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Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) discloses data breach after ransomware attack

Security Affairs

The Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) finally disclosed a data breach impacting students, past students, and teachers after the June attack. In June a ransomware attack hit the Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE), now the organization disclosed a data breach.

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Security Compliance & Data Privacy Regulations

eSecurity Planet

Regulatory compliance and data privacy issues have long been an IT security nightmare. GDPR (among other legal requirements in the EU and elsewhere) can expose multinational organizations to hefty financial penalties, additional rules for disclosing data breaches, and increased scrutiny of the adequacy of their data security.

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Indian Government Releases National Cyber Security Policy 2013

Hunton Privacy

On July 2, 2013, the Indian government released its ambitious National Cyber Security Policy 2013. Establishing public and private partnerships to determine best practices in cybersecurity.

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Microsoft: Chinese Cyberspies Used 4 Exchange Server Flaws to Plunder Emails

Krebs on Security

today released software updates to plug four security holes that attackers have been using to plunder email communications at companies that use its Exchange Server products. The patches released today fix security problems in Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 , 2016 and 2019. Microsoft Corp.

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CIRWA Project tracks ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure

Security Affairs

The project was launched in September 2019 and as of August 2020, the experts collected 680 records of ransomware attacks that took place since November 2013. These are based on publicly disclosed incidents in the media or security reports.” The maintainers of the project also mapped the attacks to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 16–22 October 2023

IT Governance

Another small firm suffers a serious ransomware attack: Cadre Services gets mauled by AlphV Date of breach: 19 September 2013 (AlphV uploaded first part of data to its website on 19 October 2023). D-Link Corporation Provides Details about an Information Disclosure Security Incident Date of breach: 2 October 2023.

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3 of the Worst Data Breaches in the World That Could Have Been Prevented

Security Affairs

In 2013, Yahoo suffered one of the worst data breaches in history, exposing over 3 billion user accounts. While no plaintext passwords or financial data was stolen, the hack did expose answers to security questions. This attack could’ve easily been avoided if Yahoo had invested more in the security infrastructure.