Krebs on Security

AUGUST 21, 2020

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday issued a joint alert to warn about the growing threat from voice phishing or “ vishing ” attacks targeting companies. Improve 2FA and OTP messaging to reduce confusion about employee authentication attempts.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

DigiCert just closed its largest quarterly bookings in the company history, and I am thrilled to have such exceptional leaders joining our executive team at an important stage in our growth,” said Amit Sinha, CEO of DigiCert. Lehi, Utah – Feb. Jugnu and Dave bring deep operational and leadership experience at scale.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 25, 2024

The company has lived the value of “respect for the individual” by championing employment practices that reward ability over identity and that make work more attainable for all. Their unique backgrounds and views have helped the Board instill governance and a culture of ethical and responsible technology throughout IBM.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2024

On March 14, KrebsOnSecurity published a story showing that Onerep’s Belarusian CEO and founder Dimitiri Shelest launched dozens of people-search services since 2010, including a still-active data broker called Nuwber that sells background reports on people. Onerep and Shelest did not respond to requests for comment on that story.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Seiko Group Corporation (hereinafter referred to as “the Company” or “we”) has confirmed that on July 28th of this year, the Company suffered a possible data breach. reads a notice published by the company. “As Threat actors gained access to the network of the company and stole some data from its systems.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The headlines immediately attempted to lay the blame, in large part, on the fact that Equifax’s chief information security officer was a music major and did not have a background in technology. Companies should have written data privacy and security policies and procedures in place. Equifax was not special in this regard.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 16, 2023

Rafe Pilling , Director of Threat Research at Dell-owned Secureworks, told CNN, “Adding company names to their leak site is a tactic to scare victims, both listed and unlisted, into paying.” ” Progress Software, the company behind MOVEit, has acknowledged the vulnerability and taken swift measures to mitigate it.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 23, 2023

Background The CNIL carried out several investigations of TikTok’s website (but not its mobile app) between May 2020 and June 2022. In addition, the CNIL found that users were not sufficiently informed about the purposes of the cookies used, neither in the first-layer cookie banner nor through the cookie consent tool linked to in the banner.

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 18, 2022

Background. On August 17, 2020, the non-governmental organization None of Your Business (“NOYB”) filed 101 identical complaints with 30 European Economic Area data protection authorities (“DPAs”) regarding the use of Google Analytics by various companies. In the meantime, companies are encouraged to transition to Google Analytics 4.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 7, 2021

companies he set up supposedly to help troubled companies reorganize their debt and turn things around. In case after case, Bernard would promise to invest millions in hi-tech startups, only to insist that companies pay tens of thousands of dollars worth of due diligence fees up front. After eluding justice in the U.K.,

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 25, 2024

Technology companies developed automated models to take on this massive task of filtering content, ushering in the era of the algorithmic publisher. Tech companies have proposed that these conversational, personalized answers are the future of information-seeking. But so much was published that finding anything useful grew challenging.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

. “At this moment in time, it looks like no emails, passwords, or any personal data were accessed, but we do suggest resetting your password and activate 2FA security,” the company wrote in a blog post. None of these companies responded to requests for comment.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 24, 2022

First up, I'm really sorry about the audio quality on this one. If you look at the trees in the background you can see they're barely moving, but inevitably that was enough to really mess with the audio quality. Sponsored by: Varonis for Salesforce. Protect Salesforce data from overexposure and cyberthreats. Try it free!

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Hanzo Learning Center

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It's not about slogans or banners; it's about fostering a positive work culture that fuels innovation and employee retention. Diverse companies are 35% more likely to outperform their industry's median in terms of financial returns." Solving Complex Challenges: Tech companies often navigate complex mazes of challenges.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 4, 2023

In smaller companies, the issues become even more profound. However, a search for IT outsourcing, MSP, VAR, or a similar sub-category will produce many more results about the topic than potential candidates. Most options on these sites will be individual consultants, but some will also be larger companies.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 2, 2022

Big banks and insurance companies instilled the practice of requesting their third-party vendors to fill out increasingly bloated questionnaires, called bespoke assessments, which they then used as their sole basis for assessing third-party risk. But, the company founders never intended to stop at simply cleaning up bespoke assessments.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Edward Snowden expressed concerns about the VPN service offered by ExpressVPN and has warned users to stop using it. Why Snowden is worried about ExpressVPN? The trio has worked as hackers-for-hire for the United Arab Emirates cybersecurity company DarkMatter between January 2016 and November 2019. company doing the same work.

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The Security Ledger

MARCH 27, 2024

In this episode of The Security Ledger Podcast (#257) Paul speaks with Dennis Kengo Oka, a senior principal automotive security strategist at the firm Synopsys about the growing cyber risks to automobiles as connected vehicle features proliferate in the absence of strong cybersecurity protections. Read the whole entry. »

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 20, 2023

We learned some remarkable new details this week about the recent supply-chain attack on VoIP software provider 3CX. As reported in a recent series last summer here , LinkedIn has been inundated this past year by fake executive profiles for people supposedly employed at a range of technology, defense, energy and financial companies.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 31, 2023

October 12, 2023, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) announced a €600,000 fine for mass media company Groupe Canal+ for failing to comply with its commercial prospecting obligations applicable under the French Post and Electronic Communications Code and several obligations of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 13, 2022

Background. On December 6, 2021, the concerned MEPs sent a letter to Commissioner Reynders to raise concerns about how the DPC enforces the EU General Data Protection (“GDPR”) and applies the GDPR’s cooperation mechanism. The MEPs asked Commissioner Reynders to initiate infringement proceedings against the DPC.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

I met with Skelly at Black Hat USA 2018 and we had a thoughtful discussion about a couple of prominent cybersecurity training issues: bringing diversity into AI systems and closing the cybersecurity skills gap. We’re starting to see Artificial Intelligence and machine learning in just about every space and every tool,” Skelly observes.

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Lenny Zeltser

MAY 11, 2023

Hiring managers who are worried about finding candidates because of the much-discussed cybersecurity skills gap should consider the underlying issue, which I'd like to call the cybersecurity careers gap. How might a person with a network security background get into incident response? Explain what a cybersecurity career entails.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 13, 2019

Generally if it was an extremely large company -- especially tech ones -- they tended to do really well," he told the BBC. Small companies tended to ignore me. But the kind of mid-sized businesses that knew about GDPR, but maybe didn't have much of a specialised process [to handle requests], failed.".

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The background photo for the @fuck_maze profile included a logo that read “Waka Waka;” the bio for the account took a swipe at Dmitry Smilyanets , a researcher and blogger for The Record who was once part of a cybercrime group the Justice Department called the “largest known data breach conspiracy ever prosecuted.”

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Info Source

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Infosource, a leading global marketing intelligence and advisory company in the printing industry, has appointed industry veteran Pandelis Voulgaris as a senior analyst for production and industrial printing. His background equips him to offer independent and perceptive advice about this segment.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Monsido Meets Digital Sovereignty Requirements with Cloud Key Management madhav Tue, 11/07/2023 - 05:34 The World Economic Forum estimates that over 92% of all data in the western world is stored on servers owned by very few US-based companies, which raises concerns about data ownership and control.

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Data Protection Report

APRIL 30, 2024

Department of Justice, upon referral from the Federal Trade Commission, filed a complaint and stipulated order against telehealth company Cerebral, Inc. The claims related to the company’s sharing personal data without consumer consent and making it very difficult for consumers to cancel their subscriptions to this telehealth service.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 4, 2024

What the NFL can teach us about building a winning data security strategy madhav Tue, 03/05/2024 - 05:08 When it comes to data security, a unified approach is crucial. Analyzing past attacks and staying informed about emerging threats enables cybersecurity professionals to fortify defenses and mitigate risks effectively.

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IT Governance

APRIL 4, 2024

But with so much in the news about AI, Cloud security and other niche areas of cyber security, it’s easy to overlook the importance of such solid, tried-and-tested qualifications in information security. The CISM course is aimed at people working in – and passionate about – information security. With that in mind, who is CISM aimed at?

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Schneier on Security

MAY 11, 2023

Did it suggest a particular resort because it knows your preferences, or because the company is getting a kickback from the hotel chain? Later, when you’re using another AI chatbot to learn about a complex economic issue, is the chatbot reflecting your politics or the politics of the company that trained it?

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

This week, the CEO of WellnessWits, an IBM Business Partner, announced they embed watsonx in their app to help patients ask questions about chronic disease and more easily schedule appointments with physicians. Given this trend, companies should be looking for ways to embed generative AI into their customer care portals.

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Data Protection Report

JANUARY 18, 2024

For more information about the crypto and financial services/regulation aspects, please see [link] Background NYDFS granted GGT a license to conduct a non-custodial cryptocurrency exchange business, which meant GGT was subject to NYDFS’ virtual currency regulation and its cybersecurity regulation.

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Collibra

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

I’m passionate about the everyday user because I really am the everyday user. I don’t have a data background – instead, I’ve been in training for over 15 years. I asked a lot of questions and ultimately taught myself the tools, never forgetting that most users are like me – they don’t have a data background either.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 27, 2020

AI is one of the most profound things we’re working on as humanity,” Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet, Google’s parent holding company, told Bloomberg News in Davos. In the current news cycle, the debate about where to set the guard rails for AI isn’t getting the attention it deserves. It’s more profound than fire or electricity.”

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2021

He said the percentage of companies that reported already having inventoried all of their IT systems is roughly equal to the number of larger water utilities (greater than 50,000 population) that recently had to certify to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that they are compliant with the Water Infrastructure Act of 2018.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 11, 2022

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