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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in June 2020 ­– 7 billion records breached

IT Governance

The first half of 2020 ended on a familiarly bad note, with 92 security incidents accounting for at least 7,021,195,399 breached records. You can take a look at every data breach and cyber attack that we recorded in June in this blog. Florence, AL, government hit by cyber attack (unknown). Cyber attacks. Ransomware.

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Top 3 Black Friday 2020 scams to avoid

IT Governance

In this blog, we look at some of the scams you should look out for and what you can do to protect yourself. But in the US, Black Friday refers to the discounts that retailers offer the day after Thanksgiving – and thanks to the rise in online shopping (which will be even more prominent this year with COVID-19), it has become a global custom.

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11 cyber security predictions for 2020

IT Governance

The retail and hospitality industries will continue to have their POS equipment targeted. Despite the rise in sophisticated attacks, 2020 will continue to see newbies and unskilled attackers using toolkits from the dark web to launch scams (such as sexploitation), and phishing and ransomware attacks.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in March 2020 – 832 million records breached

IT Governance

Dutch government loses two external hard drive containing personal data (6.9 India-based electronics retailer Vijay Sales made to pay for misconfigured database (unknown). Toronto government leaks personal data of elderly and vulnerable (7,227). Millions of Brazilians’ data leaked after being stored in unprotected database (81.5

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in December 2020 – 148 million records breached

IT Governance

What else would you expect from the final month of 2020 than the highest number of publicly disclosed incidents we’ve ever recorded? That brings the total for 2020 to more than 20 billion. We logged 134 security incidents in December, which accounted for 148,354,955 breached records. aw (unknown). Ransomware.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in November 2020 – 586 million records breached

IT Governance

The post List of data breaches and cyber attacks in November 2020 – 586 million records breached appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. Don’t pay ransom on the promise your data will be deleted, because it won’t be Almost 11 million patients impacted by Blackbaud incident – and still counting Ticketmaster fined £1.25

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Surviving Radical Disruption with Data Intelligence

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Without automation and the development of a governed data pipeline, you’ll never have enough data scientists in the front office to put the data to work. What processes should governance use? Parts of this blog are excerpted from my keynote on day No. Subscribe to the erwin Expert Blog. Where is the data?