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

IT Governance

Compromised data includes policyholders’ and their families’ civil status, dates of birth and social security numbers, as well as the name of their health insurer and information relating to their contracts. It has since been confirmed by Anukul Peedkaew, the permanent secretary of social development and human security.

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #13 [Eye Opener] How to Outsmart Sneaky AI-Based Phishing Attacks

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #13 | March 28th, 2023 [Eye Opener] How to Outsmart Sneaky AI-Based Phishing Attacks Users need to adapt to an evolving threat landscape in which attackers can use AI tools like ChatGPT to craft extremely convincing phishing emails, according to Matthew Tyson at CSO. "A Is the email enticing you to click on a link?'

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A Cyber Insurance Backstop

Schneier on Security

In the first week of January, the pharmaceutical giant Merck quietly settled its years-long lawsuit over whether or not its property and casualty insurers would cover a $700 million claim filed after the devastating NotPetya cyberattack in 2017. The 9/11 attacks cost insurers and reinsurers $47 billion. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 March 2024

IT Governance

Cybernews’s research team discovered the MongoDB server in December 2023 and contacted Glosbe. Source (New) Transport USA Yes 3,815 Okta Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Cyber security USA Yes 3,800 Shah Dixit & Associates, P.C. Glosbe did not reply, but the open instance was soon closed. Data breached: 6,935,412 individuals’ data.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Internet As A Pen Test

ForAllSecure

Chris Gray of Deep Watch talks about the view from the inside of a virtual SOC, the ability to see threats against a large number of SMB organizations, and the changes to cyber insurance we’re seeing as a result. A lot of SMBs do not have security operations centers or SOCs. They can provide that additional security, remotely.

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #19 [Watch Your Back] New Fake Chrome Update Error Attack Targets Your Users

KnowBe4

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #19 | May 9th, 2023 [Watch Your Back] New Fake Chrome Update Error Attack Targets Your Users Compromised websites (legitimate sites that have been successfully compromised to support social engineering) are serving visitors fake Google Chrome update error messages. The message displayed reads, "UPDATE EXCEPTION.

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #18 [Eye on AI] Does ChatGPT Have Cybersecurity Tells?

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #18 | May 2nd, 2023 [Eye on AI] Does ChatGPT Have Cybersecurity Tells? In the near term, new-school security awareness training can help alert your people to the tells of automated scamming. Your email filters have an average 7-10% failure rate; you need a strong human firewall as your last line of defense.