Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Data breaches in the retail sector illustrate the vulnerabilities inherent to this industry, emphasizing the need for robust cybersecurity measures. This finding not only underscores the vulnerability of the retail sector but also accentuates the financial repercussions of such breaches. The benefits are twofold.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 30, 2018

Air Canada data breach – The incident was confirmed by the company and may have affected 20,000 customers (1%) of its 1.7 The data breach of the day is the one suffered by Air Canada that may have affected 20,000 customers (1%) of its 1.7 ” reads the data breach notification. 22-24, 2018.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 11, 2022

A Financial service offering company to healthcare industry has admitted that a ransomware attack on its data firm could have led to a data breach affecting over 600 healthcare establishments. The second news is related to BlackCat Ransomware, which has doubled up its ransom demand in recent times.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Regis, Westin, Sheraton, W Hotels or anywhere else that operates on Marriot’s Starwood guest reservation database, it’s time to redouble your cybersecurity and privacy efforts, because this compromise is one of biggest we’ve seen—dwarfed only by the Yahoo breach that affected 2 billion users. Monitor your accounts.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Cloud backup providers have their own security in place to ensure the security of the physical servers, but data may be vulnerable while it is in transit. This is why data encryption is the most vital key to cloud security. Cloud data services should use only protocol TLSv1.1

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

GDPR, the EU’s flagship data privacy and “right to be forgotten” regulation, has made the stakes of a data breach higher than ever. Healthcare Data Privacy Laws. Health data and patient data in the U.S. In the U.S., for example, all 50 states (along with the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2021

Cookies are a precious source of intelligence about victims’ habits and could be abused to access the person’s online accounts of the victims. . million unique email addresses, NordLocker found, for an array of different apps and services. The database includes 6.6 The 26 million login credentials held 1.1 Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malware Computers and Electronics Software Financial Services 115

Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Credit cards offer markedly better fraud protections than debit cards , which connect directly to your bank account. Virtual credit cards similarly allow online shoppers to mask their financial accounts. Many financial institutions offer free transaction alerts that notify you when charges hit your account.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 26, 2021

As reported in the UK Finance “Fraud: The Facts” 2020 report, the theft of personal and financial data through data breaches was a major contributor to fraud losses in 2019. The stolen data is used both to commit fraud directly and indirectly. Encryption. Data security. Data Breach.

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Retail Banking Big data Computers and Electronics 143

Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2022

“Frappo” grants cybercriminals the ability to work with stolen data anonymously and in an encrypted format. Frappo” was initially designed to be an anonymous cryptocurrency wallet based on a fork of Metamask and is completely anonymous, it doesn’t require a threat actor to register an account.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

Now, headlines about ransomware, cyberattacks, and data breaches pour into social media feeds as steady as a river flows. SecureWorld News takes a look at some of the largest data breaches to ever occur. Top 10 most significant data breaches. Yahoo data breach (2013). Who attacked: no attacker.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Now headlines about ransomware, cyberattacks and data breaches pour into social media feeds at a steady drumbeat. SecureWorld now takes a look at some of the largest data breaches to ever occur. Top 10 most significant data breaches. Yahoo data breach (2013). Equifax data breach (2017).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2021

Forex trading may be dominated by banks and global financial services but, thanks to the Internet, the average person can today dabble directly in forex, securities and commodities trading. In the rush toward online trading though, users have entrusted terabytes of confidential data to online forex trading platforms.

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Passwords Accountability Media Identity Theft 126

Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2022

Earmarked by the FBI as a particular threat to the financial service industry just over a year ago, the increase of internet traffic, data breaches and API usage all contribute to the perfect conditions for successful credential stuffing attacks. You can’t access an account with recycled credentials if there aren’t any.

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Passwords Authentication Data privacy Accountability 76

Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2024

New York City based Sisense has more than 1,000 customers across a range of industry verticals, including financial services, telecommunications, healthcare and higher education. “If they are hosting customer data on a third-party system like Amazon, it better damn well be encrypted,” Weaver said.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Treasury Department report linked nearly $600 million in transactions to ransomware payments in “Suspicious Activity Reports” financial services firms have filed to the U.S. Zero Trust assumes there is no implicit trust granted to assets, user accounts, microservices, or data based solely on their location. A recent U.S.

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Ransomware Backups Mobile InfoSec 59

Spinone

JULY 21, 2020

Here’s a more detailed insight into the consequences of non-compliance: The Financial Impact of Non-Compliance On Businesses To be compliant, you have to implement appropriate security measures to protect your data from unauthorized access, exposure, cyberattacks, and other threats. When do you need to comply with this law?

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Backups Financial Services Healthcare Ransomware 52

SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

The days where victims could simply pay ransom for an encryption key, unscramble their data, and move on are ending. Their new trick is to extract precious company data before encrypting it, so the attacks pack a one-two punch—they threaten embarrassing data breaches on top of crippling data destruction.

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Ransomware Cryptocurrency Computers and Electronics Banking 66

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

LogicManager’s GRC solution has specific use cases across financial services, education, government, healthcare, retail, and technology industries, among others. Like other competitive GRC solutions, it speeds the process of aggregating and mining data, building reports, and managing files. See our in-depth look at RSA Archer.

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Software Risk Government Retail 67

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

LogicManager’s GRC solution has specific use cases across financial services, education, government, healthcare, retail, and technology industries, among others. Like other competitive GRC solutions, it speeds the process of aggregating and mining data, building reports, and managing files. See our in-depth look at RSA Archer.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 21, 2020

Furthermore, 50% encountered ransomware and other malware; 29% reported incidents of data getting exposed; 25% had accounts compromised; and 17% dealt with incidents of crypto-jacking. New cloud PaaS services, such as shared storage, containers, database services and serverless functions etc.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

With that an attacker couldn't necessarily intercept the data, but they could query the peloton API to get user data that they weren't supposed to. In other words, Peloton suffered from an API vulnerability that could potentially lead to a massive data breach. Okay, that's starting to get very personal.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

With that an attacker couldn't necessarily intercept the data, but they could query the peloton API to get user data that they weren't supposed to. In other words, Peloton suffered from an API vulnerability that could potentially lead to a massive data breach. Okay, that's starting to get very personal.

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Hacking Mobile Authentication Internet 52

Spinone

JANUARY 27, 2019

Financial data is perhaps one of the most sensitive types of data. Often, the target of attackers can be financial information or other information that can compromise identity. This can lead to financial services being compromised. Backups are encrypted in-flight and at-rest with AES 256-bit encryption.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

You might not think of it as a major aspect of security and yet, stolen credentials are really the key to data breaches today. In most cases, this regards the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR, and in the UK that law continues as the UK GDPR. They didn't use mobile phones.

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Passwords Authentication Mobile Password Management 52

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

It goes on with examples: Sensitive personal information will include financial information, account log-in credentials, a consumer’s identification numbers (e.g., As the CPRA raises the stakes for businesses regarding data protection, threat actors are likely to be emboldened further. The Long Arm of California.

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Data breaches Financial Services Data collection Media 62

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Israeli man sentenced to 80 months in prison for providing hacker-for-hire services Russian APT Gamaredon uses USB worm LitterDrifter against Ukraine The board of directors of OpenAI fired Sam Altman Medusa ransomware gang claims the hack of Toyota Financial Services CISA adds Sophos Web Appliance bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (..)

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Data breaches Identity Theft Ransomware Hacking 99

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

Deduce is an identity-focused cybersecurity startup with two core solutions: Customer Alerts for protecting users and their data from account takeover and compromise, and Identity Insights for validating legitimate users and stopping fraud. Privafy aims to serve a valuable corner of the market – securing data-in-motion.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) will continue to grow and become more sophisticated over the next year. By September of 2021, the number of publicly reported data breaches had already surpassed the total of the previous year by 17%. The immediate impact of a data breach is devastating but it’s only the tip of the iceberg.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 2023

billion personal records compromised by data breaches in past two years — underscoring need for end‑to‑end encryption Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter)

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