Krebs on Security

JANUARY 25, 2022

The reader who shared this story (and copious documentation to go with it) asked to have his real name omitted to avoid encouraging further attacks against his identity. Then in mid-January, Jim heard from MSF via snail mail that they’d discovered a data breach. So we’ll just call him “Jim.”

Financial Services 219

Financial Services IT Data breaches Authentication 219

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) software helps businesses manage all of the necessary documentation and processes for ensuring maximum productivity and preparedness. Third-party governance. Like other competitive GRC solutions, it speeds the process of aggregating and mining data, building reports, and managing files.

Compliance 57

Compliance Risk Government Retail 57

eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Unpatched vulnerabilities are at fault in anywhere from a third to more than half of all data breaches, depending on the study, so it’s natural to wonder why organizations don’t do a better job of patch management. How to build in that cyber resiliency was the focus of a number of talks at the conference. Patching Is Hard.

Cloud 134

Cloud Encryption Ransomware Cybersecurity 134

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

GDPR, the EU’s flagship data privacy and “right to be forgotten” regulation, has made the stakes of a data breach higher than ever. See the Top Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Tools. Thus, it can be difficult for even small enterprises to keep up with information security and data privacy compliance.

Data Privacy 145

Data Privacy Compliance Privacy Security 145

Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

A digital identification tool provided by OCR Labs to major banks and government agencies leaked sensitive credentials, putting clients at severe risk. Its services are used by companies and financial institutions including BMW, Vodafone, the Australian government, Westpac, ANZ, HSBC, and Virgin Money.

IT 84

IT Financial Services Access Risk 84

The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2019

Turn the corner into 2019 and we find Citigroup, CapitalOne, Wells Fargo and HSBC Life Insurance among a host of firms hitting the crisis button after their customers’ records turned up on a database of some 24 million financial and banking documents found parked on an Internet-accessible server — without so much as password protection.

Risk 147

Risk Financial Services Insurance Cybersecurity 147

IT Governance

AUGUST 26, 2021

For example, financial services firms may be worried about employees breaching insider trading laws. Although monitoring software comes with understandable privacy issues, remember that the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) doesn’t prohibit their use. Preventing data breaches.

Compliance 119

Compliance Data breaches Privacy Risk 119

Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

ICICI Bank leaked millions of records with sensitive data, including financial information and personal documents of the bank’s clients. A misconfiguration of the bank systems exposed millions of records with sensitive data. Cybernews contacted ICICI Bank and CERT-IN, and the company fixed the issue.

Personal data 96

Personal data Phishing Risk Financial Services 96

Data Protection Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

The New York State Department for Financial Services regulations require covered entities to have appropriate record retention policies and procedures and the CCPA provides an extra incentive to implement proper information governance to minimise the costs data access requests. In the U.S.,

Privacy 85

Privacy GDPR Data breaches Risk 85

ARMA International

APRIL 18, 2022

The purpose of this article is to remove the fear and intimidation of domestic and global data protection laws and show how these laws and requirements are consistent with the existing objectives of your records retention schedule and information governance policy. 1 General Data Protection Regulation. 2016/679 (EU, April 27).

Personal data 100

Personal data GDPR Privacy Records Management 100

Data Matters

AUGUST 5, 2019

On July 25, 2019, Governor Cuomo signed the two bills into law, one which amended the state’s data breach notification law, and another that created additional obligations for data breaches at credit reporting agencies. codified at N.Y.

Cybersecurity 68

Cybersecurity Data breaches Privacy Risk 68

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) software helps businesses manage all of the necessary documentation and processes for ensuring maximum productivity and preparedness. Third-party governance. Like other competitive GRC solutions, it speeds the process of aggregating and mining data, building reports, and managing files.

Compliance 65

Compliance Risk Government Retail 65

Data Protection Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

The New York State Department for Financial Services regulations require covered entities to have appropriate record retention policies and procedures and the CCPA provides an extra incentive to implement proper information governance to minimise the costs data access requests. In the U.S.,

Privacy 52

Privacy GDPR Data breaches Risk 52

IT Governance

JULY 31, 2019

Croatian government targeted by mysterious hackers (unknown). Philadelphia Federal Credit Union confirms security breach (unknown). State-sponsored hackers breach Greece’s top-level domain registrar (unknown). University of Alabama discovers 10-year-old account breach (1,400). Data breaches.

Data breaches 111

Data breaches Ransomware Personal data Government 111

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

According to IDC’s 2021 State of Cloud Security Report , 79 percent of surveyed companies reported a cloud data breach in the last 18 months. Public cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) may be less vulnerable than traditional data centers, but that doesn’t mean it’s without its own set of risks.

Cloud 129

Cloud Security Encryption Risk 129

IT Governance

JANUARY 16, 2024

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. The data is no longer publicly available. Data breached: >223,000,000 records. Data breached: >7,000,000 records. Data breached: 5,500,000 records.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Retail 52

IT Governance

DECEMBER 11, 2023

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. Data breached: more than 59 million data records. BianLian claims to have exfiltrated 5 TB of data, comprising millions of sensitive documents.

Data Privacy 101

Data Privacy Energy and Utilities Privacy Manufacturing 101

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

When printing a document, a person may use their computer, the client, to send a request to a colleague’s computer, the server, with a request to print the document. The NSA did not alert Microsoft about EternalBlue’s existence for a period of five years, until a breach of the NSA compelled the agency to do so.

Phishing 111

Phishing Ransomware Search queries Access 111

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

It’s a staggering statistic, but 39% of companies are still not using robust data security measures. billion data records were breached, quadrupling in 2020 to 36 billion globally. Data breaches are a tremendous threat to any enterprise, as malicious actors continue to be the driving force behind these breaches.

Blockchain 71

Blockchain Security Authentication Compliance 71

ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

You might not think of it as a major aspect of security and yet, stolen credentials are really the key to data breaches today. In most cases, this regards the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR, and in the UK that law continues as the UK GDPR. So today, we'll go for the low hanging fruit.

Passwords 52

Passwords Authentication Access Data breaches 52

Information Matters

DECEMBER 7, 2018

UK consumers threaten data breach backlash – Computer Weekly, 5 December 2018. “Seven out of 10 UK consumers and two-thirds, on average, around the world would stop doing business with a brand that suffers a breach of users’ financial or personal data. ” [link]. ” [link].

IoT 40

IoT Blockchain Personal data Analytics 40

Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

Increasingly, thought leaders, professional organizations, and government agencies are beginning to provide answers. Creating an enterprise-wide governance structure. Creating an Enterprise-Wide Governance Structure. Aligning cyber risk with corporate strategy.

Cybersecurity 60

Cybersecurity Risk Passwords Authentication 60

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Israeli man sentenced to 80 months in prison for providing hacker-for-hire services Russian APT Gamaredon uses USB worm LitterDrifter against Ukraine The board of directors of OpenAI fired Sam Altman Medusa ransomware gang claims the hack of Toyota Financial Services CISA adds Sophos Web Appliance bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (..)

Security 95

Security Data breaches Ransomware Financial Services 95

erwin

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Data governance tools used to occupy a niche in an organization’s tech stack, but those days are gone. The rise of data-driven business and the complexities that come with it ushered in a soft mandate for data governance and data governance tools. Data Governance Tools for Regulatory Compliance.

Government 105

Government Data breaches Metadata GDPR 105

erwin

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Data governance tools used to occupy a niche in an organization’s tech stack, but those days are gone. The rise of data-driven business and the complexities that come with it ushered in a soft mandate for data governance and data governance tools. Data Governance Tools for Regulatory Compliance.

Government 40

Government Data breaches Metadata GDPR 40

Data Matters

JUNE 5, 2018

Section 213 of the Act authorizes insured depository institutions and insured credit unions (and their respective affiliates) to accept, in connection with an individual consumer’s request to open an account or obtain a service, a scanned driver’s license or identification card issued by a state or local government.

Financial Services 68

Financial Services Insurance Privacy Authentication 68

erwin

MARCH 28, 2019

This also extends to industry-specific other compliance mandates such as those in healthcare, pharmaceutical and the financial services industries. The Regulatory Rationale for Integrating Data Management & Data Governance. This use case benefits organizations in two key areas: 1. Knowledge retention.

Digital transformation 71

Digital transformation Healthcare Compliance Financial Services 71

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 2023

billion personal records compromised by data breaches in past two years — underscoring need for end‑to‑end encryption Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter) Will Enable Mass Spying Reddit Says Leaked U.S.-U.K.

Security 88

Security Ransomware Data breaches Phishing 88