CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 23, 2022

Investigations later launched revealed that hackers accessed data stored from the past 4 years and in the incident and that included information such as names, schools, DoBs, CPS Identification Numbers, and state student identification numbers along with class schedule information and scores of the CPS Pupils.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

What Is Encryption Key Management? Data is only good if it can be trusted. To keep data safe, it is encrypted and decrypted using encryption keys. Whoever has those keys has access to the data, so proper key management ensures that person is you, and only you. Types of Encryption Keys. Symmetric Keys.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 4, 2022

How Cybersecurity Insurance Can Work To Help An Organization. For many years, organizations had limited options for addressing data protection risks. In the last 20+ years, cybersecurity insurance has added risk transference to the available palette of palliative choices. The function of cybersecurity insurance.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

The end result of these types of cyber attacks are often highly public and damaging data breaches. 1 in 4 Americans reported that they would stop doing business with a company following a data breach, and 67% of consumers reported a loss of trust in an organization following a breach. What Are Data Breaches?

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 5, 2018

The compromised databases included names, addresses, dates of birth, insurance policy details, medical record numbers, account balances and dates of service — of both guarantors and patients. The fact that this incident is being labeled “the Atrium breach” in the media also shows where the reputational risk lies. Sticky problem.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 28, 2023

Certain files in the PurFoods network were encrypted, and investigators also noticed tools present which can be used for data exfiltration. As a result, PurFoods says it “can’t rule out” the possibility that data was exfiltrated from one of its file servers. Stop malicious encryption.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Encryption and data backup. Data encryption is a protection strategy that renders data useless even when an intruder accesses it. Encrypting all your company’s sensitive data and private information ensures that it’s protected from data breaches. Secure your hardware.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In a recent revelation, security researcher Jeremiah Fowler uncovered a significant data leak affecting one of the United States' largest health insurance companies, Cigna Health. The exposed database offered a unique glimpse into the operations of Cigna Health, one of the nation's largest health insurance providers.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 18, 2021

The Blackbaud data breach was the largest health care-related incident of 2020, impacting an estimated two dozen providers and well over 10 million patients. Now, 2,565 patients of addiction treatment center Alina Lodge are being notified that their data was compromised during the massive vendor incident more than a year ago.

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Adam Levin

MAY 19, 2021

The company has suffered data breaches in the past. . Significant data breaches at credit score bureaus include: . Experian, 2020: A data breach impacted 24 million Experian customers, plus almost 800,000 businesses in South Africa. The data included addresses, birthdays, and even Social Security numbers.

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IT Security Guru

MARCH 14, 2024

When set up and configured correctly – using encrypted connections and robust authentication mechanisms – hybrid cloud solutions ensure that secure data transmission between the on-premises and cloud environments takes place. This is especially true of banks, telcos, insurance companies and many other kinds of firms.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The FBI is investigating a data breach where cybercriminals were able to steal patients’ records from a Las Vegas plastic surgeon’s office, and then post the details online which included nude photos. None of the documents posted online were encrypted. HIPAA is short for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 29, 2019

-based PerCSoft is a cloud management provider for Digital Dental Record (DDR), which operates an online data backup service called DDS Safe that archives medical records, charts, insurance documents and other personal information for various dental offices across the United States. PercSoft did not respond to requests for comment.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 3, 2022

Healthcare providers are opting to pay a ransom in the event of ransomware attacks, instead of recovering it from data backups. The reason is as it is easy and guarantees 100% encrypted data return- Of course, as per their perspective!

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 26, 2022

Due to the evolving and growing impact of cybersecurity incidents there are some questions starting to arise about the way that insurance companies deal with the costs that are the results of such incidents. But cyber insurance comes in different flavors and sizes. Pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. Merck suffered US$1.4

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IT Security Guru

MAY 12, 2024

A number of measures should be taken to avoid the possibility of data breaches, whilst also understanding that added security can be a good selling point. Implement HTTPS Using HTTPS (HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure) encrypts data transmitted between the user’s browser and the website.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 13, 2023

Notably, the Equifax breach in 2017 was attributed to exploiting an unpatched vulnerability, highlighting the importance of timely updates and patches. Data Level: Encrypting sensitive data at rest and in transit is crucial to securing information.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2024

In early January, independent security research and consulting team SRLabs discovered a vulnerability in Black Basta ransomware’s encryption algorithm and exploited it to create a free decryptor. The ransomware employs encryption based on a ChaCha keystream, which is utilized to perform XOR operations on 64-byte-long chunks of the file.

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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. Information is out that cyber criminals stole details such as names, addresses, account balances and details related to payments.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 15, 2023

A Guide to Key Management as a Service madhav Thu, 06/15/2023 - 11:29 As companies adopt a cloud-first strategy and high-profile breaches hit the headlines, securing sensitive data has become a paramount business concern. The most effective way to ensure data security is through encryption and proper key management.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 6, 2020

A group of thieves thought to be responsible for collecting millions in fraudulent small business loans and unemployment insurance benefits from COVID-19 economic relief efforts gathered personal data on people and businesses they were impersonating by leveraging several compromised accounts at a little-known U.S.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 3, 2024

This has led to a huge change in the way customers interact with financial organisations, with the majority of Americans now buying insurance online, and over 65% of Europeans now regularly using online banking. The consequences of such breaches are far-reaching, not only in financial terms but also in eroding customer trust.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 23, 2021

USA’s largest cyber insurance provider CNA Financial suffered a ransomware attack on March 21st,2021 forcing the company to shut down its services for few days. Sources later confirmed that the hackers involved in the incident used Phoenix CryptoLocker Malware to encrypt the database of the insurance firm.

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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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Adam Levin

JANUARY 9, 2020

To date, the company can confirm that whilst there has been some data encryption, there is no evidence that structured personal customer data has been encrypted. The hackers claim to have six months’ worth of sensitive customer data containing birthdates, credit card information, and insurance numbers.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 2, 2020

While the sophistication and methods of attack may vary, the short answer is that ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts critical data on a computer or computer network so that users can’t regain access without paying a “ransom.” Sometimes, these clowns don’t even know how to decrypt the data.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 5, 2018

Key Findings from the 2018 Global Encryption Trends Study. Data is the lifeblood of a successful business in today’s world, but the balance of using it effectively and protecting it properly is pushing enterprises to the brink. No core technologies are more fundamental to data protection than encryption and key management.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 10, 2023

The framework also supports the implementation of security concepts such as encryption, digital signatures, and authentication. PKI is composed of these key components: Public and private keys : The public key is used for encryption, and the corresponding private key is for decryption. 

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Webroot

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

billion to data breaches and cybercrime. This is all happening while companies are spending trillions digitizing their business operations and trying to obtain secure cyber insurance while keeping up with regulatory changes in GDPR, HIPAA, and Sarbanes-Oxley. And those attacks are costing companies a lot of money.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2021

. “On June 3, 2021, CMG experienced a ransomware incident in which a small percentage of servers in its network were encrypted by a malicious threat actor. CMG discovered the incident on the same day, when CMG observed that certain files were encrypted and inaccessible.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach).

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2024

Storing data in the cloud also comes with a heightened risk of data breaches. Moreover, cloud platforms store vast amounts of data in centralized repositories, and this concentration of data creates a single point of failure that, if breached, can lead to major data loss and exposure.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 16, 2023

The Data Breach Notification lists the total number of persons affected as 5,815,591. The incident was noticed on March 14, and a week later PharMerica identified that the personal information accessed included names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, medication lists and health insurance information.

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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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Security Boulevard

MAY 15, 2024

Final thoughts Understanding HIPAA Many people have misconceptions about the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and disclosure/privacy. Note: If providing health insurance information, many services require an image of the card. and actively used/shared.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2019

The Dark Overlord hacking group claims to have stolen a huge trove of documents from the British insurance company Hiscox, Hackers stole “hundreds of thousands of documents,” including tens of thousands files related to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. “ There’s five layers to go. Layer 1, 2, 3, 4, and fine finally Layer 5.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

According to research conducted by IBM, the average cost to companies of a data breach in 2022 is US$ 4.35 And this often happens when the hacker, the so-called threat actor, starts encrypting the computer systems. million, which increases to US$ 4.54 in the case of ransomware attacks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 19, 2022

PFC said in some cases, SSNs and information about health insurance and medical treatment were also stolen. This attack was a result of an unauthorized third party using sophisticated ransomware to gain access and disable internal computer systems to retrieve personal data. Arti Raman (She/Her), CEO and Founder, Titaniam. “In

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