Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2023

The LockBit ransomware gang claims to have hacked Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). The LockBit ransomware group this week claimed to have hacked the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company ( TSMC ) and $70 million ransom. In August 2018, a malware infected systems at several Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.

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Manufacturing Ransomware Security awareness Cybersecurity 86

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Gaming hardware manufacturer Razer suffered a data leak, an unsecured database managed by the company containing gamers’ info was exposed online. Gaming hardware manufacturer Razer has suffered a data leak, this is the discovery made by the security researcher Bob Diachenko. ” continues the post.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2023

Belcan is a government, defense, and aerospace contractor offering global design, software, manufacturing, supply chain, information technology, and digital engineering solutions. However, hashes can still be cracked, and other authentication data may be used in spear phishing attacks.

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Passwords Military Manufacturing Analytics 88

IT Governance

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The majority of those came from a credential-stuffing attack targeting Spotify and a data leak at the messaging app GO SMS Pro, which you can learn more about below. Here is our complete list of November’s cyber attacks and data breaches. Data breaches. Data breaches. Cyber attacks. Ransomware.

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Data breaches Ransomware e-Discovery Personal data 137

IT Governance

JANUARY 4, 2021

We’ll have a separate post looking at the year’s data breaches and cyber attacks in more detail, but in the meantime, you can find the full list of December’s incidents below. Data breaches. Data breaches. That brings the total for 2020 to more than 20 billion. Cyber attacks. Ransomware.

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Data breaches Ransomware Energy and Utilities Computer and Electronics 116

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

How to Secure Access for your Seasonal Workers. As the holiday season approaches, many retail, hospitality, logistics, and food manufacturing organizations hire seasonal workers to meet increasing demand. Access management risks of seasonal workers. The importance of effective access management. Mon, 11/21/2022 - 05:36.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

There were a massive 99 data breaches and cyber attacks in August, making it the third-biggest monthly total of the year by number of security incidents. You can find our full list of publicly disclosed data breaches from August in this blog, with incidents affecting UK organisations listed in bold. Data breaches.

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Data breaches Ransomware Insurance Manufacturing 122

Krebs on Security

JUNE 28, 2022

AWMproxy, the storefront for renting access to infected PCs, circa 2011. Pay-per-install networks try to match cybercriminals who already have access to large numbers of hacked PCs with other crooks seeking broader distribution of their malware. Image: Google.com. AWM Proxy’s online storefront disappeared that same day.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

It took almost three weeks for Pepsi Bottling Ventures, the largest bottler of Pepsi-Cola in the US, to spot the intrusion, during which time the attackers had widespread access to its internal systems. In a security notice filed with Montana’s Attorney General office, Pepsi explained that the breach started on 23 December 2022.

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Data breaches Insurance Manufacturing Access 105

Adam Levin

MARCH 23, 2020

Secure Your Router: If you’re still using your router’s manufacturer default password, it’s past time for a change. Your password should be include letters, numbers and special characters in a combination you haven’t used on other accounts. Update Account Passwords: Don’t reuse passwords from other accounts.

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Passwords Manufacturing Phishing Data breaches 98

IT Governance

MAY 7, 2024

Plus, a further 3,029,461 known records newly breached Welcome to this week’s global round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breached: 395 GB.

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Data breaches Education Manufacturing Retail 59

Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2023

The Brazilian retail arm of car manufacturing giant Volvo leaked sensitive files, putting its clientele in the vast South American country in peril. Exposed sensitive files On February 17, 2023, the Cybernews research team discovered public access to sensitive files hosted on dimasvolvo.com.br The issue causing the leak has been fixed.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2022

Greek intelligence service used surveillance malware to spy on a journalist, Reuters reports Slack resets passwords for about 0.5% of its users due to the exposure of salted password hashes Twitter confirms zero-day used to access data of 5.4

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Security Affairs

MARCH 9, 2023

Original post at: [link] Hackers have been enjoying their fair share of the spotlight by breaching car manufacturers’ defenses. The latest Cybernews discovery showcases that popular car brands sometimes leave their doors open, as if inviting threat actors to feast on their client data. It scored 7.5

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2023

rail and locomotive company Wabtec Corporation disclosed a data breach after it was hit with Lockbit ransomware attack. It manufactures products for locomotives, freight cars and passenger transit vehicles, and builds new locomotives up to 6,000 horsepower. The information was later posted to the threat actor’s leak site.

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Ransomware Insurance Data breaches Manufacturing 93

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. The researchers discovered credentials that provided access to 95,592,696 artifacts, as well as download permissions and some deploy operations.

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Data Privacy Privacy Energy and Utilities Data breaches 52

Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2023

Files that should be secure and kept private were left publicly accessible. Anyone could have retrieved passwords and secret tokens for accessing user data, business management tools, or managing websites. Rarely do car manufacturers sell their cars directly. We’ve grown to trust our local car sellers.

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Manufacturing Phishing Access Insurance 94

IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 7, 2023

Thirty percent of those incidents occurred in manufacturing organizations. For the 12th year in a row, the average cost of a breach was the highest in the US healthcare industry at $10.10 Data breaches can be disastrous for organizations. Where do data breaches originate? Define sensitive data.

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Security Data breaches Data Privacy Compliance 40

Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In March 2020, KrebsOnSecurity alerted Swedish security giant Gunnebo Group that hackers had broken into its network and sold the access to a criminal group which specializes in deploying ransomware. Five months later, Gunnebo disclosed it had suffered a cyber attack targeting its IT systems that forced the shutdown of internal servers.

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Ransomware Security Agriculture Cybersecurity 343

The Last Watchdog

MAY 8, 2019

Related: Marriott reports huge data breach Ever thought about encrypting the data held on a portable storage device? Launched as a one-man operation in 2007, DataLocker has grown into a leading manufacturer of encrypted external drives, thumb drives, flash drives and self-encrypting, recordable CDs and DVDs.

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Encryption Cloud Access Manufacturing 147

Data Matters

JANUARY 13, 2020

New European medical device guidance will require manufacturers to carefully review cybersecurity and IT security requirements in relation to their devices and in their product literature. The Guidance acknowledges that even though the Regulations impose legal obligations only on the manufacturer of the device, all other actors (e.g.,

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Cybersecurity Manufacturing GDPR Privacy 79

Data Matters

AUGUST 30, 2021

Securities and Exchange Commission signaled its continued, high level scrutiny of companies’ public statements related to data security incidents. According to the Order, Pearson learned in March 2019 that millions of rows of data had been accessed and downloaded from a company server by a threat actor exploiting an unpatched vulnerability.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2020

The malware was identified as a version of the remote access trojan (RAT) known as njRAT , which has been used against millions of targets globally with a focus on victims in the Middle East. 001 explains how to use a RAT he developed called “Little Boy” to steal credit card numbers and passwords from victims.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 27, 2019

More than 770 million people learned their email addresses had been made public in what would be known as the ‘Collection #1’ data breach. Sensitive data belonging to hundreds of German politicians and public figures was published online. Mumsnet disclosed a data breach affecting 4,000 people. million (£4.2

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Data breaches GDPR Passwords Personal data 69

IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

The year started with the revelation of Spectre and Meltdown – major security flaws affecting processors manufactured by Intel, ARM and AMD. Equifax issued its financial report for the first quarter of 2018, revealing that its huge 2017 data breach had so far cost it $242.7 Patches were rushed out , but many.

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Data breaches Personal data Access GDPR 71

Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2023

Over 3,000 Android Malware spotted using unsupported/unknown compression methods to avoid detection WinRAR flaw enables remote code execution of arbitrary code #OpFukushima: Anonymous group protests against the plan to dump Fukushima RADIOACTIVE wastewater into Pacific Massive phishing campaign targets users of the Zimbra Collaboration email server (..)

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Estée L auder is an American multinational manufacturer and marketer of p restige skincare, makeup, fragrance and hair care p roducts, it owns multiple brands, distributed internationally through both digital commerce and retail channels. Upon further review I was able to see connections to New York based cosmetic company Estée Lauder.”

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Archiving Retail Manufacturing Authentication 112

Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

The bills require manufacturers of connected devices to equip the devices with “reasonable security features” that are: appropriate to the nature and function of the device; appropriate to the information it may collect, contain, or transmit; and. The bills also do not address civil penalties or remedies that may result from enforcement.

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IoT Privacy Manufacturing Authentication 68

Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2019

Data was collected by the UK Metropolitan police, small local businesses and governments globally. Suprema developed the BioStar 2 software that allows to implement control access using biometric data, including facial recognition and fingerprinting. “The data leaked in the breach is of a highly sensitive nature.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 11, 2018

As many as 438 third-party apps were potentially able to access the data of up to 500,000 Google+ account holders without their permission because of a vulnerability in one of its APIs. A member of the public found the memory stick , viewed its contents (it wasn’t password protected either), and then passed it to the Sunday Mirror.

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Personal data Manufacturing Data breaches Government 73

IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2020

Indeed, it bears reminding relatively small breaches can often be the most damaging – such as an email gaffe this month in which the identities of 250 abuse survivors in Northern Ireland were exposed. Take a look at every data breach and cyber attack that we recorded in May in this blog. Data breaches.

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Data breaches Ransomware Computer and Electronics e-Delivery 145

IT Governance

OCTOBER 1, 2020

You can find our full list of publicly disclosed data breaches from September in this blog, with incidents affecting UK organisations listed in bold. Data breaches. Notably, a patient at Dusseldorf University Hospital died during a ransomware infection after the facility was unable to provide urgent medical assistance.

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Data breaches Ransomware Government IoT 140

IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

million customers , most of them American, was compromised in the 2017 data breach – including their names, dates of birth, passwords, and driving licence and financial details. Data was also found to be vulnerable to unauthorised access. In total, the personal information of some 147.9

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2023

More than 375 respondents, including developers, IT and cybersecurity professionals from mid-market to large enterprises across industry verticals such as financial, manufacturing, technology, communications, media and others, from both the U.S. and Canada were surveyed.

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IT Governance

MARCH 5, 2024

252,796,762 known records breached in 126 newly disclosed incidents Welcome to this week’s global round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks.

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Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Retail 52

IT Governance

APRIL 25, 2023

According to the 2022 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report , insider threats account for 18% of all security incident. Meanwhile, a Ponemon Institute report found that data breaches caused by insiders increased by 14% between 2018 and 2022. But who exactly is causing these incidents and why?

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Data breaches Phishing Personal data Access 105

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

We have no evidence that data of our users has been compromised. However, if you have a British Library login and your password is used elsewhere, we recommend changing it as a precautionary measure.” VPNs, RDPs) to gain initial access to the target network and maintain persistence. ” reads the announcement.

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