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OWASP discloses a data breach

Security Affairs

The OWASP Foundation disclosed a data breach that impacted some members due to a misconfiguration of an old Wiki web server. The OWASP Foundation has disclosed a data breach that impacted some of its members. No joke, we did have a data breach in late March involving the resumes of our earliest members.

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GUEST ESSAY: The key differences between ‘information privacy’ vs. ‘information security’

The Last Watchdog

Information privacy and information security are two different things. Related: Tapping hidden pools of security talent Information privacy is the ability to control who (or what) can view or access information that is collected about you or your customers. still available for you to use.

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Group Health Cooperative data breach impacted 530,000 individuals

Security Affairs

Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin disclosed a data breach that impacted over 500,000 individuals. The organization disclosed a data breach after a ransomware attack, the incident impacted 533,809 individuals. ” reads the data breach notification shared with the Maine Attorney General.

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Greylock McKinnon Associates data breach exposed DOJ data of 341650 people

Security Affairs

Greylock McKinnon Associates, a service provider for the Department of Justice, suffered a data breach that exposed data of 341650 people. GMA disclosed a data breach that impacted medicare and other information belonging to 5465 people. ” reads the data breach notification.

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Cisco Duo warns telephony supplier data breach exposed MFA SMS logs

Security Affairs

Cisco Duo warns that a data breach involving one of its telephony suppliers exposed multifactor authentication (MFA) messages sent by the company via SMS and VOIP to its customers. The security breach occurred on April 1, 2024, the threat actors used a Provider employee’s credentials that illicitly obtained through a phishing attack.

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PandaBuy data breach allegedly impacted over 1.3 million customers

Security Affairs

The website was breached by @ Sanggiero and @ IntelBroker.” The data is available for sale on the cybercrime forum, Sanggiero published a sample as proof of the data breach. Made-up email addresses are confirmed as non-existent, whilst addresses in the breach successfully get reset emails.

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Difference between Cybersecurity and Information Security

CyberSecurity Insiders

Many of you get confused with terms cybersecurity and Information Security and think that both these words are same and synonymous. Cybersecurity is one of the significant business function that focuses on protecting IT infrastructure such as data, applications, communication infrastructure and network.