Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2022

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) revealed that the Italian spyware vendor RCS Labs was supported by ISPs to spy on users. TAG researchers tracked more than 30 vendors selling exploits or surveillance capabilities to nation-state actors. ” reads the report published by Google. ” continues the analysis.

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KnowBe4

JULY 20, 2023

The latest data from the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) ups the estimate for the cost of losses and exposure through business email compromise (BEC) attacks from 2013 through 2023.

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Dark Reading

OCTOBER 16, 2023

By using data to drive policy underwriting, cyber-insurance companies can offer coverage without a price tag that drives customers away.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Google TAG revealed that threat actors exploited a Zimbra Collaboration Suite zero-day ( CVE-2023-37580 ) to steal emails from governments. Google TAG researcher Clément Lecigne discovered the zero-day in June while investigating targeted attacks against Zimbra’s email server. ” reads the advisory published by Google TAG.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Leaksmas: On Christmas Eve, multiple threat actors released substantial data leaks, Resecurity experts reported. On Christmas Eve, Resecurity protecting Fortune 100 and government agencies globally, observed multiple actors on the Dark Web releasing substantial data leaks. Instead, they marked the holiday season in their unique way.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

On February 14, 2022, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton brought suit against Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, over the company’s collection and use of biometric data. The suit focuses on Meta’s “tag suggestions” feature, which the company has since retired.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 24, 2024

An online retailer always gets users’ explicit consent before sharing customer data with its partners. A navigation app anonymizes activity data before analyzing it for travel trends. One cannot overstate the importance of data privacy for businesses today. The user can accept or reject each use of their data individually.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2024

This is the advantage of Data Detection and Response (DDR) for organizations aiming to build a real-time data defense. The advantage of Data Detection and Response (DDR) is that you no longer have to wait until the milk is spilled. With DDR, your organization can have real-time data defense. Here’s how it works.

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AIIM

JANUARY 7, 2021

A recent study commissioned by Egnyte surveyed 400 IT leaders to understand how COVID-19 has impacted businesses’ ability to maintain data security and governance with a distributed workforce. This is why CIOs are implementing new protocols in hopes of keeping their data safe in the remote-work era.

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Collibra

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In November at Data Citizens ‘22, we were thrilled to announce a wave of innovations to make data intelligence easy and accessible to more enterprise data users. These innovations include new capabilities for Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud including the Collibra Data Marketplace. Enter the marketplace.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Google TAG reported that both Russia and China-linked threat actors are weaponizing the a high-severity vulnerability in WinRAR. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) reported that in recent weeks multiple nation-state actors were spotted exploiting the vulnerability CVE-2023-38831 in WinRAR. ” reported Google TAG.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 18, 2023

What is RUM data? Contrary to what you might think, RUM data isn’t a performance indicator for Captain Morgan, Cuban tourism or a Disney film franchise. Real User Monitoring (RUM) data is information about how people interact with online applications and services. Are there alternatives to RUM data? Actually, yes!

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 23, 2023

June 22, 2023 — Dasera , the premier automated data security and governance platform for top-tier finance, healthcare, and technology enterprises, is thrilled to unveil “Ski Lift,” a complimentary platform exclusively designed for Snowflake users.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 23, 2023

Users should watch for typosquatting, keyword stuffing, meta tagging and cloaking. federal regulators warn.

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Collibra

MARCH 1, 2023

Complex, hybrid ecosystems and siloed data slow decision-making and is a drag on innovation. It’s too often the case that business users have limited information about data, data analysts can’t access or verify data quality, and engineers lack visibility into technical lineage.

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Collibra

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Snowflake’s platform enables organizations to seamlessly analyze and securely share data throughout the business. However, even when your data is all in one place, it still requires visibility, control, understanding and security. Data governance with Snowflake and Collibra. Data masking and policy enforcement .

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 2, 2023

The fast food giant Burger King put their systems and data at risk by exposing sensitive credentials to the public for a second time. It’s not the first time Burger King has leaked sensitive data. Among other sensitive data, the file contained credentials for a database.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

TAG has observed four different groups exploiting the same bug to steal email data, user credentials, and authentication tokens. To ensure protection against these types of exploits, TAG urges users and organizations to keep software fully up-to-date and apply security updates as soon as they become available.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

AUGUST 22, 2023

For example: Automated Decision-Making: where a data controller uses personal data to conduct any automated decision making, it must proactively inform data subjects in advance the types of data processed and the potential impact of the automated decision making. This is important to note for any data scraping activities.

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Data Breach Today

MARCH 19, 2022

Google's Threat Analysis Group - TAG - observed this financially motivated threat actor dubbed Exotic Lily, exploiting a zero-day in Microsoft MSHTML tracked as CVE-2021-40444.

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erwin

APRIL 2, 2021

Organizations are managing more data than ever. With more companies increasingly migrating their data to the cloud to ensure availability and scalability, the risks associated with data management and protection also are growing. Data Security Starts with Data Governance. Who is authorized to use it and how?

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

With the ever-present threat of data breaches, organizations need to adopt best practices to help prevent breaches and to respond to them when they occur to limit any damage. Prioritize Data Protection The downfall of many security strategies is that they become too general and too thinly spread.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2019

One of the more curious behaviors of Apple’s new iPhone 11 Pro is that it intermittently seeks the user’s location information even when all applications and system services on the phone are individually set to never request this data. The video above was recorded on a brand new iPhone 11 Pro. on iPhone 11 Pro devices.

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Collibra

MAY 30, 2023

Are you relying on data for reporting and analytics but questioning the accuracy of the data? Are you spending a fortune on testing the quality of your data? Are you making decisions based on obsolete data? Most data quality solutions promise a vast array of features but fail to deliver them.

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erwin

AUGUST 6, 2020

How Data Literacy Turns Data from a Burden to a Benefit. Today, data literacy is more important than ever. Data is now being used to support business decisions few executives thought they’d be making even six months ago. So, what is data literacy? What Is Data Literacy? Data Literacy Definition.

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erwin

JUNE 26, 2020

If you’re serious about a data-driven strategy , you’re going to need a data catalog. Organizations need a data catalog because it enables them to create a seamless way for employees to access and consume data and business assets in an organized manner. This also diminishes the value of data as an asset.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 11, 2023

How Machine Learning Can Accelerate and Improve the Accuracy of Sensitive Data Classification madhav Tue, 12/12/2023 - 05:21 Given the pace of data growth and the complexity of hybrid IT environments, the discovery and classification of sensitive data is no simple task.

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erwin

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Do you know where your data is? What data you have? 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.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 24, 2024

There are times, though, when organizations prefer to keep certain applications and data in their own data center—security and compliance requirements or control of sensitive data for example. Migrating to the cloud versus a data center refresh is a complex decision.

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IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 3, 2023

But this growth in digital sales can come with a hefty price tag for retailers and consumer goods businesses: a much greater risk of data breaches. trillion by 2026 , businesses are accumulating massive amounts of sensitive data, including payment information from their customers.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 15, 2024

Image: Camdenliving.com Also, the fobs pass the credentials to his front door over the air in plain text, meaning someone could clone the fob just by bumping against him with a smartphone app made to read and write NFC tags. Neither August nor Chirp Systems responded to requests for comment.

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Google TAG Attributes Expoloits to State-Sponsored APT37, aka Reaper Microsoft Office's use of Internet Explorer to render HTML is the gift that keeps giving for North Korean hackers. Security researchers at Google say they spotted a Pyongyang threat actor using a now-patched JavaScript engine flaw via a malicious Office document.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2023

The result is images that contain “ghost files,” which store no actual data, but link to another volume on the file system. For example, a process that opens many existing files and writes to them will be classified as ransomware/wiper, depending on the data written.” ” reads a report published by Avinoam.

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Collibra

JANUARY 23, 2023

Among the five pillars, what is most notable for the Chief Data Officers (CDOs) is Data Categorization as a central theme of the data pillar. They created a joint working group that consists of the Federal CDO Council and the Federal CISO Council, led by OMB.

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eDiscovery Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

He was “tagged,” thus allowing him access to them, and others were sent to his phone. Should discoverability of photos be extended to photos where the party is “tagged” in the photo or should privacy concerns weigh heavier here? That plaintiff did not take the pictures himself is of no import.

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OpenText Information Management

APRIL 19, 2024

This AI-generated hummingbird has been busy buzzing around in the clouds, figuring out how companies can best manage data and devices at the edge. VIPER: Well, if IoT was an emoji or an expression, it would be: (1) a cloud with legs, (2) a tornado of devices, or (3) an air-tag tracking anything (keys, dog, purse, avocado).

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2023

The popular Threat Analysis Group (TAG) Maddie Stone wrote Google’s fourth annual year-in-review of zero-day flaws exploited in-the-wild [ 2021 , 2020 , 2019 ], it is built off of the mid-year 2022 review. ” reads the report published by Google TAG.

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