IT Governance

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

With individuals’ details on sale for as little as £10, this is a consistent but inefficient way of profiting from criminal activity. These would be designed to steal login access to personal accounts, which they could use for fraudulent purposes. Alternatively, they could sell access to the account to other criminals on the dark web.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received 3,729 ransomware complaints in 2021, representing $49.2 This gives the perpetrator the access needed to launch the ransomware and lock the company out of its own infrastructure or encrypt files until the ransom is paid in cryptocurrency. Prevalence. million in adjusted losses.

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IT Governance

MARCH 1, 2021

The post List of data breaches and cyber attacks in February 2021 – 2.3 Malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents. billion records breached appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2023

According to the press release published by the Europol, the seized drugs include over 258 kg of amphetamines, 43 kg of cocaine, 43 kg of MDMA, and over 10 kg of LSD and ecstasy pills. The Monopoly Market was launched in 2019 and the German authorities seized the marketplace’s infrastructure in December 2021.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 28, 2022

GitHub proofs of concept (PoCs) for known vulnerabilities could themselves contain malware as often as 10% of the time, security researchers have found. These “proofs” advertised exploits for vulnerabilities that have been publicly disclosed between 2017 and 2021. See the Top Vulnerability Management Tools. Signs of Malicious PoCs.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2021

On March 2nd, Microsoft has released emergency out-of-band security updates that address four zero-day issues (CVE-2021-26855, CVE-2021-26857, CVE-2021-26858, and CVE-2021-27065) in all supported Microsoft Exchange versions that are actively exploited in the wild. — MalwareTech (@MalwareTechBlog) March 10, 2021.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 24, 2024

In 2021, we saw a leak of 3.27 Nevertheless, even if, say, 10% of these records are unique, you’d still be looking at 2.6 organisationname.co.uk], it can take 10–20 minutes to finish searching.* Organisations associated with these data records include: Tencent QQ – 1.4 What do you make of this breach? billion records.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 6, 2022

MITRE said its goal is to help professionals handle and mitigate various risks, which includes software for “architects, designers, developers, testers, users, project managers, security researchers, educators,” and many other contributors. Top 10 Unchanged. Methodology Changes.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2023

The new variant of the encryptor targets Linux, NAS, and ESXi hosts, it appears to be based on the source code of Babuk ransomware that was leaked online in 2021. The affiliates are obliged to remain active, or their account will be removed after 10 days without notifying them upfront. Its initial access vector remains unknown.

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CILIP

OCTOBER 15, 2019

School Librarians deliver their report card to Education Minister Nick Gibb. to ensure that every child has access to, and can benefit from, a great school library. To work with school leaders and the school library community to develop new investment in School Libraries with the aim of balancing inequality of access and provision.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 21, 2022

As just one measure, the number of data breaches in the first nine months of 2021 exceeded all those in 2020, a new record. You need to balance giving employees and customers easy access to data against keeping that information safe. At least 10 additional states have enacted or are considering data privacy laws.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Once obtained the SIM cards, they were able to bypass SMS-based 2FA used to access bank accounts and steal the money. With this, they deceived the employees of phone stores to obtain duplicate SIM cards and, in this way, have access to the bank’s security confirmation messages. Be aware of any changes in SMS-based connectivity.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Top 3 sectors by number of accidental breaches Sector Number of accidental breaches 1 Health 1,690 2 Education 1,440 3 Local government 1,348 The table above shows the three sectors breached accidentally most often, in terms of absolute numbers. At the time of writing, the data set starts in Q2 2019 and goes up to Q2 2023.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2021

According to a report from Netscout, there was a record number of DDoS attacks in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic and researchers expected that the trend would follow into 2021. If the current pace persists through the end of 2021, it will rush past last year’s record of about 10 million attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 10, 2021

On Monday, May 10, Colonial announced that it had set a “goal of substantially restoring operational service by the end of the week,” which means the Eastern U.S. Chris Krebs (@C_C_Krebs) May 10, 2021. Dmitri Alperovitch (@DAlperovitch) May 10, 2021. We do have backups? What do we do in the meantime?).

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

API security protects data and back-end systems while preserving fluid communication between software components through strict protocols and access controls. Fundamentals of API Security API security includes a range of tactics such as strict authentication and authorization methods, data encryption technologies, and strong access controls.

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IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2023

However, cyber security researcher Andrea Draghetti discovered that the information was exfiltrated on 16 Match 2021, and concluded that the data might likely came from a separate, previously undisclosed data breach. In August 2020, it was embroiled in a data breach affecting more than 800,000 EyeMed and Lenscrafters patients.

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CILIP

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

9th February 2021. We understand you are also considering stopping public access to your library and archive, whilst enhancing digital access to these collections. We strongly advocate that The Wallace Collection reconsider its proposal to remove specialist staff and public access from its library and archive collections.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Thu, 10/14/2021 - 05:48. If everyone becomes responsible and adopts good cyber hygiene practices – implementing stronger security practices, raising community awareness, educating people, following good cyber hygiene – our interconnected world will be safer and more resilient place. BeCyberSmart.”

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Company officials also used the first week of October – which is Cybersecurity Awareness Month – to remind users of the company’s plan to enable two-factor authentication by default to many accounts, and that it will enable it for 150 million accounts before the end of 2021. ‘Cybersecurity Is a Team Sport’ In an Oct.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Also read: Top Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) Solutions for 2021. — Eva (@evacide) October 4, 2021. pic.twitter.com/gvP2ne9kTR — Graham Cluley (@gcluley) March 25, 2021. — Jack Daniel (@jack_daniel) October 10, 2018. Markstedter actively contributes to filling the infosec education gap.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Since 2018, access to an exhaustive report commissioned by the U.S. 14, 2021 shows the top sources of traffic to the Trump Organization email server over a four month period in the spring and summer of 2016. The first page of Alfa Bank’s 2020 complaint. trump-email.com). This chart from a court filing Sept.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In fact, “the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, pointedly noted that since the H1N1 pandemic in 2009, there have been 11 high-level commissions and panels that produced more than 16 reports, with the vast majority of recommendations never implemented” (Fink 2021). Many organizations have business case templates.

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erwin

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The ability to make rapid business decisions to remain competitive hinges on data – access to it and the means to derive useful insights from it. While that goal sounds straightforward, modern enterprises are facing challenges in achieving it because so much data is inaccessible, poorly understood or completely unknown.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

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. Data breached: 19,718,687 records.

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Data Matters

MAY 17, 2022

For example: On May 12, 2021, President Biden signed an Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity. 26,633 (May 12, 2021). Agency (July 19, 2021, revised Aug. Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have long been a choice weapon to disrupt power grids or shut down access to servers and websites.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 22, 2022

According to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) report from October of 2021, the cybersecurity insurance market, including both U.S. jump from the prior year and it is expected to increase by a large amount once 2021 totals are verified. was worth roughly $4.1 billion in direct written premiums in 2020.

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CILIP

MARCH 11, 2021

We understand and empathise with the position in which the Council finds itself and the need for structural action to address the financial challenges arising from 10 years of austerity in the public sector. Published: 11 March 2021. Elizabeth Ash, Save Croydon Libraries. A PDF version of the letter can be found here.

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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. in exponential terms. doing so in 2022, a 93% increase.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

MARCH 4, 2021

Breach notifications to the DPC increased by 10% in 2020, reaching a total of 6,628 valid notifications. Security vulnerabilities including hacking, unauthorised access, malware, phishing and ransomware attacks totalled 462 breach notifications. Breach Notifications. 90% of the recorded breach cases were concluded in 2020.

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CILIP

JULY 9, 2021

Building on the first five years of work, Knowledge for Healthcare 2021-2026 was launched earlier this year. Knowledge services are an essential part of the decision-making infrastructure of the NHS, as well as of its education and training infrastructure. However, it isn?t t just clinical responses for which England? explains Sue. ?Helping

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CILIP

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

His piece focuses on public libraries and libraries in higher education institutions. nearly 10 per cent of the UK public library market. In March 2020 Capita announced its intention to sell its Education Software Solutions (ESS) division which is the home of the Capita LMS businesses. Libraries in Higher Education.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 21, 2022

” West said pig butchering victims are often quite sophisticated and educated people. Nolan said her nightmare began in late 2021 with a Twitter direct message from someone who was following many of the same cryptocurrency influencers she followed. “The scale of this is so massive. ” A $5,000,000 LOSS.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Tue, 02/09/2021 - 10:06. He is the director of engineering & cloud operations for Thales’s Identity and Access Management business. A big challenge was making sure the kids are well setup to receive the best possible education considering the situation. Celebrating Safer Internet Day: Surviving Lockdowns Edition.

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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. The litigation, Mondelez Intl.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 4, 2019

DataTribe and AllegisCyber Capital have been on the ground floor of bringing the CyberPort vision to life and will be among the anchor tenants (with another 40-plus cyber companies) when the new campus is ready for occupancy in early 2021. million unfilled cybersecurity positions globally by 2021 – up from 1 million in 2014.

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ARMA International

APRIL 28, 2022

On the 29th of August, 2021, New Orleans felt the impacts of Hurricane Ida. Then, in January 2021, I assumed the position of Director of Archives and Records, making me the Records Manager and Archivist of the Archdiocese of New Orleans. On August 27, 2021, the OAR staff worked on hurricane preparations. It was grim.

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