Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Like other ransomware gangs, Cuba used ‘double extortion’ techniques which means that it exfiltrates data from the target systems before encrypting them and demanding a ransom payment, threatening to publicly release it if payment is not made. “FBI has identified a sharp increase in the both the number of compromised U.S.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Today, additional criminal charges against Kondratyev were unsealed in the Northern District of California related to his deployment in 2020 of ransomware against a victim located in California.” The NCA will reach out to victims based in the UK in the coming days and weeks, providing support to help them recover encrypted data.

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Companies should take note of two imminent developments in New York in the area of cybersecurity regulation: enforcement of the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) Cybersecurity Regulation (Regulation) and the effective date of the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act (SHIELD Act or Act).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 10, 2022

The financial services ecosystem has evolved tremendously over the past few years driven by a surge in the adoption of digital payments. Our data shows us that in the first quarter of 2020, there was a larger shift to digital payment forms in 10 weeks than we had seen in the preceding five years. Tue, 01/11/2022 - 06:35.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2021

The American multinational investment bank and financial services firm Morgan Stanley discloses a data breach caused by the hack of an Accellion FTA server of a third-party vendor. The company pointed out that exposed files did not contain passwords that could be used to access financial accounts.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2021

million Windows systems between 2018 and 2020. million unique email addresses, NordLocker found, for an array of different apps and services. These included logins for social media, online games, online marketplaces, job-search sites, consumer electronics, financial services, email services, and more.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

Other industry standards too can have the force of “pseudo-law” – notably, the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, which federal regulators often apply to financial-services firms and government contractors. GDPR-style data privacy laws came to the U.S. with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) effective Jan.

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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. There are two ways to protect customers’ PAN, encryption and tokenization. Fraud and scams move to the web.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Tue, 11/17/2020 - 06:44. According to the global edition of the Thales 2020 Data Threat Report , 47% of healthcare organizations are either aggressively disrupting their market or are embedding digital capabilities that enable greater agility. These tools include smart technology-oriented solutions like encryption and tokenization.

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Data Protection Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

According to the settlement agreement, the threat actor obtained access to the EyeMed email account on approximately June 24, 2020 and not only obtained access to six years’ worth of information, but also began sending 2,000 phishing emails on July 1. EyeMed neither admitted nor denied the AG’s findings in the settlement. Background.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2021

defense contractors , financial services firms, and a national data center in Central Asia. The recent string of attacks launched by the cyber espionage group took place in 2020 and aimed at at least five companies in the online gambling sector. The hackers used the Windows drive encryption tool BitLocker to lock the servers.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2020

“On Saturday 14 March 2020, HMR was subjected to a targeted and sophisticated attack by cyber criminals. “We’re sorry to report that, during 21–23 March 2020, the criminals published on their website records from some of our volunteers’ screening visits. A criminal group called Maze has claimed responsibility.”

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Does the provider encrypt data while in transit and at rest? The fourth biggest threat to public cloud security identified in CloudPassage’s report is unauthorized access (and growing – 53 percent, up from 42 percent in 2020). Encrypt data in motion and at rest. Encryption is a key part of any cloud security strategy.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 24, 2020

On Wednesday, July 22, the New York Department of Financial Services (the “NYDFS”) announced that it had filed administrative charges against First American Title Insurance Co. A hearing on the matter will be held on October 26, 2020 at the office of the NYDFS. NYCRR 500.14(b):

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

All of your files are encrypted with RSA-2048 and AES-128 ciphers.” ” Or you might see a readme.txt stating, “Your files have been replaced by these encrypted containers and aren’t accessible; you will lose your files on [enter date] unless you pay $2500 in Bitcoin.” IMPORTANT INFORMATION !!! Zero Trust.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 10, 2024

This follows the invalidation of the EU-US Privacy Shield, by the Court of Justice of the European Union on 16 July 2020. Navigating the EU-US Data Protection Framework sparsh Thu, 01/11/2024 - 05:26 On 10 July 2023, the European Commission adopted a new adequacy decision regarding the Data Privacy Framework (“DPF”).

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Data Protection Report

JANUARY 7, 2019

The two-year transitional period under the New York State Department of Financial Services (“DFS””) Cybersecurity Regulation , 23 NYCRR 500 (the “Regulation”), will expire on March 1, 2019, with the final remaining requirement becoming effective.

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Data Matters

OCTOBER 8, 2020

On October 1, 2020, the U.S. Ransomware attacks use malware, often injected through phishing schemes, to encrypt a victim’s data files or programs, followed by a ransom demand by the threat actor that offers the decryption key in exchange for payment. financial institutions or firms that perform “critical financial services.”.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Archer was named a Leader in Gartner’s 2020 Magic Quadrant for IT risk management and IT vendor risk management tools. Additionally, Forrester named it a Contender in its Q1 2020 GRC Wave. Financial reporting compliance. Plus, Forrester named it a Leader in its Q1 2020 GRC Wave. See our in-depth look at RSA Archer.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Archer was named a Leader in Gartner’s 2020 Magic Quadrant for IT risk management and IT vendor risk management tools. Additionally, Forrester named it a Contender in its Q1 2020 GRC Wave. Financial reporting compliance. Plus, Forrester named it a Leader in its Q1 2020 GRC Wave. See our in-depth look at RSA Archer.

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Data Protection Report

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Although California has recently captured the lion’s share of attention with respect to privacy and security, on October 23, 2019, New York’s amended security breach law goes into effect, and on March 1, 2020, new security safeguards go live (N.Y. Breach Law Changes. by a person without valid authorization or by an unauthorized person.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

And like everything else in 2020, these next few weeks promise to be a disaster. VPNs encrypt data , making it much harder to intercept when transmitted through a shared or suspect internet connection. SSLs ensure all data is encrypted. The holiday season is the most wonderful time of the year for scammers. Look for the lock.

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

MAY 13, 2019

For example, the New York Department of Financial Services (‘NYDFS’) in March 2017 issued its Cybersecurity Regulation (23 NYCRR 500) (‘the NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation’), a groundbreaking and far-reaching regulatory regime focused on financial institutions licensed in New York, including insurance companies.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

As reported on the Hunton Insurance Recovery blog , on February 4, 2021, the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”), which regulates the business of insurance in New York, has issued guidelines, in the Insurance Circular Letter No.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JULY 30, 2019

Some states – such as Alabama, Massachusetts and New York (for financial services companies) – prescribe particular requirements of a “reasonable” cybersecurity program. At least nine states expressly extend these requirements to service providers.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

The message published by the gang on its leak site emphasizes that they didn’t encrypt data to avoid causing malfunctions to the hospital’s medical equipment. The cybercrime group claims to have stolen 1 TB of data from the hospital and threatens to leak it.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 21, 2020

For it’s State of Cloud Security 2020 survey, Sophos commissioned the polling of some 3,500 IT managers across 26 countries in Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa. The respondents were from organizations that currently host data and workloads in the public cloud. LW: Your reports show that the U.S.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

billion data records were breached, quadrupling in 2020 to 36 billion globally. DigiCert , a leading provider of PKI, and Thales, a leader in data protection, have a decade-long partnership helping their clients authenticate and encrypt communications, systems, emails, documents, websites, and servers. Thu, 09/16/2021 - 05:31.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

A token acts as an electronic cryptographic key that unlocks the device or application, usually with an encrypted password or biometric data. Banking, financial services, and insurance industries constitute the largest share of adopters, with North America leading adoption, according to Orbis Research.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Tue, 12/01/2020 - 07:53. In the November 3, 2020, election California voters upped the consumer digital privacy ante by passing Proposition 24, the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA ). If they do, they should start considering remediation plans such as identity access management, encryption, and tokenization. Are You Ready?

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

With their Digital Intelligence Investigative Platform, Cellebrite boasts services that unify the investigative lifecycle and preserve digital evidence. Be it advanced locks, encryption barriers, or deleted and unknown content, the UFED (Universal Forensic Extraction Device) can extract physical and logical data. billion in 2020.

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Data Matters

MAY 17, 2022

19, 2022, President Biden signed the National Security Memorandum, which implemented requirements from EO 14028 by setting out specific cyber requirements for government agencies and contractors, such as multifactor authentication, encryption, cloud technologies, and endpoint detection services. 19, 2022). supply chain attacks).

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

Series A Cado Security 2020 London, UK 26 $11.5 Series B Wiz 2020 Tel Aviv, Israel 186 $230.0 GitGuardian is a developer favorite offering a secrets detection solution that scans source code to detect certificates, passwords, API keys, encryption keys, and more. Series A Lightspin 2020 Tel Aviv, Israel 43 $20.0

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 2, 2022

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 27, 2021

McAfee makes our top CASB list, and their progress in the developing space of Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) can’t go unmentioned. In 2020, McAfee MVISION Cloud topped the Gartner Magic Quadrant for CASBs, while being named for a fourth straight year. Read more about this solution in our McAfee MVISION Cloud review.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 11, 2021

On Android, the Official Trump 2020 App ranked nearly three times as secure as the Vote Joe App, for a simplistic reason: the Trump app used the most recent version of Android OS. We scored the Android and iOS versions of the Official Trump 2020 and Vote Joe apps. Newer versions of Android provided more security and privacy benefits.

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