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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 March 2024

IT Governance

Source (New) Finance USA Yes 3,494 Woodruff Sawyer Source (New) Insurance USA Yes 3,087 Blackburn College Source (New) Education USA Yes 3,039 CAIRE Inc. million for security failings relating to a 2018 cyber attack on its mobile banking platform. Source (New) Professional services Netherlands Yes 28.3 UniCredit fined €2.8

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Inside Ireland’s Public Healthcare Ransomware Scare

Krebs on Security

On May 10, one of the hospitals detected malicious activity on its Microsoft Windows Domain Controller, a critical “keys to the kingdom” component of any Windows enterprise network that manages user authentication and network access. Still, the work to restore infected systems would take months.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 15 – 21 January 2024

IT Governance

More than 10 million lines of Pastelería Mozart customer data apparently posted on dark web The Ynnian hacking group has posted 10,870,525 lines of data on the dark web, apparently originating from Pastelería Mozart, a popular bakery chain in Chile. VF Corporation confirms 35.5 million customers’ data. Data breached: 35,500,000 records.

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Group-IB presents its annual report on global threats to stability in cyberspace

Security Affairs

According to Group-IB’s experts, the most frustrating trend of 2019 was the use of cyberweapons in military operations. While 2017 was the year of WannaCry , NotPetya , and BadRabbit ransomware epidemics, 2018 revealed a lack of preparedness for side-channel attacks and threats related to microprocessor vulnerabilities.

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #18 [Eye on AI] Does ChatGPT Have Cybersecurity Tells?

KnowBe4

Your email filters have an average 7-10% failure rate; you need a strong human firewall as your last line of defense. Date/Time: Wednesday, May 10, @ 2:00 PM (ET) Can't attend live? In 2018, the UK government stated that they believed the Kremlin was responsible for a hoax call made to the Foreign Secretary at the time, Boris Johnson.

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Ransomware Protection in 2021

eSecurity Planet

Through the years, we’ve seen several strains of ransomware make headlines: CryptoLocker in 2013, Locky in 2016, WannaCry and Hermes in 2017, GandCrab in 2018, and now, Ryuk joins the pack of notable names in criminal malware. The Ryuk ransomware family spawned in 2018 from a sophisticated Russia-based cybercrime group.

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An Approach to Cybersecurity Risk Oversight for Corporate Directors

Data Matters

* This article first appeared in In-House Defense Quarterly on April 3, 2018. Board-management discussions about cyber risk should include identification of which risks to avoid, which to accept, and which to mitigate or transfer through insurance, as well as specific plans associated with each approach. Mandatory Access Control.