The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received 3,729 ransomware complaints in 2021, representing $49.2 Healthcare and public health, financial services, and IT organizations are frequent targets, although businesses of all sizes can fall victim to these schemes. Prevalence. million in adjusted losses.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

billion in reported fraud in 2021 alone. 52% of companies with more than $10 billion in revenue were hit with fraud. For example, Experian’s 2021 Global Identity and Fraud Report stated that 82% of surveyed businesses had adopted customer recognition strategies. Here are the top 10, in our analysis. million in losses.

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Data Matters

JUNE 24, 2021

On June 15, 2021, the SEC announced settled charges against First American Title Insurance Company (First American) for disclosure controls and procedures violations related to a cybersecurity vulnerability that exposed sensitive customer information. This resolution highlights the SEC’s continued focus on cybersecurity. 20, 2017).

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2021

Cloudflare last month fought off a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack by a botnet that was bombarding 17.2 million requests per second (rps) at one of the internet infrastructure company’s customers in the financial services space. DDoS Attacks on the Rise. That prediction proved correct.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

CBDC will complement cash and be accessible to the general public for transactions using various devices. As explained by the Bank of England [1] “£10 of a UK digital currency would always be worth the same as a £10 note”. Overall, CBDCs as a new type of digital currency are not volatile like cryptocurrencies.

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Data Protection Report

JUNE 2, 2021

On May 13, 2021, the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) announced a $1.8 The insurer activated its incident response plan and concluded that the threat actor had obtained credentials from several employees and had access to customer non-public personal information between June 1, 2018 and October 20, 2018.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

Information security products , services, and professionals have never been in higher demand, making for a world of opportunities for cybersecurity startups. Investors recognize the potential too, as funding for cybersecurity ventures more than doubled from previous years to almost $22 billion in 2021. Top 10 Cybersecurity Startups.

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Collibra

JUNE 23, 2022

You can see these product integrations in action at Databricks’ Data & AI summit next week. At the Data and AI Summit 2021, Databricks announced Unity Catalog. Databricks and Collibra’s joint customers are excited for the deeper lineage capabilities and the improved data governance Unity Catalog will provide.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This dupes a Windows machine that has not been patched against the vulnerability into allowing illegitimate data packets into the legitimate network. These data packets can contain malware such as a trojan, ransomware, or similar dangerous program.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The advent of quantum-safe cryptography is essential to protect sensitive data against the superior capabilities of quantum computers. This strategy addresses security concerns related to intellectual property and sensitive data in large language models (LLMs). The implications for business are profound.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 26, 2021

Tue, 01/26/2021 - 09:17. As the infrastructure changes, the adversaries change along with it to take the easiest path to data. As reported in the UK Finance “Fraud: The Facts” 2020 report, the theft of personal and financial data through data breaches was a major contributor to fraud losses in 2019.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Wed, 10/27/2021 - 07:30. The Thales Cloud Security Study 2021 of more than 2,600 respondents from around the world tries to respond to key questions: How widespread is multi-cloud? How do I secure data in the cloud? The Many Challenges of a Multi-Cloud Business Environment. Is cloud transformation as hard as it seems?

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Data Matters

MAY 17, 2022

It used to be that data breaches were all about cyber-crooks hacking computer systems to steal personal information, followed by an affected company sending regretful notification letters offering a year or two of complimentary credit monitoring. 26,633 (May 12, 2021). Agency (July 19, 2021, revised Aug. All rights reserved.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 14, 2022

Research by Cisco estimates the volume of DDoS attacks will surge from more than 10 million in 2021 up to 15 million by 2023. Meanwhile, the 2021 State of the Data Center Industry research report placed DDoS behind ransomware as the threats that most worry the enterprise. The most recent wave happened in December 2021.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

MARCH 4, 2021

In its second full year overseeing and regulating the GDPR in Ireland, the Data Protection Commission ( DPC ) has published its 2020 Annual Report , highlighting key observations, emerging guidance, and large scale inquiries and decisions of 2020. Around 60% of the data breaches notified occurred in the private sector.

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KnowBe4

MARCH 28, 2023

The capacity to craft compelling, well-formed text is in the hands of anyone with access to ChatGPT, and that's basically anyone with an internet connection." Your email filters have an average 7-10% failure rate; you need a strong human firewall as your last line of defense. Date/Time: Wednesday, April 5, @ 2:00 PM (ET) Save My Spot!

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

As reported on the Hunton Insurance Recovery blog , on February 4, 2021, the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”), which regulates the business of insurance in New York, has issued guidelines, in the Insurance Circular Letter No. 10, 2018), remains pending in an Illinois state court. complaint filed Oct.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Given the nearly impossibly job of staying on top of cyber threats, it’s not surprising that security services now comprise 45% of the $188 billion security and risk management market, according to Gartner. Rapid7’s MDR service goes beyond the basics by including unlimited incident response and routine threat hunting.

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KnowBe4

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

New data found in GreatHorn's 2023 State of Email Security report shows that this is exactly what's been happening in the last 12 months. When people realize the value of their data, they're more vigilant and protective of it," Watson says. Organizations should also have a process for their employees to report suspicious activity.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

In this episode, Jason Kent from Cequence Security talks about his experience hacking a garage door opener API, the tools he uses such as Burp, ZAP, and APK tool, and why we need to be paying more attention to the OWASP API Security Top 10. And in May of 2021 Researchers disclosed that the Peloton API authentication was broken.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

In this episode, Jason Kent from Cequence Security talks about his experience hacking a garage door opener API, the tools he uses such as Burp, ZAP, and APK tool, and why we need to be paying more attention to the OWASP API Security Top 10. And in May of 2021 Researchers disclosed that the Peloton API authentication was broken.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 19, 2023

He died prematurely on April 23 in 2021. It manages all the resources that are needed, such as Random Access Memory or RAM, and hard or solid state drives. In the 1950s we started to get early operating systems, and these included supervisory programs that helped manage the data coming in and going back out. And software?

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