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Fashion brand Guess hacked, DarkSide ransomware group the likely culprit

SC Magazine

The pandemic has accelerated digital transformation for retailers and further shifted consumer buying habits online, which has expanded their attack surface and heightened the number of vulnerabilities and risks of a breach, said Casey Ellis, founder and CTO at Bugcrowd.

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NEW TECH: CyberGRX seeks to streamline morass of third-party cyber risk assessments

The Last Watchdog

In 2016, Jay Leek – then CISO at the Blackstone investment firm, and now a CyberGRX board member — was collaborating with CSOs at several firms Blackstone had invested in when a common theme came up. For a full drill down, please listen to the accompanying podcast. The key takeaways: Rise of third parties.

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Cybersecurity Outlook 2022: Third-party, Ransomware and AI Attacks Will Get Worse

eSecurity Planet

Ransomware has already been combined with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks , and Manky notes that ransomware could see the addition of wiper malware, “which could not only wreck data but destroy systems and hardware. Cryptocurrency is the Wild West of the digital world today.

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How to prepare for the California Consumer Privacy Act

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

For example, data collected by an entity may not be associated with an individual but could identify a household. The CCPA applies to for-profit entities that both collect and process the PI Information of California residents and do business in the State of California, without a physical presence in California being a requirement.