Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Yesterday, I wrote the first part of this 5-part series on fixing data breaches and I focused on education. The next few parts of this series all focus on cures - how do we fix data breaches once bad code has already been written or bad server configurations deployed? Best of all, it's about prevention rather than cure.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 23, 2023

For example, #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth, celebrating its 20th anniversary this October, aims to empower people and organizations across every sector to protect critical assets against cybercrime. For example, 37% of the Thales survey respondents are not confident they know where their sensitive data is stored.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 16, 2023

By minimizing the role of humans in secrets management, organizations can avoid data breaches, identity theft, and other identity-related problems by using a methodical approach to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive data and systems. In that sense, the most well-known example of a secret is a password.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 1, 2019

These vulnerabilities can span from limited use of data encryption to the abuse of privileged user policies. However, modernization and transformative technologies are creating new vulnerabilities resulting in data breaches. Our 2019 federal report found that 78% of respondents were using sensitive data in a cloud environment.

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Cyberthreats can range from the obvious, such as an email from a foreign potentate offering a small fortune if you’ll just provide your bank account number, to the deviously stealthy, such as a line of malicious code that sneaks past cyberdefenses and lives on the network for months or years before triggering a costly data breach.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 23, 2018

While it’s no surprise to anybody reading this that data breaches are on the rise, the attacks facing healthcare organizations, most recently in Asia, are particularly worrisome. One need not look very far to find examples of the threats facing these entities: In Singapore, 1.5 Evolving Threat Landscape. Consequences.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Time stamps on data samples reviewed by the team indicate that the information was logged recently, with some pieces of data as recent as October 26. For example, the open dataset held access credentials to third-party servers. This instance left sensitive data open and was already indexed via popular IoT search engines.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 11, 2018

Whether offering instant access to patient records, allowing remote diagnosis of treatment, or giving access to lifestyle management and monitoring apps, it’s undeniable that the Internet of Things (IoT) and connected services are revolutionising the healthcare industry.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 10, 2021

Pwned Passwords is a repository of 613M passwords exposed in previous data breaches, which makes them very poor choices for future use. I've got a whole section about this in Part 3 of my IoT series so go and read the details over there. So, it was with great pleasure that I saw the two integrated recently: always something.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 12, 2021

They used very aggressive hands-on hacking, making use of traditional IT tools, and they coupled that with the use of traditional hacking tools, like Cobalt Strike , for example. RSA 2021 is overflowing with examples of cybersecurity vendors striving to leverage machine and human capabilities in smarter ways. Acohido.

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

JANUARY 18, 2019

Increasing numbers of initiatives, devices, and solutions related to the Internet of Things (IoT) are substantially impacting the development of cybersecurity and data privacy regulations throughout Asia. At the same time, it is clear that many Asian jurisdictions see IoT as a key driver for economic growth.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2021

The configuration file, first indexed on an IoT search engine on September 7, appears to be the main configuration file of the application hosted on the ‘upliftmedia’ subdomain of Sky.com, and includes plain text access credentials to databases hosted on the Sky.com domain.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 28, 2022

In a typical PPI network, clients will submit their malware—a spambot or password-stealing Trojan, for example —to the service, which in turn charges per thousand successful installations, with the price depending on the requested geographic location of the desired victims. An example of a cracked software download site distributing Glupteba.

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The Security Ledger

JANUARY 22, 2019

Tailit’s Tale of IoT Security Redemption. In our second segment this week: we’re used to hearing stories about connected device makers getting caught out with shoddy device security, insecure applications, dodgy data collection practices – or all three. The Norwegian connected device maker Tailit is another example.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Indeed, APIs have opened new horizons of cloud services, mobile computing and IoT infrastructure, with much more to come. In one recent example, researcher Jan Masters found a way to manipulate an API supporting subscription services offered by Peloton, makers of the popular cycling machine. Dearth of planning.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2019

Marriott, meanwhile, failed to notice a breach that persisted for four years, exposing some 339 million customer records , of which about 30 million belonged to European residents. IBM’s recent data breach study shows how the cost of a data breach has risen 12% over the past five years and now costs $3.92

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Another day, another breach. Barely a day goes by where we don’t hear of a data breach. Affecting big companies and small in virtually every vertical and hitting government institutions at the local, state and federal level, sensitive data is routinely exfiltrated, stolen and leveraged with shocking regularity.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 16, 2022

As new technologies, like artificial intelligence, cloud computing, blockchain, and the Internet of Things (IoT), become increasingly prominent in the workplace, digital trust practitioners will need to adapt responsibly and safely. Advance Trust with Awareness and Culture.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 23, 2023

For example, conducting a penetration test might prevent the team from working on IT improvements or security improvements, or even monitoring and responding to security threats. These delays can increase the risk to the organization which increases the potential for breaches and other damages.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 29, 2018

Encryption, which in this context is often referred to as point-to-point encryption or P2PE, was the first method of defence deployed to ensure that cleartext PANs were not readily accessible to fraudsters if a data breach occurred at a merchant server (which is often a vulnerable point in the network).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

IoCs are pieces of evidence or data that suggest a security incident or breach has occurred. For example, it could be a sign of unauthorized access to the logs. However, the instance remained open until mid-October, leaving the user data publicly accessible for an extended period of time. Amount of IoC.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 29, 2021

The security implications of 5G are brought to the real-world, for example, when we consider the interactions of autonomous vehicles. This data will all be fed from disparate systems, and the automobiles will also generate data back to those systems. Data security. Data Firewall. Data Breach.

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IT Governance

APRIL 17, 2019

But that’s just one example of cutting-edge technology sweeping the hotel industry, with many organisations leveraging IoT (Internet of Things) and other ‘smart’ tech to give customers a taste of the future. This is particularly true for the hotel industry, which is one of the worst-affected by cyber crime and data breaches.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 26, 2023

According to IBM’s Cost of a data breach 2022 report, 83% of organizations studied have had more than one data breach, and 60% of these breaches caused organizations to pass price increases on to clients. Of these breaches, 45% were cloud-based, costing USD 10.10M on an average, per breach.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 4, 2021

Take for example, if you are asked to calculate the factors of the current year “2021”, you may do this by dividing 2021 with 2, then 3, … until you reach the number 43, which gives you the result of 43 x 47 = 2021. My thanks go to my colleague Rana Gupta , APAC Regional VP, Data Protection, for his help and input into this blog post.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 6, 2018

Gartner defines digital risk management as “the integrated management of risks associated with digital business components, such as cloud, mobile, social, big data, third-party technology providers, OT and the IoT.” Some smaller companies have even gone out of business as the result of a data breach. Regulations.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2020

We discovered the exposed data by scanning through open Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets, which are online servers that can be used to store data for websites, apps, archives, IoT devices, and more. We identified Tellus as the owner of the database and notified the company about the leak.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rising implementations of cloud services and IoT systems, not to mention the arrival of 5G, has quickened the pace of software development and multiplied data handling complexities. In this milieu, even well-defended enterprises continue to suffer catastrophic data breaches. Take PowerShell-enabled breaches, for instance.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2019

IoT vendor Wyze announced that one of its servers exposed the details of roughly 2.4 IoT vendor Wyze announced that details of roughly 2.4 ” Song pointed out that several of the things reported by Twelve are not true, for example he denied that Wyze sends data to Alibaba Cloud in China. million customers.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2019

From iPhone to NT AUTHORITYSYSTEM – exploit ‘Printconfig dll with a real-world example. A thief stole hard drives containing Facebook payroll data from a car. Lab test provider LifeLabs disclose a data breach that exposed personal info of 15M customers. A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived!

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The Middle East’s data protection regulatory landscape is complex, and continues to develop with Saudi Arabia’s ( KSA ) newly published Personal Data Protection Law ( PDPL ). While the PDPL contains the main features of a modern data protection law, it cannot be considered a direct analogue of the GDPR.

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Collibra

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

At an individual level, patient data often contains the key to understanding illness and potential recovery. Understanding the data issues healthcare faces. They operate in a highly regulated industry, which often has standards or regulations around data privacy and data security.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 30, 2018

The DHS’ effort to take a leading role in threat deterrence and cyber incident response should be well received if they lead by example within their own infrastructure and communicate openly and often with partner organizations.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Gartner (2021) has two related definitions: Digital Transformation: “can refer to anything from IT modernization (for example, cloud computing), to digital optimization, to the invention of new digital business models.” Therefore, in this article the terms “information,” “data,” and “content” are synonymous.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

NTT is partnering with the University of Technology Sydney to introduce an ABE service that fits with existing IT infrastructure, including cloud computing, healthcare, IoT and secure data sharing. Today, Goto says, ABE is fully ready to validate in real world deployments. This adds complexity and computational overhead.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 5, 2017

An unfortunate occurrence over the past few years has been that data breaches just keep getting bigger and impacting more people. This year, Equifax, Verizon, Wonga, Bell Canada and Hipchat were just a few of the companies that suffered from successful cyberattacks or leaks that resulted in sensitive data getting compromised.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Exposing the Internet of Things (IoT) Universe. Consumer electronics, business, network appliances, and industrial IoT (IIoT) devices are all driving the exponential growth of IoT systems. Consumer electronics, business, network appliances, and industrial IoT (IIoT) devices are all driving the exponential growth of IoT systems.

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