Approachable Cyber Threats

JANUARY 24, 2022

Category News, Privacy Risk Level. As a Data Privacy Week Champion , and as part of our commitment to the link between cybersecurity and privacy, we wanted to share some best practices from the National Cybersecurity Alliance about how to protect your privacy online. MFA has been found to block 99.9%

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 14, 2020

The importance of data and the power of being an insights-driven enterprise are increasing the amount of damage that data breaches can cause. At the same time, consumers are deeply concerned with how their data is collected and used. So what’s in store for data privacy and the rollout of of 5G technology?

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 17, 2023

Data privacy attorneys are often called upon to draft a privacy policy for a company to link to their landing page. You know, the little link that says either “Privacy” or “Legal” that nobody clicks on and nobody reads—at least until there is a data breach or a misuse of data.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2019

Your name and city are enough to run a comprehensive internet search. Everything you post is open to the internet – including the vacation photos you uploaded that morning. For example, secure your home with alarms, and your internet connection with a top-rated VPN. This helps build a safer and more protected internet.

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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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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Today’s generation of kids and teens consider their devices and the Internet as extensions of their lives. So without further ado, let’s dive into what we should be teaching our kids about Internet safety and what we can do to enforce these teachings. 7 Internet safety tips. Respect your privacy. Far from it.

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Mitnick Security

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The American internet domain registrar and web hosting company GoDaddy recently made the news for the latest 2021 security breach.

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Hot for Security

MAY 21, 2021

While the GDPR role helps strengthen individuals’ fundamental rights in the digital era by facilitating a set of rules for all companies operating in the European Union, public concern over privacy remains unresolved. Indeed, a significant milestone in data privacy and user protection has been reached since the regulation’s adoption.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Businesses have a certain responsibility to disclose how consumer data is being used, and if they don't, they face hefty fines and hits to their reputation. In fact, many consumers find personal data sharing to be a particular point of contention. Consumers are also tuned in to prior data breaches.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 17, 2023

What To Know About Privacy Data. The internet makes our lives more convenient but also brings about new threats that we need to be on the lookout for. Every year, up to 10% of Americans fall for a scam, which often leads to the exposure of their personal data, according to Legaljobs. Why Is Data Privacy Important?

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The Security Ledger

JANUARY 14, 2020

Efforts to wall off sensitive corporate and government data from foreign adversaries have a gaping hole: IT asset disposition (ITAD), where vendors - many owned by Chinese firms - process discarded hardware and data with little oversight. Read the whole entry. » Here’s how.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 29, 2020

leaked internal customer support data to the Internet, mobile provider Sprint has addressed a mix-up in which posts to a private customer support community were exposed to the Web. A message Microsoft sent to customers affected by their recent leak of customer support data. Fresh on the heels of a disclosure that Microsoft Corp.

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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 The vulnerabilities of internet security, once mostly a nuisance, have become dangerous and costly. Data privacy breaches expose sensitive details about customers, staff, and company financials.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

And, as my guest will say later in this podcast, these virtual SOCs are like pen testing the internet. We can't just, you know, bust things up into small parts and say this is my world because again, internet is a pen test and we're all in this together. It’s not like data breaches are going away, they’re shifting.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 22, 2021

China’s new data privacy law just went into effect in November 2021. China’s Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) is legislation that aims to outline and protect appropriate uses of personal data. Also Read: China’s Data Privacy Law Poses Challenge for International Companies. Compliance Overview.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 17, 2022

These issues will often arise when a company fails to ensure proper security measures and when companies don’t process sensitive data properly. You would be surprised that only in the United States, 67% of users don’t actually even know about any data privacy rules. .

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 7, 2023

A report reveals various cyber-attacks that often target small businesses, such as malware, phishing, data breaches, and ransomware attacks. In addition, few companies can provide access to password management software or VPNs to protect their internet connection and credentials and maintain security on rogue Wi-Fi networks.

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The Security Ledger

MAY 8, 2019

Data breaches relating to unsecured Internet of Things devices have jumped by more than 10 percent since 2017, suggesting security efforts aren't keeping pace with the growth of the Internet of Things, a new study finds. Related Stories Unsecured Database Exposes Data of 80M U.S.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Internet segmentation Amid growing geopolitical tensions, some web resources have blocked users from certain countries and regions. Whichever the reason, this leads to the segmentation of the internet, which damages the availability of information. There are two main reasons for that: political pressure and DDoS attacks.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

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. For Generation Z, that data privacy fight is unlikely to deal with data brokers, Bluetooth trackers, or privacy-invasive web browsers.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 31, 2020

Over the years processes, training and tooling to account for data privacy and data integrity have been woven in, driven by data breach lawsuits and the rise of data handling regulations. Keep in mind, software security was an afterthought when legacy software development processes first took shape.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 7, 2024

The integration of Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) strategies with emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things are reshaping the corporate risk landscape. The importance of data protection has been further highlighted by data privacy regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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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. content delivery network Akamai concluded in its State of the Internet report.

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IT Security Central

MAY 31, 2021

While data security has been an important topic since the internet’s inception, the issue is experiencing renewed prominence as platforms collect and struggle to secure copious amounts of personal information and prevent cyberthreats at the same time.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 20, 2023

In the wake of a leaked draft of the decision, Federal legislators introduced a new, targeted data privacy bill to protect reproductive health data. Immediately following the decision, countless individuals dropped their current period-tracking apps in search for another app that would promise to better protect their data.

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Hot for Security

JANUARY 31, 2021

Protecting your privacy can take time and effort: research, editing settings, then monitoring news to avoid (or at least find out about) the latest vulnerabilities and data breaches. We’ve tried to make it as simple as possible to help you find a balance between your privacy concerns and your need to be online most of the time.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 24, 2023

Companies without tech-savvy executives are not only more likely to suffer a serious data breach, but they are also less likely to have the tools and resources needed to recover from a serious attack. The FBI reported over 800,000 complaints of suspected internet crime last year, with losses totaling well over $10.3

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

But hackers can target any device that connects to the internet — including your smartphone. 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. Hackers Target Mobile Devices.

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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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Pen Test

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In contemporary times, with the exponential growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), smart homes, connected cars, and wearable devices, the importance of RF pentesting has soared significantly. GHz and 5 GHz bands, providing high-speed wireless internet connectivity (Kurkovsky, 2006). In Handbook of Big Data Technologies (pp.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 4, 2018

In the rush to make everything “smart”, suppliers haven’t taken a chance to step back and address the inherent security challenges that come with connecting something to the internet. By definition, this wasn’t a data breach per se, rather a gross misuse of data access by a third-party.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

So similarly, if we were to see from our data that there is a company that has outdated browsers, they have patches that they haven’t released and they have a malware beaconing out onto the internet, that’s an indication of poor cyber hygiene. These scores are updated every day because the internet changes every day.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 6, 2018

Some smaller companies have even gone out of business as the result of a data breach. having been breached at some point in the past. While the threat level has risen, IT, operational technology (OT) and Internet of Things (IoT) have continued to converge. Encryption of data at rest and in motion.

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Adam Levin

JULY 28, 2020

Email poses this security risk because it is so widely used; anyone with internet access can send an email to any other email address, and email addresses are often listed online, or easily guessable. . Privacy-centric options exist, including Protonmail which features end-to-end encryption. The trade-off for more control is more work.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 28, 2020

As cloud computing has become increasingly popular, bucket breaches have exposed millions of records to the public Internet. Since 2004, there have been 11,000 US data breaches. The good news: most cloud bucket vulnerabilities are due to misconfiguration and are manageable with appropriate attention to detail.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 18, 2023

IaaS involves virtualized computing resources over the internet, with users responsible for securing the operating system, applications, data, and networks. Security concerns include data protection, network security, identity and access management, and physical security. What Is IaaS Security?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 12, 2018

The Internet of Things (IoT) is very crowded. billion devices will be connected to the Internet by 2020 2. Maintaining the privacy of sensitive data is imperative in most industries. Connected devices outnumber people. The United Nations estimates the current world population at 7.6

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