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Marriott Pays $52M to Settle US States Data Breach Litigation

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Hotel Chain Also Settles with Federal Trade Commission The world's largest hotel chain agreed Wednesday to pay $52 million and agree to two decades of third-party monitoring of its cybersecurity program to settle a rash of data breaches affecting millions of guests. The multi-million payout is part of a settlement reached with 50 U.S.

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Credit Union Issues Belated MOVEit Data Breach Notification

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Texas Credit Union Only Just Notifying 500,000 Members About May 2023 Data Theft Fifteen months after a massive supply-chain attack hit users of MOVEit secure file-transfer software, Texas Dow Employees Credit Union has issued a data breach notification pertaining to 500,474 victims, saying it only discovered last month their personally identifiable (..)

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Study: Average Cost of a Data Breach Rises to $4.9 Million

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Involving Law Enforcement After Ransomware Attacks Drives Down Costs, Study Finds Data breaches continue to grow more costly, with the average cost of a breach hitting an all-time high of $4.9

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Fidelity Investments suffered a second data breach this year

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US-based financial services company Fidelity Investments warns 77,000 individuals of a data breach that exposed their personal information. The data breach occurred on August 17, 2024 and was discovered two days later, on August 19, 2024.

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Ransomware Prevention and Recovery

Learn how to protect your business data from the most disruptive malware currently in existence. This whitepaper will help you avoid becoming the victim of a data breach and ensure business continuity. It discusses defense best practices and protection solutions to help you keep your data safe.

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Omni Family Health data breach impacts 468,344 individuals

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Omni Family Health disclosed a data breach affecting nearly 470,000 current and former patients and employees. Omni Family Health is notifying nearly 470,000 individuals that their personal information was compromised in a data breach resulting from a cyberattack that occurred earlier this year.

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Australian Telecom Watchdog Sues Optus Over 2022 Data Breach

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Telecom Company Also Faces OAIC Investigation and Potentially Millions in Fines The Australian Communications and Media Authority says it has filed proceedings against Optus in a federal court as the company failed to protect sensitive customer data during a data breach in September 2022.

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Recovering from a Cyber Attack

Speaker: Mike Cramer, Director of HIPAA & Data Security at The Word & Brown Companies

If your organization stores data and is connected to the Internet, it is not a matter of “if” a cyber-security incident will happen, but “when.” IBM reported that the total damage from data breaches in 2021 was 4.24M USD (up from 3.86M USD in 2020), easily the highest aggregated amount on record.

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022.

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How to Effectively Equip Your IG Program for the Perilous Journey Into the Future

Speaker: Andrew Ysasi, Vice President of Advocacy for Vital Records Control, President of IG GURU®, MS, FIP, FIIM, CIPM, CIGO, CISM, PMP, CRM, IGP, CIP, CSAP

An information governance framework shows how an organization manages specific data, like personal information, as well as how this information is stored. Over the past couple of years, these frameworks have proven to be ineffective and in need of updating.