Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2022

Norton 360 , one of the most popular antivirus products on the market today, has installed a cryptocurrency mining program on its customers’ computers. According to the FAQ posted on its site , “ Norton Crypto ” will mine Ethereum (ETH) cryptocurrency while the customer’s computer is idle. ”

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 7, 2021

That intrusion involved malicious code being surreptitiously inserted into updates shipped by SolarWinds for some 18,000 users of its Orion network management software as far back as March 2020. “Due to the nature of the attacks, the review of this matter and its impact is ongoing.”

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IT Governance

JANUARY 4, 2021

What else would you expect from the final month of 2020 than the highest number of publicly disclosed incidents we’ve ever recorded? That brings the total for 2020 to more than 20 billion. The post List of data breaches and cyber attacks in December 2020 – 148 million records breached appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog.

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Security Affairs

JULY 26, 2023

Swedish software firm Ortivus suffered a cyberattack that has resulted in at least two British ambulance services losing access to electronic patient records. Two British ambulance services were not able to access electronic patient records after a cyber attack that hit their software provider Ortivus. ” reads the advisory.

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

2020)(Editor Alan Charles Raul), published by Law Business Research Ltd., and first published by the International Association of Privacy Professionals Privacy Perspectives series on September 28, 2020. Privacy, like everything else in 2020, was dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic. has done so far, effective July 2020.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2022

men with computer crimes related to their alleged ownership of the popular DDoS-for-hire services. Miller was charged this week with conspiracy and violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). The DOJ also charged six U.S. The booter service OrphicSecurityTeam[.]com com and royalstresser[.]com Defendant Angel Manuel Colon Jr.

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IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2020

Advanced Computer Software Group exposed data of 190 law firms (10,000). Tesla has been getting rid of computers without wiping the hard drives (unknown). Ontario’s Middlesex London Health Unit abandoned electronics after moving premises (unknown). The post List of data breaches and cyber attacks in May 2020 – 8.8

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Preservica

OCTOBER 10, 2021

October 10 th is Electronic Records Day, an annual event sponsored by the Council of State Archivists (CoSA) to raise awareness among US state government agencies, the general public, related professional organizations, and other stakeholders about the crucial role that electronic records play in their world.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Nevertheless, cybersecurity incident response firm Mandiant today released a list of domains and Internet addresses used by Ryuk in previous attacks throughout 2020 and up to the present day. based Sky Lakes Medical Center’s computer systems.

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eDiscovery Law

AUGUST 12, 2020

Nature of Case: Breach of Contract Electronic Data Involved: Emails and Computers Keywords: adverse inference, sanctions View Case Opinion. Evidence regarding destruction was allowed, no testimony from plaintiffs regarding unpreserved ESI and adverse inference instruction.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Germany’s Data Protection Conference (DSK) recently made public an expert opinion on Section 702 of the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which came under close scrutiny in the July 16, 2020 decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (Schrems II).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 8, 2020

million subscribers [PDF] at the end of April 2020. Hakimian reported the bugs to Sony on May 13, 2020, through PlayStation’s official bug bounty program operated via bug bounty platform HackerOne. PlayStation addressed the issues on June 25th, 2020 and rewarded the experts with a $15,000 bounty.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2022

North Korean nation-state actors used Maui ransomware to encrypt servers providing healthcare services, including electronic health records services, diagnostics services, imaging services, and intranet services. critical infrastructure in violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, may be eligible for a reward. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2020

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 16, 2020

On October 15, 2020, Brazil’s President Bolsonaro officially nominated the five Directors of the new Brazilian data protection authority ( Agência Nacional de Proteção de Dados , “ANPD”), as published in the Brazilia Official Journal. The Decree establishing the ANPD, on which we reported earlier , is now fully in effect.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2020

billion in 2020. In an 8-K form filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the company has disclosed the ransomware attack that took place on October 22nd, 2020. “On October 22, 2020, Steelcase Inc. . “On October 22, 2020, Steelcase Inc. Steelcase has 13,000 employees and $3.7

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eDiscovery Law

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Key Insight: A responding party is best suited to determine the method of review and using TAR to pre-cull documents from review is an acceptable methodology Nature of Case: Hiring discrimination Electronic Data Involved: Emails Keywords: Chicago, fire department, technology assisted review, TAR.

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The Texas Record

MAY 1, 2020

On May 10, 2020 , the newest and fifth-est edition of the Texas State Records Retention Schedule (RRS) will go live! 2.1.001 Processing Files These types of records should be classified under Master Files and Application Data (2.1.002) and Computer Software Programs (2.1.007), as applicable. The amendments to 13 TAC §6.10(a)

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2021

FSB National Coordination Center for Computer Incidents (NKTsKI) revealed that foreign hackers have breached networks of Russian federal agencies. Attackers gained access to mail servers, electronic document management servers, file servers, and workstations of various levels to steal data of interest.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2023

“In December 2021, in coordination with foreign law enforcement partners in Germany and Finland, the computer server hosting Monopoly was seized and taken offline.” Desnica was located and arrested in Austria in November 2022, the police conducted a search of his residence and vehicle, seizing electronics and cash.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JANUARY 11, 2021

On 16 December 2020, the European Commission adopted a proposal for a Directive on measures for a high common level of cybersecurity across the Union (“NIS II Directive”) that revises the current Directive on Security of Network and Information Systems (“NIS Directive”). Authors: Raf Schoefs , Simon Verschaeve , Laetitia Mouton.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

In 2020, the United States brought charges against four men accused of building a bulletproof hosting empire that once dominated the Russian cybercrime industry and supported multiple organized cybercrime groups. In 2020, Grichishkin was arrested outside of Russia on a warrant for providing bulletproof hosting services to cybercriminal gangs.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2021

The DoJ announced this week that Till Kottmann was indicted for computer intrusion and identity and data theft activities spanning 2019 to the present. . “KOTTMANN, aka “deletescape” and “tillie crimew,” who initially was charged in September 2020, remains in Lucerne, Switzerland, and has received notice of pending U.S.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

DECEMBER 10, 2020

On December 7 2020, the French Supervisory Authority (CNIL) sanctioned Google LLC (60 million EUR) and Google Ireland (40 million EUR) for installing advertising cookies on users devices without their prior consent and with proper information. In addition, the CNIL issued an injunction to inform properly the users of google.fr

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

On September 9, 2020, Portland, Oregon became the first jurisdiction in the country to ban the commercial use of facial recognition technology in public places within the city, including stores, restaurants and hotels. The city Ordinance was unanimously passed by the Portland City Council and will take effect on January 1, 2021.

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Info Source

AUGUST 31, 2020

NEW YORK, August 26, 2020 — Nuxeo , the leading cloud-native Content Services Platform, today announced several notable growth benchmarks, including 33 percent year-over-year (YOY) revenue growth for the first half of 2020, and 36 percent YOY revenue growth for the second quarter of 2020.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2020

The three hackers were arrested in December in Jakarta and Yogyakarta and charged with data theft, fraud, and unauthorized access to computer systems. According to the authorities, the suspects used stolen credit cards to buy electronic goods and other luxury items, and then resell on local e-commerce websites in Indonesia.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 13, 2020

When it comes to securing mobile computing devices, the big challenge businesses have long grappled with is how to protect company assets while at the same time respecting an individual’s privacy. A few months later the United Arab Emirates stood up its National Electronic Security Authority (NESA) which proceeded to do much the same thing.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2021

million Windows systems between 2018 and 2020. million computers. These included logins for social media, online games, online marketplaces, job-search sites, consumer electronics, financial services, email services, and more. Researchers from NordLocker have discovered an unsecured database containing 1.2-terabyte

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 26, 2021

The Verizon DBIR 2020 report indicates that financially motivated attacks against retailers have moved away from Point of Sale (POS) devices and controllers, towards web applications. Source: Verizon DBIR 2020. Fraud and scams move to the web. Figure 1: Web application breaches in the Retail industry. Stolen credentials.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2020

. “On 29 April 2020, the Polish National Police (Policja) searched six locations in five Polish regions and arrested five individuals believed to be members of the hacking group InfinityBlack.” The agents seized electronic equipment, external hard drives and hardware cryptocurrency wallets, all worth around €100 000.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

.” The list of victims of the gang is long and includes the Steel sheet giant Hoa Sen Group , Southwire , Canon , LG Electronics , Xerox , and City of Pensacola. .

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CILIP

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Facet Publishing announce the publication of Electronic Legal Deposit: Shaping the Library Collections of the Future edited by Paul Gooding and Melissa Terras. Regulations governing electronic legal deposit often also prescribe how these materials can be accessed.

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Data Matters

JUNE 12, 2020

electronic payments, check capture and online banking), the OCC lists some of the new technologies, the implementation of which may be hindered by ambiguous, burdensome or inflexible rules, such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, biometrics, cloud computing and big data/analytics. Comments are due by August 3, 2020.

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The Texas Record

JULY 14, 2020

In other words, why was it installed on all your computers and cellphones in the first place? This should align with your other electronic records policies: email, social media, texting, etc. Applications like Teams are meant to facilitate communication, not to store long-term electronic documents.

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IT Governance

JULY 1, 2021

discloses ransomware incident (unknown). discloses ransomware incident (unknown). discloses ransomware incident (unknown). Data breaches. million drivers’ details (3.3 In other news… U.S. Justice Department announces seizure of domain names used in spear phishing campaign posing as U.S.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

MARCH 20, 2023

As a reminder, in 2022, the CNIL priority topics were (i) direct marketing (ii) monitoring telework and (iii) the use of cloud computing (see our previous post ). The CNIL will also check the measures implemented to ensure the security of the data. For 2023, the CNIL will continue to focus on health care sector.

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