthcare patient date, encrypted that data, and then demanded a ransom to supply a decryption key. Since those attack surges, the healthcare industry has done much to defend direct data breaches, and to repel ransomware attacks.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 12, 2023

•Social security number •Passport number •Driver’s license •Credit card information •Biometric data (fingerprint, eye scan, facial recognition data) •Health records Bruggeman When demographic information and sensitive information are combined and then inappropriately disclosed, you end up with a data disclosure incident or a data breach.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 17, 2019

Modern encryption can trace its root back to before WWII when Alan Turing built a modern computer in order to break the Enigma. Encryption went from being a technology predominantly used in highly classified, mission critical applications to a foundational component used in almost all aspects of our lives. So now what?

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Anton on Security

OCTOBER 21, 2020

From Google Cloud Blog: “Improving security, compliance, and governance with cloud-based DLP data discovery” So, I’ve been doing some blogging at Google Cloud blog with most posts connected to products, launches, etc. However, I am also doing a fun blog series on DLP in the cloud.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 17, 2023

But even as companies race to increase cybersecurity spending and awareness, data breaches have actually become much more (not less) likely. Tales From the Breach: What Organizations Are (and Aren’t) Doing The 2013 Target data breach was a watershed moment within the cybersecurity landscape.

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2019

Exposed records include email addresses, phone numbers, home addresses, dates of birth, IP addresses associated with payment methods, credit scores (from Equifax and other companies), unencrypted payment card data with CVV codes, locations, and other customer service records, and account details. All the data was encrypted.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2022

Wikipedia uses a CMS for textual entries, blog posts, images, photographs, videos, charts, graphics, and “ talk pages ” that help its many contributors collaborate. According to the IBM Data Breach Report 2021 , data breaches in the United States reached $4.24 What can you do about it?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

The last few years will be remembered for frequent, large and damaging data breaches. When it comes to data security, hackers don’t discriminate. It’s effectively pushed data security responsibility out of the IT department and into the boardroom. Security: moving up the executive stack. Now is the time to act.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 29, 2019

A great way to mitigate some of the risks associated with cloud or multi-cloud environments is to deploy encryption solutions. In fact, 38% of organizations’ security concerns with cloud environments would be alleviated with data encryption at the service provider level. The importance of encryption cannot be overstated.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

The last few years will be remembered for frequent, large and damaging data breaches. When it comes to data security, hackers don’t discriminate. It’s effectively pushed data security responsibility out of the IT department and into the boardroom. Security: moving up the executive stack. Now is the time to act.

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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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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The machine had full disk encryption and it's not known whether the thief was ever actually able to access the data. Is this a data breach? the Red Cross wasn't hacked either and that was clearly a data breach. No security protocols were breached. They want answers.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In this blog, we will explain the unique data security challenges for Telcos and three ways how both Thales and Red Hat can help them protect against future API attacks. Over the past year, the Telecom industry has suffered some massive, high-profile data breaches — all of which happened by exploiting unprotected APIs.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Employee security awareness is the most important defense against data breaches. It involves regularly changing passwords and inventorying sensitive data. There are several ways you can protect your business from data breaches. Inventory your sensitive data. Create security awareness for employees.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 8, 2019

References It's not just Let's Encrypt issuing certs to phishing sites (and that's fine, so let's stop throwing them under the bus for it) Plain text password storage - even generated ones - is wrong on many levels (the UX alone just doesn't make any sense) Big thanks to Whois XML API for sponsoring my blog this week!

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 6, 2022

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Did you know that human error is the main culprit of 95% of data breaches ? They could expose your sensitive data and put you, your employees, clients, and customers at risk of identity theft and fraud. Given that the average cost of a data breach is $3.86

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2023

Please vote for Security Affairs ( [link] ) as the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS Vote for me in the sections where is reported Securityaffairs or my name Pierluigi Paganini Please nominate Security Affairs as your favorite blog.

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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. At the same time, enterprise organizations that spend more than 10% of their IT budget on security, 34% say that they have experienced a breach in the past year.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

The government says Snatch used a customized ransomware variant notable for rebooting Microsoft Windows devices into Safe Mode — enabling the ransomware to circumvent detection by antivirus or endpoint protection — and then encrypting files when few services are running. ru using the email address tretyakov-files@yandex.ru.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 20, 2021

It focused on the policies and practices organizations should enforce to prevent data breaches and strengthen their data privacy framework. The post The Cyber Security Buffs: January 2021 Edition appeared first on Kratikal Blogs. In this interactive session, esteemed […].

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