DLA Piper Privacy Matters

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

In the run up to the implementation of the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679, there were various dystopian predictions of huge fines and the rise of US style class action. He also sent copies of the data to three UK newspapers anonymously, one of which notified Morrisons of the issue. Morrisons #2 Court of Appeal.

Insurance 45

Insurance Data breaches Personal data GDPR 45

Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 19, 2021

In the last month, there were 1,260,000,000 occasions where a service somewhere checked a password against Have I Been Pwned's (HIBP's) Pwned Password API. of the time, that check went no further than one of hundreds of Cloudflare edge nodes spread around the world (95% of the world's population is within 50ms of one).

Passwords 145

Passwords Risk Cloud Privacy 145

KnowBe4

MAY 9, 2023

A link is provided at the bottom of the bogus error message that takes the user to what's misrepresented as a link that will support a Chrome manual update. Users can become desensitized to the potential risks bogus messages concerning IT issues carry with them. Now they're more targeted, more cunning and more dangerous.

Phishing 73

Phishing Passwords Insurance Systems administration 73

ForAllSecure

MAY 30, 2023

Say you’re an organization that’s been hit with ransomware. At what point do you need to bring in a ransomware negotiator? Mark Lance, the VP of DFIR and Threat intelligence for GuidePoint Security, provides The Hacker Mind with stories of ransomware cases he’s handled. Should you pay, should you not?

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Ransomware Encryption Authentication Communications 40

IT Governance

OCTOBER 18, 2018

According to an anonymous official interviewed by the Associated Press , “the breach could have affected as many as 30,000 workers, but that number may grow as the investigation continues”. The department is continuing to assess the risk of harm and will ensure notifications are made to affected personnel,” he continued.

Data breaches 69

Data breaches Military Government Information Security 69

John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Dr. Cerf received his PhD from UCLA, where he worked in the famous lab that built the first nodes of what later became known as the Internet. He has worked at IBM, DARPA, MCI, JPL, and is now Chief Internet Evangelist at Google. Others have said, it’s as significant as the iPhone. But how big a deal is AI?

Artificial Intelligence 69

Artificial Intelligence Computer and Electronics IT Risk 69

ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

What if you discovered a flaw in a ransomware payment system that unlocked the data without paying the ransom? Vamosi: With the Colonial Pipeline criminal attack, we’ve seen that ransomware is an urgent national security risk that threatens schools, hospitals, businesses, and governments across the globe. Would you use it?

Ransomware 52

Ransomware Passwords Government Encryption 52

ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

What if you discovered a flaw in a ransomware payment system that unlocked the data without paying the ransom? Vamosi: With the Colonial Pipeline criminal attack, we’ve seen that ransomware is an urgent national security risk that threatens schools, hospitals, businesses, and governments across the globe. Would you use it?

Ransomware 52

Ransomware Passwords Government Encryption 52

Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Bloomberg Businessweek on Thursday published a bombshell investigation alleging that Chinese cyber spies had used a U.S.-based It’s critical to note up top that Amazon, Apple and Supermicro have categorically denied most of the claims in the Bloomberg piece. Yesterday was one of those times.

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Computer and Electronics IT Security IoT 224

Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

I'll start this post where I start many of my talks - what does a hacker look like? Or perhaps more specifically, what do people think a hacker looks like? It's not just the media using scary imagery either, check out the first 20 seconds of this video promoting a home security product: Holy s**t! That's one bad dude!

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Data breaches Passwords Marketing Access 83

ForAllSecure

MARCH 22, 2023

Delilah Schwartz, from Cybersixgill, brings her extensive background with online extremists to The Hacker Mind to talk about how she’s seeing a lot of chatter in the Dark Web about generative AI being used online for scams. She discusses what is and what is not likely to happen next. George, good morning to you.

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Marketing Ransomware Access IT 52