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Play ransomware attack on Xplain exposed 65,000 files containing data relevant to the Swiss Federal Administration.

Security Affairs

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) published a data analysis report on the data breach resulting from the ransomware attack on the IT services provider Xplain. The attack took place on May 23, 2023 and the Play ransomware gang claimed responsibility for the data breach. ” concludes the announcement.

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GUEST ESSAY: ‘Tis the season — to take proactive measures to improve data governance

The Last Watchdog

Sadly, data breaches often occur at this time of year. Recently we’ve seen major news stories about breaches at Starwood Hotels and Quora. Related podcast: The need to lock down unstructured data. As I said, breaches cannot be 100 percent preventable, but there are a lot of ways to be proactive.

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Best 5 Privacy Management Tools for 2024

Centraleyes

High-profile data breaches have made data protection and privacy a hot subject. Hackers use more sophisticated methods to break network defenses and steal sensitive data on a large scale. Malicious actors target personal data because of its value. The consequences of data breaches go beyond financial impact.

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CNA legal filings lift the curtain on a Phoenix CryptoLocker ransomware attack

Malwarebytes

This notice has given every reader an insight into how the attack happened, what CNA did, and what they continue to do for those whose data was affected by this ransomware-attack-slash-data-breach. Phoenix posed as a browser update.

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Key steps on the road to LGPD compliance

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

It is advantageous to automate the process… considering all the data stores in scope (including local, network, database, big data and cloud) and to cover both structured and unstructured data types. Reduced Risk of Exposure. How to Fast Track LGPD Compliance.

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How Secure Is Cloud Storage? Features, Risks, & Protection

eSecurity Planet

According to Unitrends’ 2019 cloud storage research, 62% of respondents had successfully recovered data from the cloud. This trend is expected to increase as Gartner projects a threefold rise in unstructured data capacity by 2026. The increased scalability of cloud storage can assist effective data recovery solutions.

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Data-Centric Security and Big Data

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

As Cybersecurity continues to be heavily focused on solving the problem of attacks against software vulnerabilities and system access, one potential silver bullet in the data breach equation remains out of the limelight. Effective data-centric security solutions are the only reasonable path to realizing a Zero-Trust Model.