Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2024

Hudson Researchers reported that on December 20th, a hacker using the moniker ‘irleaks’ announced the availability for sale of over 160,000,000 records allegedly stolen from 23 leading insurance companies in Iran. It is still unclear how the hackers targeted so many insurance companies at the same time.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 17, 2023

Security experts investigating 16Shop found the service used an application programming interface (API) to manage its users, an innovation that allowed its proprietors to shut off access to customers who failed to pay a monthly fee, or for those attempting to copy or pirate the phishing kit.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

The Cyber Essentials scheme is a world-leading assurance mechanism for organisations of all sizes to help demonstrate that the most critical cyber security controls have been implemented. This blog covers access controls. Deficient access controls result in security breaches. Secure your access controls.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

According to the security company Resecurity , which discovered the listing, the data included victims’ name, age, gender, address, passport number and Aadhaar number (a 12-digit government identification number). It secured its systems, notified law enforcement and began investigating the incident.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2024

On December 13, 2023, VF Corp detected unauthorized access to a portion of its infrastructure. VF immediately began taking measures to remediate the attack and launched an investigation into the security breach. ” reads a Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on January 18, 2024.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Toyota Financial Services (TFS) disclosed a data breach, threat actors had access to sensitive personal and financial data. “Due to an attack on the systems, unauthorized persons gained access to personal data. TFS offers various financial products, including auto loans, leases, and insurance solutions.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2021

Experts found a DB containing sensitive health insurance data belonging to customers of US insurance giant Humana. An SQL database containing what appears to be highly sensitive health insurance data of more than 6,000 patients has been leaked on a popular hacker forum. Who had access to the data? What was leaked?

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 1, 2022

Since Carnival was licensed by the Department to sell insurance in NY State, it was treated as a covered entity under the Cybersecurity Regulation. In addition to the monetary penalty of $5 million, NYDFS also accepted Carnival’s surrender of its insurance producer license; thus, Carnival has ceased selling insurance in New York.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Health insurance information : an individual’s health insurance policy number or subscriber number in combination with access code or other medical information that permits misuse of an individual’s health insurance benefits.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Alex Holden is founder of Hold Security , a Milwaukee-based cybersecurity firm. Holden said the internal discussions among the Venus group members indicate this gang has no problem gaining access to victim organizations. Tripwire’s tips for all organizations on avoiding ransomware attacks include: Making secure offsite backups.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

” In response to the security incident, the company took the impacted systems offline and launched an investigation with the help of law enforcement. The security incident appears to have been limited to TFS Europe & Africa. TFS offers various financial products, including auto loans, leases, and insurance solutions.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 25, 2022

million fine to Interserve Group Limited for failing to keep employee personal data secure, which violates Article 5(1)(f) and Article 32 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), during the period of March 2019 to December 2020. On October 24, 2022, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) issued a £4.4

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 22, 2023

5 Ways CIAM Ensures a Seamless and Secure Customer Experience divya Thu, 03/23/2023 - 05:27 In today's digital-first world, providing customers with trustworthy, hassle-free interactions is critical to business success. At the same time, consumers want to manage their money on demand seamlessly and have secure experiences while doing so.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

This week, we discuss a security flaw affecting 1Password, Dashlane, KeePass and LastPass; the prevalence of historic vulnerabilities in corporate IT systems; the increase in formjacking attacks; and Wendy’s $50 million data breach settlement. Each password manager also attempted to scrub secrets from memory.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

How do you secure a Super Bowl? Hopefully, security analysts will be watching closest of all. It’s safe to say that the last thing on anyone’s mind come Super Bowl Sunday will be the security of their digital interactions. First, we listed a lot of glittering generalities surrounding Super Bowl security spaces.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 12, 2022

Cyber Insurer Provides Help. As Spectra Logic had the foresight to take out cyber insurance , Chubb representatives were professional and helpful, according to Mendoza. Forensic analysis of the breach came to a quick conclusion – a phishing attempt had tricked a user with privileged access into clicking on a malicious link.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The Australian health insurance giant fell victim to ransomware in October, as a result of which the personal data of 9.7 Health data, by contrast, enables attackers to operate under the radar, typically to commit health insurance fraud. By doing this, you mitigate the risk of password compromise. The extent of the damage.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2023

The company added that the unauthorized accessed were the result of credential stuffing attacks and that its systems were not breached. “On December 20, 2022, we confirmed that unauthorized parties were able to access your PayPal customer account using your login credentials.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 7, 2019

based Complete Technology Solutions (CTS), was hacked, allowing a potent strain of ransomware known as “Sodinokibi” or “rEvil” to be installed on computers at more than 100 dentistry businesses that rely on the company for a range of services — including network security, data backup and voice-over-IP phone service.

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Data Protection Report

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Provides certain exemptions from public disclosure for materials provided to the state in response to an investigation of a breach of security. credit or debit card number, or any financial account number in combination with any required security code, access code or password that would permit access to such financial account.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Group-IB and Swiss insurance broker ASPIS that owns CryptoIns project, have developed the world’s first scoring model for assessing cryptocurrency exchanges. According to CryptoIns analysts, the crypto assets insurance market is expected to reach $7 billion by 2023. Why do crypto exchanges’ users need insurance?

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 30, 2018

All the user needs is a strong password to access to the data. But in certain cases the cloud is not readily accessible. This could be in high security areas, relating to the government or military, or you might be in different countries, where secure Internet connections are not available. LW: Makes sense.

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The stolen information allegedly included names and identifying information, hashed passwords, security questions and answers, family information, Social Security numbers, lab results, health insurance information, doctor’s names, and medical conditions, among other things.

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Data Protection Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The latter is the 2019 data security law known as the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security (SHIELD) Act. EyeMed blocked the threat actor’s access on July 1. EyeMed was aware of the importance of MFA to reasonable data protections, having required MFA for years before the attack for users to access EyeMed’s VPN.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2021

The company notified via mail hundreds of individuals that were impacted by the security breach and that that have had their personal data exposed in the attack. . ” CMG quickly took its systems offline as a precautionary measure and took additional steps to prevent further unauthorized access.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

This stolen booty reportedly included social security numbers, phone numbers, names, home addresses, unique IMEI numbers, and driver’s license information. According to the attackers, this was a configuration issue on an access point T-Mobile used for testing. Josh Shaul, CEO, Allure Security. We all know security is hard.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

Megatraffer explained that malware purveyors need a certificate because many antivirus products will be far more interested in unsigned software, and because signed files downloaded from the Internet don’t tend to get blocked by security features built into modern web browsers. “Why do I need a certificate? .” ru in 2008.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2020

Almost everyone wants to know what the future has in store – particularly when it comes to cyber security. With that in mind, Geraint Williams, IT Governance’s chief information security officer, discusses his cyber security predictions in the upcoming year. Our predictions. Attacks involving the IoT will continue.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 18, 2022

Many security professionals think that if they have done the hard work of securing their organization, that should be enough. Even though drafting IT security policies can be a pain, formal policies provide a valuable resource to protect both the IT team and their organization. Written security policies.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Threat actors used employees’ publicly-available Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and social engineering techniques to impersonate victims and obtain access to files, healthcare portals, payment information, and websites. Conduct regular network security assessments to stay up to date on compliance standards and regulations.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2022

The attack took place on October 15, 2021, when threat actors breached the hospital’s network and accessed patient data. The healthcare system discovered the security breach on October 19, and reported the incident to local authorities, it also hired a third-party cybersecurity expert to help with the investigations.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

The exploitation disclosure led the US Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency (CISA) to add the vulnerability to the known exploited vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. A file is found copied to a location accessible via web request (typically running_config.xml): Perform a Private Data Reset of the device.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The Division of Consumer Affairs alleged that the fertility clinic violated the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act and the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s (“HIPAA”) Privacy and Security Rules by removing protected health information (“PHI”) safeguards. Neafsey said in a statement regarding the breach.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2023

The unusual activity was detected by the company on June 26th, then the rail giant launched an investigation into the security incident. rail and locomotive company Wabtec hit with Lockbit ransomware appeared first on Security Affairs. The information was later posted to the threat actor’s leak site. .” Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 7, 2023

But with a proactive approach to data security, organizations can fight back against the seemingly endless waves of threats. IBM Security X-Force found the most common threat on organizations is extortion, which comprised more than a quarter (27%) of all cybersecurity threats in 2022. Define sensitive data.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Check your cyber insurance policy. Ensure you have access to appropriate threat intelligence. Also ensure you have contacts with cyber security intelligence services. Ensure effective and secure backups are in place and are operating correctly so that in the event of an attack you can recover your data quickly.

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