IT Governance

MARCH 11, 2024

According to a listing on a popular hacking forum, the database includes customers’ names, email addresses, hashed passwords, and more. The claim is yet to be verified. Data breached: 36 million records. We also found 14 organisations providing a significant update on a previously disclosed incident. TB Paysign, Inc.

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Data Privacy Privacy Security Data breaches 79

KnowBe4

MAY 16, 2023

Learn about the real risks of weak passwords, why password management is key to building a strong security culture, and our best advice on how to protect your users and your organization. I've spent a lot of time here educating you on attack specifics, industry trends, and the impacts felt by attacks.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2019

There are already more IoT devices than human beings on the planet, according to tech industry research firm Gartner. Another tech industry consultancy, IDC, forecasts worldwide IoT spending will hit a record $745 billion in 2019 , some 15.4% This will be led by the manufacturing, consumer, transportation and utilities sectors.

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IoT Energy and Utilities Security Privacy 189

Data Matters

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

On January 28, 2019, the Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council released the “ Medical Device and Health IT Joint Security Plan ” (“JSP” or “Plan”)—cybersecurity recommendations for medical device manufacturers, healthcare information technology vendors, and healthcare providers. Complaint Handling and Reporting.

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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. Change any default usernames and passwords. ” reads the joint report. ” continues the report.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 23, 2024

The leaked information allegedly includes customers’ names, dates of birth, email addresses, passwords and phone numbers. Source (New) Manufacturing Saudi Arabia Yes 86.16 Data breached: 10,870,524 lines. 96 of them are known to have had data exfiltrated, exposed or otherwise breached.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 16, 2024

GB database includes names, email addresses, phone numbers and passwords. Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes 42 GB Auto-Motion Shade Inc. Drug Mart Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Healthcare USA Yes 36,749 Elliott Group Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes 31.5 Data breached: >7,000,000 records. Vauxhall Motors database with 5.5

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Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Retail 52

IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

You can find our full list of publicly disclosed data breaches from August in this blog, with incidents affecting UK organisations listed in bold. Meanwhile, you can stay up to date with the latest news by subscribing to our Weekly Round-up or visiting our blog. million records breached appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog.

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IT Governance

MAY 7, 2024

Source (New) IT services USA Yes 1,382 Worthen Industries Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Manufacturing USA Yes 1,277 R.J. Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes Unknown Human Events. Most notably, it’s banning bad default passwords on IoT (Internet of Things) devices, becoming the first country to do so.

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Data breaches Education Manufacturing Retail 59

Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

” “At present, pre-installed partners cover the entire mobile phone industry chain, including mobile phone chip manufacturers, mobile phone design companies, mobile phone brand manufacturers, mobile phone agents, mobile terminal stores and major e-commerce platforms,” reads a descriptive blurb about the company.

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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. Manufacturers often set the default configurations of new software and devices to be as open and multi-functional as possible. Secure your devices and software.

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2023

is an Italian eyewear conglomerate and the world’s largest company in the eyewear industry. As a vertically integrated company, Luxottica designs, manufactures, distributes and retails its eyewear brands, including LensCrafters, Sunglass Hut, Apex by Sunglass Hut, Pearle Vision, Target Optical, Eyemed vision care plan, and Glasses.com.

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Data breaches Retail Sales Ransomware 87

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. Egregor’s favorite sectors are Manufacturing (28.9% of victims) and Retail (14.5%). Inside Egregor.

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Ransomware Retail Encryption Manufacturing 112

IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2020

Take a look at every data breach and cyber attack that we recorded in May in this blog. Meanwhile, you can stay up to date with the latest news by subscribing to our Weekly Round-up or visiting our blog. Spear phishing campaign compromises executives in finance industry (150). Cyber attacks. Hackers steal £2.4m

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Data breaches Ransomware Computer and Electronics e-Delivery 145

IT Governance

JANUARY 4, 2021

The post List of data breaches and cyber attacks in December 2020 – 148 million records breached appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog.

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Data breaches Ransomware Energy and Utilities Computer and Electronics 116

IT Governance

MARCH 1, 2023

Million Records Breached appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. million loss (unknown) LastPass says employee’s home computer was hacked and corporate vault taken (unknown) Dish hit by multiday outage after reported cyber attack (unknown) If you’re facing a cyber security disaster, IT Governance is here to help.

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Data breaches Ransomware e-Delivery Government 130

IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 7, 2023

Thirty percent of those incidents occurred in manufacturing organizations. For the 12th year in a row, the average cost of a breach was the highest in the US healthcare industry at $10.10 Require strong passwords. Strong passwords are your company’s first defense in protecting data and customer information.

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IT Governance

MARCH 1, 2022

The cyber security industry, much like the rest of the world, is on edge. In the midst of all this, organisations across Europe have reported delays as a result of alleged state-sponsored attacks – including Toyota’s Japanese plants and a kettle manufacturer in the Isle of Man.

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Data breaches Ransomware Government Blockchain 134

KnowBe4

MARCH 7, 2023

The KnowBe4 blog initially reported on this hack on March 24, 2022 here: [link] and in our CyberheistNews May 17, 2022 here: [link]. Industry was caught flat-footed," says Gregory Falco, a space cybersecurity expert who has advised the U.S. Cyberattacks affecting the industry, she says, have become a daily occurrence.

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IT Governance

MAY 9, 2019

This blog has been updated to reflect industry updates. Two examples of social engineering are: Phishing – this is an attempt to access sensitive information such as passwords and bank information by posing as a trusted individual. Our services can be tailored for organisations of all sizes in any industry and location.

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Computer and Electronics Communications Ransomware Encryption 75

KnowBe4

MAY 23, 2023

The top inhibitor (with an average rank of 3.66) was a lack of skilled personnel – we've long known the cybersecurity industry is lacking a proper pool of qualified talent. Blog post with links: [link] [Free Tool] Who Will Fall Victim to QR Code Phishing Attacks? Organizations need to prevent these attacks before they truly start.

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IT Governance

APRIL 20, 2018

and the UK have, at the same time, issued joint advice to industry about how to manage the risks from the attack. Network device manufacturers, ISPs, and their owners or operators should refer to the mitigation advice provided in the advisory. Until next time you can keep up with the latest information security news on our blog.

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Personal data Government Manufacturing Information Security 59

CGI

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Whether it’s an industrial accident, transport disaster or how little Jonny had his tooth knocked out, the sequence of events is much the same; shock at what has occurred, hasty judgements as to the cause and then an extended period of investigation to identify lessons to avoid it happening again. Blog moderation guidelines and term of use.

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IoT Manufacturing Passwords Risk 40

IT Governance

APRIL 3, 2023

It’s confident that more sensitive data, such as payment card numbers, Social Security numbers and passwords, have not been affected. Million Records Breached appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. The telecoms giant said that the breached records include people’s names, wireless account numbers, phone numbers and email addresses.

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Data breaches Ransomware Phishing Government 119

Everteam

JULY 11, 2019

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. Interested in similar blogs? Data is changing the face of the world.

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Security Encryption Archiving Phishing 75

IT Governance

APRIL 25, 2023

We explain everything you need to know in this blog. Brian Johnson, who had been made redundant by the paper manufacturer Georgia-Pacific after 15 years’ service, was able to use login credentials that remained valid. He accessed servers via a VPN in his home, installing his own software and altering the industrial control systems.

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Data breaches Phishing Personal data Access 105

Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

I can't blame this on the teddy bears themselves, rather the fact that the MongoDB holding all the collected data was left publicly facing without a password. There's no consistency across manufacturers or devices either in terms of defaulting to auto-updates or even where to find updates.

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IoT Security Risk Cloud 143

ForAllSecure

MARCH 8, 2023

She’s an amazing person who has done an amazing number of things in a short amount of time -- CMU professor, Forrester analyst, CSO at a successful startup -- and she’s not done changing the industry. They're looking macro trends of the industry and who can do strategic analysis and strategy planning. We were offended.

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Cloud Marketing IT Security 40

Data Matters

MAY 17, 2022

NOBELIUM, a group of Russia-based hackers, gained access to multiple enterprises through software code, stolen passwords, compromised on-premises servers, and minted SAML (Security Assertions Markup Language) tokens. Persistent attacks pose a particular threat to critical infrastructure and manufacturing. Agency (Jan. Press Release No.

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Cybersecurity Government Authentication Ransomware 97

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

However, if you have a British Library login and your password is used elsewhere, we recommend changing it as a precautionary measure.” Last week, FBI and CISA published a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) to warn of Rhysida ransomware attacks against organizations across multiple industry sectors.

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Libraries Ransomware Manufacturing Education 110

Krebs on Security

JULY 8, 2019

That domain registration record included the Russian phone number +7-951-7805896 , which mail.ru’s password recovery function says is indeed the phone number used to register the hottabych_k2 email account. Those records show this individual routinely re-used the same password across multiple accounts: 16061991. Vpn-service[.]us

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Ransomware Passwords Marketing Manufacturing 258

Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

The Outlaw Hacking Group was first spotted by TrendMicro in 2018 when the cyber criminal crew targeted automotive and financial industries. We suggest to harden and update your SSH server configuring authentication with authorized keys and disabling passwords. The script looks like the following: Figure 5: Content of the “a” file.

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Mining File names Honeypots IT 99

The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 9, 2019

PKI is one of the few truly battle-tested and time-tested security mechanisms in the industry.” A shared burden In a perfect world the software developer, the device manufacturer and the digital service provider would share the burden of keeping end users safe. This column originally appeared on Avast Blog.).

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Security Encryption Authentication Privacy 160

Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

Much of what I'm going to cover in the remainder of this blog post will focus on the site at uidai.gov.in This is poor form as it can break tools that encourage good security practices such as password managers. Let them paste passwords! rather than on the various subdomains. Why do websites do this?

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Security Government Encryption Risk 111

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In this blog, we will summarize the key findings of the report and offer actionable recommendations to mitigate these threats. The report also highlights that ransomware attacks are becoming more targeted, with attackers focusing on high-value targets with particular emphasis on the Industrial and Manufacturing sectors.

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Manufacturing Cybersecurity Phishing Encryption 77

Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Amazon also penned a blog post that more emphatically stated their objections to the Bloomberg piece. Supermicro has assembly facilities in California, the Netherlands, and Taiwan, but its motherboards—its core product—are nearly all manufactured by contractors in China. Many readers have asked for my take on this piece.

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