The Last Watchdog

JUNE 2, 2022

Big banks and insurance companies instilled the practice of requesting their third-party vendors to fill out increasingly bloated questionnaires, called bespoke assessments, which they then used as their sole basis for assessing third-party risk. It does this by ingesting and correlating data from a wide array of security-related datasets.

Security 266

Security Risk Digital transformation Insurance 266

IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 9, 2024

The healthcare industry faces arguably the highest stakes when it comes to data governance. For starters, healthcare organizations constantly encounter vast (and ever-increasing) amounts of highly regulated personal data. healthcare, managing the accuracy, quality and integrity of data is the focus of data governance.

Government 67

Government GDPR Compliance Analytics 67

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 6, 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. When MOVEit was hacked by the Russian Cl0p ransomware gang in May, email addresses and links to government employee surveys were compromised.

Data Privacy 87

Data Privacy Privacy Libraries Security 87

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

American retailer and distributor of automotive parts and accessories AutoZone discloses a data breach after a MOVEit attack. AutoZone disclosed a data breach resulting from the hack of their MOVEit Transfer installation. Based on that analysis, we have determined that certain of your information was included in those files.”

Data breaches 110

Data breaches Retail Education Ransomware 110

IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 23, 2023

Although interest rates have increased at an unprecedented rate over the past year due to efforts by central banks to curb inflation, insurers are locked into low-yielding investments, and it will take several years for their investment yields to improve. Core modernization (processes and technology) is a top priority for every insurer.

Insurance 56

Insurance Cloud Digital transformation Customer Experience 56

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. The data included shoppers’ names, email addresses, phone numbers, countries of residence and membership numbers.

Data Privacy 75

Data Privacy Privacy Security Data breaches 75

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

IT Governance’s research has discovered the following for October 2023: 114 publicly disclosed security incidents. Introducing our Data Breach Dashboard We’re excited to introduce our new monthly Data Breach Dashboard – a one-page overview of this month’s key findings that you can download for free. Where ‘up to’, etc.

Data breaches 79

Data breaches Insurance Ransomware Education 79

IT Governance

JANUARY 5, 2024

IT Governance’s research found the following for December 2023: 1,351 publicly disclosed security incidents. For instance, a two-month Europol action (revealed to the public on 22 December) discovered that 443 organisations had suffered data breaches – specifically, their customers’ payment card data had been compromised.

Data breaches 87

Data breaches Insurance Manufacturing Ransomware 87

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

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. Financial information, medical data, health reimbursements, postal addresses, telephone numbers and emails are not thought to have been compromised.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Security 52

Krebs on Security

JUNE 4, 2019

said today personal and financial data on some 7.7 That third party — the American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) — also recently notified competing firm Quest Diagnostics that an intrusion in its payments Web site exposed personal, financial and medical data on nearly 12 million Quest patients. million patients.

Insurance 251

Insurance Data Privacy Access Security 251

Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Patrick Gunning from King & Wood Mallesons reports that, on November 2, 2023, the Australian Information Commissioner filed proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia against Australian Clinical Labs Limited seeking a civil penalty ( i.e. , a fine) in connection with the company’s response to a data breach that occurred in February 2022.

Data breaches 128

Data breaches Privacy Risk Information Security 128

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

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. Fowler sent a responsible disclosure notice when he discovered the database and it was secured the following day. Data breached: 2.7 Date breached: 384,658,212 records.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Energy and Utilities 52

Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

As reported on the Hunton Insurance Recovery blog , on February 4, 2021, the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”), which regulates the business of insurance in New York, has issued guidelines, in the Insurance Circular Letter No. sought coverage for expenses under its property insurance policy.

Insurance 70

Insurance Cybersecurity Risk Education 70

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Information security management is a way of protecting an organisation’s sensitive data from threats and vulnerabilities. The process is typically embedded via an ISMS (information security management system) , which provides the framework for managing information security. Benefits of information security management.

Information Security 138

Information Security Security Data breaches Risk 138

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Data Breach: WizCase team uncovered a massive data leak containing private information about Turkish Citizens through a misconfigured Amazon S3 bucket. Inova is an actuarial consultancy company, which means they compile statistical analysis and calculate insurance risks and premiums. What’s Going On?

Data breaches 96

Data breaches Insurance Paper Access 96

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. According to OPB, the district didn’t provide details, but said that “our student credentials may have been compromised as part of a security incident”.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Data breaches Security 52

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 28, 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. Over 56 million sensitive records leaked by TmaxSoft TmaxSoft, an IT company in South Korea, has exposed 2 TB of data to the Internet via a Kibana dashboard for over two years.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Energy and Utilities Data breaches 52

IT Governance

MAY 7, 2024

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. Data scraping is a typically automated process that extracts information from websites, allowing criminals to compile data sets containing personal information.

Data breaches 59

Data breaches Education Manufacturing Retail 59

Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2023

Bitmarck, one of the largest IT service providers for social insurance carriers in Germany, announced yesterday that it has suffered a cyber attack. The incident impacted statutory health insurance companies that have their IT operated by BITMARCK. The company immediately reported the incident to the responsible authorities.

IT 81

IT Insurance Data breaches Education 81

Adam Levin

APRIL 10, 2019

A security analysis of 30 major banking and financial apps has shown major security holes and a lax approach to protecting user data. Aite declined to identify the companies behind the apps researched or say whether they had warned the companies about the security holes discovered in their apps.

Retail 74

Retail Security Insurance Encryption 74

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. In recent years, costly breaches and evolving data security concerns have bubbled up to a board level agenda item.

Data Privacy 118

Data Privacy Privacy Security Encryption 118

IT Governance

DECEMBER 5, 2023

IT Governance’s research has found the following for November 2023: 470 publicly disclosed security incidents. Data Breach Dashboard For a quick, one-page overview of this month’s findings, please use our Data Breach Dashboard: Note: From this month, zero-day vulnerabilities are excluded from the ‘unpatched or misconfigured’ category.

Data breaches 111

Data breaches Ransomware Access Security 111

IT Governance

OCTOBER 31, 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. Data has been exfiltrated, but we don’t know how much. The data controller of the breached data is currently unclear. Records breached: Unknown.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Data breaches Security 52

eSecurity Planet

JULY 12, 2022

The first signs of the ransomware attack at data storage vendor Spectra Logic were reports from a number of IT staffers about little things going wrong at the beginning of the day. Cyber Insurer Provides Help. Also read: Top 8 Cyber Insurance Companies for 2022 Best Ransomware Removal and Recovery Services.

Ransomware 144

Ransomware Insurance Cybersecurity Passwords 144

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Is it fair to judge an organization’s information security posture simply by looking at its Internet-facing assets for weaknesses commonly sought after and exploited by attackers, such as outdated software or accidentally exposed data and devices? the security posture of vendor partners). How useful is such a score?

Security 199

Security Energy and Utilities Risk Data breaches 199

Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

Security 90

Security Ransomware Cybersecurity Authentication 90

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?

Insurance 62

Insurance Risk Marketing Cybersecurity 62

Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2021

Group-IB , a global threat hunting and adversary-centric cyber intelligence company, discovered that user data of the Swarmshop card shop have been leaked online on March 17, 2021. Group-IB notified the national CERTs in the above-mentioned countries about the breach so they could take the necessary steps to mitigate the threat.

Passwords 107

Passwords Insurance Personal data Sales 107

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

A data breach suffered by Luxottica has exposed the personal and health information of patients of LensCrafters, Target Optical, and EyeMed. The exposed financial data includes budgets, marketing forecast analysis, and other sensitive data. Luxottica Group S.p.A.

Data breaches 76

Data breaches Insurance Retail Ransomware 76

The Last Watchdog

MAY 10, 2021

But what about trusted allies who unwittingly put your company in harm’s way? So could sharing intelligence about third-party suppliers help? Back in the mid-1990s, big banks and insurance companies came up with something called “bespoke assessments” as the approach for assessing third party vendor risk.

Risk 195

Risk Insurance Access Security 195

Krebs on Security

JULY 4, 2020

One of the most-read advice columns on this site is a 2018 piece called “ Plant Your Flag, Mark Your Territory ,” which tried to impress upon readers the importance of creating accounts at websites like those at the Social Security Administration , the IRS and others before crooks do it for you.

Passwords 294

Passwords Authentication Insurance Mining 294

Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) held its Summer 2021 National Meeting (Summer Meeting) August 14-17, 2021. Highlights include, among others, adoption of revised risk-based capital bond factors for life insurers, amendments to SSAP No. NAIC Adopts Revised Risk-Based Capital Bond Factors for Life Insurers.

Insurance 88

Insurance e-Delivery Paper Sales 88

erwin

APRIL 11, 2019

Keeping up with new data protection regulations can be difficult, and the latest – the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – isn’t the only new data protection regulation organizations should be aware of. A number of high-profile data breaches and scandals have increased public awareness of the issue.

GDPR 100

GDPR e-Discovery Compliance Metadata 100

eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2021

A lawsuit working its way through the courts could have a lot to say about the liabilities facing organizations that have been hit by ransomware attacks – and could have implications for cybersecurity preparation and regulation in general. ” Cyber Insurance No Longer Reliable. “And the war can be multi-pronged.

Ransomware 104

Ransomware Insurance Digital transformation Cybersecurity 104

erwin

MARCH 30, 2020

Data intelligence has a critical role to play in the supercomputing battle against Covid-19. While leveraging supercomputing power is a tremendous asset in our fight to combat this global pandemic, in order to deliver life-saving insights, you really have to understand what data you have and where it came from.

Metadata 122

Metadata IT Healthcare Government 122

The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 1, 2019

Company officials at Capital One Financial Corp ought to have a crystal clear idea of what to expect next — after admitting to have allowed a gargantuan data breach. Related: Hackers direct botnets to manipulate business logic Thompson is accused of pilfering sensitive data for 100 million US and 6 million Canadian bank patrons.

Data Privacy 198

Data Privacy Privacy Data breaches Cloud 198

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 27, 2023

Security information and event management (SIEM) systems only have detections for 24 percent of the 196 techniques in MITRE ATT&CK v13, according to a new report. “This implies that adversaries can execute around 150 different techniques that will be undetected by the SIEM,” says the CardinalOps report.

Metadata 109

Metadata Financial Services Insurance Manufacturing 109