IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Also in January, the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) fined Carphone Warehouse £400,000 – one of the largest fines it issued under the DPA (Data Protection Act) 1998 – for multiple security inadequacies that led to a 2015 data breach in which three million customers’ personal data was compromised.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

A list of data points that can be slurped from a mobile device that is secretly running mSpy’s software. “All our customers’ accounts are securely encrypted and the data is being wiped out once in a short period of time. ” Some of those “points of access” were mine.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. LastPass disclosed that criminal hackers had compromised encrypted copies of some password vaults, as well as other personal information.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

This is significant because in November 2022, LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. The more iterations, the longer it takes an offline attacker to crack your master password.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 12, 2018

Merriam-Webster defines big data as “an accumulation of data that is too large and complex for processing by traditional database management tools.” This is how big data analytics is enabling behavioral biometric-authentication mechanisms. Focus on Enhanced Security.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 16, 2024

Hijacked compute: Repurposes expensive AI compute power for attackers’ needs, primarily cryptojacking, which mines for cryptocurrencies on stolen resources. A natural myopia, but companies ignore three key hidden issues exposed by ShadowRay: AI experts lack security expertise, AI data needs encryption, and AI models need source tracking.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. ” SEPTEMBER. Uber blames LAPSUS$ for the intrusion.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

With that an attacker couldn't necessarily intercept the data, but they could query the peloton API to get user data that they weren't supposed to. In other words, Peloton suffered from an API vulnerability that could potentially lead to a massive data breach. Kent: I started calling friends of mine. He told me.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

With that an attacker couldn't necessarily intercept the data, but they could query the peloton API to get user data that they weren't supposed to. In other words, Peloton suffered from an API vulnerability that could potentially lead to a massive data breach. Kent: I started calling friends of mine. He told me.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 11, 2022

Databricks recommends a proactive approach and deleting EU PII during data ingestion because the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) allows penalties up to 20 million Euro or higher to be levied against violators. Data Lake Isolation. Data Lake Encryption. Data Lakes Transmission Security.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

I want a "secure by default" internet with all the things encrypted all the time such that people can move freely between networks without ever needing to care about who manages them or what they're doing with them. Now let's try the mobile app: What's the encryption story there? " It means "this is private."

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Here goes: Last week, someone reached it to me with what they claimed was a Spoutible data breach obtained by exploiting an enumerable API. " because I had no expectation at all of any of that data being publicly available (note: phone number is optional, I chose to add mine).

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Organizations must practice incident response if they want to stop data breaches and cyberattacks. Ransomware attacks: Ransomware is malware extortion attack that encrypts a victim’s files, demanding a ransom payment in exchange for the decryption key. This often causes significant disruptions and data loss to the company.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Like other competitive GRC solutions, it speeds the process of aggregating and mining data, building reports, and managing files. Otherwise, you may be faced with costly data breaches, operational failure, or regulation non-compliance. Its features include: Enterprise risk management. IT governance and security.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Like other competitive GRC solutions, it speeds the process of aggregating and mining data, building reports, and managing files. Otherwise, you may be faced with costly data breaches, operational failure, or regulation non-compliance. Its features include: Enterprise risk management. IT governance and security.

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Compliance Risk Government Retail 57

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 27, 2022

Gartner reported that 36% plan to increase spending on AI and machine learning , and 85% want to implement data-mining supported by machine learning until 2024. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, important technologies for the roll out of “Smart Cities” are a priority for most government CIOs.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 22, 2020

“can u edit that comment out, @tankska is a gaming twitter of mine and i dont want it to be on ogu :D’,” lol wrote. ” Chaewon responds in the affirmative, and asks the other user to share his account name on Wickr , an encrypted online messaging app that automatically deletes messages after a few days.

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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. So why don't I do some side look why don't I use these legitimate tools so comes up in loads of applications, you know, kindly low mine hours.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 3, 2021

I've investigated hundreds of data breaches over the years (there are 514 of them in Have I Been Pwned as I write this), and for the most part, the situation with Gab is just another day on the internet. "Every major tech company – from Facebook to Twitter – has been the target of multiple and continued data breaches."

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