Security Affairs

AUGUST 11, 2019

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Fraudster stole $870,000 from 2 US universities with spear-phishing mails. Machete cyber-espionage group targets Latin America military. American Insurance firm State Farm victim of credential stuffing attacks. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived!

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KnowBe4

MAY 9, 2023

New school security awareness training can help any organization sustain that line of defense and create a strong security culture. Blog post with links: [link] A Master Class on IT Security: Roger A. And this enormous security gap leaves you open to business email compromise, session hijacking, ransomware and more.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

IT Governance found 73 publicly disclosed security incidents in August 2023, accounting for 79,729,271 breached records. It also breaks down each month’s cyber security incidents and provides more information about the biggest and most notable breaches of the month.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

18, 2021, when an employee on a Windows computer opened a booby-trapped Microsoft Excel document in a phishing email that had been sent two days earlier. On 10 May 2021, security auditors first identified evidence of the attacker compromising systems within Hospital C and Hospital L. By then it was too late.

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IT Governance

JULY 1, 2021

We found a comparatively low 9,780,931 breached records from publicly disclosed security incidents in June 2021. June’s figures bring the annual running total of security incidents to 729 and the total number of breached records to 3,947,030,094.

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KnowBe4

MAY 2, 2023

In the near term, new-school security awareness training can help alert your people to the tells of automated scamming. Blog post with links: [link] [Live Demo] Ridiculously Easy Security Awareness Training and Phishing Old-school awareness training does not hack it anymore. This appears to be the case with Qbot.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 3, 2020

Canadian insurer Heartland Farm Mutual says an employee’s email account breached (unknown). Brazilian health insurer Hapvida discloses cyber attack (unknown). Four military schools in Canada targeted in ‘mysterious’ cyber attack (unknown). University of Utah notifying patients after phishing attack (10,000).

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Until recently, I was fairly active on Twitter , regularly tweeting to more than 350,000 followers about important security news and stories here. The records also reveal how Conti dealt with its own internal breaches and attacks from private security firms and foreign governments. million users.

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IT Governance

MARCH 28, 2019

Chinese hackers target universities in pursuit of maritime military secrets (unknown). California-based Carmel Unified School District warns employees about phishing scam (unknown). Frederick Regional Health System discloses phishing incident affecting hospice patients (unknown).

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IT Governance

MARCH 1, 2022

The cyber security industry, much like the rest of the world, is on edge. In the final days of February, there were a flurry of security incidents related, either directly or indirectly, to the Ukraine conflict. It will take place on Thursday, 3 March at 3pm, and you can register for on our website. In other news…. Cyber attacks.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 3, 2018

I have a Yahoo email account, I’ve shopped at Home Depot and Target , my father was in the military and had a security clearance, which included a dossier on his family, archived at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management , I’ve had insurance coverage from Premera Blue Cross and I’ve stayed at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2019

“By examining the invoices, we were able to determine who was using the software, as well as the contact details of those responsible for purchasing in each organisation : this is extremely useful information for a threat actor conducting a spear phishing or BEC fraud campaign,” reads the report published by Cyjax. Pierluigi Paganini.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

There were a massive 99 data breaches and cyber attacks in August, making it the third-biggest monthly total of the year by number of security incidents. The true figure, as always, will be higher than this – in part because organisations rarely disclose how many records were involved in security incidents. Cyber attacks. Ransomware.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Our top managed security service providers (MSSPs) list is also a good place to look for help. Accordingly, Kaspersky offers a wide range of professional services to address a range of security problems, including ransomware prevention and removal. Kaspersky’s key ransomware and security services. DataRecovery. and Canada.

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IT Governance

JUNE 27, 2019

The ransomware was accompanied by a note: “Your files are encrypted with the strongest military algorithms. Cyber security experts and governments urge victims to never pay the ransom. Another way to lessen the burden of recovering from a ransomware attack is to purchase cyber insurance. Teach your staff about ransomware.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

According to Group-IB’s experts, the most frustrating trend of 2019 was the use of cyberweapons in military operations. As for 2019, it has become the year of covert military operations in cyberspace. The threat actor mainly targets insurance, consulting, and construction companies. The energy sector: Hidden threats.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

A credit freeze — also known as a “security freeze” — restricts access to your credit file, making it far more difficult for identity thieves to open new accounts in your name. Access to some of these credit lookup services is supposed to be secured behind a login page, but often isn’t.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The threat landscape of cybersecurity changes daily, with hackers and cybersecurity professionals in a perpetual cat-and-mouse chase; hackers discover new ways to infiltrate and exploit their targets, and the cybersecurity industry looks for vulnerabilities, tries to anticipate new threats and responds when cyber security issues arise.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The internet is fraught with peril these days, but nothing strikes more fear into users and IT security pros than the threat of ransomware. Raising awareness about ransomware is a baseline security measure. As training sessions have little influence over staff for every potential attack, it makes added security more imperative.

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Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

Recent guidance from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on disclosure and enforcement actions by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) make clear that cybersecurity is no longer a niche topic, but a concern significant enough to warrant the oversight of corporate boards of directors. Designing an Enterprise-Level Approach. Principle 5.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

Is there something more secure? Simon Moffatt from CyberHut joins The Hacker Mind to discuss how identity and access management (IAM) is fundamental to everything we do online today, and why even multi-factor access, while an improvement, needs to yield to more effortless and more secure passwordless technology that’s coming soon.

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