Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Talos believes that NineRAT was built around May 2022, but was first spotted on March 2023 as part of Operation Blacksmith. The experts observed the use of NineRAT at around September 2023 against a European manufacturing entity. In March, the threat actors hit a South American agricultural organization.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 14, 2023

The main purpose of bot protection is to ensure the security and integrity of online systems as well as to prevent unfair or harmful activities such as spamming, click fraud, scraping, and credential stuffing. Cloudflare offers a range of security and performance solutions, including DDoS protection and website optimization.

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Analytics Cloud Honeypots e-Delivery 109

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The organization became aware of the security incident on May 31, 2023, it immediately launched an investigation into the breach and notified relevant authorities, including the Ontario Provincial Police and the Information and Privacy Commissioner (IPC) of Ontario. ” reads the statement published by BORN Ontario.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

On January 28, 2022, in celebration of Data Privacy Day, the Colorado Attorney General’s Office issued prepared remarks from Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser and published guidance on data security best practices. Regularly reviewing and updating security policies.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2024

Consumer groups assert that Meta is not adhering to various rules established by the European privacy regulation GDPR: Fair Processing (Article 5(1)(a)): Personal data must be processed lawfully, fairly, and transparently. Consumer groups claim that Meta’s data collection is unfair and lacks transparency.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2023

All data collected by the dashboard can be exported in different formats and can be analyzed using useful graphics. You’ll find more details about the project here (Italian language): Buoni propositi per il 2023: nasce la Dashboard Ransomware Monitor. ” explained the development team. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Ransomware Data collection Cybersecurity IT 94

Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2024

The experts observed multiple spear-phishing attempts between March and May 2023. The Chinese threat actor has developed a sophisticated collection of custom malware and hacking tools. In 2023, they replaced Ps2dllLoader with a new mechanism using msbuild.exe and C# payloads from a remote SMB share. ” reads the report.

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Archiving Military Communications Phishing 115

Hunton Privacy

MAY 8, 2023

On May 4, 2023, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton Andrews Kurth published a discussion paper on business-to-government (B2G) data sharing. It can also strengthen the public’s confidence in data-driven initiatives that seek to improve their communities.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 20, 2023

A new breach involving data from nine million AT&T customers is a fresh reminder that your mobile provider likely collects and shares a great deal of information about where you go and what you do with your mobile device — unless and until you affirmatively opt out of this data collection.

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Customer Experience Privacy Data collection Marketing 290

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Russia-linked APT group Sandworm has hacked eleven telecommunication service providers in Ukraine between since May 2023. The Russia-linked APT group Sandworm (UAC-0165) has compromised eleven telecommunication service providers in Ukraine between May and September 2023, reported the Ukraine’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA).

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 12, 2023

On October 10, 2023, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton Andrews Kurth (“CIPL”) announced the publication of its White Paper on business-to-government (B2G) data sharing.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Below we detail these developments, and provide two takeaways for organizations planning for CPA compliance in 2023. On July 7, 2021, Colorado became the third state in the US behind California and Virginia to enact a comprehensive data privacy law – the CPA. CPA Background. CPA Rulemaking Process Overview. Key Takeaways.

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 1, 2024

The Home Office is the ministerial department of the UK government responsible for immigration, security, and law and order. While the pilot ended in December 2023, the Home Office will continue to have access to the data collected during the pilot until it is deleted or anonymized.

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Privacy Data collection Risk Access 61

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 5, 2024

Thales excels in these rapidly advancing technologies that require privacy and data security and are eager to continue working with Google Cloud on them. With AI implementations, cybersecurity attacks can occur at different states of the AI pipeline including data collection, model creation and training, and at inference.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 11, 2023

The attack occurred in mid-March 2023, the researchers observed a small wave of attacks involving the DroxiDat. ” reads the report published by Data collected related to multiple incidents analyzed by Kaspersky suggest the attack was conducted by the Russian-speaking RaaS cybercrime Pistachio Tempest or FIN12.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

“In one case, we observed a SapphireStealer sample where the data collected using the previously described process was exfiltrated using the Discord webhook API, a method we previously highlighted here.” ” continues the report. The FUD-Loader malware downloader was also published by the same GitHub account.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

AUGUST 8, 2023

Authors: Carolyn Bigg, Amanda Ge and Venus Cheung On July 24, 2023, the People’s Bank of China (“ PBOC ”) released the Measures for the Management of Data Security in the Business Areas Falling into PBOC’s Jurisdiction (Draft for Comment) (“ Draft Measures” ) for public consultation, which closes on August 24, 2023.

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Financial Services Personal data Compliance Data collection 98

Hunton Privacy

MARCH 3, 2023

On February 24, 2023, Representative Patrick T. McHenry of North Carolina introduced a bill proposing the creation of the Data Privacy Act of 2023.

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Privacy Data collection Data Privacy Access 58

IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 28, 2024

Its principles are the same as those of data protection—to protect data and support data availability. Data availability —ensuring critical data is available for business operations even during a data breach, malware or ransomware attack. These data breaches can cost their victims in many ways.

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Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2023

The report is based on the analysis of posts published between February 2022 and February 2023 on cybercrime forums, dark websites, and marketplaces. Dark web intelligence is a fantastic resource for informing an organization’s security posture, helping the security team spot early indicators of attack and feeding their threat models.

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Energy and Utilities Sales Access Data collection 94

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

In January 2023, researchers at SEKOIA.IO Stealc is able to steal sensitive data from popular web browsers, browser extensions for cryptocurrency wallets, desktop cryptocurrency wallets and also information from other applications, such as email and messenger clients. released on February 11, 2023. ” concludes the report.

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Communications Data collection Archiving Encryption 89

Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 31, 2023

On October 30, 2023, U.S. President Biden issued an Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence. Standards for AI Safety and Security Red-teaming requirements. The Order’s provisions are summarized in further detail below. New standards. AI use by the military and intelligence community.

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Risk Artificial Intelligence Privacy Military 69

Hunton Privacy

MAY 13, 2021

Building owners would need to provide a “plain language” privacy policy to tenants that discloses (1) the data elements the smart access system collects; (2) the third parties the data is shared with; (3) how the data is safeguarded; and (4) how long the data will be retained. Security safeguards.

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Data Privacy Privacy Passwords Authentication 106

Data Protection Report

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The Attorney General’s Department released its Privacy Act Review report on 16 February 2023, that includes the broad suite of reforms you would expect to bring Australia’s privacy laws in to line with both international standards and the reality of our data-based economy.

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Privacy Data collection Data breaches Government 59

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

In addition to the multimillion-dollar settlement, as part of the negotiations with the AGs, Google has agreed to significantly improve its location tracking disclosures and user controls starting in 2023.” ” reads the DoJ’s press release. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, privacy).

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Privacy Data collection IT Access 90

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

This state-backed hacker collective, also known as Vanguard Panda, BRONZE SILHOUETTE, Dev-0391, UNC3236, Voltzite, and Insidious Taurus, has infiltrated the networks of critical infrastructure sectors ranging from aviation to maritime in a strategic bid for future catastrophic cyberattacks. Volt Typhoon struck again on several U.S.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2023

In addition to the multimillion-dollar settlement, as part of the negotiations with the AGs, Google has agreed to significantly improve its location tracking disclosures and user controls starting in 2023.” to settle two lawsuits over its location tracking practices appeared first on Security Affairs. reads the DoJ’s press release.

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Data Protection Report

APRIL 30, 2024

Then, according to the complaint: In March 2023, over three years after it began to unlawfully share its patients’ PHI with third parties as alleged above, Cerebral filed a notice with the U.S. million consumers between October 2019 and March 2023. Cerebral disclosed that its breach impacted nearly 3.2

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Personal data Privacy Information governance Compliance 85

Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Businesses are required to document and maintain records of all consumer data rights requests, in a readable format, for at least twenty-four (24) months. Businesses are required to document and maintain records of all consumer data rights requests, in a readable format, for at least twenty-four (24) months. Authentication (Rule 4.08).

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Privacy Personal data Data collection Compliance 78

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

While there are similarities with EU/UK GDPR – and sufficient harmonisation with data protection laws across APAC to continue a regional data compliance in Asia – the practicalities of implementation and compliance should not be underestimated.

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Personal data GDPR Data breaches Compliance 111

IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 14, 2023

The Cost of a Data Breach 2023 global survey found that extensively using artificial intelligence (AI) and automation benefited organizations by saving nearly USD 1.8 million in data breach costs and accelerated data breach identification and containment by over 100 days, on average.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Yet many organizations still struggle to meet compliance requirements, and EU data protection authorities do not hesitate to hand out penalties. billion fine in 2023. The GDPR applies to any organization that processes the personal data of European residents, regardless of where that organization is based.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 17, 2023

On May 4, 2023, the Florida Senate and House of Representatives voted in favor of sending the Florida Digital Bill of Rights (“FDBR”) and other amendments related to government moderation of social media and protection of children in online spaces ( S.B. 262 ) to Governor Ron DeSantis for signature.

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Privacy Personal data Sales Government 83

Krebs on Security

MAY 2, 2023

KrebsOnSecurity was recently contacted by a security researcher who said he found a huge tranche of full credit card records exposed online, and that at first glance the domain names involved appeared to be affiliated with the USPS. An obituary dated February 2023 says Russell Ramage recently passed away at the age of 41.

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Marketing IT Access Data collection 273

eDiscovery Daily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Understanding How Remote Work and AI Has Changed the Legal World Forever: ILTA 2023 Tech Survey Results TJ Johnson from Qualitest, Todd Corham from Saul Ewing and others presented preliminary findings from this year’s ILTA Technology Survey.

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Cloud Metadata Data collection Education 69

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 4, 2023

What will 2023 bring in the realms of cybersecurity and privacy? Thu, 01/05/2023 - 05:52. What will 2023 bring in the realms of cybersecurity and privacy? Large-scale layoffs may impact security. Business security risk is significant and adds to reputational risk. Data sovereignty hits the road.

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Privacy Cybersecurity Cloud Ransomware 87

IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 26, 2023

The role of AWS and cloud security in life sciences However, with greater power comes great responsibility. Most life sciences companies are raising their security posture with AWS infrastructure and services.

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Cybersecurity Cloud Compliance Computer and Electronics 73