Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Flyflair.com belongs to the Canadian ultra-low-cost carrier Flair Airlines, founded in 2005. Environment files are commonly used in software development to manage environment-specific settings or sensitive information such as API keys and database credentials. Security disclosure was first reported in March.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2022

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added 66 new flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added 15 vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. ?. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2023

The company attempted to downplay the security breach by telling Have I Been Pwned that threat actors only had access to encrypted passwords. In January, Zacks Investment Research (Zacks) disclosed a data breach , the company reported that the security incident may have affected the personal information of its 820,000 customers.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2023

The platform has been active since 2005, according to the DoJ, it generated tens of millions of dollars in revenue. Authorities dismantled the Try2Check platform, a Card-Checking platform that generated tens of millions of dollars in revenue. DoJ charged the Russian citizen Denis Gennadievich Kulkov with running the Card-Checking services.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Danny Adamitis , principal information security researcher at Lumen and co-author of the report on AVrecon, confirmed Kilmer’s findings, saying the C2 data matched up with what Spur was seeing for SocksEscort dating back to September 2022. .” WHO’S BEHIND SOCKSESCORT? DomainTools says myiptest[.]com com, sscompany[.]net,

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2021

US bank Capital One notified a number of additional customers that their Social Security numbers were exposed in the data breach that took place in July 2019. A hacker that was going online with the handle “erratic” breached the systems at Capital One and gained access to personal information from 106 million Capital One credit applications.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 3, 2021

I had the chance to learn more about ABE from Brent Waters, a distinguished scientist in the Cryptography & Information Security (CIS) Lab at NTT Research. And since 2005 or so, one area of focus has been on sharpening the math formulas that make attribute-based encryption possible. Customized keys.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2023

Latitude reported the security breach to the Australian Federal Police. “Once the attack was discovered, we took immediate and decisive action, including isolating systems, taking them offline to protect personal information. .” million records dating back to at least 2005 were also compromised in the data breach.

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Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2020

It was formed in 2005 in response to European Union requirements to separate the natural monopoly of infrastructure management from the competitive operations of running train services. The incident was confirmed by Spanish media and security firms, including threat intelligence company Cyble. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2021

Researchers from SentinelOne discovered a 16-year-old security vulnerability in an HP, Xerox, and Samsung printers driver that can allow attackers to gain admin rights on systems running the flawed driver. HP has published a security advisory ( HPSBPI03724 ) that includes the list of impacted printer models. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

The US Securities and Exchange Commission warns investors of potential investment scams that leverages Hurricane Ida as a bait. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy is warning investors of potential investment scams related to Hurricane Ida. ” continues the SEC.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

“Potential security vulnerabilities have been identified in an OMEN Gaming Hub SDK package which may allow escalation of privilege and/or denial of service. ” reads the security advisory published by HP. Among the obvious abuses of such vulnerabilities are that they could be used to bypass security products.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2020

” Webkinz were originally released by the Canadian toy company Ganz on April 29, 2005. The post Popular Webkinz World online children’s game hacked, 23M credentials leaked appeared first on Security Affairs. Webkinz are stuffed animals that have a playable online counterpart, www.webkinz.com, in “Webkinz World.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2019

I commend our law enforcement partners who are doing all they can to determine the status of the data and secure it.” The security breach data breach took place on March 22nd and 23rd, the hacker accessed information of customers who had applied for a credit card between 2005 and 2019. Attorney Moran. “I

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

XKCD is one of the most popular webcomic platform created by the American author Randall Munroe in 2005, it is a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. We’ve taken the forums offline until we can go over them and make sure they’re secure. XKCD has suffered a data breach that exposed data of its forum users.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 16, 2009

A lawsuit that will soon commence in Arizona has the potential to alter the data breach liability landscape by making data security auditors liable for data breaches experienced by the companies they audit. In 2005, CardSystems revealed that it had experienced an information security breach that compromised forty million payment cards.

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2019

“We made an error when implementing this functionality back in 2005: The admin console stored a copy of the unhashed password. To be clear, these passwords remained in our secure encrypted infrastructure.” This practice did not live up to our standards. ” continues Google. Pierluigi Paganini.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Moss noted that security people he'd known for years were started getting salaried jobs … and started using their legal names. In the Coming of Age era, 2005-2019, provided "free" long distance and "free" internet access, we're always online, but this gives rise to surveillance capitalism. It will have social impact.

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 28, 2014

On April 23, 2014, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) announced settlements with two health care companies stemming from allegations of inadequate information security practices in the wake of investigations involving stolen laptop computers. Concentra Health Services (“Concentra”) and QCA Health Plan Inc. (“QCA”)

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2019

“Hence, the task of preventing information security incidents for critical information infrastructures should be addressed at the legislative level. NGN International is a full-fledged systems integrator and IT consultancy established in 2015 in Bahrain as a part of NGN, a global system integrator operating in MENA since 2005.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 13, 2014

Senate Judiciary Committee, reintroduced the Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2014, comprehensive information security legislation that would establish a national standard for data breach notification and require businesses to safeguard customers’ sensitive personal information from cyber threats.

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 1, 2016

2005 , as amended by Amendment No. 2005 (the “Bill”), which makes a number of changes to the state’s data breach notification statute, Tenn. On March 24, 2016, Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam signed into law S.B. Code § 47-18-2107. The amendments take effect on July 1, 2016.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 10, 2018

The security basics are really what’s going to prevent a bad day from becoming a catastrophic day”. They also accessed a 2007 backup database containing Redditors’ usernames, email addresses, encrypted passwords and all content, including private messages, dating from 2005, when the site launched, to May 2007.

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

power grid because “many of the violations involved long durations, multiple instances of noncompliance, and repeated failures to implement physical and cyber security protections.” They are a subset of the reliability standards and grid security rules enacted by NERC pursuant to delegated authority received from FERC. Final Rule ¶ 1.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 28, 2016

In announcing the settlement with OHSU, OCR Director Jocelyn Samuels noted that “OHSU had every opportunity to address security management processes that were insufficient.” The resolution agreement requires OHSU to pay $2.7 submit annual compliance reports to OCR for a period of three years. The resolution agreement requires UMMC to pay $2.75

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Data Matters

AUGUST 5, 2019

Together, the new laws require the implementation of reasonable data security safeguards, expand breach reporting obligations for certain types of information, and require that a “consumer credit reporting agency” that suffers a data breach provide five years of identity theft prevention services for impacted residents.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Every year since 2005, the United States, the European Commission and the Article 29 Working Party on Data Protection meet to review the latest developments in the U.S.-EU EU Safe Harbor Framework, as well as changes in privacy compliance, information security and data protection.

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 8, 2011

On April 7, 2011, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced a settlement involving three former brokerage firm executives charged with “failing to protect confidential information about their customers.”

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 5, 2013

The Directive builds on rules that have been in force since 2005 (the Council Framework Decision 2005/222/JHA on attacks against information systems). The European Commission determined that a new legislative instrument was needed to address emerging threats that were not considered when the 2005 Framework Decision was adopted.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 20, 2009

agreed to strengthen its data security in order to settle charges that it failed to implement a comprehensive information security program as required by the earlier consent order it entered into with the agency following its well-publicized 2005 security breach. Yesterday, the FTC announced that ChoicePoint, Inc.

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Data Matters

JANUARY 25, 2018

In the aftermath of a significant data security incident, a best practice is to hire a third-party forensic firm, working at the direction of counsel, to review how the breach occurred, what data may have been accessed, whether the incident has ceased and other important issues directly relevant to legal counsel’s review. Bilzerian , 926 F.2d

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 18, 2011

On April 11, 2011, India adopted new privacy regulations, known as the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules, 2011 (the “Rules”).

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Data Matters

AUGUST 17, 2021

The Guidance is not intended to serve as a comprehensive framework but rather provides financial institutions with examples of effective risk management practices without endorsing any specific information security framework or standard. The 2005 guidance replaced a 2001 version of the same document.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Here are the top Twitter accounts to follow for the latest commentary, research, and much-needed humor in the ever-evolving information security space. Security enthusiast and Linux evangelist Binni Shah consistently offers valuable tutorials, guides, and insights for the cybersecurity community. Binni Shah | @binitamshah.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

During her visit, she provided Jackson Hewitt with confidential information such as her Social Security number, date of birth and driver’s license number. Pinero alleged that she relied on this statement in her decision to turn over her information. She also alleged that Jackson Hewitt violated 26 U.S.C. §

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IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2023

On this page, you will find all our usual information breaking down the month’s security incidents. Meanwhile, you can subscribe to our Weekly Round-up to receive the latest cyber security news and advice delivered straight to your inbox. However, we’ve decided to consolidate our records onto a single page.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2022

Stuxnet is a malicious computer worm developed to target SCADA systems that were first uncovered in 2010, but researchers believe its development began at least in 2005. . The post Iran announced to have foiled massive cyberattacks on public services appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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