IT Governance

APRIL 11, 2023

Welcome to our April 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. You can help educate your staff with IT Governance’s Phishing Staff Awareness Training Programme.

Phishing 114

Phishing Passwords Ransomware Insurance 114

IT Governance

DECEMBER 5, 2023

IT Governance’s research has found the following for November 2023: 470 publicly disclosed security incidents. For example, UK service provider CTS suffered a cyber incident this month, which affected around 80 of its clients too (UK law firms). 519,111,354 records known to be breached. The total was 89 incidents, or 19%.

Data breaches 113

Data breaches Ransomware Access Security 113

Krebs on Security

MARCH 5, 2024

Assuming Change Healthcare did pay to keep their data from being published, that strategy seems to have gone awry: Notchy said the list of affected Change Healthcare partners they’d stolen sensitive data from included Medicare and a host of other major insurance and pharmacy networks. But when Feb.

Ransomware 337

Ransomware Insurance Government IT 337

Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2023

government agency in charge of improving the nation’s cybersecurity posture is ordering all federal agencies to take new measures to restrict access to Internet-exposed networking equipment. ” In details published on June 12 , Fortinet confirmed that one of the vulnerabilities ( CVE-2023-27997 ) is being actively exploited.

Risk 221

Risk Ransomware Cybersecurity Access 221

Info Source

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The lack of Telecoms infrastructure and digital skill development presents a hurdle; however, where investments by local government or overarching organisations close the gap, they will enable in particular economies with young populations. For example, organisations in the Legal and Retail sector may see impressive ROIs.

Marketing 40

Marketing Customer Experience Energy and Utilities Digital transformation 40

IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 7, 2023

The adoption of mutually trusted technology can assist businesses, customers, partners and government authorities in verifying the existence, authenticity and integrity of interactions among parties. Furthermore, Orion can be used for maintaining the authenticity and integrity of evidence collected through insurance claims processes.

Blockchain 63

Blockchain Government Authentication Manufacturing 63

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Since at least February 2023, a service advertised on Telegram called USiSLookups has operated an automated bot that allows anyone to look up the SSN or background report on virtually any American. USinfoSearch said it would investigate the report, which appears to have been obtained on or before June 30, 2023.

Access 240

Access Honeypots Sales Authentication 240

IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 27, 2024

In Africa, for example, recurring droughts, floods and cyclones due to climate change might cause crop failures and food insecurity. The United States saw 25 climate disaster events in 2023 with losses of more than USD 1 billion each. Substantial repair costs might arise, particularly impacting insurance companies.

Risk 61

Risk Artificial Intelligence Agriculture Financial Services 61

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Ready for Take-off: Rising Above Airport Cybersecurity Challenges sparsh Thu, 11/16/2023 - 04:52 Aviation is a fast-paced world, with airports around the globe serving billions of passengers annually. Enforce, sustain, and prove compliance with increasing regulatory and cyber insurance requirements.

Cybersecurity 87

Cybersecurity Authentication Access Compliance 87

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

Personal data 85

Personal data Privacy Information governance Compliance 85

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”).

Privacy 118

Privacy Personal data Sales B2B 118

ARMA International

APRIL 18, 2022

The purpose of this article is to remove the fear and intimidation of domestic and global data protection laws and show how these laws and requirements are consistent with the existing objectives of your records retention schedule and information governance policy. Code § 1798.105 (State of California, Effective January 1, 2023).

Personal data 100

Personal data GDPR Privacy Records Management 100

Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Patrick Gunning from King & Wood Mallesons reports that, on November 2, 2023, the Australian Information Commissioner filed proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia against Australian Clinical Labs Limited seeking a civil penalty ( i.e. , a fine) in connection with the company’s response to a data breach that occurred in February 2022.

Data breaches 128

Data breaches Privacy Risk Information Security 128

Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) held its Summer 2022 National Meeting (Summer Meeting) August 9–13, 2022. The Privacy Working Group has been reviewing state insurance privacy protections regarding the collection, ownership, use, and disclosure of information gathered in connection with insurance transactions.

Insurance 78

Insurance Paper Privacy Risk 78

IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 6, 2023

India’s Business Responsibility and Sustainability Report (BRSR)—a framework for environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting—comes into effect in 2023. As of June 2023, the BRSR framework is comprised of 140 questions — 98 on essential indicators and 42 on leadership indicators.

Insurance 51

Insurance Government Data structuring Communications 51

KnowBe4

MAY 9, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #19 | May 9th, 2023 [Watch Your Back] New Fake Chrome Update Error Attack Targets Your Users Compromised websites (legitimate sites that have been successfully compromised to support social engineering) are serving visitors fake Google Chrome update error messages. The message displayed reads, "UPDATE EXCEPTION.

Phishing 68

Phishing Passwords Insurance Systems administration 68

IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Multiple query engines, built-in governance, and hybrid cloud deployment models further elevate its capabilities. One notable example is a prominent Japanese insurance company that leveraged Db2 PureScale on AWS. Netezza SaaS: Transitioning to the cloud has never been easier.

Customer Experience 106

Customer Experience Cloud Data migration Digital transformation 106

KnowBe4

MAY 31, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #22 | May 31st, 2023 [Eye on Fraud] A Closer Look at the Massive 72% Spike in Financial Phishing Attacks With attackers knowing financial fraud-based phishing attacks are best suited for the one industry where the money is, this massive spike in attacks should both surprise you and not surprise you at all.

Phishing 75

Phishing File names Security awareness Risk 75

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 24, 2024

Threats to cryptography are generally prevented by using common cybersecurity hygiene practices defined in clear and achievable governance. 2023 Quantum Threat Timeline Report from the Global Risk Institute HNDL attacks take immediate advantage of this future vulnerability.

Risk 87

Risk Encryption Blockchain Authentication 87

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 24, 2023

The Rise of the Sovereign Cloud sparsh Thu, 05/25/2023 - 04:04 One of the big ironies about data on the internet is that once the goal of achieving a centreless web of data communication (the internet itself) had been developed and built out, the next area of focus became how to draw borders around it.

Cloud 71

Cloud Encryption Artificial Intelligence Data Privacy 71

KnowBe4

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The users were able to impersonate an infinite number of entities (such as banks, retail companies and government institutions) for financial gain and substantial losses to victims. Budget Ammo] Cyber Insurers Turn Attention to Catastrophic Hacks. 31 CISOs share their security priorities and predictions for 2023: [link].

Security awareness 86

Security awareness Phishing Risk Insurance 86

ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

Chris Gray of Deep Watch talks about the view from the inside of a virtual SOC, the ability to see threats against a large number of SMB organizations, and the changes to cyber insurance we’re seeing as a result. That's an example of AI. VAMOSI: Cybersecurity insurance. cyber insurance as a whole was changing heavily.

Insurance 40

Insurance Privacy Ransomware GDPR 40

eSecurity Planet

APRIL 7, 2023

Customers for the privately-held customer include Fortune 100 organizations and government agencies. For example, if deploying the eyeSight module, no additional licenses may be required, but dedicated virtual hardware may need to be deployed for the Command Center and Monitoring Sensors.

IoT 98

IoT Compliance Cloud Access 98

IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 17, 2023

sales conversation summaries, insurance coverage, meeting transcripts, contract information) Generate: Generate text content for a specific purpose, such as marketing campaigns, job descriptions, blogs or articles, and email drafting support. IBM watsonx.data is a fit-for-purpose data store built on an open lakehouse architecture.

Analytics 62

Analytics Data science Cloud Metadata 62

KnowBe4

MAY 2, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #18 | May 2nd, 2023 [Eye on AI] Does ChatGPT Have Cybersecurity Tells? A cardplayer yawns when they're about to bluff, for example, or someone's pupils dilate when they've successfully drawn a winning card. The group says it will now also accept jobs from private individuals and from governments.

Cybersecurity 68

Cybersecurity Phishing Security awareness Military 68

Info Source

AUGUST 5, 2019

The acquisition of TimelinePI represents a significant milestone in establishing ABBYY’s leadership role in the digital transformation market as well as a global player in the emerging process mining market, which Gartner estimates will triple by 2023. We call this Digital IQ for the enterprise.

Digital transformation 40

Digital transformation Mining Artificial Intelligence Marketing 40

KnowBe4

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #07 | February 14th, 2023 [Scam of the Week] The Turkey-Syria Earthquake Just when you think they cannot sink any lower, criminal internet scum is now exploiting the recent earthquake in Turkey and Syria. You need to alert your employees, friends and family. businesses.

Phishing 80

Phishing Security awareness Compliance Risk 80

KnowBe4

JUNE 6, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #23 | June 6th, 2023 [Wake-Up Call] It's Time to Focus More on Preventing Spear Phishing Fighting spear phishing attacks is the single best thing you can do to prevent breaches. There are concerns that China has already collected a massive amount of data on government officials and ordinary U.S.

Phishing 69

Phishing Security awareness IT Passwords 69

Data Matters

MARCH 4, 2021

The VCDPA, which will not enter into effect until January 1, 2023, borrows heavily from the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Finally, these assessments will apply to processing activities “created or generated after January 1, 2023, and are not retroactive.”.

Personal data 74

Personal data GDPR Sales Privacy 74