Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2021

Mercedes-Benz USA disclosed a data breach that impacted 1.6 million customers, exposed data includes financial data and social security numbers (SSNs). Mercedes-Benz USA disclosed on Friday a data breach that impacted some of its customers and potential vehicle buyers. The incident exposed approximately 1.6

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2021

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released guidance on how to prevent data breaches resulting from ransomware attacks. The guidance aims at helping government and private sector organizations in preventing such kinds of incidents. softwa re company Kaseya. ” reads CISA’s guideline.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The Better Outcomes Registry & Network (BORN), the Ontario birth registry disclosed a data breach affecting some 3.4 The BORN funded by the government of Ontario disclosed a data breach that impacts some 3.4 Compromised data included the services people received and their demographic information.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 15, 2023

Verizon has released its 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), the 16th annual publication providing an analysis of real-world data breaches and security incidents. This year, Verizon analyzed 16,312 security incidents and 5,199 confirmed data breaches. So what did they find?

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. Image: SentinelOne.com.

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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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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 17, 2021

BankInfoSecurity reported that it had communicated with one person involved in the T-Mobile attack, who said the attackers got into the T-Mobile systems when the giant carrier left a gateway GPRS support node (GSSN) – which is a router between the company’s network and the internet – misconfigured, which exposed it to the internet.

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Hot for Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) is investigating a data breach at an address verification company that may have compromised vehicle registration information of millions of Californians. Potentially exposed data includes names, addresses, license plate numbers and vehicle identification numbers (VIN).

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

ris Botnet Breaks DDoS Record Targeting Russian Internet Giant Yandex. Microsoft Fixes Vulnerabilities in Azure Allowing Hackers to Execute Code and Gain Data in Customer Containers. Singapore MyRepublic Discloses Data Breach Exposing Government-Issued IDs. Here are the top security stories from recent weeks: .

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SecureWorld News

JULY 28, 2023

That's why board directors need to take a leading role in cybersecurity governance. According to a study by the Ponemon Institute , the average cost of a data breach is $3.92 Principle 5: Incorporate cybersecurity expertise into board governance Board directors need to have a good understanding of cybersecurity.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

But it's exactly what it sounds like and on Thursday next week, I'll be up in front of US congress on the other side of the world testifying about the impact of data breaches. For a bit more context, I've been chatting with folks from the House Energy and Commerce Committee for a while now about the mechanics of data breaches.

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SC Magazine

JULY 13, 2021

million patients have been impacted by a health care data breach so far in 2021, a whopping 185% increase from the same time period last year where just 7.9 The attacks on our nation’s critical infrastructures, which includes our hospital systems, has resulted in government agencies showing a renewed focus on cybersecurity.”.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 28, 2024

From 2015 to July 2022, 911 S5 sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, as “proxies” that allowed customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. That’s according to spur.us , a U.S.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 7, 2021

A five-year breach of one of Syniverse's main systems is a global privacy disaster. Syniverse systems have direct access to phone call records and text messaging, and indirect access to a large range of Internet accounts protected with SMS 2-factor authentication. Syniverse data is a hacker's dream.

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2021

The type of documents exposed includes business licenses, residential records such as deeds, tax information, and resumes for applicants to government jobs. Much of this information is supposed to be only accessible by the government and the citizens, meaning someone could potentially defraud an individual by posing as a government official.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

One in four SolarWinds Orion servers exposed to the internet at the time of an era-defining espionage campaign have been taken off the internet. One in four SolarWinds Orion servers exposed to the internet at the time of an era-defining espionage campaign have been taken off the internet, RiskRecon reports. 12 and Feb.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2020

The FBI has seized the WeLeakInfo.com websites for selling subscriptions to data that were exposed in data breaches. WeLeakInfo.com is a data breach notification service that allows its customers to verify if their credentials been compromised in data breaches. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Over the course of this week, I've been writing about "Fixing Data Breaches" which focuses on actionable steps that can be taken to reduce the prevalence and the impact of these incidents. Let's move on and talk about why this makes a lot of sense when it comes to fixing data breaches. across the internet.

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Heimadal Security

MAY 25, 2021

After the personal data of over 279 million Indonesians were allegedly leaked and sold on a hacker platform this month, the Communications and Information Ministry has ordered Internet service providers to restrict access to data sharing site Raid Forums.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 20, 2023

Digital exploitation refers to the abuse and manipulation of technology and the internet for illegal and unethical purposes, including identity theft, sextortion, cyberbullying, online scams, and data breaches.

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Heimadal Security

AUGUST 31, 2021

The practices mentioned in the document are not to be used by organizations in the government and the private sector as they are able to expose them to unnecessary risks. The post CISA Advises Users to Not Use Single-factor Authentication on Internet-exposed Systems appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. Aside from […].

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 28, 2023

From its site: We work with over 500 health plans, managed care organisations, governments, and agencies to provide access to meals for people covered under Medicare and Medicaid, as well as the opportunity for individuals to order meals on their own. How to avoid ransomware Block common forms of entry. Detect intrusions.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 26, 2022

Other cybersecurity subjects realized substantial year-over-year growth, including privacy (up 90%), identity (up 50%), application security (up 45%), malware (up 34%), governance (up 35%), and cybersecurity compliance (up 30%). Containers experienced a substantial 137% increase as enterprises continue to build cloud native applications.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

It seems like not a day goes by where we don’t hear about a local government cyberattack. Indeed, from 911 call centers to public schools , cyberattacks on local governments are as common as they are devastating. Just how often do threat actors attack local governments? said daily. said daily. Table of Contents.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 29, 2022

Coca-Cola investigates a possible cyber intrusion, T-Mobile admits to a data breach last month, the Conti ransomware gang strikes the government of Costa Rica and a French hospital and healthcare system is forced to disconnect all incoming and outgoing Internet connections.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 23, 2021

For instance, if you have employees in China and the EU, you’ll have to obtain Chinese government approval to provide data from China to EU authorities enforcing the GDPR. Government Monitoring. Similarly, different nations exercise varying amounts of authority over internet traffic. Restricted Internet Access.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2023

WE ALSO WANT TO REMIND ALL COMPANY THAT IF YOU PUT DATA ON INTERNET WHERE DATA IS NOT PROTECT DO NOT BLAME US FOR PENETRATION TESTING SERVICE. By May 31, Rapid7 experts discovered approximately 2,500 instances of MOVEit Transfer publicly accessible on the internet, with a significant portion located in the United States.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 6, 2021

Cybersecurity experts briefed government investigators that at least 30,000 Microsoft Exchange Servers have been breached using a chain of vulnerabilities Microsoft patched on Tuesday. The post Government briefed on breach of at least 30,000 Microsoft Exchange Servers appeared first on SC Media.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 29, 2018

According to Thales eSecurity’s latest Data Threat Report, European Edition , almost three in four businesses have now fallen victim to some of the world’s most significant data breaches, resulting in a loss of sensitive data and diminished customer trust. Where the hazard really lies.

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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. »

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 15, 2023

Over time, we have learned to live with them–even when, time and again, they show how bad they are at securing our most sensitive data. The number of data breaches increases almost daily–and in recent weeks, a leading password manager vendor, an internet hosting provider.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 10, 2024

Mora said it’s unclear if the bitcoin address that holds his client’s stolen money is being held by the government or by the anonymous hackers. “The government doesn’t need the crypto as evidence, but in a forfeiture action the money goes to the government,” Rasch said.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

MAY 19, 2017

On May 15, 2017, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a new report entitled “Internet of Things: Status and implications of an […].

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SC Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

Clout IT hosting company Netgain is is one of a number of vendors that experienced a breach that hit the health care community in the first half of 2021.( “File:NetGain Technologies.png” by Emily.cedargren is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 ). Notable, ongoing data exposure via PACS. Florida Healthy Kids: 3.5

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GlobalSign

APRIL 29, 2022

Coca-Cola investigates a possible cyber intrusion, T-Mobile admits to a data breach last month, the Conti ransomware gang strikes the government of Costa Rica and a French hospital and healthcare system is forced to disconnect all incoming and outgoing Internet connections

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 14, 2023

Both are alleged to be part of a larger criminal organization that specializes in using fake emergency data requests from compromised police and government email accounts to publicly threaten and extort their victims. The government alleges that on May 7, 2022, Singh used stolen credentials to log into a U.S.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Stories like the recent Facebook hack , the Equifax hack and the hacking of government agencies are remarkable for how unremarkable they really are. The risks are about to get worse, because computers are being embedded into physical devices and will affect lives, not just our data. It's no secret that computers are insecure.

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