Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2023

The City is investigating the scope of the incident with the help of law enforcement, at this time has yet to disclose details on the incident, including the ransomware family that hit its systems and if there is a data breach. However, CBS News Texas obtained an image the ransomware note dropped by the malware on the infected systems.

Ransomware 94

Ransomware IT Encryption Education 94

IT Governance

MARCH 1, 2023

Welcome to our February 2023 list of data breaches and cyber attacks. It follows a mammoth start to the year, with more than 277 million breached records in January , and brings the running total for the year to over 300 million pieces of compromised personal data. You can find the full list of data breaches and cyber attacks below.

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Data breaches Ransomware e-Delivery Government 130

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

There are three major threat vectors that harm IoT deployments: Devices are hijacked by malicious software; Data collected and processed in IoT ecosystems is tampered with and impacts the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the information; and, Weak user and device authentication. However, the security mindset is changing.

IoT 96

IoT Manufacturing Energy and Utilities Encryption 96

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

And each of these devices requires network connectivity so it can collect and transfer data. Unless communications between IoT devices and extended enterprise networks are authenticated and protected with valid, unique machine identities, the data flowing from these devices can be stolen or compromised.

IoT 85

IoT Authentication Communications Manufacturing 85

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Reflecting organizations’ persistent interest in IoT, International Data Corporation (IDC) estimates that overall, the number of smart devices will reach 41.6 zettabytes (ZB) of data by 2025. Take manufacturing, for instance. billion in number and generate 79.4 Healthcare is in Need of a Check-Up.

IoT 122

IoT Risk Energy and Utilities Security 122

Data Matters

JANUARY 13, 2020

New European medical device guidance will require manufacturers to carefully review cybersecurity and IT security requirements in relation to their devices and in their product literature. The Guidance acknowledges that even though the Regulations impose legal obligations only on the manufacturer of the device, all other actors (e.g.,

Cybersecurity 79

Cybersecurity Manufacturing GDPR Privacy 79

IT Governance

APRIL 3, 2023

Welcome to our March 2023 list of data breaches and cyber attacks. You can find the full list of data breaches and cyber attacks below, including our new feature in which we delve into the month’s biggest incidents in a little more detail. This suggests that it had a poor understanding of the attack and rushed to disclose the breach.

Data breaches 119

Data breaches Ransomware Phishing Government 119

IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The SDV in a nutshell In an SDV, the vehicle serves as the technological base for future innovations, acting as a command center for collecting and organizing vast volumes of data, applying AI for insights and automating thoughtful actions. Based on insights from this data, new software is delivered to vehicles via over-the-air updates.

Computer and Electronics 72

Computer and Electronics Manufacturing Cloud Customer Experience 72

The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 8, 2023

Departments such as support, manufacturing, design, services, and delivery are enhanced by smart security measures, which allay distracting setbacks and increase the overall inertia. The complexity that has abounded in the past few years has left us more connected and data-driven than ever before. Complexity challenge.

Risk 191

Risk Cybersecurity Manufacturing Security 191

Schneier on Security

MAY 1, 2018

Researchers at Princeton University have released IoT Inspector , a tool that analyzes the security and privacy of IoT devices by examining the data they send across the Internet. Dahua is also a security camera manufacturer, although Amcrest's website makes no references to Dahua. Halo Smoke Detector. No surprises there.

IoT 61

IoT Manufacturing Communications Encryption 61

IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The other most vulnerable sectors were business services (23), construction (22), manufacturing (19) and transport (18). When you look at the data through this lens, you see why certain industries are more affected than others.”. Across the UK, the education sector was the most frequently targeted, with 24 incidents. Get started.

Ransomware 136

Ransomware Manufacturing Data breaches Risk 136

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 5, 2021

CRN, a brand of the Channel Company, publishes its Partner Program Guide every year as a means for solutions providers to learn more about the partner programs operated by some of the industry’s leading technology companies that offer IT products and services including IT manufacturers, software developers, distributors and more. Encryption.

Encryption 77

Encryption Manufacturing Access IT 77

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Enormous quantities of data can be generated by and collected from a wide variety of IoT devices. But with great power comes great responsibility – if you can’t trust the data and the devices producing it, then why undertake the massive effort required to collect and analyse the data, or even worse, make business decisions based on it?

IoT 66

IoT Manufacturing Encryption Authentication 66

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The analysis of attacks where Egregor has been deployed revealed that the TTPs used by the threat actors are almost identical to the ones used by the ProLock operators, whose campaigns have been described in Group-IB blog post in May. Moreover, Egregor operators have been using Rclone for data exfiltration – same as with ProLock.

Ransomware 116

Ransomware Retail Encryption Manufacturing 116

Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2020

Then the malware encrypts the files on the system, skipping Windows system files and folders. a file named invoice.doc is encrypted and renamed like invoice.docIksrt. The experts noticed that the malware appends the ‘ EKANS ‘ file marker to each encrypted file. ” reads the report published by SentinelOne.

Ransomware 86

Ransomware Energy and Utilities Manufacturing Encryption 86

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. Communication to and from the EdgeRouters involved encryption using a randomly generated 16-character AES key.

Energy and Utilities 96

Energy and Utilities Military Government Phishing 96

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.

Security 40

Security Data breaches Data Privacy Compliance 40

IT Governance

MARCH 23, 2023

The supercar manufacturer said that its systems were compromised and that customer data has been stolen. He said that no bank account details or other sensitive payment data was affected, nor have any details about the cars that customers own.

IT 111

IT Manufacturing Personal data Phishing 111

Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

Its operators have a DLS site, where they post exfiltrated data from their victims who refused to pay the ransom. As of April 28, the site mentioned nine companies primarily from aviation, financial, education and manufacturing industries. Downloaded data is decrypted, decompressed and injected to newly started svchost.exe process.

Ransomware 114

Ransomware Education Manufacturing Healthcare 114

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2019

We are just getting started with the process of turning over granular control of every aspect of human society to ubiquitous digital sensors tuned to feed endless streams of data into increasingly “intelligent” machine algorithms. This will be led by the manufacturing, consumer, transportation and utilities sectors.

IoT 167

IoT Energy and Utilities Security Privacy 167

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 16, 2019

Many manufacturers and third-party merchants now actually save their best deals for Prime Day knowing millions of extra shoppers will be buying goods via the online store. As I wrote about earlier this year , almost all enterprises are now storing sensitive data in digitally transformative environments, but only 30% are encrypting it.

Digital transformation 73

Digital transformation Customer Experience Encryption Authentication 73

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.

Ransomware 85

Ransomware Authentication Cybersecurity Education 85

Everteam

JULY 11, 2019

Data is changing the face of the world. It’s not just a buzzword we hear often and read about while browsing the internet, data today is the most valuable asset of any organization, business and industry. These viruses are manufactured with great care to target computers, systems and networks. Everteam Security .

Security 75

Security Encryption Archiving Phishing 75

OneHub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Cloud computing describes the process of storing and retrieving programs and data via the internet rather than via a hard drive. Cloud based software has had a measurable impact on business productivity both for large manufacturers and small businesses. Image source. 5 Mobility. 6 Lower costs. 9 Reduction in environmental impact.

Cloud 140

Cloud Marketing Access Manufacturing 140

IT Governance

OCTOBER 11, 2018

To highlight the importance and usefulness of the Cyber Essentials scheme, we are producing a series of blog posts each of its five security controls. Verizon: 6 million people’s data exposed, including names, addresses, phone numbers, PINs and other account details. Secure your devices and software. Register now >> .

Security 90

Security Passwords Authentication Manufacturing 90

CGI

AUGUST 10, 2016

Now that the drive to add “infotainment” to internal systems has brought the Internet inside of cars, manufacturers need a whole new way of thinking to deal with outside cyber threats. Working closely with our client, we developed a certificate service as an enabler for other security services, such as encryption, signing and authentication.

Security 40

Security Communications Manufacturing Encryption 40

Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Back to the bit about risks impacting data collected by IoT devices and back again to CloudPets, Context Security's piece aligned with my own story about kids' CloudPets messages being left exposed to the internet. Or are they just the same old risks we've always had with data stored on the internet? So, what's to be done about it?

IoT 143

IoT Security Risk Cloud 143

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

In this blog, we reached out to our technology partner Nexus to better understand the challenges that the industry faces to ensure safe deployment and management of IoT technologies. With IoT PKI, Secure IoT can be accomplished by enabling strong authentication and encryption of communication to ensure the integrity of transactions and data.

IoT 92

IoT Security Computer and Electronics Authentication 92

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.

Risk 48

Risk Security Digital transformation IoT 48

Elie

MARCH 17, 2018

This file is encrypted with a hardcoded [XOR encryption] function. This encryption is used to escape the signatures that detect the code that Gooligan borrows from previous malware. Encrypting malicious payload is a very old malware trick that has been used by. Android malware. since at least 2011. Andrey Polkovnichenko.

Encryption 82

Encryption Libraries Ransomware Marketing 82

Elie

MARCH 17, 2018

This file is encrypted with a hardcoded [XOR encryption] function. This encryption is used to escape the signatures that detect the code that Gooligan borrows from previous malware. Encrypting malicious payload is a very old malware trick that has been used by. Android malware. since at least 2011. Andrey Polkovnichenko.

Encryption 82

Encryption Libraries Ransomware Marketing 82

IT Governance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Cyber criminals continued to wreak havoc, with the likes of Twitter , Uber and Neopets all reporting mammoth data breaches. In total, we have so far reported more than 1,000 data breaches in 2022, with almost half a billion breached records. Meanwhile, GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) enforcement continues apace.

Security 132

Security Data breaches Ransomware Military 132

Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

businesses that produce, design, test, manufacture, fabricate, or develop one or more critical technologies (“U.S. – Encryption Commodities, Software, and Technology: authorizes exports of specified commercial commodities, software, and technology subject to encryption controls.

Encryption 68

Encryption Government Manufacturing Sales 68

IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

For more information on each story, simply follow the links in the transcript on our blog. The year started with the revelation of Spectre and Meltdown – major security flaws affecting processors manufactured by Intel, ARM and AMD. Dixons Carphone admitted suffering a major data breach in July 2017, involving 5.9

Data breaches 71

Data breaches Personal data Access GDPR 71

Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2019

Recently, our monitoring operations discovered an interesting attack wave leveraging this technique, especially due to the particular impersonification the attacker was trying: he/they was mimicking an important Italian Manufacturing company. Encrypted payload, stored in Resource section. Technical Analysis. Phishing email content.

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File names Encryption Archiving Phishing 68

eDiscovery Daily

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Now, Tom has written another terrific overview regarding blockchain and legal technology titled Understanding Blockchain and its Impact on Legal Technology that we’re happy to share on the eDiscovery Daily blog. The audit trail itself is visible to all participants yet allows encryption of individual transactions. How Blockchain Works.

Blockchain 46

Blockchain IT Computer and Electronics Healthcare 46

IT Governance

DECEMBER 5, 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 CyberNews , more than 300 million data records were compromised, including 21,000 telephone numbers and 31,000 email addresses. Some payment card data was also exposed.

Data Privacy 106

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Retail 106