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The False Economy of Deprioritising Security

IT Governance

In the UK, cyber security has been dropping down the board’s list of priorities. The UK government’s Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2023 confirms this trend. Fewer directors, trustees and other senior managers of both UK businesses and charities see cyber security as a high priority in 2023 compared to 2022. Specifically, a 13.4%

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Prometei botnet is targeting ProxyLogon Microsoft Exchange flaws

Security Affairs

A deep investigation on artifacts uploaded on VirusTotal allowed the experts to determine that the botnet may have been active at least since May 2016. Prometei has been observed to be active in systems across a variety of industries, including: Finance, Insurance, Retail, Manufacturing, Utilities, Travel, and Construction.”

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in May 2019 – 1.39 billion records leaked

IT Governance

The cyber security story for May 2019 is much the same as it was last month, with one mammoth breach raising the monthly total. which breached sixteen years’ worth of insurance data. Salesforce customers faced 15-hour delay as org investigates security incident (unknown). UK government commits email privacy blunder (300).

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Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

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. com, which was fed by pig butchering scams.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in September 2020 – 267 million records breached

IT Governance

Meanwhile, you can stay up to date with the latest news by subscribing to our Weekly Round-up or visiting our blog. You can find our full list of publicly disclosed data breaches from September in this blog, with incidents affecting UK organisations listed in bold. Cyber attacks.

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Blocking illegal or fraudulent ‘robocalls’: FCC rulemaking, with FTC comments

Data Protection Report

In August 2017, the FTC issued a warning to Hurricane Harvey victims about a flood insurance scam perpetrated by robocalls, in which homeowners were advised that their flood premium was past due. It’s estimated that in 2016 alone, U.S. Robocalls have become a ubiquitous irritant. consumers received more than 2.4 DNO request.

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2019 eDiscovery Case Law Year in Review, Part 3

eDiscovery Daily

Yesterday, we looked back at cases related to cooperation, form of production, privilege and confidentiality disputes, social media related disputes and a key case regarding biometric security. Court Rejects Carpenter Argument for Third Party Subpoena of Google Subscriber Info : In U.S. 2016: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4.