IT Governance

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Incident details: The company found that data on its network had been encrypted without its knowledge. Another small firm suffers a serious ransomware attack: Cadre Services gets mauled by AlphV Date of breach: 19 September 2013 (AlphV uploaded first part of data to its website on 19 October 2023). Records breached: Around 700 records.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 26, 2021

Did you know that this unconventional celebration got its start in 2013, and that it’s now an official holiday on the annual calendar? As a data-driven, security-focused company, we’ve rounded up our top tips inspired by World Password Day to help you improve your password game. We celebrated World Password Day on May 6, 2021.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In 2013, Yahoo suffered one of the worst data breaches in history, exposing over 3 billion user accounts. While no plaintext passwords or financial data was stolen, the hack did expose answers to security questions. Experts believe Yahoo was using outdated, easy-to-crack encryption, which led to the attack. government agencies.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

National Security Agency (NSA) Equation Group. The name “ Bvp47 ” comes form numerous references to the string “Bvp” and the numerical value “0x47” used in the encryption algorithm. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 5, 2019

The Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) space is maturing to keep pace with digital transformation. One company still actively innovating as an independent CASB is San Jose, CA-based security vendor CipherCloud. CASBs began by closing glaring security gaps created by the rapid adoption of mobile devices and cloud tools.

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Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 28, 2013

On August 28, 2013, on the UK Information Commissioner’s Office’s (“ICO’s”) blog, Simon Rice, Technology Group Manager for the ICO, discussed the importance of encryption as a data security measure. Selecting the Correct Encryption Method. Safeguarding the Encryption Key.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 28, 2014

The report provides information on data breaches reported to California’s Attorney General in 2012 and 2013. Overall, 167 breaches were reported by 136 different entities to California’s Attorney General in 2013. In addition, the number of reported data breaches increased by 28 percent in 2013, rising from 131 in 2012 to 167 in 2013.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 16, 2021

The Court held that OCR’s civil monetary penalty for alleged violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) Privacy Rule and HIPAA Security Rule was “arbitrary, capricious, and otherwise unlawful.”. OCR investigated and imposed the $4.3

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IT Governance

MARCH 5, 2024

Affected information includes users’ names, email addresses, IP addresses and encrypted passwords. Source (New) Engineering Japan Yes >5 TB Array Networks Source (New) Cyber security USA Yes 2.5 of the PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) is being retired on 31 March, to be replaced by version 4.0

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. I wrote the essay below in September 2013. I didn’t know either of them, but I have been writing about cryptography, security, and privacy for decades. It made sense. Probably not.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2022

The group has been active since at least 2013, the Aoqin Dragon was observed seeking initial access primarily through document exploits and the use of fake removable devices. Security Affairs is one of the finalists for the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2023

The security breach took place between May and June 2021 and was aimed at stealing sensitive medical information and personal details. Kimsuky cyberespiona group (aka ARCHIPELAGO, Black Banshee, Thallium , Velvet Chollima, APT43 ) was first spotted by Kaspersky researcher in 2013. ” reported the YonHap News agency.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

. “To make sure that your Exchange organization is better protected against the latest threats (for example Emotet, TrickBot or WannaCry to name a few) we recommend disabling SMBv1 if it’s enabled on your Exchange (2013/2016/2019) server.” ” reads an advisory published by the Microsoft Tech Community. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2019

In 2016, customer service software company Zendesk suffered a security breach that exposed data of 10,000 users, including passwords, emails, names, and phone numbers. Today the company published a security notice to disclose the incident. ” reads the security notice. ” reads the security notice.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 13, 2016

(“Schein”), agreed to settle FTC charges that accused the company of falsely advertising the level of encryption it used to protect patient data. The FTC asserted that, in 2012, the Dentrix G5 software incorporated a third party database engine that included a form of data protection that Schein advertised as “encryption.”

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 18, 2022

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has selected the first collection of encryption tools designed to withstand the assault of a future quantum computer, which might compromise the security employed to preserve privacy in the digital systems we rely on. Thales innovates in crypto-research.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 29, 2024

However, privacy and data security concerns are set to play a vital role as new vendors and technologies emerge to capitalize on 5G capabilities. MNOs must overcome their high-risk aversion around deploying immature technology and work to understand how they can best secure their networks now. Figure 1: PQC Migration.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Administratio n (CISA), Snatch was originally named Team Truniger , based on the nickname of the group’s founder and organizer — Truniger. “I’ve been using this login since about 2013 on all the forums where I register, and I don’t always set a strong password.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 22, 2024

In 2013, when Imperva first launched the Bad Bot Report, bad bots comprised 23.6% Whether building an encryption strategy, licensing software, providing trusted access to the cloud, or meeting compliance mandates, you can rely on Thales to secure your digital transformation.", and human traffic for 57%.

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Armstrong Archives

JULY 30, 2018

Secure destruction of sensitive personal, financial, and healthcare information is a must. It’s not enough to rip up paper documents anymore – now that data has gone digital, it’s necessary to securely destroy sensitive information in cyberspace as well. Data Breaches Are Extremely Common. No industry is safe from data breaches.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

million civil monetary penalty against Children’s Medical Center of Dallas (“Children’s”) for alleged ongoing violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) Privacy and Security Rules, following two consecutive breaches of patient electronic protected health information (“ePHI”).

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 25, 2018

The ISO has rejected two symmetric encryption algorithms: SIMON and SPECK. These algorithms were both designed by the NSA and made public in 2013. They are optimized for small and low-cost processors like IoT devices. The risk of using NSA-designed ciphers, of course, is that they include NSA-designed backdoors.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

The technique was already employed by other Chinese APT groups since 2013, later it was also adopted by other cybercrime gangs in attacks in the wild. The attackers use a simple XOR encryption algorithm with the string “Hapenexx is very bad” as a key. “This is an effort to conceal the execution.”

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Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 21, 2017

over allegations that the ride-sharing company had made deceptive data privacy and security representations to its consumers. Uber also stated that employee access to riders’ personal information was “closely monitored and audited by data security specialists on an ongoing basis.” Data Security Representations.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 5, 2021

Two of the largest government security agencies are laying out the key cyberthreats to Kubernetes, the popular platform for orchestrating and managing containers, and ways to harden the open-source tool against attacks. ” Further reading: Top Container Security Solutions for 2021. ” Containers, Kubernetes Take Over.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 3, 2018

When organisations transfer data, they inevitably compromise its security to some degree. It’s no longer secured behind physical defences, such as in a locked drawer in the organisation’s secure premises, and the means of transfer can be lost, stolen or hacked. Pseudonymisation and encryption. Implementing encryption.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2019

Yahoo is continuously trying to settle a lawsuit on the massive data breach over the period of 2013 to 2016. Considering the past and current situations, Verizon is planning for future and agreed to spend an amount of $306 million to tighten its information security. This time Yahoo could pay $117.5 Pierluigi Paganini.

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IT Governance

JULY 29, 2019

Pseudonymisation and encryption. The GDPR advises organisations to pseudonymise and/or encrypt all personal data. According to Gemalto’s Breach Level Index , only 4% of data breaches since 2013 have involved encrypted data. Encryption also obscures information by replacing identifiers with something else.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Threat actors have been using Attor since 2013, the malicious code remained under the radar until last year. “ Attor’s espionage operation is highly targeted – we were able to trace Attor’s operation back to at least 2013, yet, we only identified a few dozen victims.” ” reads the analysis published by ESET.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2021

CARBANAK cybercrime gang was first uncovered in 2014 by Kaspersky Lab that dated its activity back to 2013 when the group leveraged the Anunak malware in targeted attacks on financial institutions and ATM networks. Hladyr also controlled the organization’s encrypted channels of communication.” ” concludes DoJ.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

(“Adobe”) entered into an assurance of voluntary compliance (“AVC”) with 15 state attorneys general to settle allegations that the company lacked proper measures to protect its systems from a 2013 cyber attack that resulted in the theft of the personal information of millions of customers. Adobe notified more than 3.1

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 22, 2019

The makers of WebMonitor, a company in Sweden called “ RevCode ,” say their product is legal and legitimate software “that helps firms and personal users handle the security of owned devices.” In February 2015, a then 24-year-old Alex Yücel pleaded guilty in a U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

Related: How the Middle East has advanced mobile security regulations Over the past couple of decades, meaningful initiatives to improve online privacy and security, for both companies and consumers, incrementally gained traction in the tech sector and among key regulatory agencies across Europe, the Middle East and North America.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2019

Security researchers at Cylance discovered that the OceanLotus APT (also known as APT32 or Cobalt Kitty , group is using a loader leveraging steganography to deliver a version of Denes backdoor and an updated version of Remy backdoor. ” reads the report published by the experts. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Continuing the trend in many regions toward introducing new data protection legislation, the POPI Act was signed into law in 2013 by South African President Jacob Zuma, although it is not yet fully effective. Technology trends such as cloud, mobile, social and collaboration are increasing demand for data management and security capabilities.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 28, 2020

Wawa said the breach did not expose personal identification numbers (PINs) or CVV records (the three-digit security code printed on the back of a payment card). The United States is the last of the G20 nations to make the shift to more secure chip-based cards, which are far more expensive and difficult for criminals to counterfeit.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 16, 2021

According to the Regulators, the Proposed Guidance largely would adopt the text of the OCC’s 2013 guidance, broadening its scope to include organizations supervised by all three Regulators.

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