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Ransomware Protection in 2021

eSecurity Planet

Ransomware frequently contains extraction capabilities that can steal critical information like usernames and passwords, so stopping ransomware is serious business. Just in 2020, the SolarWinds hack could’ve been prevented for organizations that promptly patch software. Forensic Analysis. Zero Trust. Microsegmentation.

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OCR Provides Insight into Enforcement Priorities and Breach Trends

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

Regulators, industry experts, and researchers provided insight into health privacy and security enforcement trends, emerging threats, and new tools at a recent conference focused on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (HIPAA) regulatory framework. million settlement in 2018.

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CCPA In-Depth Series: Draft Attorney General Regulations on Verification, Children’s Privacy and Non-Discrimination

Data Matters

On October 10, 2019, this wait finally ended. DETAILED ANALYSIS ON VERIFICATION, CHILDREN’S PRIVACY AND NON-DISCRIMINATION. Verification for Password-Protected Accounts (§ 998.324). As laid out below, the nature and breadth of the Attorney General’s proposed regulations explain why they took so long to produce.

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Gift Card Gang Extracts Cash From 100k Inboxes Daily

Krebs on Security

For the past three years, the source — we’ll call him “Bill” to preserve his requested anonymity — has been watching one group of threat actors that is mass-testing millions of usernames and passwords against the world’s major email providers each day. ” The Gift Card Gang’s Footprint.

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CCPA In-Depth Series: Draft Attorney General Regulations on Consumer Notice

Data Matters

On October 10, 2019, this wait finally ended. Detailed Analysis On Consumer Notice. Meanwhile, the CCPA itself still goes into effect on January 1, 2020, and businesses may quickly begin seeing data subject rights requests, let alone the potential for data breach litigation pursuant to the private right of action.

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CCPA In-Depth Series: Draft Attorney General Regulations on Consumer Requests

Data Matters

On October 10, 2019, this wait finally ended. Detailed Analysis On Business Practices for Handling Consumer Requests. Businesses, consumer advocates, and privacy watchers have thus been eagerly waiting for over a year for the Attorney General to propose the regulations the CCPA requires him to promulgate.

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2024 State of Cybersecurity: Reports of More Threats & Prioritization Issues

eSecurity Planet

This picture comes from an analysis of specific statistics and by reading between the lines in reports from 1Password, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Flashpoint, Google Threat Analysis Group/Mandiant, NetScout, Pentera, and Sophos. 583% increase in Kerberoasting [password hash cracking] attacks.