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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 12 – 18 February 2024

IT Governance

Fowler sent a responsible disclosure notice when he discovered the database and it was secured the following day. Source New Manufacturing USA Yes 20,415 TECA Srl Source New Transport Italy Yes 16.7 Known records breached Zenlayer Source New Telecoms USA Yes 384,658,212 ASA Electronics Source New Engineering USA Yes 2.7

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 5 – 11 February 2024

IT Governance

Compromised data includes policyholders’ and their families’ civil status, dates of birth and social security numbers, as well as the name of their health insurer and information relating to their contracts. It has since been confirmed by Anukul Peedkaew, the permanent secretary of social development and human security.

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Calculating the Benefits of the Advanced Encryption Standard

Schneier on Security

The report contains lots of facts and figures relevant to crypto policy debates, including the chaotic nature of crypto markets in the mid-1990s, the number of approved devices and libraries of various kinds since then, other standards that invoke AES, and so on. Still, I like seeing this kind of analysis about security infrastructure.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in November 2020 – 586 million records breached

IT Governance

We recorded 103 cyber security incidents in November, which accounted for 586,771,602 leaked records. The majority of those came from a credential-stuffing attack targeting Spotify and a data leak at the messaging app GO SMS Pro, which you can learn more about below. Here is our complete list of November’s cyber attacks and data breaches.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 15 – 21 April 2024

IT Governance

Compromised data includes names, passport numbers, Social Security numbers, online crypto account identifiers and bank account numbers. million accounts compromised in Le Slip Français data breach The French underwear manufacturer Le Slip Français has suffered a data breach. Data breached: 5,300,000 records.

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The Weeks in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 18 – 31 December 2023

IT Governance

billion records The security researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered an unprotected database exposing more than 1.5 Fowler contacted the company, which secured the database. The security researcher Bob Diachenko identified the leak in September and contacted TuneFab, which fixed the misconfiguration within 24 hours.

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Visual Cues and Clues: Looking ON the Photo

Unwritten Record

Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service.” Notches in film were used to identify the type of film and the date of its manufacturer. Text reads: Federal Security Agency, U.S. At the top…We see a marking that reads “Federal Security Agency, U.S. Text reads: U.S.