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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in November 2020 – 586 million records breached

IT Governance

The majority of those came from a credential-stuffing attack targeting Spotify and a data leak at the messaging app GO SMS Pro, which you can learn more about below. Here is our complete list of November’s cyber attacks and data breaches. Data breaches. Data breaches. Cyber attacks. Ransomware.

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Over a billion records belonging to CVS Health exposed online

Security Affairs

This week WebsitePlanet along with the researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered an unsecured database, belonging to the US healthcare and pharmaceutical giant CVS Health, that was exposed online. Researchers discovered an unprotected database belonging to CVS Health that was exposed online containing over a billion records.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Top 10 for 2018

Data Matters

This past year was marked by ever more significant data breaches, growing cybersecurity regulatory requirements at the state and federal levels and continued challenges in harmonizing international privacy and cybersecurity regulations. Data breach litigation risks. Federal Data Breach Legislation.

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China’s First Data Protection Measures Lifting Its Veils

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

The Specification allows a product or service provider to suspend its service in the event data subjects refuse to consent to the processing of his or her personal data necessary to achieve core functions. The draft Data Security Measures do not define “sensitive personal data.”

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The Applications of Blockchain in Data Management

AIIM

In my work at Mustard IT , many of our data management projects for our clients have involved the use of blockchain. Let's take a look at what the use of blockchain can do for your data management. Data Security. However, blockchain technology can offer greater assurances against data breaches.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 15 – 21 January 2024

IT Governance

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 set is a collection of 1 billion credentials sourced from stealer logs and hosted on the illicit.services website. Data breached: 70,840,771 email addresses.

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Vulnerability Management as a Service: Top VMaaS Providers

eSecurity Planet

According to the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report , 39% of data breaches came from web application compromise, which can often be a result of organizations leveraging open-source code, which can lead to the mess of dependencies that became apparent in vulnerabilities like Log4j Log4Shell and Apache Commons Text4Shell.

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