Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Email provider VFEmail has suffered what the company is calling “catastrophic destruction” at the hands of an as-yet unknown intruder who trashed all of the company’s primary and backup data in the United States. “I fear all US based data my be lost.” data back,” Romero said in an online chat.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2021

The surveillance campaign targeted heads of state, activists and journalists, including the family of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi family before and after he was killed in Istanbul on 2 October 2018 by Saudi operatives. The researchers also shared data related to the Pegasus’s infrastructure, including more than 700 Pegasus-related domains.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 27, 2021

As organizations continue to gather more data than ever before, the surface area of risk, and subsequently the blast radius, will exponentially increase when an incident materializes. . Zero Trust assumes there is no implicit trust granted to assets, user accounts, microservices, or data based solely on their location.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2018

In March 2018, security experts at InfoArmor discovered a misconfigured server online that contained taxpayer identification numbers, or Cadastro de Pessoas Físicas (CPFs), for 120 million Brazilian nationals. It is not clear how long data remained exposed online or who accessed them. ” reads the report published by InfoArmor.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 14, 2018

I don't know how many data breaches I'm sitting on that I'm yet to process. Look for social media accounts that accept private communications. The data was sent to me and after inspecting it, I found identified 84k email addresses in the breach. Look for a contact us form. Look for publicised email addresses.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

As you can see in the chart below from Statista, data breaches rose more than tenfold between 2005 and 2017. While 2018 showed a slight decline, you can see that the number of records that were exposed increased drastically, likely indicating cybercriminals are becoming more brazen in their attacks.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 5, 2023

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) found that K–12 cyberattacks more than tripled over the pandemic, from 400 reported incidents in 2018 to over 1,300 in 2021. According to GAO , thousands of K–12 students had their personal information compromised in data breaches between 2016 and 2020.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 27, 2020

IBM’s “ 2019 Cost of a Data Breach Report ” details the costs that come from a data breach as a result of various cybersecurity risks. million Healthcare organizations for the 9th year in a row had the highest costs associated with data breaches – $6.45 Yes, they are. percent in 2019.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

implement offline storage and tape-based backup. Network & Information Systems (NIS) Regulations 2018 were introduced into UK law three years ago and has parallels with the DPAGDPR law which was introduced at the same time. FBI Internet Crime Report 2020: Cybercrime Skyrocketed, with Email Compromise Accounting for 43% of Losses.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 2, 2018

San Francisco, CA, December 03, 2018 – Spinbackup, a leading global cloud backup and cloud cybersecurity solutions provider for SaaS applications, announced today the general availability of Office 365 Backup & Recovery to a secure cloud storage on AWS and GCP with multiple storage locations.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2018

According to the FBI , the number of business email account (BEC) and email account compromise (EAC) scam incidents worldwide reached 78,000 between October 2013 and May 2018. If these passwords have been reused for corporate accounts, this may leave organizations at risk to account takeovers.”

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

With the launch of Office 365 backup and recovery solutions with multiple cloud storage options based on the world’s most trusted cloud storage providers such as AWS and GCP, Spinbackup furthers its mission to empowering enterprise and SMB organizations with intelligent data loss and leak protection in the cloud.

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Spinone

AUGUST 12, 2020

At the beginning of 2018, security expert Kevin Mitnick brought to light the very dangerous and concerning ransomware that was shown to be able to encrypt cloud SaaS email services found in the likes of Office 365. Malicious applications are created by attackers that use the OAuth tokens to retrieve details about an end user account.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

These infections make sites vulnerable to takeovers, defacement and data breaches from bad actors looking to tarnish site reputations and turn a profit – and the costs can be devastating for businesses. In fact, the average data breach now costs businesses $1.9 Prepare for disaster recovery with Website Backup.

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SC Magazine

JULY 1, 2021

A 2018 CHIME-KLAS report found the average number of connected medical devices within the health care environment totaled about 10,000. In health care, ransomware and data breaches frequently receive the most media attention. Combatting health care’s greatest threats.

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Spinone

JANUARY 30, 2019

Let’s take a look at the topic – Office 365 Backup Why Important? In considering this topic we will look at why native mechanisms for data protection are simply not enough in Office 365 and the potential cost of ineffective data protection.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

For example, it is unclear how much data would have been unrecoverable if a decryption key had not become available as the HSE’s backup infrastructure was only periodically backed up to offline tape. During my 2018 talk, I tried to emphasize the primary importance of being able to respond quickly to intrusions.

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Spinone

AUGUST 18, 2019

Often G Suite admins don’t bother to migrate data from Google accounts of leaving employees and delete the accounts. In 2018 Coca-Cola suffered from a massive data breach from its former employee that affected 8000 workers. Migrating data takes a few steps only. Now press the Restore button.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 13, 2020

As is often the case, the cost of restoring files from backups can amount to more than paying the ransom. In IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2019 cited the following: Lost business is the biggest contributor to data breach costs The average cost of lost business in 2019 was $1.42

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Cisco Security

JULY 11, 2022

From extortion to data breaches, ransomware is always evolving, and is becoming very lucrative with Ransomware-as-a-service kit making it easier to target organizations. Below you can review their findings from a study done between 2018 – 2022: Map: Comparitech Get the data Created with Datawrapper. Key findings .

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Spinone

JANUARY 27, 2019

There is another new EU regulation that is a bit lesser known since it directly pertains to customers financial data and their ability to have other payment services. The new PSD2 directive, or the Second Payment Services Directive as it is known, went into effect in 2018. This can certainly include the location of data backups.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Compliance Many compliance standards require some form of encryption for data at rest and many also specify requirements for the transmission of data. For example, The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires security features such as encryption to protect patients’ health information.

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Spinone

JULY 3, 2020

and you interact with their data in any way – you fall under the GDPR. You can remember the massive story with Facebook’s misuse of customer information in 2018; other big players like British Airways and Marriott International have also suffered from €200 million and €99 million GDPR fines , respectively.

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Spinone

MAY 27, 2020

Read also: 5 Biggest Cloud Computing Risks and How to Liquidate Them Don’t Rely on SaaS Vendors for Cloud Data Protection When thinking about protecting data, many organizations may not consider backing up their data as a critical best practice component of security planning. How to secure cloud services?

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Spinone

DECEMBER 21, 2018

G Suite administrators can flag security threats and avoid specific targeting by phishing scams that can lead to data breach. Spinbackup Cybersecurity and Backup for G Suite The Google Security Center for G Suite product certainly improves Google’s G Suite offering when it comes to security. Yes, backups!

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

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Spinone

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Google Team Drives Backup Spinbackup was the world’s first vendor to introduce backup and recovery features for Google Team Drives. Our key focus is the incident response plan that provides automated data recovery in case of ransomware and automated account suspension in case of compromised accounts.

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