The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

Instead of addressing the security gaps that have plagued T-Mobile for years, they are offering their customers temporary identity protection when breaches happen, as if to say, ‘This is the best we can do.’. For T-Mobile, this is the sixth major breach since 2018. Joshua Arsenio, Director, Security Compass Advisory.

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SecureBlitz

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Are you one of those people who worry about online data security? billion data breaches in 2018 alone. As technology and life online take over, protecting ourselves and our information on the internet and social media has become more critical than ever. Here’s the internet safety rules checklist.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

First, a little background Verizon’s 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) [1] , an industry publication that analyzes cybersecurity incident and breach data from around the world, found that over 99% of all incident and breach events fall into one of only eight major categories.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Hospital network Atrium Health suffered a data breach, hacked accessed patients’ personal information after compromised the technology solutions provider AccuDoc. AccuDoc is a company providing technology solutions to the healthcare industry, including Hospital network Atrium Health. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Our updated research looks at how data breaches happened, what academia published, what the news covered, and what people Googled. The 2022 update to our research on the perception of data breach causes that’s helped organizations re-evaluate how they are at risk for a data breach instead of what feels right.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 17, 2021

Follow-up attacks may utilize the information accessed through this data breach to trick people into sharing more personal data that can be used for identity and financial fraud.”. In 2018, a compromise of T-Mobile systems resulted in personal information of 2 million customers being stolen. T-Mobile a Repeat Target.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 18, 2018

While retailers digitally transform their businesses to better serve the higher demands of their customers, they’re being challenged with safeguarding personal data to protect customers, partners and suppliers’ critical information. In fact, this year’s report showed a massive increase in data breaches, with 50 percent of U.S.

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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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 24, 2019

A lot of studies at the time showed that companies would not be ready for the 25th of May 2018 which led a lot of privacy professionals to assume the worst when they tried to hypothesize about what could happen when the new European legislation would come into effect. Rise in the number of data breaches. And with numerous U.S.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 8, 2020

So, while some lawsuits are spurred from regulations themselves, like the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), most lawsuits in this area come about as a result of a data breach. There is, therefore, no better example than Target. First, we should examine the consumer litigation.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

New York Attorney General Letitia James just announced the settlement of a data breach lawsuit between the AG's office and Dunkin' Donuts. Dunkin's donut holes are delicious. But the holes in the company's cybersecurity program are expensive. Dunkin' Donuts cybersecurity lawsuit details.

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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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 5, 2017

An unfortunate occurrence over the past few years has been that data breaches just keep getting bigger and impacting more people. This year, Equifax, Verizon, Wonga, Bell Canada and Hipchat were just a few of the companies that suffered from successful cyberattacks or leaks that resulted in sensitive data getting compromised.

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Adam Levin

MAY 19, 2021

The credit reporting bureau Experian is facing a backlash for its recent failures to protect customer data. . An undergraduate student at Rochester Institute of Technology named Bill Demirkapi discovered the most recent security failure. The company has suffered data breaches in the past. . Takeaways .

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2019

– card issuer and financial corporation suffered a data breach that exposed personal information from more than 100 million credit applications. Thompson (33) is suspected to be responsible for the data breach. SecurityAffairs – Capital One, Data breach). Capital One, one of the largest U.S.

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NopSec

APRIL 23, 2018

To do so, it’s necessary to closely watch and understand the latest technologies, socio-economic trends, legal/privacy trends and even political climates. Here’s a sneak peek of what we have in store: Massive Data Breaches Some of the largest and most unique data breaches ever were seen in 2017.

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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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Krebs on Security

JULY 21, 2023

Many things have changed since 2018, such as the names of the companies in the Fortune 100 list. This is actually down from five of the Fortune 100 in 2018, the last time KrebsOnSecurity performed this analysis. “But that critical separation is violated every day with the CISO or CSO reporting to the heads of technology.”

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The 2023 update to our research on the perception of cybersecurity incident and data breach causes that’s helped organizations re-evaluate how they are at risk of a cybersecurity incident or data breach instead of what feels right. Source: Verizon DBIR [1] Patterns over time in cybersecurity data breaches.

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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. Florida Healthy Kids: 3.5

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2019

Security experts at Group-IB presented at Money2020 Asia the results of an interesting analysis of hi-tech crime landscape in Asia in 2018. The number of leaked cards increased in 2018 by 56%. The total underground market value of Singaporean banks’ cards compromised in 2018 is estimated at nearly $640 000.

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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. appeared first on Data Security Blog | Thales e-Security.

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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. More data, more risk. In other words, keep reading.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 15, 2021

Those efforts should serve as a warning about the risks of using information and communications technology and services (ICTS) supplied by companies that operate or store user data in Russia or rely on software development or remote technical support by personnel in Russia. CVE-2019-9670 Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 22, 2023

billion for transferring data of European users to the servers operating in the United States. A move that is dead-against the GDPR rules that came into existence since May 2018. The Irish Data Protection Commission pronounced a penalty and imposed a $1.3 Facebook parent company Meta has been slapped with a penalty of €1.2

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 3, 2018

banks issue credit cards to their account holders, said a Web site misconfiguration exposed the names, addresses, dates of birth and Social Security numbers of thousands of people who applied for cards between early March 2017 and mid-July 2018. TCM said it learned of the issue on July 16, 2018, and had the problem fixed by the following day.

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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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 24, 2023

If cybercriminals discover the environment file first, it puts the organization at risk of unauthorized access to critical data, potential data breaches, data tampering, financial losses, reputational damage, and legal and compliance issues,” Cybernews researchers write.

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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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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 31, 2021

Organizations around the world must fulfill an increasing number of regulatory requirements including NIST, Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as well as federal and state data breach laws.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

We continue to hear about cyberattacks and data breaches around the world. Last week, the European retailer, Dixons Carphone, admitted to a huge data breach involving 5.9 million personal data records. Privacy is a major concern for many when it comes to technology and the internet.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 17, 2018

This penalty was in connection with Facebook harvesting user data, over the course of seven years — between 2007 and 2014. This user data became part of the now infamous Cambridge Analytica scandal. Facebook was very lucky, indeed, that its misdeeds happened before May 25, 2018. Checkbox mentality.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Hospitality giant Marriott today disclosed a massive data breach exposing the personal and financial information on as many as a half billion customers who made reservations at any of its Starwood properties over the past four years. Starwood hotel brands include W Hotels, St.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Among the cryptojacking-buzz, Facebook’s data breach saga, and nation-state attacks on companies like Nissan, you likely noticed a trend of high-profile cybercrime in 2018. However, after studying website attacks that plagued 2018, a new trend arises.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 15, 2019

Indian information technology (IT) outsourcing and consulting giant Wipro Ltd. [ NYSE:WIT ] is investigating reports that its own IT systems have been hacked and are being used to launch attacks against some of the company’s customers, multiple sources tell KrebsOnSecurity. The apparent breach comes amid shifting fortunes at Wipro.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The answer became clear fairly quickly: data breaches. We immediately knew that if we could create a solution that would disrupt data breach culture it would make a major impact on CISOs and data protection teams – and ultimately companies’ success overall. Diving into Data Breach Culture.

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