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FBI’s investigation accidentally revealed the HelloKitty ransomware gang operates out of Ukraine

Security Affairs

While investigating a data breach suffered by a healthcare organization, FBI accidentally revealed that it believes that the HelloKitty ransomware gang operates out of Ukraine. ” reads the notice of data breach published by the Oregon Anesthesiology Group. “Oregon Anesthesiology Group, P.C.

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3.4 Million user records from LiveAuctioneers hack available for sale

Security Affairs

Auctions platform LiveAuctioneers admitted to have suffered a data breach that likely impacted approximately 3.4 Auctions platform LiveAuctioneers disclosed a a data breach that might have impacted approximately 3.4 ” reads the data breach notification published by the company. million users.

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How to Comply with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) revised Safeguards Rule

CyberSecurity Insiders

The rule was first introduced in 2002 and has been revised multiple times to keep up with evolving technology and security threats. Implement a Written Information Security Program Developing a Written Information Security Program (WISP) is a key element of protecting your customer’s data.

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VMware Flaw a Vector in SolarWinds Breach?

Krebs on Security

In response to questions from KrebsOnSecurity, VMware said it has “received no notification or indication that the CVE 2002-4006 was used in conjunction with the SolarWinds supply chain compromise.” However, the SolarWinds compromise would have provided that internal access nicely.

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Preventing another Equifax breach: Sevco Security wants to transform asset management

SC Magazine

Mark Begor,(L), CEO of Equifax appears before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Capitol Hill, March 7, 2019 to testify about the company’s data breach. Lack of a mature inventory of its IT assets was a contributing factor. Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images).

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Implementing Password Security

SiteLock

And we know this because of another major security problem, data breaches. Thanks to hundreds of data breaches that have exposed millions of personal files and passwords, we now know exactly what kinds of passwords users are using. Because we know, we have hard evidence, that passwords have been weakened by their owners.

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Quantum computing brings new security risks: How to protect yourself

CyberSecurity Insiders

The average cost of a data breach reached an all-time high in 2021, and the attack vector grows larger by the minute. To put this in perspective, it took a group of 300,000 people and four years of work to crack a 64-bit key in 2002. Even now, our cybersecurity climate is getting hotter.

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