Lenny Zeltser

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Preparing for cybersecurity and data privacy incidents involves creating checklists and documented plans to enable the response team to do their best during the incident. Preparation also includes creating a template that the team can use as the basis for the incident report, which is critical to ensuring that the incident is handled well.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2022

This is according to Verizon’s latest 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report ( DBIR ). In the report’s findings, stolen credentials and exploited vulnerabilities are the top reasons for web breaches. Poor password practices are responsible for most incidents involving web applications and data breaches since 2009.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 26, 2022

As reported in the Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives Blog : Assembly Bill 1651 , or the Workplace Technology Accountability Act, a new bill proposed by California Assembly Member Ash Kalra, would regulate employers and their vendors regarding the use of employee data.

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

This is where harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics can help. Companies that harness AI and data analytics can also make clean energy more viable overall by increasing their cost competitiveness over legacy energy sources. As a result, the electric power industry is hastening efforts to reduce environmental impact.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 10, 2022

Its operators have a data leak site, where they post exfiltrated data from their victims who refused to pay the ransom. A flash alert published by the FBI in December 2021 reported that the Cuba ransomware gang breached the networks of at least 49 US critical infrastructure organizations. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

MAY 31, 2022

Cyber Research Labs reported a rise in ransomware attacks in the second quarter of 2022, small states are more exposed to these attacks. The experts also reported other ransomware attacks that hit government organizations in Latin America, including Brazilian and Peruvian government organizations. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 7, 2022

The data reported in ProDaft’s report confirms that the analyzed malware administration panel was used to manage FAKEUPDATES infections and to distribute secondary payloads, including BEACON. ” concludes the report. Previously, the UNC2165 actors also deployed the HADES ransomware. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2022

Atlassian warned of an actively exploited critical unpatched remote code execution flaw (CVE-2022-26134) in Confluence Server and Data Center products. “Atlassian has been made aware of current active exploitation of a critical severity unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in Confluence Data Center and Server. .

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2022

Dragos reported that Hexane was focused on organizations in the oil and gas industry and telecommunication providers. The attack chain observed by the researchers starts with spear-phishing messages using weaponized Word document disguised as a news report related to military affairs in Iran. . ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 10, 2022

Last week, Atlassian warned of a critical unpatched remote code execution vulnerability affecting all Confluence Server and Data Center supported versions, tracked as CVE-2022-26134, that is being actively exploited in attacks in the wild. Please vote for Security Affairs and Pierluigi Paganini in every category that includes them (e.g.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 13, 2022

The top drivers of the continued growth of cybersecurity are: the growing need to protect the API supply chain, the inadequacy of existing identity management systems, and the unfulfilled promise of data-driven AI-powered cybersecurity systems. The Log4j vulnerability reported at the end 2021 heightened concern even more.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2022

Once the malware has infected all the running processes, it provides the threat actor with rootkit capability and supports data-stealing capabilities. ” reads the report published by Blackberry. ” continues the report. “Since it is extremely evasive, a Symbiote infection is likely to “fly under the radar.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2022

Nisos analyzed the data and determined that Fronton is a system developed for coordinated inauthentic behavior on a massive scale.” “Two example lists of posting source dictionaries were included in the data. ” continues the report. ” reads the analysis published by the security firm NISOS. ru to 0day[.]llc.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 22, 2024

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a European Union (EU) law that governs how organizations collect and use personal data. Any company operating in the EU or handling EU residents’ data must adhere to GDPR requirements. The company processes data on behalf of a company based in the EEA.

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Data Protection Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Some requirements also apply specifically to larger covered entities falling under the “Class A companies” category. The amended rules (“Amendment”) contain the provisions we had initially described in the original NYDFS proposal a year ago (see our blog post here ), but include some notable changes.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2022

However, the experts warn that info-stealing Trojans are the most dangerous threats for Android users, they could be used to steal sensitive data such as login credentials and authorization for multiple services online. The principal trends emerged from the Dr.Web report is the decreased activity of the Android.Spy.4498

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 18, 2023

This report outlines the combination of traditional decision automation tools with machine learning models and other technologies. As Forrester notes in the report, many organizations are eager to harness the power of AI but also must be cautious of risks. We are pleased that IBM has been named as a Leader in the Forrester Wave.

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Enterprise Software Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

New Data-action for creating, updating, and deleting records in Grid component. Use Hierarchical type data in Tree-Grid and Tree component. Added support for nested data-binding when repeating components based on hierarchical data. Group and aggregate data in Category chart when repeated labels are present.

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Data Matters

JANUARY 12, 2022

In announcing this enforcement action, the SEC encouraged registrants to self-report similar failures to the SEC. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced settled charges against a broker-dealer firm for recordkeeping violations arising from its employees’ use of personal devices for business communications.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2022

Proof-of-concept exploits for the critical CVE-2022-26134 vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence and Data Center servers are available online. Proof-of-concept exploits for the critical CVE-2022-26134 flaw, affecting Atlassian Confluence and Data Center servers, have been released. 23 unique IPs so far.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 1, 2023

Continued advancement in AI development has resulted today in a definition of AI which has several categories and characteristics. The four categories of predictive modelling, robotics, speech and image recognition are collectively known as algorithm-based AI or Discriminative AI. It has taken the world by storm.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the European Union’s landmark data privacy law, took effect in 2018. Yet many organizations still struggle to meet compliance requirements, and EU data protection authorities do not hesitate to hand out penalties. Irish regulators hit Meta with a EUR 1.2 billion fine in 2023.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2022

It was reported via the Sophos bug bounty program by an external security researcher. ” reads the report published by Volexity. This blog post serves to share what highly targeted organizations are up against and ways to defend against attacks of this nature.” The CVE-2022-1040 flaw received a CVSS score of 9.8

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Welcome to our November 2022 review of data breaches and cyber attacks. The first was a data breach at Twitter, in the latest PR disaster for the social media giant. Reports emerged late last week that user records were stolen using an API vulnerability that has since been fixed. Data breaches. Cyber attacks. Ransomware.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 7, 2022

QBot, aka Qakbot and Pinkslipbot , has been active since 2008, it is used by threat actors for collecting browsing data and banking credentials and other financial information from the victims. Experts reported that the threat actor used two main techniques to evade anti-virus detection by disabling Windows Defender.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2022

Atlassian has addressed on Friday an actively exploited critical remote code execution flaw (CVE-2022-26134) in Confluence Server and Data Center products. Atlassian has been made aware of current active exploitation of a critical severity unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in Confluence Data Center and Server.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Under the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) , all personal data breaches must be recorded by the organisation and there should be a clear and defined process for doing so. In this blog, we take a look at the scenarios in which data protection breaches in schools must be reported. Identity theft or fraud.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

This process entails gathering new data, identifying existing challenges, and taking the necessary steps to ensure compliance. By capturing new data, they can harness this information not only to fulfill FSMA requirements but also to offer stakeholders and the public greater transparency.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2022

The document updates the information provided in the Dark Web Index 2022 report. The report also includes prices for forged documents and scans, the scan of a Russian passport goes $100, while a selfie of an American citizen with holding ID costs $120, an increase of $20 compared with 2021. To nominate, please visit:?.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

This blog has been updated to reflect industry updates. The first 72 hours after you become aware of a data breach are critical. This is the deadline given to you under the EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) to report information security incidents to your supervisory authority. How to report data breaches.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2022

If applied to a higher-impact threat—such as a credential harvester or spyware—this PowerShell behavior could help malware gain an initial foothold and go undetected before performing more overtly malicious activity, like exfiltrating data from a user’s browser sessions.” ” reads the analysis published by the experts.

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IT Governance

JULY 14, 2022

Organisations that fall within Levels 2–4 of the PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) can attest to compliance with an SAQ (self-assessment questionnaire). There are several types of questionnaire, and in this blog we help you understand which one is right for you. They are as follows: SAQ A.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2022

Researchers from Proofpoint reported that TA413 is conducting a spear-phishing campaign that uses ZIP archives containing weaponized Word Documents. Proofpoint has previously reported on Sepulcher malware and its links to the Lucky Cat and Exile Rat malware campaigns that targeted Tibetan organizations. app for the attacks.

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Collibra

JULY 14, 2023

Today, we’re excited to announce we’ve attained two new AWS Competencies under the AWS Competency Program: the Data and Analytics Competency, and the Government Competency. Collibra takes immense pride in achieving the AWS Data and Analytics Competency and the AWS Government Competency.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2022

Data collections released after ransomware attacks. Ransomware attacks hit indiscriminately across business categories, from private corporations to government agencies, including schools and universities, hospitals and healthcare providers, financial institutions, and everything in between. Related: ‘IABs’ spread ransomware.

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IT Governance

JUNE 30, 2022

Welcome to our June 2022 review of data breaches and cyber attacks. You can find the full list below, broken down into categories. Data breaches. We identified 80 security incidents during the month, resulting in 34,908,053 compromised records. Cyber attacks. Ransomware. Financial information. In other news…. Cyber attacks.

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2022

“On the one hand, we are aware of what’s going on — on the other hand, we need the data, which are in the private sector,” Stock said. “We need your [cyber breach] reports. “We need your [cyber breach] reports. Without your reports, we are blind.”

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