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The Information Commissioner’s Office Issues UK Department for Education with Formal Reprimand

Hunton Privacy

On November 2, 2022, the ICO issued to the UK Department for Education (“ DfE ”) a formal reprimand following an investigation into the sharing of personal data stored on the Learning Records Service (“ LRS ”), a database which provides a record of pupils’ qualifications that the DfE has overall responsibility for.

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Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

Krebs on Security

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. ” he observed.

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FBI’s Vetted Info Sharing Network ‘InfraGard’ Hacked

Krebs on Security

10, 2022, the relatively new cybercrime forum Breached featured a bombshell new sales thread: The user database for InfraGard, including names and contact information for tens of thousands of InfraGard members. InfraGard , a program run by the U.S. Department of Defense. USDoD’s InfraGard sales thread on Breached.

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Hikvision fixed a critical flaw in Hybrid SAN and cluster storage products?

Security Affairs

Chinese video surveillance giant Hikvision addressed an access control vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-28808, affecting its Hybrid SAN and cluster storage products. An attacker with network access to the device can exploit the issue to obtain admin permission. . On April 10, Hikvision released version 2.3.8-8

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Top 8 Cyber Insurance Companies for 2022

eSecurity Planet

Whereas in the past, cyber insurers may have frequently extended liability limits of $10 million, it is becoming increasingly more common that carriers can only extend a max of $5 million limit per risk.”. If your company has not already experienced a significant cybersecurity event, it is probably only a matter of time before it does.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 22 – 28 April 2024

IT Governance

iSharing is used by more than 35 million users. The company has fixed the issue, blaming it on a vulnerability in the app’s groups feature. We also found 5 organisations providing a significant update on a previously disclosed incident. Organisation(s) Sector Location Data breached? Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Finance USA Yes 498,686 J.P.

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News Alert: Guardz uncovers new macOS malware – Hidden Virtual Network Computing (hVNC)

The Last Watchdog

The malware, which is available on the major Russian dark web forum Exploit, allows cybercriminals to gain and maintain persistent unauthorized access to a victim’s Mac computer without being detected, and demonstrates the concerning emergence of a growing number of macOS-focused Attack-as-a-Service tools. Tel Aviv, Israel, Aug.

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