IT Governance

OCTOBER 13, 2023

So, as ever, this blog series examines recent phishing campaigns and the tactics criminals use to trick people into compromising their data. These phishing emails have reached the inboxes of users in multiple industries, including finance, manufacturing, financial services, energy, construction and healthcare.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 30, 2018

DataLocker honed its patented approach to manufacturing encrypted portable drives and landed some key military and government clients early on; the company has continued branching out ever since. All the user needs is a strong password to access to the data. You need to rely on external storage to securely transport your data.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 22, 2021

For any IoT device vendors currently contracted by the government, this is what we know so far from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST): Required reading for IoT manufacturers: foundational guidelines about IoT vulnerabilities ( 8259 ) and a core baseline of necessary cybersecurity components ( 8259A ). Data protection.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Other major flaws appeared in the NGINX Ingress Controller for Kubernetes, Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server, and Apache ActiveMQ — and the latter two have already been targeted in ransomware attacks. severity flaw could allow unauthenticated attackers to delete data. vulnerability scoring system released last week.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 7, 2023

Threats to your data are virtually everywhere these days, and too often, data compromises seem almost inevitable. But with a proactive approach to data security, organizations can fight back against the seemingly endless waves of threats. Thirty percent of those incidents occurred in manufacturing organizations.

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2023

In the most recent campaign, the group targeted organizations in the communications, manufacturing, utility, transportation, construction, maritime, government, information technology, and education sectors. The Volt Typhoon group has been active since at least mid-2021 it carried out cyber operations against critical infrastructure.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2022

The ransomware was involved in attacks aimed at technology and healthcare, defense contractors, educational institutions, manufacturers, companies across Europe, the United States, and Canada. The ransomware can be deployed as a .dll exe file or contained within a PowerShell loader.

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Data Protection Report

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

antivirus, anti-malware, “jailbreak” [2] detection); Accessing unauthorized applications or websites; Leaking data between business and personal applications; Sharing personal devices with family and friends; and Limiting employers’ ability to monitor and detect threats. [3] 70.003), Canadian Centre for Cyber Security: [link]. [4]

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Promote cross- and up-selling Recommendation engines use consumer behavior data and AI algorithms to help discover data trends to be used in the development of more effective up-selling and cross-selling strategies, resulting in more useful add-on recommendations for customers during checkout for online retailers.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

“These operations have targeted various industries, including Aerospace & Defense, Education, Energy & Utilities, Governments, Hospitality, Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, Retail, Technology, and Transportation. ” reads the joint report. The US government operation blocked access to the routers by Russian cyberspies.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The only way to tackle this challenge is to educate the users about these threats and their potential implications. Furthermore, consumers believe that companies and services have the responsibility of keeping their data secure. The Flaws in Manufacturing Process. Hackers can use this window of opportunity to steal the data.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The ransomware group claims to have stolen a substantial trove of ‘impressive data’ and is auctioning it for 20 BTC. The Rhysida ransomware operators plan to sell the stolen data to a single buyer. The gang will publicly release the data over the seven days following the announcement. ” reads the announcement.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 6, 2018

Gartner defines digital risk management as “the integrated management of risks associated with digital business components, such as cloud, mobile, social, big data, third-party technology providers, OT and the IoT.” Some smaller companies have even gone out of business as the result of a data breach. The Threat Level Is Rising.

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IT Governance

APRIL 22, 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. Compromised data includes names, passport numbers, Social Security numbers, online crypto account identifiers and bank account numbers. Data breached: 5,300,000 records.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Some technology trends such as real-time data analytics are on-going, while others are more recent, such as blockchain. Information and data are synonyms but have different definitions. ARMA defines information as “Data that has been given value through analysis, interpretation, or compilation in a meaningful form” (ARMA 2016, p 28).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 26, 2023

. “With just 7 days on the clock, seize the opportunity to bid on exclusive, unique, and impressive data. Open your wallets and be ready to buy exclusive data. The ransomware group claims to have stolen a substantial trove of ‘sensitive data’ and is auctioning it for 10 BTC. reads the joint advisory.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Leaked images include medical reports, registration forms, x-rays, medical prescriptions, medical reports, and more The group claims to have stolen data belonging to a large amount of patients and employees, including the Royal Family. Data from the Royal Family! A large amount of patient and employee data. Sale in one lot!!”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

The ransomware group claims to have stolen a substantial trove of ‘impressive data’ and is auctioning it for 50 BTC. The Rhysida ransomware operators plan to sell the stolen data to a single buyer. The gang will publicly release the data over the seven days following the announcement.

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 7, 2023

However, existing blockchain databases lack efficient tools for multiple parties to control shared data on the ledger. Orion combines these capabilities with other blockchain properties, offering tamper evidence, provenance, data lineage, authenticity and non-repudiation, all while utilizing a standard data model and transactional APIs.

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IT Governance

APRIL 9, 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. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight US Environmental Protection Agency allegedly breached: nearly 8.5 Data breached: 8,460,182 accounts.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The experts exploited the vulnerability to reconstruct encryption keys and developed a decryptor that allows victims of the Rhysida ransomware to recover their encrypted data for free. Rhysida ransomware employed a secure random number generator to generate the encryption key and subsequently encrypt the data.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 24, 2024

Protecting Against the Risks and Managing the Complexities of a Quantum World with Thales and IBM Consulting madhav Thu, 01/25/2024 - 11:03 Contributors: Ollie Omotosho - Director, Strategir Partnerships, Thales Antti Ropponen, Head of Data & Application Security Services, IBM Consulting In the world of business, data security is paramount.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 6, 2023

Ransomware is a type of malicious program, or malware, that encrypts files, documents and images on a computer or server so that users cannot access the data. Ransomware is the most feared cybersecurity threat and with good reason: Its ability to cripple organizations by locking their data is a threat like no other.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2022

They continuously send and receive data via the internet and can be the easiest way for a hacker to access your home network. The other main weakness of IoT devices is the vast amounts of data that each one collects and sends. IoT Means Someone Has To Store Loads Of Data. Big Data storage systems have weaknesses.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

My healthcare is always going to be one again, it's a vertical healthcare and education, both where you have large amounts of very sensitive information, but not necessarily the budgets to secure it effectively. It’s not like data breaches are going away, they’re shifting. And we're starting to see more and more.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Rather than stealing data, adware is more of an irritant forcing users to see unwanted ads. Most device or software manufacturers place backdoors in their products intentionally and for a good reason. This exposed data includes everything from emails and documents typed to passwords entered for authentication purposes.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 30, 2023

We know that you know, manufacturing is an area that we've seen a lot of targets over the last quarter. Again, because if you bring down manufacturing operations, there's a high impact to the business and necessity to recover quickly. They found what they believed to be sensitive data and then they perform the encryption.

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Data Matters

MAY 17, 2022

It used to be that data breaches were all about cyber-crooks hacking computer systems to steal personal information, followed by an affected company sending regretful notification letters offering a year or two of complimentary credit monitoring. In your grandfather’s data breach—e.g., All rights reserved. Persistence.

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eDiscovery Daily

MARCH 29, 2018

So, there’s the question of liability, i.e., whether the software developer or manufacturer are held to a standard of strict liability, and what kind of ethical considerations are involved. It’s that you need to be aware that there are sources of data everywhere, in every case. or whatever. It’s not just that.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Most organizations express confidence in their current status and budgets, but also expect to experience at least one data breach in 2024. Compromised Credentials Compromised identities from phishing, info stealers, keyloggers, and bad password habits provide the entry point for most ransomware attacks and data breaches.

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KnowBe4

MARCH 7, 2023

The war is really just revealing the capabilities," says Erin Miller, who runs the Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center, a trade group that gathers data on orbital threats. Grimes, Data-Driven Defense Evangelist at KnowBe4. He wrote the book on it, literally - A Data-Driven Computer Security Defense. Join Roger A.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

What if the right to repair something that you own was denied simply because a manufacturer decided it could do that? Play it out across a few decades and you start to see the type of trouble we’ll be in if we don’t start educating our legislators now, if current trends are allowed to just continue. It’s not.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

What if the right to repair something that you own was denied simply because a manufacturer decided it could do that? Play it out across a few decades and you start to see the type of trouble we’ll be in if we don’t start educating our legislators now, if current trends are allowed to just continue. It’s not.

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