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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 12 – 18 February 2024

IT Governance

It is not known how long the database was publicly available, nor whether anyone else accessed it. FBI dismantles Warzone RAT malware operation The US FBI has seized the infrastructure of the Warzone RAT (remote access trojan) and two individuals associated with the cyber crime operation have been arrested.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 5 – 11 February 2024

IT Governance

Further victims of last year’s Perry Johnson & Associates data breach identified Last year, the medical transcription company PJ&A (Perry Johnson & Associates) suffered a data breach in which an unauthorised third party was able to access its computer network. GB Signature Performance, Inc.

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Archive-It Partner News, October 2021

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The Archive of Tomorrow : The National Library of Scotland announces funding for a project to explore new possibilities for metadata, access, and research with a Health & Misinformation web archive. Archive-It upgraded its web archiving software suite to version 7.1 Read the announcement for more details. Subscribe for real-time updates.

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #14 [Eyes on the Prize] How Crafty Cons Attempted a 36 Million Vendor Email Heist

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Join Roger for this thought-provoking webinar to learn what you can do to prevent, detect, and mitigate ransomware. The FBI says fraudsters are particularly interested in stealing construction materials, agricultural supplies, computer technology hardware and solar energy products. the Bureau says.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 19 – 25 February 2024

IT Governance

Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight loanDepot rep orts an extra 324,071 victims In January, the mortgage lender loanDepot announced in an SEC filing that an unauthorised third party had gained access to the sensitive personal information of about 16.6 million individuals in its systems.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 15 – 21 April 2024

IT Governance

GhostR says it obtained the records from a Singapore-based company with access to the database. Mobile Guardian, which is based in the UK, said that its investigations detected unauthorised access to its systems via an administrative account on its management portal. Account records from the United States were also accessed.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 1 – 7 April 2024

IT Governance

New Google features to improve security Google has announced a new feature for the Chrome browser called Device Bound Session Credentials, which associates cookies with specific devices, preventing criminal hackers from using them to access victims’ accounts by bypassing multifactor authentication.