John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 25, 2019

My current work is split between two projects: One has to do with data governance, the other political media. Big data, data breaches, data mining, data science…Today, we’re all about the data. And second… Governance. But Governance? Data Governance.

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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.

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Compliance Risk Government Retail 57

Troy Hunt

MARCH 1, 2018

My view has always been that it's in everyone's best interests to be crystal clear about how I run this, especially when you consider the circumstances of how most of this data was leaked in the first place. Over recent times, I've had a bunch of opportunities to talk to folks in various government roles. domain on demand.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2020

The company manufactures a variety of heavy equipment (bulldozers, dump trucks, hydraulic excavators, wheel loaders, rope shovels, walking draglines, motor graders and scrapers), such as that used for earthmoving, transport and mining. According to the researchers, the data breach has occurred in May 2020 and the data was published on May 25.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

This week, we discuss a data breach at Mumsnet, no data breach at OkCupid, and a lawsuit against Apple for implementing security measures. Hello, and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Thursday, 14 February 2019. The post Weekly podcast: Mumsnet, OkCupid and Apple appeared first on IT Governance Blog.

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The data included official government ID numbers, phone numbers, family records, birthdates, death dates (where applicable), marriage dates, education histories, and work records. Most concerningly, the leaked data seems to include national identification numbers and unique taxpayer numbers. It contained 20.8

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2022

The dump includes nearly 140,000 emails from MashOil, which designs, manufactures and maintains equipment used in the drilling, mining and fracking industries. Anonymous claims that it is currently working on another data leak that could have a devastating impact on the Russian government.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2023

The data includes full descriptions of engineering specifications, drawings, audits of many weapons, among others: Rocket Pinaka MK-1 ADM-1 Propellant Pinaka MK-1 Enhanced Proppelant Pinaka MK-2 Guided Proppelant Akash Booster Proppelant RTRS Proppelant Astra MK-2 Proppelant PSOM-XL Proppelant SkyRoot Proppelant Star Booster Proppelant HEMRL(PJ-10) (..)

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

com , a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. experienced a data breach several years back, and according to Apollo the email address ownagegaming1@gmail.com belongs to Jordan Bloom in Ontario. In 2019, a Canadian company called Defiant Tech Inc.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Hello and welcome to the final IT Governance podcast of 2018. Even government and public bodies’ websites – including, ironically, the ICO – were found to be running cryptomining software after a third-party plug-in was compromised, but it transpired. Dixons Carphone admitted suffering a major data breach in July 2017, involving 5.9

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IT Governance

APRIL 16, 2018

Cryptojacking is when cryptocurrency miners are delivered through malware, using a computer’s processing power to illicitly mine cryptocurrency. This makes the Cloud an appealing target to cyber criminals, who can take advantage of organisations that store their data on the Cloud but fail to stipulate where and how they would like it stored.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 4, 2020

But KrebsOnSecurity recently discovered that this is not the case with all federal government sites built to help you manage your identity online. Lest you think your SSN and DOB is somehow private information, you should know this static data about U.S.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

This week, we discuss new reports from Cisco, McAfee and the CSIS, and Big Brother Watch, and hear more about malicious Monero mining. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 23 February 2018. I neglected to reveal the sum the criminals managed to mine in the few hours before they were detected.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 11, 2018

As I was starting to write this blog, yet another retail program data breach occurred, for Marriott’s Starwood loyalty program. To make a long story short – the top reason that they didn’t invest in data security was “lack of perceived need” at 52%. This had me asking a simple question – Why? Doing the math perhaps?

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) November 15, 2022 I've had various public users of HIBP, commercial users and even governments reach out to ask what's going on because they were concerned about their data. With the exception of a few outdated fields, the data on my family member is correct.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2019

At least 23 Texas local governments targeted by coordinated ransomware attacks. Capital One hacker suspected to have breached other 30 companies. Employees abused systems at Ukrainian nuclear power plant to mine cryptocurrency. Mastercard data breach affected Priceless Specials loyalty program.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 10, 2019

The Measures also cover “important data,” defined as “the data that might directly affect national security, economic security, social stability and public health and security in case of disclosure, such as non-public government information, population data covering a large area, gene health data, geographic data and mining data.”

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2020

Following its epic 2017 data breach, Equifax reconfigured its systems to effectively invalidate the freeze PINs it previously relied upon to unfreeze a file, effectively allowing anyone to bypass that PIN if they can glean a few personal details about you. YOUR GOVERNMENT. Social Security Administration.

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IT Governance

MARCH 16, 2018

This week, we discuss the ICO’s new GDPR campaign for micro businesses, a potential data breach at Gwent Police, a US$250,000 reward from Binance and Windows Defender stops a massive malware campaign. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 16 March 2018. Here are this week’s stories.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 24, 2018

Question: Can you provide an overview of the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report, Federal Edition, and elaborate why it’s needed today more than ever? Our 2018 Thales Data Threat Report, Federal Edition , issued in conjunction with analyst firm 451 Research, polled U.S. I think it’s worth further expanding on our cloud technology findings.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Welcome to our September 2022 list of data breaches and cyber attacks. That’s because we’re looking for ways to improve the way we deliver this data. Our blog has become the go-to source for monthly data breach statistics, and we’ve been producing this series for over seven years. Data breaches.

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Info Source

MAY 25, 2018

Today he practices in the areas of regulatory litigation, including cybersecurity and data breaches, privacy and telecommunications, civil and criminal enforcement proceedings and international Regulatory Compliance. The biggest risk: overstating who you share your data with.

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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.

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Compliance Risk Government Retail 67

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 27, 2022

How to Accelerate Government Transformation by Reducing Risk, Complexity, and Cost. The days of dreadful long lines at crowded and inefficient government agencies may be coming to an end. Digitalization of services and adoption of new platforms are reinventing government services and public administration.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 29, 2019

At first glance, August has been a quiet month for data breaches, with a total of 114,686,290 breached records. But that figure comes from 95 incidents in total, which is the highest number of breaches we’ve had all year. Let’s take a look at those breaches in full in our slightly tweaked monthly list. Ransomware.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

Many people will land on this page after learning that their email address has appeared in a data breach I've called "Collection #1". It's made up of many different individual data breaches from literally thousands of different sources. Collection #1 is a set of email addresses and passwords totalling 2,692,818,238 rows.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 4, 2023

There’s been a major data breach, and you’re booked on the next night flight out, at 6am. They do like crypto mining and containers and stuff. So seems relatively benign, but one thing a lot of people don't realize is that they have a detection for crypto mining and they'll just destroy the system.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

One Plugin, Over 4,200 Victims – When Thousands of Government Websites Were Hijacked to Mine Monero. Data breach. Porsche Japan customers data leaked. HardwareZone Forum hit by security breach; 685,000 user profiles affected. Aperio Group client account data breached by successful phishing attack.

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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. Uber blames LAPSUS$ for the intrusion.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

For example, re-packing corporate records can help weave a narrative to promote a brand, enhance corporate social responsibility outreach programs, improve employee loyalty, enhance diversity, equality and inclusion training, and highlight environment, social and governance initiatives. Data Analytics.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Organizations must practice incident response if they want to stop data breaches and cyberattacks. Data breaches: A data breach occurs when unauthorized individuals gain access to sensitive data, such as personal information, credit card or other payment information, and intellectual property.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Here are a few key takeaways: Cool new experiences Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Alibaba Cloud supply computer processing and data storage as a utility. DevOps has decentralized the creation and delivery of smart applications that can mine humongous data sets to create cool new user experiences.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

38,846,799 known records breached in 140 publicly disclosed incidents Welcome to this week’s global round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. 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.

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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. Akumin Inc.

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Data Privacy Energy and Utilities Privacy Manufacturing 101

ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

A network monitoring company for the federal government and other large companies, Solar Winds, had been breached. And then the tools are used by government entities and accruals are used by big industries and it's one of the more popular and robust packages out there. Now, our government. People will change, I say, hmm.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

A network monitoring company for the federal government and other large companies, Solar Winds, had been breached. And then the tools are used by government entities and accruals are used by big industries and it's one of the more popular and robust packages out there. Now, our government. People will change, I say, hmm.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 11, 2022

Data Lake Security Scope. A data governance manager will intensely focus on the access, transmission, and storage of data, but an IT security manager must have a broader perspective that encompasses the infrastructure and tools. Once categorized, data can also be organized, cleaned, and moved to enable strong controls.

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