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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 20 – 26 November 2023

IT Governance

9 million records breached through decade-long data leak A former temporary employee of a subsidiary of NTT West (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corp) illegally accessed about 9 million personal data records over the course of a decade (2013 to 2023). Breached records: more than 56 million.

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MY TAKE: Memory hacking arises as a go-to tactic to carry out deep, persistent incursions

The Last Watchdog

In fact, memory attacks have quietly emerged as a powerful and versatile new class of hacking technique that threat actors in the vanguard are utilizing to subvert conventional IT security systems. A network breach begins, of course, with an incursion. Manipulating runtime. This quickly gets intricately technical.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 5 – 11 February 2024

IT Governance

GB Impact Energy Services Source New Engineering Canada Yes 52,707 Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office Source New Public USA Yes 52,567 Maximum Research Source New Professional services USA Yes 52 GB Terago Source New Telecoms Canada Yes 45 GB Zivilgeometer Source New Engineering Austria Yes 41.83 GB Signature Performance, Inc.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in May 2021 – 116 million records breached

IT Governance

But, of course, the nature of ransomware attacks makes it hard for organisations to determine how many records were affected. If you find yourself facing a cyber security disaster, IT Governance is here to help. For the second month in a row, ransomware has dominated our list of data breaches and cyber attacks.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 11 – 18 December 2023

IT Governance

Source (New) Energy India Yes 280,000 National Student Clearinghouse Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Non-profit USA Yes 271,496 PCTEL Source (New) Telecoms USA Yes 267.45 GB Coca-Cola Singapore Source (New) Manufacturing Singapore Yes 413.92 GB Goa Natural Gas Pvt.Ltd. Source (New) Construction USA Yes 50.93

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How Content Services Are Enabling the Digital Transformation of Electric Utilities

AIIM

Electric utilities in the United States are a major source of CO2 – they created 1.55 And according to the US Energy Information Agency, consumption is expected to grow by 50% by the year 2050. To get greener, electric utilities must digitally transform. The Slow Transition to Green Energy. Artificial Intelligence.