eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

Information security products , services, and professionals have never been in higher demand, making for a world of opportunities for cybersecurity startups. Investors recognize the potential too, as funding for cybersecurity ventures more than doubled from previous years to almost $22 billion in 2021. Top 10 Cybersecurity Startups.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This guide will provide a high level overview of encryption and how it fits into IT through the following topics: How Encryption Works To understand how encryption works, we need to understand how it fits into the broader realm of cryptology, how it processes data, common categories, top algorithms, and how encryption fits into IT security.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

As always, you can find the full list of data breaches and cyber attacks below, divided into their respective categories. Meanwhile, be sure to subscribe to our Weekly Round-up to receive the latest cyber security news and advice delivered straight to your inbox. Cyber attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

Traditionally, this technology implicitly distrusts external traffic and implicitly trusts internal traffic. Internet of Things (IoT) security: Encompasses a variety of tools and techniques to secure IoT, operations technology (OT), and other similar categories of endpoints.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

For example, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulates personal health information and imposes fines for data breach or data inaccessibility. Integrated risk management (IRM) is a discipline designed to embed risk considerations for the use of technology throughout an organization.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

You can find the full list below, divided into four categories: cyber attacks, ransomware, data breaches, and malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents. IT Governance found 73 publicly disclosed security incidents in August 2023, accounting for 79,729,271 breached records.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 3, 2023

As always, you can find the full list below, divided into their respective categories. New Zealand health insurer Accuro says it’s been hacked (unknown). Amnesty International Canada hit by cyber attack (unknown). Cyber attack on NZ’s largest insurer of doctors MAS may have exposed members’ personal data (unknown).

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KnowBe4

MAY 16, 2023

Emails that are disguised as coming from an internal source, such as the IT department, are especially dangerous because they appear to come from a trusted place where an employee would not necessarily question it or be as skeptical. Find out how adding PhishER can be a huge time-saver for your Incident Response team!

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Data Matters

AUGUST 5, 2019

Furthermore, although entities that already comply with the breach notification requirements under certain state or federal laws (such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the New York Department of Financial Services cybersecurity regulations (23 N.Y.C.R.R.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2023

Network security is an umbrella term for all facets of your network’s cybersecurity posture, with an emphasis on developing and using policies, procedures, best practices and tools that safeguard every piece of your network’s overall infrastructure. Also read: What is Network Security?

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 9, 2021

For cybersecurity personnel, our scope of responsibility may be limited to cyberattacks on IT systems, such as ransomware attacks, phishing attacks, and DDoS attacks. We make IT, security, or any business decision by weighing the risks and the rewards. What investments can we make to drive down costs or increase sales? Yet, it can get worse.

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KnowBe4

APRIL 25, 2023

The simulation ran for 2 days and showed that AI-powered bots can interact in a very human-like way. They planned a party, coordinated the event, and attended the party within the sim. A summary of it can be found on the Cornell University website. That page also has a download link for a PDF of the entire paper (via Reddit). "In Users beware.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Compliance risk: When an organization violates rules both internal and external, putting its reputation or finances at risk. You will also analyze the degree of negative impact the organization would face if the risk were to occur for risks such as cybersecurity or operational risks.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 19, 2023

We’re also introducing two new categories this week: ‘AI’ and ‘Key dates’. 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 its breach notification , Mr. Cooper detected suspicious activity on its network on 31 October.

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Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

Recent guidance from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on disclosure and enforcement actions by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) make clear that cybersecurity is no longer a niche topic, but a concern significant enough to warrant the oversight of corporate boards of directors. Adopting the NIST Cybersecurity Framework.

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Cyber Info Veritas

JULY 19, 2018

This is according to a recent survey conducted by Soha Systems, and according to one of the speeches delivered by the Superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services, Mr. Benjamin Lawsky, “ A company’s cybersecurity is only as strong as the cybersecurity of its third-party vendors ”.

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Data Matters

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Consistent with calls by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) for more oversight, Hong Kong’s Civil Aviation Department (CAD) recently announced plans to step up the regulation of commercial and recreational drones.

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KnowBe4

MAY 9, 2023

The payload is a cryptojacking Monero miner. A cryptojacker is bad enough since it will drain power and degrade device performance. This one also carries the potential for compromising sensitive information, particularly credentials, and serving as staging for further attacks. This campaign may be more effective for its routine, innocent look.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

AUGUST 23, 2021

Security and Confidentiality Personal information must be kept confidential, and security measures must be deployed, as prescribed by the Cybersecurity Law and the Data Security Law and their underlying measures, guidelines and technical standards. This aligns with a similar provision in the new Data Security Law.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 11, 2017

The Cybersecurity Law of China establishes a new category of information infrastructure, called “key [or critical] information infrastructure,” and imposes certain cybersecurity obligations on enterprises that operate such infrastructure.

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Data Matters

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) approved and the federal banking agencies jointly announced on December 18 a notice of proposed rulemaking, Computer-Security Incident Notification Requirements for Banking Organizations and Their Bank Service Providers (NPR). On December 15, 2020, the U.S.

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KnowBe4

APRIL 11, 2023

They started out with: "You get a call. There's a panicked voice on the line. It's your grandson. He says he's in deep trouble — he wrecked the car and landed in jail. But you can help by sending money. You take a deep breath and think. You've heard about grandparent scams. But darn, it sounds just like him. How could it be a scam?

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

MAY 5, 2020

Categories of data being processed. Geolocation data : This data category is particularly revealing the life habits of data subjects (e.g. Personal data may be processed for a wide variety of purposes such as driver safety, insurance and efficient transportation. 23(1) GDPR. Purposes for which the data are being processed.

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Data Matters

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

To fulfill this role, the guidance lays out three broad categories for federal action: First, AV 3.0 Cybersecurity and privacy, with the guidance emphasizing the reliance of automated vehicles on connectivity to communicate and exchange data and the attendant risks to both security and consumer privacy that result.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 5, 2021

Having an entire external team devoted solely to threat detection and response increases the chances of identifying threats that may otherwise elude internal teams. Even though one of the main purposes of MDR is to take the work off of internal security teams, collaboration can be hugely beneficial in maintaining a strong security posture.

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KnowBe4

MARCH 14, 2023

In another case, a doctor input his patient's name and their medical condition and asked ChatGPT to craft a letter to the patient's insurance company. In another case, a doctor input his patient's name and their medical condition and asked ChatGPT to craft a letter to the patient's insurance company.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

The International Association of Privacy Professionals estimates at least 500,000 U.S. The CCPA goes into effect January 1, 2020. Its final status, however, is far from clear. Accordingly, the CCPA was passed unanimously on June 28, 2018 by the California legislature and signed by the governor the same day.

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KnowBe4

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In addition to mandatory and routine training and security tools, the best way to ensure employees are vigilant about potential risks is to help them reframe their online mindset while encouraging them to leverage critical thinking in evaluating and defending against internal and external threats," Watson says.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The International Association of Privacy Professionals estimates at least 500,000 U.S. The CCPA goes into effect January 1, 2020. Its final status, however, is far from clear. Accordingly, the CCPA was passed unanimously on June 28, 2018 by the California legislature and signed by the governor the same day.

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Data Matters

MARCH 4, 2021

These are (i) government entities; (ii) entities subject to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act; (iii) entities subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act; (iv) nonprofits; and (v) institutions of higher education. Controllers must.

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KnowBe4

JUNE 20, 2023

It also highlights the difficult obstacles confronted by international organizations in preventing state-sponsored cybercrime. CyberheistNews Vol 13 #25 | June 20th, 2023 [Fingerprints All Over] Stolen Credentials Are the No. So, what does the report say about the most common threat actions that are involved in data breaches?

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

MAY 29, 2019

Following the one-year anniversary of the coming into effect of the GDPR, Hogan Lovells’ Privacy and Cybersecurity practice has prepared summaries of key GDPR-related developments of the past 12 months. The summaries cover regulatory guidance, enforcement actions, court proceedings, and various reports and materials.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 30, 2023

VAMOSI: Four days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, on February 28, 2022, members of the Conti ransomware group began leaking information about the internal operations. Mark Lance, the VP of DFIR and Threat intelligence for GuidePoint Security, provides The Hacker Mind with stories of ransomware cases he’s handled.

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Data Protection Report

MAY 23, 2018

The stated purpose of the new law is to give people more control over their personal data and make it easier to access it. So if you’re not a social network, mobile app, driverless car, or one of the big data companies, does this mean you can breathe a sigh of relief? Challenge #2. Challenge #3.

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Data Protector

OCTOBER 11, 2017

New technologies have started innumerable economic revolutions, and the pace of change continues to accelerate. Data is not just a resource for better marketing, better service and delivery. Data is used to build products themselves. It has become a cliché that data is the new oil. change it substantially. This is “Hamlet” without the prince.

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