Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2023

La Malle Postale, a transportation company serving hikers on popular hiking trails in France, leaked personal data and private messages of their clients. The Cybernews research team has discovered a data leak on La Malle Postale’s system that exposed the personal data of their clients.

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Passwords Personal data Phishing Communications 93

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 13, 2022

Well, emojis are everywhere and used in all types of digital communication ???—from from our personal lives and into business communications ??, and even political communications. everyone’s digital identity, which is at constant risk through our widespread digital communication. in our digital communication?????,

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2024

According to the report, in 2023 tech support scams and extortion crimes increased, while phishing, non-payment/non-delivery scams, and personal data breach slightly decreased. Established in 2018, RAT streamlines communications with financial institutions and FBI field offices to facilitate the freezing of funds for victims.”

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Ransomware Data breaches Personal data Phishing 110

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The GDPR is acknowledged around the world as a ‘gold standard’ when it comes to data privacy legislation, affording personal data a level of protection largely unmatched elsewhere – certainly in 2016, when the GDPR was first published in its final form. Penetration testing is also well worth the investment.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

If malicious actors accessed the exposed data, the company could have faced devastating consequences and put their clients at risk, as financial services are the main target for cybercriminals. We’ve also attempted to obtain an official comment from the bank’s communication team. million files belonging to ICICI Bank.

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Personal data Phishing Risk Financial Services 98

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

While children may not be as susceptible to digital fraud as adults, threat actors could exploit the leaked personal data for identity theft, fraud, and targeted phishing campaigns against the parents of these children. In the worst-case scenario, the leak might increase the risk of child abuse.

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Risk Education Personal data Phishing 112

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 6, 2021

Firewalls create a barrier between the device and the internet by closing the ports to communication, preventing malicious programs from entering networks, and stopping a potential data breach on your device. Keep an eye out for phishing emails. Use antivirus software. Firewalls help, but threats will inevitably get through.

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Passwords Risk Security Phishing 214

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

In March, a voice phishing scam targeting GoDaddy support employees allowed attackers to assume control over at least a half-dozen domain names, including transaction brokering site escrow.com. 2019 that wasn’t discovered until April 2020. authenticate the phone call before sensitive information can be discussed.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Federal Communications Commission has cut off government funding for equipment from Chinese firms. Facebook and Twitter warn of malicious SDK harvesting personal data from its accounts. Some Fortinet products used hardcoded keys and weak encryption for communications. After 1 Million of malware samples analyzed.

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Security Ransomware Communications Personal data 92

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Our kids use social media and messaging platforms to communicate with friends, play online games, or visit virtual classrooms. It is also important to highlight that misinformation can be used to launch cyber-attacks, like phishing emails or messages. For one, a good practice is to limit the amount of personal data you share online.

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Personal data Phishing Privacy Cybersecurity 71

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 17, 2022

Threat actors are now using advanced methods to conduct intricate, personalized phishing and targeted attacks. The bad actors employed AI to discover social footprints, buying patterns and personal data, and launched personalized attacks unique to each potential victim.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

References The Norwegian government is now on HIBP (that's now the 6th gov, the 7th will be announced in the coming days) Banks are communicating in precisely the fashion they're warning their customers about (is it a phish, or banks comms?

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Data breaches Personal data Phishing Communications 88

IT Governance

APRIL 30, 2020

Cyber attacks Warwick University hid cyber attack from affected staff and students (unknown) Italian email provider confirms hack after users’ data found for sale on dark web (600,000) Nepalese Internet service provider Vianet suspects that it was hacked (170,000) Cyber criminals steal Pakistani mobile users’ personal data (115 million) San Francisco (..)

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Data breaches Ransomware Sales Government 141

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Security researcher Oskars Vegeris from Evolution Gaming has published technical details on a wormable, cross-platform vulnerability in the business communication platform Microsoft Teams. The issue could also allow attackers to access confidential conversations and files from the communications service. . Skype, Outlook, Office365).

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Communications Personal data Phishing Access 110

Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2022

Communication company Twilio provides Signal with phone number verification services, and recent security breach it has suffered had also impacted some users of the popular instant-messaging app. .” The attackers gained access to Twilio’s customer support console via phishing. ” reads the advisory published by Signal.

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Security Personal data Phishing Communications 82

IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Businesses in these spaces must have strong cyber and disaster recovery strategies in place to shorten their response and recovery times and ensure their customers’ data stays private. Data breaches: Data breaches are cybercrimes that can be caused by any three of the previously mentioned types of cyberattacks.

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Adapture

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Phishing Phishing occurs when hackers attempt to fool employees into giving hackers personal data, such as usernames and passwords. The FBI reported that phishing attacks increased from 114,702 incidents in 2019, to 241,324 incidents in 2020 with over 74% of organizations experiencing attacks.

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IT Governance

JUNE 22, 2018

This week, we discuss a £77,000 fine for BT, Bithumb’s loss of £24 million, Islington Council’s PCI DSS fail and some topical phishing campaigns. Finally, it should be no surprise that there’s been a marked increase in phishing emails relating to the World Cup this week. Here are this week’s stories. Keep ‘em peeled.

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IT Governance

APRIL 28, 2020

Watch out for phishing emails. For example, one of the biggest threats Internet users currently face is phishing. There are two kinds of phishing that children should be concerned about, the first of which are email scams. One way they do that is through social media phishing scams. Think before handing out personal data.

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Security Phishing Personal data Risk 108

Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2021

“All organizations are at risk of falling victim to a ransomware incident and are responsible for protecting sensitive and personal data stored on their systems. The guidance aims at helping government and private sector organizations in preventing such kinds of incidents. ” reads CISA’s guideline.

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Data breaches Ransomware Encryption Cybersecurity 112

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

have notified 330,000 people that their personal data might have been compromised as part of the MOVEit Transfer data breach. Compromised personal data included names, Social Security numbers, driver’s licence/state ID numbers or financial account numbers.

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Data Privacy Privacy Data breaches Security 52

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 17, 2021

T-Mobile USA officials have confirmed they are investigating a breach of company systems, but say it’s too early to tell whether the personal data of 100 million customers has been exposed, as the alleged hackers have claimed. The attackers already had stolen the data and had backed it up at multiple sites.

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Data breaches Personal data Artificial Intelligence Communications 109

The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

TMobile has now issued a formal apology and offered free identity theft recovery services to nearly 48 million customers for whom the telecom giant failed to protect their sensitive personal information. At the start of this week, word got out that hackers claimed to have seized personal data for as many as 100 million T-Mobile patrons.

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Data breaches Authentication Access Personal data 306

Hunton Privacy

APRIL 3, 2020

Transmitting personal data in a secure way. In particular, employees should refrain from transmitting confidential data through consumer services (storage, file sharing and collaborative editing services) or via consumer email services.

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Encryption Authentication Workplace security Communications 96

eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In addition, the amendment also will ensure greater privacy of personal data, prevent financial fraud, and improve resilience in European communications networks, according to EU officials. He pointed to a FireEye study showing the exploits have overtaken phishing attacks as the top threat to organizations.

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IoT Security Manufacturing Marketing 109

IT Governance

JUNE 23, 2022

The damage appears to be primarily related to service disruption, as opposed to the exfiltration of personal data. Fraudsters often use information stolen in a cyber attack to craft phishing scams related to the initial attack. Yodel has not said how it was attacked, but early reports suggest that it was targeted by ransomware.

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Ransomware Communications Data Privacy Data breaches 111

IT Governance

MARCH 1, 2023

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. IT Governance is dedicated to helping organisations tackle the threat of cyber crime and other information security weaknesses.

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Data breaches Ransomware e-Delivery Government 130

Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

We engaged one of the leading data security firms to conduct a thorough investigation, which traced the unauthorized activity to a phishing email received in July 2018. On April 12, 2019, we concluded our investigation and could not rule out that personal information may have been accessed.” ” As usual.

Passwords 69

Passwords Security Retail Personal data 69

IT Governance

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Scammers and attackers are using attention-grabbing headlines about Brexit to try to trick users into handing over personal data or downloading malware. UK data protection law and Brexit. How will UK organisations share data with the EU in no-deal Brexit?

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Phishing Security awareness Education Personal data 61

Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

This panel primarily focused on voice-activated devices, and argued that consumers are often unaware about how much of their personal data is captured and disclosed to third-parties. Panelists discussed how phishers have capitalized on people’s fear of the COVID-19 pandemic to lure them into disclosing personally sensitive information.

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Privacy Security IoT Data breaches 88

IT Governance

AUGUST 3, 2020

After mammoth amounts of personal data were leaked in May and June, we’ve seen a reversion to the mean this month. Bitcoin scam leaks personal data of users from across the globe (248,926). Western Australia government hacked, with COVID-19 communications intercepted (unknown). Cyber attacks.

Data breaches 141

Data breaches Insurance Ransomware Personal data 141

IT Governance

JUNE 19, 2019

That’s not to suggest that the Home Office has suddenly got much worse at data protection. Rather, the department says an increased awareness of data breach notification requirements, including what counts as personal data , has led to greater transparency. How are data breaches occurring so regularly?

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Data breaches Personal data Communications Risk 69

IT Governance

MARCH 26, 2020

On the subject of homeworking, it says: Data protection is not a barrier to increased and different types of homeworking. During the pandemic, staff may work from home more frequently than usual and they can use their own device or communications equipment. Phishing attacks exploiting the coronavirus outbreak have seen a huge increase.

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IT Governance

MAY 2, 2023

Shields Health Care Group The largest data breach of April 2023 was at the Shields Health Care Group, a Massachusetts-based medical services provider. Reports emerged near the end of the month that a cyber criminal had gained unauthorised access to the organisation’s systems and had stolen the personal data of 2.3

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Data breaches Ransomware Personal data Access 105

IT Governance

OCTOBER 7, 2019

HR plays a crucial role in an organisation’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) compliance. The department is full of personal data, whether it’s of employees, their next of kin or candidates responding to job adverts. Let’s take a look at five issues that HR must address when handling personal data.

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GDPR Personal data Compliance Communications 68

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Phishing season! No matter how long you have worked in the cybersecurity industry, hardly a week goes by without a new acronym appearing in a communication. As consumers and citizens become more aware of their online security and digital rights, they also have more concerns about their data privacy. Unencrypted!

Cybersecurity 71

Cybersecurity Passwords Data Privacy Personal data 71

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Justice Department today unsealed indictments against four Chinese officers of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) accused of perpetrating the 2017 hack against consumer credit bureau Equifax that led to the theft of personal data on nearly 150 million Americans. Compounding the confusion, on Sept.

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