CSO Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2023

The security incident was the latest to affect the service in recent times in the wake of unauthorized access to its development environment in August last year , serious vulnerabilities in 2017 , a phishing attack in 2016 , and a data breach in 2015. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2023

Now, mushrooming concern around a possible data breach stemming from a now-fixed Twitter flaw is poised to drive the company further down unless Twitter takes quick action. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

This post is focused on stopping data breaches with SSE. This subject is critical because legacy data protection strategies and technologies no longer suffice in the modern business world. To read this article in full, please click here Our previous topic revolved around securing hybrid work.

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Password management company LastPass, which was hit by two data breaches last year , has revealed that data exfiltrated during the first intrusion, discovered in August, was used to target the personal home computer of one of its devops engineers and launch a second successful cyberatttack, detected in November.

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 14, 2023

With an ever-increasing number of cybersecurity threats and attacks, companies are becoming motivated to protect their businesses and customer data both technically and financially. To read this article in full, please click here million — more than twice the global average of $4.35 The global cyber insurance market was valued at $13.33

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 1, 2022

The global average cost of data breaches reached an all-time high of $4.35 About 60% of the breached organizations raised product and services prices due to the breaches. To read this article in full, please click here million in 2022 compared with $4.24 million in 2021, according to a new IBM Security report.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 2, 2023

In theory, enterprises should not only have security measures in place to prevent a data breach but should also have detailed plans for a response in the event of a breach. In other words, when a company gets hit with a serious data breach, the best-laid plans often go out the window.

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Samsung has opened up about a data breach it detected on or around August 4, affecting the personal information of some of its customers. “In To read this article in full, please click here In late July 2022, an unauthorized third party acquired information from some of Samsung’s US systems.

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

GoDaddy WordPress data breach timeline. To read this article in full, please click here The latest organizations to fall foul of WordPress security vulnerabilities is domain registrar GoDaddy, which recently went public on unauthorized third-party access to its Managed WordPress hosting environment, impacting up to 1.2

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Ride-hailing giant Uber has confirmed that it is responding to a cybersecurity incident as reports emerge that the firm has suffered a significant network data breach forcing it to shut down several internal communications and engineering systems. Attacker announces Uber breach through compromised Slack account.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 6, 2023

A pending class action lawsuit accuses online payments giant PayPal of failing to adequately safeguard the personal information of its users, leaving them vulnerable to identity theft and related ills at the hands of the unidentified perpetrators of a data breach that occurred late last year.

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2021

T-Mobile has confirmed a data breach that impacted nearly 50 million people, including current, former and prospective subscribers. Victims of the T-Mobile or any other breach where personal data is stolen should be aware of follow-on attacks and take steps to mitigate them.

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The biggest eye-opener for me was how quickly it was exploited," he tells CSO. Check out this checklist for minimizing damage from a data breach. | Get the latest from CSO by signing up for our newsletters. ] To read this article in full, please click here The first unauthorized login happened within 34 minutes.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 9, 2023

However, a spokesperson for the CAO’s office did confirm the data breach and pledged to communicate updates from law enforcement to affected legislators and staff. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2021

Sizable fines assessed for data breaches since 2019 suggest that regulators are getting more serious about organizations that don’t properly protect consumer data. Marriott was hit with a $124 million fine, later reduced, while Equifax agreed to pay a minimum of $575 million for its 2017 breach.

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2021

How much does a data breach cost? Here's where the money goes. | Get the latest from CSO by signing up for our newsletters. ] To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

MAY 19, 2022

Case in point: A federal judge recently ordered Uber Technologies to work with its former CSO, Joseph Sullivan (who held the position from April 2015 to November 2017), and review a plethora of Uber documents that Sullivan has requested in unredacted form for use in his defense in the upcoming criminal trial.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2022

European data protection authorities have issued fines of €1.1 billion) under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) since 28 January 2021, according to the annual GDPR Fines and Data Breach Survey by international law firm DLA Piper. Check out this checklist for minimizing damage from a data breach. |

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

The volume and velocity of data breaches are on the rise, and so are the costs. To read this article in full, please click here (Insider Story)

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

DNA Diagnostics Center, a DNA testing company, will pay a penalty of $400,000 to the attorneys general of Pennsylvania and Ohio for a data breach in 2021 that affected 2.1 To read this article in full, please click here million individuals nationwide, according to a settlement deal with the states’ attorneys general.

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

“Government-led cybersecurity initiatives are critical to addressing cybersecurity issues such as destructive attacks, massive data breaches, poor security posture, and attacks on critical infrastructure,” Steve Turner, security and risk analyst at Forrester, tells CSO. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

This has dramatically changed the attack surface of the typical enterprise in the past few years, with more suppliers and service providers touching sensitive data than ever before. [ How much does a data breach cost? Here's where the money goes. | Get the latest from CSO by signing up for our newsletters. ]

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2021

If you are like 80% of respondents to the Trend Micro’s biannual Cyber Risk Index (CRI) report, you expect to experience a data breach that compromises customer data in the next 12 months. Get the latest from CSO by signing up for our newsletters. ]. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

MAY 27, 2021

Billions of login credentials have landed in the hands of hackers over the past several years as a result of data breaches. Get the latest from CSO by signing up for our newsletters. ] Get the latest from CSO by signing up for our newsletters. ] To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2022

“Credential stuffing attacks are emulating the sorts of requests that a legitimate user would make,” Troy Hunt, security researcher and founder of data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned, tells CSO. To read this article in full, please click here How can we emulate that?

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 6, 2023

Toyota has implemented measures to block access to the data from the outside and is investigating the matter including all cloud environments managed by Toyota Connect (TC). “We To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Yesterday, a federal jury handed down a guilty verdict to Joe Sullivan, the former CSO on charges of “obstruction of the proceedings of the Federal Trade Commission and misprision of felony in connection with the attempted cover-up of a 2016 hack at Uber” according to a notice published by the Department of Justice (DOJ).

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 21, 2022

Anyone who follows cybersecurity is aware of the steady drumbeat of data breaches and attacks. Sign up for CSO newsletters. ]. Sign up for CSO newsletters. ]. While still in his early 20s, Ngo convinced Court Ventures, a data broker later purchased by Experian, that he was a private investigator in Singapore.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2022

To read this article in full, please click here (Insider Story) It usually happens on a Friday afternoon, at around 4 or 5 p.m. Admins and security experts receive a message telling them that something weird might be happening, and the quiet afternoon turns into chaos.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 31, 2022

The company’s statement reads: To read this article in full, please click here The PHC’s website currently (March 31) shows a holding page with a message stating that it recently became aware of anomalous activity on certain computer systems within its network.

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CSO Magazine

MAY 12, 2021

Once a breach occurs, you’ll want to identify what the attackers accessed and how they accessed the data. This information helps you identify if you need to notify users that their data has been breached and learn how to protect yourself from the next attack.

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 5, 2023

Some countries, US states, and enterprises are considerting or have ordered bans on the use of generative AI technology such as ChatGPT on data security, protection, and privacy grounds. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

MAY 15, 2023

The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the UK’s data protection regulator the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) have published a rare joint article dispelling several myths about cyberattack reporting to tackle the problem of unreported data breaches. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 29, 2022

The high profile lawsuit has been running for over four years and claims that Facebook shared data of millions of US voters with Cambridge Analytica. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

JULY 4, 2022

Data breaches and data loss were the top concerns last year," says CSA Global Vice President of Research John Yeoh. To read this article in full, please click here This year, they weren't even in the top 11." What that tells me is the cloud customer is getting a lot smarter," Yeoh continues.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 16, 2022

The Republic of Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Facebook parent company Meta €17 million (US$18.6 million) for violating multiple articles of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) related to a series of 12 data breach notifications that occurred in the latter half of 2018.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 5, 2023

billion in 2022 ), but unfortunately, so has the number of data breaches, with the 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report from Verizon finding that 90% of data breaches target the public cloud. To read this article in full, please click here year over year, from $10.98 billion in 2021 to 13.73

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