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 post US CISA releases guidance on how to prevent ransomware data breaches appeared first on Security Affairs. ” reads CISA’s guideline. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. The homepage of Stark Industries Solutions.

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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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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The 2022 update to our research on the perception of data breach causes that’s helped organizations re-evaluate how they are at risk for a data breach instead of what feels right. First, a little background It’s been a little over a year since we first shared our research on the data breach perception problem.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 29, 2023

The advent of 5G technology brings not only faster speeds and low latency but also significant advancements in enhancing cybersecurity. Enhanced Network Performance and Reliability: One of the key benefits of 5G technology is its ability to provide faster and more reliable network connections.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Exail Technologies, a high-tech manufacturer whose clients include the US Coast Guard, exposed sensitive company data that could’ve enabled attackers to access its databases. What Exail data was exposed? Once inside, attackers could view, modify, or delete sensitive data and execute unauthorized operations.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

The configuration issue made this access point publicly available on the Internet. T-Mobile is offering two free years of identity protection for affected customers, but ultimately this is pushing the responsibility for the safety of the data onto the user. For T-Mobile, this is the sixth major breach since 2018.

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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. In recent years, these programs have become even more effective thanks to technology such as artificial intelligence.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 3, 2023

Spy”-type cyberspace race as both criminals and defenders vie to gain the upper hand using new and emerging technologies. Every technology that enables our cyber teams to pinpoint and resolve threats and prevent attacks more quickly and accurately also benefits cybercriminals.

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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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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The recently greenlit USB4 standard allows for transfer speeds of up to 40Gbps, meaning that anyone with access to a computer, even for a short period of time, could potentially pilfer large amounts of data quickly and discreetly. They’re typically internet- and network-connected. It’s that serious.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Importantly, if the Internet were to achieve such a promise, then everyone, no matter their gender, race, income level, education, or age, could feel as safe and as private online as they deserve. In trying to better understand why these communities felt differently about the Internet, we also looked to external data on real-life experiences.

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Identity IQ

DECEMBER 8, 2021

IDIQ Names Patrick Glennon Chief Technology Officer. Technology is central to company growth and product roadmap—. 8, 2021 – IDIQ, an industry leader in credit report and identity theft monitoring, has selected Patrick Glennon to lead technology and security at the company. IdentityIQ. Temecula, California, Dec.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

First, a little background Verizon’s 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) [1] , an industry publication that analyzes cybersecurity incident and breach data from around the world, found that over 99% of all incident and breach events fall into one of only eight major categories.

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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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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 26, 2022

BOSTON–( BUSINESS WIRE )– O’Reilly , the premier source for insight-driven learning on technology and business, today announced the findings of its annual platform analysis , which examines the top search terms and most-consumed content on the company’s learning platform. To read the full platform analysis, please visit [link].

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SC Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

The radiology specialist and its vendor Alliance HealthCare are being sued by patients impacted by its nine-month, PACS-related health care data breach. The lawsuit was filed in the New York Southern District Court by some of the 298,532 patients impacted by a PACS-related data breach reported in March 2020.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Our updated research looks at how data breaches happened, what academia published, what the news covered, and what people Googled. The 2022 update to our research on the perception of data breach causes that’s helped organizations re-evaluate how they are at risk for a data breach instead of what feels right.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 28, 2022

The 5G technology appears to be perfect from a distance, with its grand claims of fostering efficient interconnectivity and speedy data transfers between people, objects, and devices. Whirlpool has started deploying the 5G technology; other reputable organizations like Samsung, Nokia, and Cisco jump in on the trend.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 20, 2023

As technology has rapidly exceeded all historical imaginings, opportunities for fraudsters to exploit their victims abound. 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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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2019

The Maryland Department of Labor announced it has suffered a data breach announced that exposed personally identifiable information. . The Maryland Department of Labor suffered a data breach, hackers accessed databases containing personally identifiable information (PII). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 3, 2022

JusTalk, a popular mobile video calling and messaging app with 20 million global users, exposed a massive database of supposedly private messages to the public Internet for months. The open database is a logging database the company, Ningbo Jus Internet Technology , uses to keep track of app bugs and errors.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In the end, all the effective ones would destroy the free Internet as we know it. If we want to address the real problem, we need to enact serious privacy laws, not security theater, to stop our data from being collected, analyzed, and sold—by anyone. Today, data surveillance is the business model of the Internet.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 4, 2021

If this data breach case was made for TV, it would probably be streaming on Netflix. And we know, now, there was something much more significant happening at Gab: a hacktivist attack stole millions of posts and messages and about 70 gigabytes of data. First signs of the Gab data breach. That was on February 26th.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 18, 2018

While retailers digitally transform their businesses to better serve the higher demands of their customers, they’re being challenged with safeguarding personal data to protect customers, partners and suppliers’ critical information. In fact, this year’s report showed a massive increase in data breaches, with 50 percent of U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Employee security awareness is the most important defense against data breaches. It involves regularly changing passwords and inventorying sensitive data. There are several ways you can protect your business from data breaches. Inventory your sensitive data. Create security awareness for employees.

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Jane Frankland

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

My Predictions for Cybersecurity in 2023 were… Technology enables opportunities as fast as it introduces threats. Unsurprisingly, cyberattacks and data breaches show no signs of slowing as companies invest in technology to fuel growth, enhance customer experiences, support remote and hybrid workforces, and meet ESG goals.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 24, 2019

Rise in the number of data breaches. So far, the most reliable data regarding the number of data breaches currently available seems to be from some of the DPAs as well as the overview reports 3 published by the EU’s Commission on the implementation of the GDPR. And with numerous U.S. GDPR Penalties.

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IT Security Guru

APRIL 5, 2024

Start by protecting yourself by removing your information from the internet. Data Breaches: The base of AI is that it collects information online to generate content. Unsurprisingly, hackers can use it to illegally collect confidential information, like financial and personal data. first appeared on IT Security Guru.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 4, 2021

If this data breach case was made for TV, it would probably be streaming on Netflix. And we now know there was something much more significant happening at Gab: a hacktivist attack stole millions of posts and private messages among about 70 gigabytes of data. First signs of the Gab data breach.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Comcast’s Xfinity discloses a data breach after a cyber attack hit the company by exploiting the CitrixBleed vulnerability. Comcast’s Xfinity is notifying its customers about the compromise of their data in a cyberattack that involved the exploitation of the CitrixBleed flaw.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 11, 2022

Surfshark partnered with a number of independent cybersecurity researchers to quantify the scope and pattern of data breaches over the past couple of decades. For this study, a data breach was defined as an intruder copying or leaking user data such as names, surnames, email addresses, passwords, etc.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 7, 2022

Despite this, many organizations manage incomplete or out-of-date VM technologies to protect critical data assets. Beyond the capabilities of the technology itself, new VM solutions provide additional features designed to assist IT and security teams. million , the highest in 17 years.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2024

The almost overnight shift to remote work, driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, has profoundly impacted how businesses use technology. Cloud-based applications and services can be accessed from anywhere via an internet connection, facilitating seamless collaboration among remote workers.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 3, 2022

JusTalk, a popular mobile video calling and messaging app with 20 million global users, exposed a massive database of supposedly private messages to the public Internet for months. And when anybody has the ability to see somebody else's private data, it opens the door for both malice and mistakes.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Customized decryption ABE builds upon digital certificates and the Public Key Infrastructure ( PKI ) that underpins secure communications across the Internet. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW Here are my takeaways.

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