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What Is Data Loss Prevention (DLP)? Definition & Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

Review Data in Real-Time DLP solutions perform instant analysis of data packets or files as they’re observed. DLP uses content inspection, behavior analysis, and machine learning to detect abnormalities that indicate data breaches or policy violations. Definition & Best Practices appeared first on eSecurity Planet.

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Vermont’s Amendments to Data Breach Law and New Student Privacy Law Effective July 1, 2020

Hunton Privacy

The amendments to Vermont’s Security Breach Notice Act include expanding the definition of Personally Identifiable Information (“PII”), expanding the definition of a breach to include login credentials and narrowing the permissible circumstances under which substitute notice may be used.

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Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in October 2023 – 867,072,315 Records Breached

IT Governance

Our monthly blogs will provide analysis of the data we’ve collected and we’ll continue to discuss the biggest breaches on our 2023 overview of publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks. This typically included conducting a forensic analysis to establish exactly what happened (often by engaging a third-party specialist).

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Researchers Quietly Cracked Zeppelin Ransomware Keys

Krebs on Security

“These senseless acts of targeting those who are unable to respond are the motivation for this research, analysis, tools, and blog post. Memory analysis gave us about a 5-minute window after files were encrypted to retrieve this public key.” “I definitely feel like I was ill-prepared for this attack,” Jon said.

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Cybercriminals Use Fake Public PoCs to Spread Malware and Steal Data

eSecurity Planet

While such PoCs are usually meant for educational purposes only, researchers found that 4,893 repositories out of 47,300 examined “have symptoms of malicious content,” which represents a bit more than 10% of all PoCs analyzed. However, running code blindly without knowing what it does is the very definition of a script kiddie.

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6,009,014 MovieBoxPro Accounts Breached in Another Data Scraping Incident

IT Governance

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. It emerged this week, according to the New York City Department of Education, that data from a further 381,000 students was also compromised in this incident. Young, Inc.

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Arrest in ‘Ransom Your Employer’ Email Scheme

Krebs on Security

KrebsOnSecurity spoke with a fraud investigator who is performing the forensic analysis of the devices seized from Medayedupin’s home. “Education is definitely one piece, as raising awareness is hands down the best way to get ahead of this,” Tokazowski said, in a June 2021 interview.