eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Compromised Identities In IaaS setups, the breach of user credentials or access keys constitutes a substantial concern. If attackers obtain access to valid user identities, they can abuse permissions and get access to resources, possibly resulting in data breaches, unauthorized changes, or service interruptions.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 17, 2018

In our first #BreachReady blog for schools series , we asked you to consider the types of breaches your school has experienced, what caused them, and steps your school can take to prevent them from happening again. Situational analysis – understand what’s happening now. Introduce device encryption. What’s next? Activities.

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IT Governance

MARCH 6, 2019

The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) isn’t only about preventing data breaches (it’s equally focused on strengthening data subjects’ rights), but organisations have understandably honed in on the importance of effective data protection. Measure, monitor and review.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 7, 2020

Careful planning and forward-thinking security is the best way to protect your most precious asset – your data – either while it is in transit or at rest. Whether the data breach is from stolen identities or human error, privacy breaches of unencrypted data can result in severe penalties under data protection regulations such as GDPR or CCPA.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2023

Nominate Pierluigi Paganini and Security Affairs here here: [link] Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. ransom Dragon Breath APT uses double-dip DLL sideloading strategy International Press Cybercrime San Bernardino County pays $1.1-million

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 24, 2023

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks City of Philadelphia discloses data breach after five months Date of breach: 24 May 2023 ( notice issued 20 October 2023).

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Data Protection Report

AUGUST 29, 2017

Earlier this month, Delaware revamped its data breach notification law, with changes to go into effect April 14, 2018. Most notably, the new law requires any entity that has suffered a data breach that includes social security numbers to provide free credit monitoring services to affected residents for one year.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2023

CISA and ENISA enhance their Cooperation CISA adds Qlik bugs to exploited vulnerabilities catalog Report: 2.6 CISA and ENISA enhance their Cooperation CISA adds Qlik bugs to exploited vulnerabilities catalog Report: 2.6

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 29, 2024

DLP integrates procedures, technology, and people to effectively detect and prevent sensitive data leaks. The 10 steps outlined below show how data loss prevention works. Review Data in Real-Time DLP solutions perform instant analysis of data packets or files as they’re observed.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Records breached: 79,582 Ontario hospitals update: information relating to 5.6 Records breached: 1.3 million individuals McLaren Health Care notifies nearly 2.2

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

GDPR, the EU’s flagship data privacy and “right to be forgotten” regulation, has made the stakes of a data breach higher than ever. M]uch of InfoSec management falls back on employee training and avoiding employee error – particularly with respect to phishing , spear phishing, and encryption lapses.”. In the U.S.,

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2021

While investigating a data breach suffered by a healthcare organization, FBI accidentally revealed that it believes that the HelloKitty ransomware gang operates out of Ukraine. ” reads the notice of data breach published by the Oregon Anesthesiology Group. “Oregon Anesthesiology Group, P.C.

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Data Protection Report

JANUARY 29, 2018

Last week, South Dakota moved closer to implementing a data breach notification law, while Colorado legislators introduced a new bill requiring “reasonable security procedures,” imposing data disposal rules and shortening the time frame in which to alert authorities regarding a breach. South Dakota. under HIPAA).

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 22, 2024

Hackers know this might be your first instinct, and some types of ransomware notice restart attempts and cause additional harm, like damaging Windows or deleting encrypted files. This will save all data in memory to a reference file on the device’s hard drive, preserving it for future analysis.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2023

Xplain hack impacted the Swiss cantonal police and Fedpol Zyxel published guidance for protecting devices from ongoing attacks Kimsuky APT poses as journalists and broadcast writers in its attacks New Linux Ransomware BlackSuit is similar to Royal ransomware CISA adds Progress MOVEit Transfer zero-day to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (..)

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Data Cleansing: By understanding the transformations data undergoes, organizations can implement data cleansing processes at the proper stages of data pipelines. By solving these issues, data lineage ensures that the data used for analysis and decision-making is accurate and trustworthy.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Researchers from vpnMentor security firm have recently discovered a huge data breach in flight booking platform Option Way. . Researchers at vpnMentor discovered a huge data breach in flight booking platform Option Way as part of a web-mapping project. . ” reads the analysis published by the experts.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 17, 2019

The settlement resolves a multistate litigation arising out of a May 2015 data breach in which hackers infiltrated WebChart, a web application run by MIE, and stole the electronic Protected Health Information (“ePHI”) of over 3.9 failed to encrypt the sensitive ePHI. MIE”) and its wholly owned subsidiary NoMoreClipboard, LLC.

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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?

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 5, 2017

With respect to breach reporting, the Breach Memorandum encourages each agency to set up a simple email address, such as breach@[agency].gov, gov, to which individuals may report suspected or confirmed breaches.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Thus, the decision whether to pay or ignore a ransomware demand, seems less of a legal, and more of a practical, determination ­ almost like a cost-benefit analysis. The arguments for rendering a ransomware payment include: Payment is the least costly option; Payment is in the best interest of stakeholders (e.g.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2023

Their main purpose is to protect applications from unauthorized access, data breaches, and malicious attacks. These tools play a vital role in ensuring the security, integrity, and confidentiality of sensitive information, such as personal data and financial records.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Cross-Border Data Privacy and Security Concerns in the Dawn of Quantum Computing. New EU restrictions could force companies to change data transfer practices and adopt more advanced data encryption methods. Data Privacy and Security in the Quantum Era. Tue, 12/22/2020 - 10:08. In the Dec. In the Dec.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. have notified 330,000 people that their personal data might have been compromised as part of the MOVEit Transfer data breach.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Behavioral Analysis Behavioral analysis , a machine learning-driven approach, assesses cloud workload and app activity to identify possible security issues. Data Security Protection of data is a crucial function of any CWP platform. These safeguards protect data at rest and in transit, reducing the chance of a compromise.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

19, Apex was alerted that its systems had been infected with a destructive strain of ransomware that encrypts computer files and demands payment for a digital key needed to unscramble the data. “When they encrypt the data, that happens really fast,” he said. Roswell, Ga. on Tuesday, Feb.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2022

The name B1txor20 is based on the file name “b1t” used for the propagation and the XOR encryption algorithm, and the RC4 algorithm key length of 20 bytes. ” reads the analysis published by the experts. ” continues the analysis. In this way, Bot and C2 achieve communication with the help of DNS protocol.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2021

” reads the analysis published by researchers Gabor Szappanos and Andrew Brandt from Sophos. ” continues the analysis. Gootloader infection process is multi-stage, it begins with a.NET loader, which comprises a Delphi-based loader malware, which, in turn, contains the final payload in encrypted form. “This.js

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2018

According to a report published by the Reuters, the massive Marriott data breach was carried out by Chinese state-sponsored hackers. According to the Reuters, people investigating the Marriot data breach believe that it is the result of a cyberattack carried out by Chinese hackers. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 16, 2021

In addition, according to the “2020 Year End Report of Data Breach ” from QuickView, the number of records compromised in 2020 revealed a 141% increase compared to 2019. One of the two main causes of cloud data breaches is due to data exposed as a result of misconfigurations based on “ Cost of a Data Breach Report” of 2020 by IBM.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 10, 2022

The cyber security landscape offered similarly familiar topics: there were huge data breaches at Facebook and LinkedIn, while the threat of ransomware reached catastrophic levels. You can see more incidents from January in our list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Spring brought with it a new wave of optimism.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

According to its analysis , 260 organisations in the UK fell victim to ransomware between January 2020 and June 2022, a figure that’s only exceeded by Canada (276) and – in a distant lead – the US (2,379). What else should organisations do? The majority of infections occur as a result of scam emails.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2021

The threat actor also accessed a subset of email addresses and other contact information, as well as encrypted and/or hashed and salted credentials. Below the list of additional remediation measures implemented by the company in response to the security incident: Rotated all impacted certificates and encryption keys.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

As the internet has enabled us to access work, data, and equipment from any location, remote access security has become increasingly crucial. Strong passwords, two-factor authentication, firewalls, encryption, and monitoring systems are just a few of the tools and procedures used to maintain security.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Between April 7, 2023, and May 4, 2023, Royal performed data exfiltration and ransomware delivery preparation activities. The Royal group began reconnaissance activity in April 2023, and the analysis of system log data dates the beginning of the surveillance operations on April 7, 2023. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Once opened, the email appears as a legitimate email communication from American Express, while the content instructs the cardholder on how to view the secure, encrypted message attached. ” reads the analysis published by the Armorblox. ” reads the analysis published by the Armorblox.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

By gaining a deeper understanding of application security, companies can take the necessary steps and actions to safeguard their valuable assets and reduce the risk of devastating data breaches. CNAP provides encryption, access control, threat detection and response features for enhanced security.

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