IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

As is now traditional, I’ve installed myself in the porter’s chair next to the fire in the library, ready to recap some of the year’s more newsworthy information security events. Equifax issued its financial report for the first quarter of 2018, revealing that its huge 2017 data breach had so far cost it $242.7

Data breaches 71

Data breaches Personal data Access GDPR 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. For example, here’s Jerry Lewis in a scene from a 1950s film, where he’s trying to break into a Nazi German military base. Fact is, we’ve long had passwords as a credential.

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Passwords Authentication Access Data breaches 52

IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In the case of double-extortion ransomware attacks, malware is used to not only encrypt the victim’s data but also exfiltrate sensitive files, such as customer information, which attackers then threaten to release publicly.

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Ransomware Phishing Encryption IoT 117

ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

Vamosi: Whenever there's a data breach, a ransomware attack, large security event in general, I would like to learn something about how it happened. And what they'll do is they'll use a legitimate program that depends on the library, bring malicious libraries with them, they get something sideways.

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Ransomware Marketing IT Libraries 52