Jane Frankland

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

When data breaches escalate, cyber-attacks grow more sophisticated, nation states ramp up their digital warfare, and regulations tighten the noose, staying ahead isnt just an optionits your only line of defence. Still, the top response stood out clearlyprotecting data privacy.

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Hacker's King

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Enhanced Focus on Data Privacy Data breaches have shown no signs of slowing down. By 2025, stricter global regulations on data privacy, such as GDPR-style laws, will emerge. Businesses will need to be more transparent about how they collect, store, and process user data.

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Herjavec Group

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Ransomware, the fastest-growing type of cybercrime, will claim a new victim? Sadly, in 2020, we saw the first instance of human loss as a direct result of cybercrime – ransomware to be exact. More than half of data breaches over the past year involved insider threats. Originally posted on Cybercrime Magazine.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2024

Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 30, 2024

The infamous cybercrime syndicate ShinyHunters has struck again, this time claiming responsibility for an absolutely staggering data breach impacting live entertainment giants Ticketmaster and Live Nation. Consumers have become numb to data breaches, which leads to industry complacency."

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 31, 2022

You are no doubt aware of the grim statistics: •The average cost of a data breach rose year-over-year from $3.86 Data privacy breaches expose sensitive details about customers, staff, and company financials. Cybersecurity has never felt more porous. million to $4.24 million in 2021, according to IBM.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In its annual Data Breach Investigations Report , published at the beginning of 2013, Verizon revealed that businesses with fewer than 100 employees made up the single largest group of victims of data breaches. It wasn’t as though we didn’t already know – that small businesses were firmly in the crosshairs of hackers.

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Herjavec Group

JANUARY 27, 2022

January 28th is Data Privacy Day, an international effort to empower individuals and support businesses in the endeavor to respect privacy, safeguard data, and enable trust. This year, the National Cybersecurity Alliance has extended the data privacy campaign to be a week-long initiative.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

CISA adds SonicWall SonicOS and Palo Alto PAN-OS flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Juniper Networks fixed a critical flaw in Session Smart Routers China-linked APT group Winnti targets Japanese organizations since March 2024 Xerox VersaLink C7025 Multifunction printer flaws may expose Windows Active Directory credentials to attackers (..)

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Identity IQ

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The risk of identity theft is a concept that most of us are probably familiar with given the rise of cybercrime and data breaches. Works has revealed that most employees do little to protect themselves when they learn their personal information has been exposed in an employer’s data breach.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

A cyberattack crippled the IT infrastructure of the City of Saint John Hundreds of female sports stars and celebrities have their naked photos and videos leaked online Romanians arrested for running underground malware services Threat actor shared a list of 49,577 IPs vulnerable Fortinet VPNs Computer Security and Data Privacy, the perfect alliance (..)

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2020

ransomware displays ransom note in innovative way Carnival confirms data breach as a result of the August ransomware attack Google enhances malware protection for accounts enrolled in Advanced Protection Program (APP) Russian Cybercrime group is exploiting Zerologon flaw, Microsoft warns.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2023

Hitachi Energy disclosed a data breach, the Clop ransomware gang stole the company data by exploiting the recent GoAnywhere zero-day flaw. We have also notified applicable data privacy, security and law enforcement authorities and we continue to cooperate with the relevant stakeholders.”

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The Security Ledger

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

citizens and companies was discovered sitting online unprotected due to misconfigured search, a data leak that is estimated to affect about 83 million people. The post Data Breach Exposes Records of 114 Million U.S. A massive database holding more than 114 million records of U.S.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Data Privacy and Data Stewardship Are Becoming High Priorities. New data regulations, like the GDPR in Europe , have made data breaches more costly than ever. Cybercrimes are more common than ever, but the number of people entering cybersecurity hasn’t kept up.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 10, 2024

If you’ve ever been involved in a company’s data breach (which is extremely likely), there’s a chance that the username and password that were associated with that data breach can be bought on the dark web for just pennies. Where the risk truly lies, however, is in fraudulent account access. We will always stop malware.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 24, 2023

Also playing a bigger role is the widespread adoption of remote and hybrid working arrangements, and taken collectively, many organisations are now at greater risk of data breaches – unless they can consolidate and standardise access controls more effectively.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 20, 2021

Geico data breach feeds fake unemployment claims. Now comes word from Geico that the company recently suffered a data breach which helped fuel false unemployment claims. Sheila King, Manager of Data Privacy at Geico, wrote the letter to affected customers. billion in fake claims.

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Security Affairs

JULY 18, 2019

Perhaps the best approach to rampant malware, ransomware and cybercrime is stronger cooperation between the public and private sectors. The small business community must understand that they represent a larger — not a smaller — portion of the threat surface where cybercrime is concerned. Until the U.S.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 10, 2024

But these moments of personal crisis have few, immediate solutions, as the current proposals to curb and stem online harassment zero in on the systemic—such as changes in data privacy laws to limit the personal information that can be weaponized online or calls for major social media platforms to better moderate hateful content and its spread.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

But it isn’t that Gen Z, wholesale, doesn’t care about privacy. It’s that they care about privacy in a different way. As privacy advocates (including Malwarebytes) continue to fight for expanded digital rights amongst all users, it is paramount that we understand how to appeal to a younger generation of future recruits.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

With cyberattacks and data breaches on the rise, it's become especially important for brands to ensure their assets are sufficiently safeguarded, particularly as more of their infrastructure migrates to support remote systems to cloud-based platforms and their services become more reliant on the internet.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 22, 2022

According to the Ponemon Institute and IBM, the global average cost of a data breach is $4.24 As the number and severity of data breaches continues to rise, organizations are recognizing that those costs are not theoretical. Its Privacy Builder is a toolkit to develop and improve data privacy and security.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Consumers are guarding their privacy more than ever. Any operational downtime or even worse data loss due to a data breach could significantly impact customer loyalty and their highly anticipated holiday season revenues. According to a recent study, the average cost of a retail data breach in 2024 is reported to be $3.48

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2022

FCC adds Kaspersky to Covered List due to unacceptable risks to national security Anonymous leaked 28GB of data stolen from the Central Bank of Russia Chrome emergency update fixes actively exploited a zero-day bug Chinese threat actor Scarab targets Ukraine, CERT-UA warns UK police arrested 7 alleged members of Lapsus$ extortion gang US indicted 4 (..)

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Consumers are guarding their privacy more than ever. Any operational downtime or even worse data loss due to a data breach could significantly impact customer loyalty and their highly anticipated holiday season revenues. According to a recent study, the average cost of a retail data breach in 2024 is reported to be $3.48

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The GDPR brings a 21st Century human rights approach to data and cybersecurity. GDPR is the first law of its kind to truly take a crack at protecting an individual’s identity and recognizing that our data privacy is something important that should be guarded. At this point, almost every state has data privacy laws.

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Centraleyes

JULY 8, 2024

Graham Cluley Blog Graham Cluley’s blog is a trusted source for cybersecurity insights, covering a wide range of topics including data breaches, malware threats, and compliance issues. It’s hands-down essential reading for compliance professionals seeking a broader understanding of cybersecurity issues.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

The one that scares me the most is that with this data and its analysis, adversaries could perpetuate not only cybercrimes, but also physical crimes like looting or kidnapping.”. Some experts speculated that certain privacy laws and regulations could have been violated in the incident.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Additionally, current international conflicts have heightened national security concerns, which led to growing interest from government organizations and law enforcement agencies in detecting suspicious user data. Students use these tools in their hobbies and homework, and entrust their mental health to ChatGPT-like bots.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Journalists responsibly sounding an alarm on data privacy is not criminal hacking. Cybersecurity influencer and data breach hunter, Chris Vickery, called out the governor's mindset as a reason "cybersecurity is terrible everywhere.". moleg [link] — Rep. Tony Lovasco (MO-64) (@tonylovasco). October 14, 2021.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Integrating Thales’s User Journey Orchestration with Badge’s Passwordless Authentication without secrets The Thales OneWelcome Identity Platform offers advanced user journey orchestration, seamless integration, and robust compliance with data privacy regulations like GDPR and CCPA. The industry has key gaps and areas for improvement.

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Hacker's King

OCTOBER 3, 2024

It acts as a marketplace for stolen data, where cybercriminals take advantage of weaknesses in popular platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. After significant data breaches, sensitive user information is often sold on illegal sites, creating serious risks for individuals and organizations.

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BH Consulting

MAY 15, 2024

Verizon DBIR 2024 reveals new threat trends The number of confirmed incidents and breaches doubled over the previous year, as tracked in Verizon’s Data Breach Investigations Report. It analysed almost 30,500 incidents and 10,626 confirmed data breaches. That’s from DataGrail’s 2024 Data Privacy Trends Report.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 5, 2023

Behind the majority of these attacks: the ransomware gang known as Vice Society , a Russian-based group linked to multiple K–12 data breaches, including LA Unified, the second-largest school district in the nation. Secure data storage is also a requirement of FERPA.

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The Security Ledger

APRIL 30, 2019

households, exposing sensitive data and putting people at risk for identity theft, ransomware and other cybercrimes. » Related Stories Veeam mishandles Own Data, exposes 440M Customer E-mails Report: Bad Bots sent One in Five Web Requests in 2018 Mysterious Trisis Malware Strikes Again. Read the whole entry. »

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Predictions that cybercrime will be painful and AI will create problems are mind-numbing to read and offer little practical guidance for professionals. Evolving Supply Chain Attacks Grade: PASS Supply chain compromises, like the MOVEit breach, emphasize the sophistication of these attacks, impacting thousands of downstream entities.

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