IT Governance

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Welcome to our November 2023 catches of the month feature, which examines recent phishing scams and the tactics criminals use to trick people into compromising their data. Recognising a scam, Cluley reported the issue to Booking.com, which sent him an email acknowledging “fraudulent behavior” and providing some boilerplate security advice.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Welcome to our February 2023 review of phishing attacks, in which we explore the latest email scams and the tactics that cyber criminals use to trick people into handing over personal data. However, cyber security experts are warning that another group – scammers – could also embrace the technology.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 11, 2023

Welcome to our January 2023 review of phishing attacks, in which we explore the latest email scams and the tactics that cyber criminals use to trick people into handing over personal data. This month, we delve into a scam that attempts to trick cyber security professionals and look at a new banking trojan that has experts worried.

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IT Governance

MAY 10, 2023

Welcome to our May 2023 review of phishing attacks, in which we explore the latest email scams and the tactics that cyber criminals use to trick people into handing over personal data. Research from the cyber security firm Check Point discovered 13,295 newly registered domains imitating OpenAI and ChatGPT. Can you spot a scam?

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Related: The security case for AR, VR AI chatbots use natural language processing, which enables them to understand and respond to human language and machine learning algorithms. billion work hours in 2023 and helped raise customer satisfaction to 69% for $0.50 of cyber security attacks. These tools saved 2.5 per interaction.

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IT Governance

JULY 6, 2023

Welcome to our July 2023 catches of the month feature, in which we explore the latest phishing scams and the tactics that cyber criminals use to trick people into handing over personal data. Quishing on the rise Cyber security researchers have discovered an extensive phishing campaign that uses QR codes as bait.

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IT Governance

MARCH 7, 2023

Welcome to our March 2023 review of phishing attacks, in which we explore the latest email scams and the tactics that cyber criminals use to trick people into handing over personal data. Cyber security is no exception. Fighting fire with fire It’s not only the good guys that are using AI in the cyber security landscape.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

educational nonprofit organization National Student Clearinghouse disclosed a data breach that impacted approximately 900 US schools. The security breach resulted from a cyber attack exploiting a vulnerability in the MOVEit managed file transfer (MFT).- The issue occurred on or around May 30, 2023.”

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IT Governance

JUNE 6, 2023

Welcome to our June 2023 review of phishing attacks, in which we explore the latest email scams and the tactics that cyber criminals use to trick people into handing over personal data. ca’, and so on – and cyber security researchers are not happy. ca’, and so on – and cyber security researchers are not happy. zip’ and ‘.mov’.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

If you’re a small business looking for the secret sauce to cybersecurity, the secret is out: start with a cybersecurity policy and make the commitment to security a business-wide priority. Taurins It’s also essential your business evaluates its technology and keeps it regularly updated to the latest security standards. Stay educated.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Cyber Security Awareness Month – Answering Google’s Most Commonly Asked Questions madhav Wed, 10/18/2023 - 05:25 This month is Cyber Security Awareness Month , highlighting how far security education needs to go in order to enable a secure interconnected world. Data Sovereignty What is data sovereignty?

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 7, 2023

We have 4 upcoming events planned for June 2023: Mayhem Unleashed Webinar: Discover our Next Generation Security Testing Solution DevSecOps Roundtable CyberSecurity Summit Hartford ForAllSecure APFT (Adversary, Penetration, and FuzzTesting) Training Read on to learn more about June’s events. Look no further! The challenge?

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

A report from the security firm Team Cymru found the DDoS attack infrastructure used in NoName campaigns is assigned to two interlinked hosting providers: MIRhosting and Stark Industries. The NoName DDoS group advertising on Telegram. Image: SentinelOne.com. MIRhosting is a hosting provider founded in The Netherlands in 2004.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 19, 2023

It’s clear data protection, and its three pillars—data security, data ethics and data privacy—is the baseline expectation for organizations and stakeholders, both now and into the future. Take Apple, for example. It goes beyond preventing data breaches or having secure means for data collection and storage.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 14, 2023

On April 6, 2023, the FBI’s Denver office issued a warning about juice jacking in a tweet. Probably the best known example is the OMG cable , a $180 hacking device made for professional penetration testers that looks more or less like an Apple or generic USB charging cable. The $180 “OMG cable.” ” Image: hak5.org.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2023

Apple has released its first Rapid Security Response update, but many iPhone users reported problems during the installation of the iOS Security Response. On June 2022, Apple announced that the Rapid Security Response feature would be available starting with iOS 16.4.1, ” “iOS Security Response 16.4.1 (a)

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The report includes IOCs and TTPs identified through investigations as recently as September 2023. The Rhysida ransomware group has been active since May 2023, according to the gang’s Tor leak site, at least 62 companies are victims of the operation. The victims of the group are “targets of opportunity.”

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 14, 2023

On December 12, 2023, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP (“CIPL”) released a white paper on Privacy-Enhancing and Privacy-Preserving Technologies: Understanding the Role of PETs and PPTs in the Digital Age.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2023

In March, security experts at Meta found multiple malware posing as ChatGPT or similar AI tools. “Since March alone, our security analysts have found around 10 malware families posing as ChatGPT and similar tools to compromise accounts across the internet. ” reads the Meta’s Q1 2023 Security Reports.

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 22, 2023

On December 20, 2023, the FTC issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“Notice”), which would bring long-anticipated changes to the children’s online data privacy regime at the federal level in the U.S. Strengthening data security. Operators also would be required to implement a written children’s personal information security program.

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CILIP

APRIL 15, 2024

CILIP Copyright COnference 2024 By Gary Horrocks THE summer 2023 issue of UKeiG’s open access journal, eLucidate , featured my reflections on the implications of a Members’ Day presentation by Ken Chad on the “library technology ecosystem". Ken notes there is “a dichotomy between the provision of library resources and learning resources.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2023

In June 2023, the malware analyst rivitna published a sample of the ransomware that is compiled for Linux. ” The decryptor also supports the option to back up encrypted files, which is recommended by the security firm. The authors used Microsoft Linker version 14.35. Type both names of the files. ” states Avast.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Filling these vacancies has become a security imperative, and several global compliance mandates have been established to tackle the issue. For example, in the US, the 2023-2025 CISA Cybersecurity Strategic Plan aims to increase basic-level cyber skills across the country, transform cyber education and boost the cyber workforce.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 12, 2023

On May 4, 2023, the Biden-Harris Administration announced new actions to promote responsible American innovation in artificial intelligence (“AI”). The Administration is also actively working to address national security concerns raised by AI, especially in critical areas like cybersecurity, biosecurity and safety.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 25, 2023

For example, scammers may impersonate an employee’s wife, asking the HR department to get hold of the employee’s phone number urgently. Another typical example is pretending to be a grandchild, asking their grandparent for money to help in a difficult situation.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Particularly very popular is so-called brand phishing, which occurs when criminals impersonate the official website of a well-known brand of a public or private entity using a domain name, URL, logos and graphics similar to the original website: This is a real threat that can have heavy repercussions on user privacy and device security.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 25, 2023

A 2023 IBM IBV study showed that organizations that are seen as ESG leaders are 43% more likely to outperform their peers on profitability. It can be conducted with a similar process to a Cyber Security Assessment with a consultant (gathering data, conducting stakeholder interviews, and analyzing existing policies and practices).

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 6, 2023

That makes email security software a worthwhile investment for organizations of all sizes. We analyzed the market for email security tools and software to arrive at this list of 7 top email security solutions, including their standout features, limitations and ideal use cases, followed by issues prospective buyers should consider.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 24, 2024

Expert insight from Leon Teale into the implications of this historic data breach The security researcher Bob Diachenko and investigators from Cybernews have discovered an open instance with more than 26 billion data records, mostly compiled from previous breaches – although it likely also includes new data. In 2021, we saw a leak of 3.27

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

BlueCharlie primarily focuses operations on defense and intelligence consulting companies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), think tanks, and higher education. The new attack infrastructure was created starting from March 2023 and consists of 94 new domains. com, directexpressgateway[.]com,

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2023

Researchers from Elastic Security Labs spotted a new remote access trojan dubbed LOBSHOT was being distributed through Google Ads. Earlier 2023, Elastic Security Labs observed multiple infections with an interesting attach chain that lead to the execution of the LOBSHOT malware.

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IT Governance

JUNE 7, 2024

This trend was confirmed by the 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report : Verizon found a significant jump in ransomware/extortion attacks compared to the 2023 report. About Vanessa Horton Vanessa holds a degree in computer forensics, as well as a number of cyber security and forensics qualifications.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2023

” reads the Threat Horizons April 2023 Threat Horizons Report published by Google.”The HOODOO’s use of GC2 is an example of this trend. ”The payload was an open source red teaming tool called “Google Command and Control” (GC2).”

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This guide will provide a high level overview of encryption and how it fits into IT through the following topics: How Encryption Works To understand how encryption works, we need to understand how it fits into the broader realm of cryptology, how it processes data, common categories, top algorithms, and how encryption fits into IT security.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Although there have still been a few surprises, with the death of Queen Elizabeth II and blazing heatwaves across the UK to name but two, it was a familiar year in the cyber security landscape. Google , Clearview AI , and Meta all receives hefty penalties in 2022, demonstrating the continued important of effective information security.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 10, 2022

The CTDPA exempts certain entities, including, for example, state and local government entities, nonprofits, higher education institutions, financial institutions subject to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (“GLB”), and qualifying covered entities and business associates subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

madhav Tue, 09/26/2023 - 05:57 The summer vacation seems a distant memory and my wife and I are firmly back in the routine of our kids being at school – with the added benefiting of the extra peace and quiet during business calls. Happy Compliance Officer Day!

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