Collibra

JUNE 23, 2023

Government agencies — from DC to Duluth, NYC to LA — are struggling. As more of our interactions and transactions occur online, the need for robust data protection measures becomes increasingly critical to safeguard personal data and maintain public trust in government institutions. There’s no going back.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

It is perhaps best known for selling virtual private networking (VPN) software that lets users remotely access networks and computers over an encrypted connection. In March 2019, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) alerted Citrix they had reason to believe cybercriminals had gained access to the company’s internal network.

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OpenText Information Management

MAY 10, 2024

If it’s not accurate, accessible, and secure, organizations won’t get the desired results. Since AI relies on data to learn and improve, organizations must ensure their data is accurate, accessible, and secure. They must also build a solid data foundation, including a governance framework, to take full advantage of the benefits of AI.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 26, 2023

Confidential computing is a technology and technique that encrypts and stores an organization’s most sensitive data in a secure portion of a computer’s processor — known as the Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) — while it’s processed and in use. Most other encryption approaches protect data at rest and data in transit only.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 24, 2024

The app heavily encrypts all user financial data. Only administrators can access customer data on the backend. Deploying privacy protections: The app uses encryption to protect data from cybercriminals and other prying eyes. These access controls reduce the chances that the data is used for unauthorized or illegal purposes.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 9, 2022

Contrary to reports, the company paid nearly $5 million as a ransom to get access to all their systems. government is recommending to ensure the operations of Critical National Infrastructure are not affected by ransomware attacks. Governments step up to protect all businesses. Cyber insurance coverage ramps up.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The government says Russian national Artur Sungatov used LockBit ransomware against victims in manufacturing, logistics, insurance and other companies throughout the United States. In addition, the Japanese Police, supported by Europol, have released a recovery tool designed to recover files encrypted by the LockBit 3.0

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

See the Top Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Tools. are subject to laws such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (the HITECH Act), as well as regulations such as the Clinical Laboratory Improvements Amendments (CLIA).

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

To highlight the importance and usefulness of the Cyber Essentials scheme, we’ve produced a series of blog posts summarising each of the five security controls that, according to the UK government, could prevent “around 80% of cyber attacks”. This blog covers access controls. Deficient access controls result in security breaches.

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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. The company has operations in 25 countries, more than 4,000 employees, and billions in revenue annually.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The simplest example may be insurance. Life, health, auto, and other insurance are all designed to help a person protect against losses. Also read : Top Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Tools for 2022. Once data is mapped, organizations make better decisions on how that data is governed and reduce their risk footprint.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Shared responsibility is about controlling your own security – anything from data encryption to managing the encryption keys. Having full control and access to the encryption keys places more trust and confidence on leveraging the powers of the cloud. This is called shared fate. Cloud security.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Incident details: An unauthorised party gained access to some employee email accounts and the information within them, including demographic, medical and financial information. Breached organisation: BHI Energy, providing staffing solutions to the nuclear, fossil, wind, hydro and government energy markets. Records breached: Unknown.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Byron: It’s gone from simple file encryption to multifaceted, multi-staged attacks that leverage Dark Web services, such as initial access brokers (IABs,) as well as make use of Living off the Land (LotL) embedded tools. Zero trust — and more specifically, zero-trust network access, or ZTNA — thus has become a must-have capability.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2021

” Cyber Insurance No Longer Reliable. ” Crockett said unofficial numbers indicate that only about 10 percent of such cyber insurance claims are paid out. ” Crockett said unofficial numbers indicate that only about 10 percent of such cyber insurance claims are paid out. “And the war can be multi-pronged.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Mexico confirms hack of military records (unknown) Randolph-area school district disables its own website following transphobic hack (unknown) Australia’s Telstra hit by data breach, two weeks after attack on Optus (unknown) Patient details compromised in cyber attack on health provider Pinnacle (unknown) CHI Health faces ‘IT security incident’ impacting (..)

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Encryption uses mathematical algorithms to transform and encode data so that only authorized parties can access it. What Encryption Is and How It Relates to Cryptology The science of cryptography studies codes, how to create them, and how to solve them. How Does Encryption Process Data? How Does Encryption Process Data?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Once obtained access to the City’s network, the group performed reconnaissance and information-gathering activities using legitimate third-party remote management tools. “Royal’s initial access utilized the basic service domain service account, connecting to a server. ” reads the report. ” continues the report.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Double extortion ransomware is a growing type of cyber-attack in which a victim’s sensitive data is first stolen, and then encrypted, giving the criminal the option of demanding two separate ransom payments. An additional 77% concur that governments should do more to assist private enterprises in defending against ransomware.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JULY 30, 2019

Telco says diverse agencies accessing data through legal loophole need to follow the same process as law enforcement bodies Telstra has warned that public trust in the security of their data will be eroded if government agencies continue to be allowed access to it without appropriate authorisation.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) software helps businesses manage all of the necessary documentation and processes for ensuring maximum productivity and preparedness. Third-party governance. IT governance and security. Privacy governance and management. Enterprise & operational risk management. Audit management.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

On 14 September, Mulkay discovered that the compromised files contained personal information, including “name, address, date of birth, Social Security number, driver’s license number or state ID, medical treatment information, and health insurance information”. Customer data, which was encrypted, was reported to be unaffected.

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Data Protection Report

APRIL 30, 2024

For example, the government alleged that the company placed personal information “in a shared electronic folder, which unauthorized persons whom Cerebral has been unable to identify accessed multiple times” In addition, “former employees and contractors accessed 266 patient files using access credentials Cerebral failed to revoke.”

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Data Matters

AUGUST 19, 2020

On July 21, 2020, the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS or the Department) issued a statement of charges and notice of hearing (the Statement) against First American Title Insurance Company (First American) for violations of the Department’s Cybersecurity Requirements for Financial Services Companies, 23 N.Y.C.R.R.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 3, 2021

Patient records were always valued by attackers for launching sophisticated insurance fraud schemes, purchasing medical supplies or drugs, or committing other types of fraud including identity theft. Expanding the use of telemedicine, transforming healthcare access for remote patients. Increasing the use of advanced IoT devices.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Access to a range of ransomware tools tailored to remove specific strains of malware. Immediate access to experts for swift resolution of security issues. The focus is on recovering deleted and encrypted files as quickly as possible. Data is recovered remotely or returned on encrypted media. DataRecovery. Proven Data.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2022

US government agencies warned that the Daixin Team cybercrime group is actively targeting the U.S. The Daixin Team group gains initial access to victims through virtual private network (VPN) servers. In another compromise, the group leveraged on compromised credentials to access a legacy VPN server. ” reads the alert.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

All of your files are encrypted with RSA-2048 and AES-128 ciphers.” ” Or you might see a readme.txt stating, “Your files have been replaced by these encrypted containers and aren’t accessible; you will lose your files on [enter date] unless you pay $2500 in Bitcoin.” IMPORTANT INFORMATION !!!

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 3, 2021

Patient records were always valued by attackers for launching sophisticated insurance fraud schemes, purchasing medical supplies or drugs, or committing other types of fraud including identity theft. Expanding the use of telemedicine, transforming healthcare access for remote patients. Increasing the use of advanced IoT devices.

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IoT Encryption Cloud Compliance 71

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2022

is perhaps better known as the online identity verification service that many states now use to help staunch the loss of billions of dollars in unemployment insurance and pandemic assistance stolen each year by identity thieves. We encrypt all that stuff down to the file level with keys that rotate and expire every 24 hours.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

To this end, some impressive technology has been created to combat the technological side of the issue, to keep hackers and similar bad actors from accessing data and account privileges they shouldn’t. Finance and insurance finished a close second at 22.4%. of cyber attacks IBM handled. 70% of attacks were on banks.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In a month that saw the former US president accused of misappropriating classified government documents, there were also a spate of malicious insiders compromising their employer’s systems. August 2022 has been a lesson in being careful with whom you provide sensitive information. Cyber attacks. Ransomware. Data breaches. In other news….

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IT Governance

JUNE 15, 2022

IT Governance identified more than 1,200 publicly disclosed data breaches in 2021 , while another report found that security incidents cost almost £3 million on average. Cyber Essentials is a UK government scheme that outlines five key controls, including patch management, that can prevent up to 80% of cyber attacks. Ransomware.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Cyber criminals may damage, destroy, steal, encrypt, expose, or leak data as well as cause harm to a system. Encrypted threats spiked 167%, ransomware increased 105%, and 5.4 In May, cybersecurity researchers revealed that ransomware attacks are increasing their aggressive approach by destroying data instead of encrypting it.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Records breached: Unknown ALPHV/BlackCat attacks MeridianLink then reports it to the SEC Date of breach: 7 November Breached organisation: MeridianLink Incident details: The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group has added the software company MeridianLink to its leak site, having exfiltrated data without encrypting company systems.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

ASP, PHP, JSP), that attackers implant on web servers to gain remote access and code execution. According to the CISA’s report , Iranian hackers from an unnamed APT group are employing several known web shells, in attacks on IT, government, healthcare, financial, and insurance organizations across the United States.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

” But access to and confidence in backups alone aren’t enough. For ransomware attacks where network data gets encrypted , backups are the definitive method for restoring network infrastructure. Like any other digital machine, backup systems are vulnerable to data loss and compromise. Extended Downtime Can Be Deadly.

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