Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

It is perhaps best known for selling virtual private networking (VPN) software that lets users remotely access networks and computers over an encrypted connection. Citrix provides software used by hundreds of thousands of clients worldwide, including most of the Fortune 100 companies.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 3, 2023

.” As KrebsOnSecurity reported in 2020, Bruno was at the time promoting himself as the co-CEO of a company called SafeSwiss Secure Communication AG , and the founder of another tech startup called Secure Swiss Data. According to DomainTools.com , that website name was registered in 2015 by The Inside Knowledge GmbH.

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

MAY 13, 2019

In the past two years, multiple state bills that have been introduced in the US to provide for cybersecurity requirements and standards to the insurance sector, with recent legislative activity taking place in particular within the States of Ohio, South Carolina, and Michigan. NYDFS: Setting a new bar for state cybersecurity regulation.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

The command-and-control beacons allowed Royal to prepare the City’s network resources for the May 03, 2023, ransomware encryption attack.” . “During the surveillance period, Royal performed several actions to inject command and control software and established command-and-control beacons. ” continues the report.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 22, 2020

New EU restrictions could force companies to change data transfer practices and adopt more advanced data encryption methods. Beyond this we also have Payment Card Industry (PCI) standards, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the California Data Privacy Act (CCPA) and much more. Tue, 12/22/2020 - 10:08.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 22, 2024

The photo will expedite the recovery process and help when filing a police report or a possible claim with your insurance company. Hackers know this might be your first instinct, and some types of ransomware notice restart attempts and cause additional harm, like damaging Windows or deleting encrypted files.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2021

On a basic level, the case appears to have as much to do with communication and transparency as it does with cybersecurity. ” Cyber Insurance No Longer Reliable. ” Crockett said unofficial numbers indicate that only about 10 percent of such cyber insurance claims are paid out. “And the war can be multi-pronged.

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

On August 18, 2010, the Connecticut Insurance Department (the “Department”) issued Bulletin IC-25 , which requires entities subject to its jurisdiction to notify the Department in writing of any “information security incident” within five calendar days after an incident is identified.

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IT Governance

JULY 11, 2019

That way, when crooks encrypt your systems, there’s no need to worry. You can avoid this by teaching staff about ransomware and establishing a line of communication in the event of security incidents. If you don’t already have cyber insurance, it’s worth considering. Prepare for an attack by backing up your data.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2019

. “The Riviera Beach City Council voted unanimously this week to pay the hackers’ demands, believing the Palm Beach suburb had no choice if it wanted to retrieve its records, which the hackers encrypted.” “The payment is being covered by insurance.” ” reported the Associated Press.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Turn off SSH and other network device management interfaces such as Telnet, Winbox, and HTTP for wide area networks (WANs) and secure with strong passwords and encryption when enabled. Implement and enforce multi-layer network segmentation with the most critical communications and data resting on the most secure and reliable layer.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

MAY 5, 2020

The latest evolution of digital technologies, such as robotics, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, high-performance computers and powerful communication networks leads self-driving cars out of an imaginary world and into our daily lives. While these technologies are progressing rapidly, the EU intends to ensure common rules.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Thales is participating in a security session titled “Solutions for Protecting Your Data and Meeting Compliance Using Encryption,” hosted by Il-Sung Lee, Cloud Security at Google, and Sol Cates, Principal Technologist at Thales. On 26 October , we co-host a workshop on cybersecurity insurance with Infinigate. Find more details here.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

MaxLinear is an American hardware company that provides highly integrated radio-frequency (RF) analog and mixed-signal semiconductor solutions for broadband communications applications. “We carry cybersecurity insurance, subject to applicable deductibles and policy limits. Source: BleepingComputer. ” states the SEC filing.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

All of your files are encrypted with RSA-2048 and AES-128 ciphers.” ” Or you might see a readme.txt stating, “Your files have been replaced by these encrypted containers and aren’t accessible; you will lose your files on [enter date] unless you pay $2500 in Bitcoin.” IMPORTANT INFORMATION !!!

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 6, 2018

One of the world’s strictest privacy regimes, South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA) places many obligations on organizations in both the public and private sectors, including mandatory data breach notification to data subjects and other authorities including the Korean Communications Commission (KCC).

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Data Protection Report

AUGUST 29, 2017

A “breach of security” will now exclude unauthorized acquisition of encrypted data unless the acquisition includes, or is reasonably believed to include, the encryption key and the person who owns or licenses the data has a reasonable belief that the encryption key could render that personal information readable or useable.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

“The company recently discovered that an unauthorized party had copied and encrypted information, and took steps towards removing it,” Marriott disclosed in a statement. The vulnerability that the hackers took advantage of had been in place and used for “unauthorized access,” according to the company statement, since 2014.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2021

According to open-source reporting, since August 2020, DarkSide actors have been targeting multiple large, high-revenue organizations, resulting in the encryption and theft of sensitive data. Filter network traffic to prohibit ingress and egress communications with known malicious IP addresses. 3 ],[ 4 ]” reads the joint alert.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 18, 2023

Be in control of your encryption keys and their location, and how to control access to your sensitive data and digital services to comply with emerging data sovereignty requirements. Data Security Chad Couser | Director Marketing Communications Thales More About This Author > Schema We look forward to seeing you!

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Records breached: Unknown ALPHV/BlackCat attacks MeridianLink then reports it to the SEC Date of breach: 7 November Breached organisation: MeridianLink Incident details: The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group has added the software company MeridianLink to its leak site, having exfiltrated data without encrypting company systems.

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ARMA International

AUGUST 7, 2023

To facilitate communication and collaboration, firms are investing in technology such as Slack, Zoom, Asana, and Dropbox to accommodate this “new normal.” This includes measures such as encryption, two-factor authentication, and regular security audits. Staying abreast of these laws ensures your office remains compliant.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Google dorks were the root cause of a catastrophic compromise of CIAs communications. Flaws in several self-encrypting SSDs allows attackers to decrypt data they contain. Group-IB and CryptoIns introduce the worlds first insurance against cyber threats for cryptocurrency exchanges.

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Collibra

JUNE 23, 2023

They are the California Consumer Privacy Act (CPRA), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services (or CJIS), and many more. Focus: Regulatory frameworks Within the United States there are a number of regulatory frameworks that address citizen privacy.

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 30, 2020

All administrative transactions, payments and communications were frozen after city officials refused to pay the attackers. This while the Insurance Journal reported (via Reuters – hat tip again to Ride the Lightning) last week that U.S. It took them more than eight weeks to restore all systems. Where did I find that out?

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IT Governance

MARCH 1, 2023

filed notice of a security breach (726) Motto Mortgage comes under cyber attack (unknown) Highmark discloses security breach after employee falls victim to phishing (300,000) Stroke Scan reports security breach (50,000) Meriplex Communications announces security breach affecting Malaga Bank customers (unknown) DotHouse Health Inc.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 9, 2013

securing electronic communications by implementing and developing end-to-end encryption. The DPAs request to strengthen the rights of the private and intimate sphere of patients’ and insured patients’ lives. Resolution on End-to-End Encryption. The previous Conference was held in Bremerhaven in March 2013.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Finance and insurance finished a close second at 22.4%. Finance and insurance companies were particularly vulnerable to the sort of phishing scams we’re talking about. According to the 2021 IBM Threat Force Intelligence Index , Manufacturing was the industry most likely to be attacked last year, comprising 23.2%

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 12, 2018

In this blog, and in one by my colleague Julie Lassabliere from Safelayer Secure Communications , we explore the need for trusted device identification and data integrity in the IoT. Employing asymmetric cryptography, PKIs manage the key pairs used for signing and encrypting data.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JULY 30, 2019

Telco says diverse agencies accessing data through legal loophole need to follow the same process as law enforcement bodies Telstra has warned that public trust in the security of their data will be eroded if government agencies continue to be allowed access to it without appropriate authorisation.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

confirms security incident (unknown) Friedrich Air Conditioning, LLC announces security breach (unknown) Gibson Overseas, Inc. announces security breach (unknown) The Country Club at Woodfield, Inc. victim of a cyber attack (unknown) Berkshire Partners LLC announces data breach (unknown) United HealthCare Services, Inc.

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IT Governance

MAY 2, 2023

Additionally, billing information, insurance numbers and other financial details were stolen in the attack. More worryingly, the same database contained usernames, email addresses and encrypted passwords. In a statement, Shields said that it “takes the confidentiality, privacy, and security of information in our care seriously.

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IT Governance

MAY 3, 2019

There are two ways you can do this: by outsourcing the security efforts to another organisation or by purchasing cyber insurance to ensure you have the funds to respond appropriately in the event of a disaster. Cryptography : the encryption and key management of sensitive information. Share the risk with a third party.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

VPNs encrypt data , making it much harder to intercept when transmitted through a shared or suspect internet connection. SSLs ensure all data is encrypted. A green or gray padlock icon in your browser’s address bar also indicates that information, like credit card numbers, is encrypted when transmitted. Look for the lock.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 1, 2019

That includes social security and social insurance numbers, bank account numbers, phone numbers, birth dates, email addresses and self-reported income; in short, just about everything on an identity thief’s wish list. In addition, sensitive data was not encrypted at rest, and no one was auditing access logs. This was the Perfect Storm.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 6, 2020

A group of thieves thought to be responsible for collecting millions in fraudulent small business loans and unemployment insurance benefits from COVID-19 economic relief efforts gathered personal data on people and businesses they were impersonating by leveraging several compromised accounts at a little-known U.S.

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The Security Ledger

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

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