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Capital One Moves Past 2019 Hacking Incident

Data Breach Today

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Lifts Reporting Requirement Credit card giant Capital One is moving past its 2019 hacking incident as federal regulators stop requiring quarterly updates on efforts to improve cybersecurity and a federal judge signs off on a $190 million settlement in a proposed class action lawsuit.

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Attackers Were Inside SolarWinds in January 2019

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CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna Says Clues Come From Analysis of Virtual Builds SolarWinds has uncovered evidence that intruders were in its systems in January 2019, about eight months earlier than originally believed. CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna says the company discovered the clues by analyzing terabytes of data from its virtual build systems.

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Verizon: Breaches Targeting Cloud-Based Data Doubled in 2019

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Analysts Predict Attacks in the Cloud Will Continue to Surge This Year Attacks targeting cloud-based data nearly doubled in 2019 as companies shifted more of their valuable information off-premises and misconfigurations and other issues made it more vulnerable, according to the 2020 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report.

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Patch Tuesday, December 2019 Edition

Krebs on Security

By nearly all accounts, the chief bugaboo this month is CVE-2019-1458 , a vulnerability in a core Windows component (Win32k) that is present in Windows 7 through 10 and Windows Server 2008-2019. Microsoft today released updates to plug three dozen security holes in its Windows operating system and other software.

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The 2019 Technographic Data Report for B2B Sales Organizations

In fact, the majority of respondents agree—with 72.3% reporting that technographic data is either somewhat important or very important to their organization. The reason for this is simple—sales teams value technographic data because it makes essential selling activities easier and more efficient. Download the report to learn more!

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Patch Tuesday Lowdown, April 2019 Edition

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According to security firm Rapid 7 , two of the vulnerabilities — CVE-2019-0803 and CVE-2019-0859 — are already being exploited in the wild. These patches apply to Windows , Internet Explorer (IE) and Edge browsers, Office, Sharepoint and Exchange. Further reading: Qualys on Patch Tuesday.

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Patch Tuesday, March 2019 Edition

Krebs on Security

One interesting patch from Microsoft this week comes in response to a zero-day vulnerability ( CVE-2019-0797 ) reported by researchers at Kaspersky Lab, who discovered the bug could be (and is being) exploited to install malicious software. Windows 10 likes to install patches all in one go and reboot your computer on its own schedule.

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