Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2020

Each Webkinz toy has an attached tag with a unique “Secret Code” printed on it that allows you to play with your pet in the “ Webkinz World” website. ZDNet has obtained the data dump with the help of experts from the data breach monitoring service Under the Breach who also noticed the data leak.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2024

DDR would, in effect, “tag” data so that a GPS-type homing beacon would keep a gapless record of where it went, who accessed it, what they did with it, and (with the help of some cyber sleuthing) perhaps why. The second benefit is what we’ll be focusing on today. DDR Knows What Your Data Did Last Summer Then, along came a revolutionary idea.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Query our API for "tags=CVE-2021-44228" for source IP addresses and other IOCs. Tags available to all users and customers now. . ” The Minister explained that it is a preventive measure and they are not aware of any security breach caused by the exploitation of the issue.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Query our API for "tags=CVE-2021-44228" for source IP addresses and other IOCs. We’ve seen similar vulnerabilities exploited before in breaches like the 2017 Equifax data breach. threatintel — Bad Packets (@bad_packets) December 10, 2021. “Many, many services are vulnerable to this exploit.

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Troy Hunt

AUGUST 5, 2023

I settled for dumping stuff in a <pre> tag for now and will invest the time in doing it right later on.) Case in point: read my pain from last night about converting thousands of words of lawyer speak T&Cs from Microsoft Word to HTML. What's the best tooling to start teaching kids to code Python on Windows with? (I

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2022

The company confirmed that the security breach impacted “some of its IT systems.” The security firm is tracking this cluster of malicious activities under the moniker Threat Activity Group 38 aka TAG-38. Tata Power on Friday announced that was hit by a cyber attack. ” reported The Economic Times.

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AIIM

JANUARY 7, 2021

With an average of 47% of corporate files containing sensitive data, it’s no surprise that the increased risk of data breaches is the top concern for CTOs when it comes to content sprawl. CIOs reported that this sprawl is not only creating inefficiencies and driving up costs, but that it is introducing new and greater data security risks.

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Unstructured data Government Artificial Intelligence Risk 168

Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2021

“This is in contrast with the classic RaaS operations, where developers typically look for partners to breach into a victim network, to steal data, and deploy the file-encrypting malware. The malware was available for sale at a price tag of $2,300 per core build, but they offered individual conditions to their subscribers.

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Once metadata has been created, it can be tagged, signifying which data is sensitive, limiting who has access to it and so forth. When this data set is ingested, automated tagging labels the item descriptions and quantity as general transaction data, the name and address as personal data, and the credit card number as financial data.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2024

Admin of the BreachForums hacking forum sentenced to 20 years supervised release Russia-linked Midnight Blizzard APT hacked Microsoft corporate emails VF Corp December data breach impacts 35 million customers China-linked APT UNC3886 exploits VMware zero-day since 2021 Ransomware attacks break records in 2023: the number of victims rose by 128% U.S.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2022

SecurityAffairs awarded as Best European Personal Cybersecurity Blog 2022 Crooks are using RIG Exploit Kit to push Dridex instead of Raccoon stealer Flagstar Bank discloses a data breach that impacted 1.5

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Click2Mail.com, a US Postal Service affiliate partner, has suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of its users. The US Postal Service affiliate partner Click2Mail has suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of its users. The company is sending out data breach notices to its impacted users.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2023

Abandoned Eval PHP WordPress plugin abused to backdoor websites CISA adds MinIO, PaperCut, and Chrome bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog At least 2 critical infrastructure orgs breached by North Korea-linked hackers behind 3CX attack American Bar Association (ABA) suffered a data breach,1.4

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IT Governance

MARCH 5, 2024

252,796,762 known records breached in 126 newly disclosed incidents Welcome to this week’s global round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. EasyPark data breach: 21.1

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erwin

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Add to the mix the potential for a data breach followed by non-compliance, reputational damage and financial penalties and a real horror story could unfold. s Information Commissioner’s Office had levied against both Facebook and Equifax for their data breaches. Do you know where your data is? What data you have?

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2018

Same possibility when using url tag which doesn’t have value and action se ” reads the security advisory published by Apache. Same possibility when using url tag which doesn’t have value and action set.” Note that this is automatically the case if your application uses the popular Struts Convention plugin.

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Information Management Resources

JUNE 25, 2019

The company’s disclosure in September that hackers exploited several software bugs to obtain login access to accounts was tagged as Facebook’s worst security breach ever.

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Data breaches Access Security 32

Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2023

Reuters is not able aware to determine if threat actors were able to breach into the target networks, and potentially impacted organizations declined to comment or not responded to the news outlet. Cybersecurity and intelligence experts observed an escalation in the activity associated with the Cold River APT since the invasion of Ukraine.

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erwin

APRIL 2, 2021

An assessment of the data breaches that crop up like weeds each year supports the conclusion that companies, absent data governance, wind up building security architectures strictly from a technical perspective. Data Security Starts with Data Governance. Lack of a solid data governance foundation increases the risk of data-security incidents.

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Government GDPR Metadata Risk 106

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Italian bank UniCredit announced today that around three million of its customers in Italy have been affected by a data breach in 2015. The Italian bank UniCredit announced today that around three million of its Italian clients have been affected by a data breach that took place in 2015, . SecurityAffairs – banking, data breach).

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Data breaches Personal data Access Cybersecurity 58

Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2022

Google’s TAG team revealed that China-linked APT groups are targeting Ukraine ’s government for intelligence purposes. March 16 – Hacker breaches key Russian ministry in blink of an eye. This post provides a timeline of the events related to the Russia invasion of Ukraine from the cyber security perspective.

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erwin

APRIL 11, 2019

A number of high-profile data breaches and scandals have increased public awareness of the issue. By adopting a data governance platform that enables you to automatically tag sensitive data and track its lineage , you can ensure nothing falls through the cracks.

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GDPR e-Discovery Compliance Metadata 100

IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 24, 2024

Privacy breaches, whether caused by malicious hackers or employee negligence, can destroy a company’s reputation and revenues. The price tag can add up quickly. Overprovisioned accounts Stolen accounts are a prime vector for data breaches , according to the IBM Cost of a Data Breach report.

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Data Privacy Privacy GDPR Personal data 69

eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2021

SWID: Software Identification Tagging. Towards the end of the 2010s, the International Organizations for Standards (ISO) began developing a standard for tagging software components with machine-readable IDs. Also read: Kaseya Breach Underscores Vulnerability in Managed IT. OWASP’s CycloneDX.

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Security Risk Compliance Cybersecurity 124

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 1, 2023

Wireless security is the protection of wireless networks, devices and data from unwanted access and breaches. Intrusion detection and prevention systems monitor the network for suspicious activities and security breaches. Limiting use of a device’s administrator account where possible for greater personal device security.

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Security Encryption Authentication IoT 83

erwin

JANUARY 31, 2019

s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) fines of 500,000 pounds ($650,000 USD) against both Facebook and Equifax for their data protection breaches. breaches) and internal (i.e., Although data security cannot be wholly guaranteed, these measures can help identify and contain breaches to minimize the fallout.

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GDPR Government Metadata Compliance 72

Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2022

The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang claims to have breached the European gas pipeline Creos Luxembourg S.A. In a recent post from 10 Jul 2022, 15:35 pm in Dark Web , “ALPHV” introduced search not only by text signatures, but also supporting tags for search of passwords and compromised PII. Creos Luxembourg S.A.

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Ransomware Passwords Communications Cybersecurity 124

IT Governance

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Trellix also found bogus web pages that look like legitimate FIFA content, and warned people that scammers are “multiple phishing kits where the post URL is either obfuscated, Base64 encoded or present in the ajax request instead of form action tags”. Can you spot a scam?

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Phishing Education Personal data Authentication 111

Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2018

Same possibility when using url tag which doesn’t have value and action se ” reads the security advisory published by Apache. Same possibility when using url tag which doesn’t have value and action set.”. ” reads the analysis published by Recorded Future.

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Armstrong Archives

JUNE 3, 2020

Security and Regulations : When records are stored onsite, what many companies don’t realize is that they must be tagged appropriately to avoid compliance violations. If business documents are not labelled correctly, you may not only experience lost records, but you may also be at risk of a data breach.

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Archiving e-Discovery Data breaches Paper 52

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2019

Attackers also look for new attack vectors to distribute their software skimming, such as compromising creative ad script tags to leverage digital ad networks to generate traffic to their skimmers and hit thousands of sites at once. Shopping platforms such as Magento and OpenCart are the lifeblood of many Magecart groups.

Cloud 76

Cloud Security Access IT 76

Hunton Privacy

MARCH 27, 2018

While technology tools and software are the number one priority for GDPR-focused budget spending, continued reliance on manual methods for building and maintaining data processing inventories, as well as low usage rates of automated software to identify and tag data, indicate that much work is still to be done to assess and procure these solutions.

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GDPR Data breaches Privacy Risk 58

InfoGovNuggets

MARCH 24, 2019

The former head of the largest bitcoin exchange was found guilty of creating false records, but acquitted of embezzlement and breach of trust. But when you create a false “record,” you can get tagged, even if you were (allegedly) doing it for a benign purpose (here, making things run more smoothly).

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Information governance Compliance Government IT 28

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter).

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Security Data breaches Information Security Risk 52

OneHub

JANUARY 22, 2021

Passwords are by far the dominant method of user authentication, and they are also the top cause of data breaches. This makes it simple for an unauthorized person to access all of your accounts if they’ve got a list of emails and passwords from an insecure site’s data breach. The most common password in 2020 was, unbelievably, “123456.”)

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Authentication Passwords Security Data breaches 98

AIIM

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Data privacy breaches have been in the news again and again this year, eliciting increased concern from regulators and legislative bodies. We can be sure that issues like the Equifax breach and Yahoo’s recent disclosure of the scope of the 2013 breach will remain topics of discussion and litigation for some time to come.

GDPR 85

GDPR Privacy Compliance Information architecture 85

Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2022

Such approach is used as one of the catalysts for further class-action lawsuits which could be filed by unhappy individuals who will see their data or communications affected due to lack of information security caused by data breaches.

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Ransomware Passwords Communications Cybersecurity 91