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Data Aggregator Exposed 44.3 million individuals' personal details found in unsecured instances of Elasticsearch, which appear to have been left online by Data & Leads, a Toronto-based data aggregation firm Million Individuals' Details via Unsecured Servers Another day, another "Have I Been Pwned" alert, this time involving 44.3 MORE
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Pentagon – Defense Department travel records suffered a data breach that compromised the personal information and credit card data of U.S. The data breach could have happened some months ago and could have affected as many as 30,000 workers. MORE
CEO Took Two Years to Acknowledge Incident FreshMenu, a food delivery provider based in India, has come under social media attack for keeping under wraps a data breach two years ago that exposed the personal information of over 110,000 users MORE
Card-Scraping Code Has Infiltrated Over 100,000 E-Commerce Sites Over the past year, there's been a surge in so-called Magecart attacks, involving payment card data being stolen from e-commerce sites via injected attack code. MORE
customers that their personal data was compromised in a breach, although it says it's detected no signs of fraud following the "unauthorized entry." Unauthorized Entry' to Some Accounts Exposes Account Details and Statements HSBC bank is warning some of its U.S. MORE
” Concerned that his own information was similarly exposed, Sheehy contacted Jared parent company Signet Jewelers and asked them to fix the data exposure. But Lancaster said Signet neglected to remedy the data exposure for all past orders until contacted by KrebsOnSecurity. MORE
s privacy watchdog says that six months after enforcement of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation began, it's seen a dramatic increase in data breach reports - as well as privacy complaints from the public MORE
Hospitality giant Marriott today disclosed a massive data breach exposing the personal and financial information on as many as a half billion customers who made reservations at any of its Starwood properties over the past four years. Data Breaches Marriott Data breach Starwood breach MORE
Many of the API’s features accepted “wildcard” search parameters, meaning they could be made to return all records for a given data set without the need to search for specific terms. MORE
The data architecture capability will supply the components and standards necessary to implement other capabilities coherently and enable them to work together. An enterprise data model provides a common, well-understood classification of data. MORE
Data Scientist Data Analyst Chief Data OfficerIn 2018 we will increasingly see this job created in order to bridge the worlds of business and IT for the better use of analytics. MORE
But Forensic Investigation Shows Attackers Had Exfiltration Tools in Place Australian human resources software developer PageUp says it has found "no specific evidence" that attackers removed data, following the company warning in May that it had been breached. MORE
On November 9, 2018, Serbia’s National Assembly enacted a new data protection law. The Personal Data Protection Law, which becomes effective on August 21, 2019, is modeled after the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). Consent – the Personal Data Protection Law introduces new forms of valid consent for data processing (including oral and electronic) and clarifies that the consent must be unambiguous and informed. MORE
CEO Mark Jaffe on How to Protect What the Adversaries Really Want Mark Jaffe is less concerned about how adversaries breach networks, but more concerned about how to secure their actual target - critical data. His startup company, Allure Security, intends to help secure that data MORE
The credit card data and travel records of roughly 30,000 employees of the U.S. Defense Department have been compromised in a data breach. The post 30k+ Pentagon Employees Compromised in Data Breach appeared first on Adam Levin. MORE
In the days following revelations last September that big-three consumer credit bureau Equifax had been hacked and relieved of personal data on nearly 150 million people , many Americans no doubt felt resigned and powerless to control their information. MORE
“I shouldn’t be able to see this data,” Hermansen said. Data Breaches The Coming Storm Aite Group Allen Weinberg fiserv Glenbrook Partners Julie Conroy Kristian Erik Hermansen secureinternetbank.comFiserv, Inc., MORE
30 Million Affected; 14 Million Had Extensive Information Exposed Facebook now says that 20 million fewer accounts were breached than it originally believed, but the attackers accessed extensive sensitive personal information on nearly half of those affected MORE
Department of Defense Has Begun Notifying Military and Civilian Breach Victims The Pentagon is warning that a data breach at a third-party travel management service provider exposed records for an estimated 30,000 civilian and military personnel. MORE
Reality #2: Any data point you share with a company will in all likelihood eventually be hacked, lost, leaked, stolen or sold usually through no fault of your own. MORE
Security Researcher Discovers Apparent Breach at Medical Practice A medical practice's misconfigured database server that allegedly exposed information about thousands of patients plus staff serves as another reminder about the importance of safeguarding sensitive data from exposure on the internet MORE
Microsoft's Diana Kelley on How to Ensure Your Data's Reliability Stolen data is one thing - the consequences are obvious. But what if data is not stolen or leaked, but rather altered? MORE
Breach Exposed Social Security Numbers, Birthdates, Salaries, Bank Account Data The department store chain Nordstrom says it doesn't believe that employees' personal and financial data, which was exposed in an October data breach due to a contractor's error, has been misused. The retailer says the breach exposed no customer data MORE
Sorting Out What Kinds of Incidents Are Most Common This Year What kinds of health data breaches have been most common so far in 2018? An analysis of the official HHS breach tally reveals the latest trends, and security experts offer an analysis MORE
Data security Cyber security Data managementCompliance concerns certainly have their place in today’s enterprise, however, they should not be viewed as interchangeable with security best practices. MORE
That raises questions about whether the airline violated data breach disclosure regulations Airline's Five-Month Delay Before Public Disclosure Raises Concern Hong Kong-based airline Cathay Pacific says the personal details of 9.4 MORE
In Wake of Massive Data Breach, Attorneys General Allege Violations of HIPAA, State Laws In a groundbreaking effort, the attorneys general of a dozen states have jointly filed a federal lawsuit against a cloud-based electronic health records vendor that reported a 2015 data breach affecting 3.9 MORE
Individuals Report Organizations for Allegedly Failing to Secure Personal Data Three months after the EU's General Data Protection Regulation went into full effect, the U.K.'s MORE
Crypto-Locking Ransomware Cracked Thanks to Gang's Shoddy Code Quality Good news for anyone whose data has been crypto-locked by attackers wielding GandCrab, the year's most aggressive strain of ransomware: You may be able to get your data back, thanks to a free decryptor MORE
Investigators Now Count 565,000 Data Breach Victims British Airways has discovered that hackers compromised payment card data and personal details for 185,000 more customers than it had originally suspected and that its systems were first breached not in August, but April. MORE
Hotel Giant Has Yet to Disclose Total Number of Affected Victims Radisson Hotel Group has suffered a data breach that resulted in the theft of data for its global loyalty program members. The company, which operates 1,400 hotels, says the breach touched data for "less than 10 percent" of all Radisson Rewards members, but it hasn't released a victim count MORE
British and Dutch data protection regulators fined the ride-sharing company Uber with $1,170,892 for the 2016 data breach. British and Dutch data protection regulators have fined Uber with $1,170,892 for the 2016 security breach that exposed personal data of 57 million of its users. MORE
Starwood Data Breach – Hackers accessed the guest reservation system of the Marriot owned Starwood since 2014 and copied and encrypted the information. ” reads the data breach notification published by Marriot. ” continues the data breach notification. MORE
MDM Data governance Data miningOrganizations can integrate various information types into a single MDM platform by leveraging emerging options for schema and taxonomies, producing virtually limitless competitive advantage. MORE
As Cybersecurity continues to be heavily focused on solving the problem of attacks against software vulnerabilities and system access, one potential silver bullet in the data breach equation remains out of the limelight. The Big Data Conundrum. Data security MORE
A good incentive to update and strengthen your organization’s records and information management (RIM) policies is the looming threat of fines upwards of 20 million euros, courtesy of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) , which became effective on May 25, 2018. MORE
Data controllers and data processors are an integral part of the GDPR. The terms ‘data controller’ and ‘data processor’ have been around for years, but it’s only since the EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) took effect that they’ve been scrutinised. MORE
Attacker Wants to Sell Stolen Data, Security Researcher Warns T-Mobile has suffered a breach that may have exposed personal data for 2.3 million of its 77 million customers, and one security researcher says the hacker appears to be keen to sell the stolen data MORE
The Case for a Federal Data Protection Law. Now, depending on your location and industry, you may have to navigate the requirements of GDPR , other countries’ data protection laws and U.S. Some may not want to limit access to data for that reason. MORE
The age of Big Data is upon us. And, as more data is available for analytical purposes, more sensitive and private information is at risk. Protecting the confidentiality and integrity and of warehoused data and ensuring that access is controlled is vital to keeping that data secure. MORE
Card-Scraping Code Has Infiltrated Over 100,000 E-Commerce Sites Over the past year, there's been a surge in so-called Magecart attacks, which involve payment card data being stolen from e-commerce sites via injected attack code. MORE
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Krebs on Security
NOVEMBER 30, 2018
Hospitality giant Marriott today disclosed a massive data breach exposing the personal and financial information on as many as a half billion customers who made reservations at any of its Starwood properties over the past four years. Data Breaches Marriott Data breach Starwood breach
Krebs on Security
NOVEMBER 21, 2018
Many of the API’s features accepted “wildcard” search parameters, meaning they could be made to return all records for a given data set without the need to search for specific terms.
Krebs on Security
DECEMBER 3, 2018
” Concerned that his own information was similarly exposed, Sheehy contacted Jared parent company Signet Jewelers and asked them to fix the data exposure. But Lancaster said Signet neglected to remedy the data exposure for all past orders until contacted by KrebsOnSecurity.
Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 29, 2018
Data Aggregator Exposed 44.3 million individuals' personal details found in unsecured instances of Elasticsearch, which appear to have been left online by Data & Leads, a Toronto-based data aggregation firm Million Individuals' Details via Unsecured Servers Another day, another "Have I Been Pwned" alert, this time involving 44.3
Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 10, 2018
s privacy watchdog says that six months after enforcement of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation began, it's seen a dramatic increase in data breach reports - as well as privacy complaints from the public
InfoGoTo
DECEMBER 7, 2018
The Case for a Federal Data Protection Law. Now, depending on your location and industry, you may have to navigate the requirements of GDPR , other countries’ data protection laws and U.S. Some may not want to limit access to data for that reason.
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 26, 2018
Crypto-Locking Ransomware Cracked Thanks to Gang's Shoddy Code Quality Good news for anyone whose data has been crypto-locked by attackers wielding GandCrab, the year's most aggressive strain of ransomware: You may be able to get your data back, thanks to a free decryptor
Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 4, 2018
In Wake of Massive Data Breach, Attorneys General Allege Violations of HIPAA, State Laws In a groundbreaking effort, the attorneys general of a dozen states have jointly filed a federal lawsuit against a cloud-based electronic health records vendor that reported a 2015 data breach affecting 3.9
Perficient Data & Analytics
SEPTEMBER 27, 2018
The data architecture capability will supply the components and standards necessary to implement other capabilities coherently and enable them to work together. An enterprise data model provides a common, well-understood classification of data.
Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
Card-Scraping Code Has Infiltrated Over 100,000 E-Commerce Sites Over the past year, there's been a surge in so-called Magecart attacks, which involve payment card data being stolen from e-commerce sites via injected attack code.
Hunton Privacy
NOVEMBER 28, 2018
On November 9, 2018, Serbia’s National Assembly enacted a new data protection law. The Personal Data Protection Law, which becomes effective on August 21, 2019, is modeled after the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). Consent – the Personal Data Protection Law introduces new forms of valid consent for data processing (including oral and electronic) and clarifies that the consent must be unambiguous and informed.
Thales Data Security
OCTOBER 9, 2018
As Cybersecurity continues to be heavily focused on solving the problem of attacks against software vulnerabilities and system access, one potential silver bullet in the data breach equation remains out of the limelight. The Big Data Conundrum. Data security
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 26, 2018
Investigators Now Count 565,000 Data Breach Victims British Airways has discovered that hackers compromised payment card data and personal details for 185,000 more customers than it had originally suspected and that its systems were first breached not in August, but April.
Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
Card-Scraping Code Has Infiltrated Over 100,000 E-Commerce Sites Over the past year, there's been a surge in so-called Magecart attacks, involving payment card data being stolen from e-commerce sites via injected attack code.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 27, 2018
Security Researcher Discovers Apparent Breach at Medical Practice A medical practice's misconfigured database server that allegedly exposed information about thousands of patients plus staff serves as another reminder about the importance of safeguarding sensitive data from exposure on the internet
Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 26, 2018
But Forensic Investigation Shows Attackers Had Exfiltration Tools in Place Australian human resources software developer PageUp says it has found "no specific evidence" that attackers removed data, following the company warning in May that it had been breached.
Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 7, 2018
customers that their personal data was compromised in a breach, although it says it's detected no signs of fraud following the "unauthorized entry." Unauthorized Entry' to Some Accounts Exposes Account Details and Statements HSBC bank is warning some of its U.S.
Thales Data Security
NOVEMBER 19, 2018
The age of Big Data is upon us. And, as more data is available for analytical purposes, more sensitive and private information is at risk. Protecting the confidentiality and integrity and of warehoused data and ensuring that access is controlled is vital to keeping that data secure.
Krebs on Security
AUGUST 28, 2018
“I shouldn’t be able to see this data,” Hermansen said. Data Breaches The Coming Storm Aite Group Allen Weinberg fiserv Glenbrook Partners Julie Conroy Kristian Erik Hermansen secureinternetbank.comFiserv, Inc.,
Information Management Resources
JANUARY 18, 2018
Data Scientist Data Analyst Chief Data OfficerIn 2018 we will increasingly see this job created in order to bridge the worlds of business and IT for the better use of analytics.
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 12, 2018
30 Million Affected; 14 Million Had Extensive Information Exposed Facebook now says that 20 million fewer accounts were breached than it originally believed, but the attackers accessed extensive sensitive personal information on nearly half of those affected
Adam Levin
OCTOBER 16, 2018
The credit card data and travel records of roughly 30,000 employees of the U.S. Defense Department have been compromised in a data breach. The post 30k+ Pentagon Employees Compromised in Data Breach appeared first on Adam Levin.
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 25, 2018
That raises questions about whether the airline violated data breach disclosure regulations Airline's Five-Month Delay Before Public Disclosure Raises Concern Hong Kong-based airline Cathay Pacific says the personal details of 9.4
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 15, 2018
Department of Defense Has Begun Notifying Military and Civilian Breach Victims The Pentagon is warning that a data breach at a third-party travel management service provider exposed records for an estimated 30,000 civilian and military personnel.
Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
Breach Exposed Social Security Numbers, Birthdates, Salaries, Bank Account Data The department store chain Nordstrom says it doesn't believe that employees' personal and financial data, which was exposed in an October data breach due to a contractor's error, has been misused. The retailer says the breach exposed no customer data
InfoGoTo
NOVEMBER 6, 2018
A good incentive to update and strengthen your organization’s records and information management (RIM) policies is the looming threat of fines upwards of 20 million euros, courtesy of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) , which became effective on May 25, 2018.
Schneier on Security
DECEMBER 6, 2018
Reality #2: Any data point you share with a company will in all likelihood eventually be hacked, lost, leaked, stolen or sold usually through no fault of your own.
IT Governance
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
Data controllers and data processors are an integral part of the GDPR. The terms ‘data controller’ and ‘data processor’ have been around for years, but it’s only since the EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) took effect that they’ve been scrutinised.
Data Breach Today
MAY 2, 2018
CEO Mark Jaffe on How to Protect What the Adversaries Really Want Mark Jaffe is less concerned about how adversaries breach networks, but more concerned about how to secure their actual target - critical data. His startup company, Allure Security, intends to help secure that data
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 27, 2018
Attacker Wants to Sell Stolen Data, Security Researcher Warns T-Mobile has suffered a breach that may have exposed personal data for 2.3 million of its 77 million customers, and one security researcher says the hacker appears to be keen to sell the stolen data
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 29, 2018
Sorting Out What Kinds of Incidents Are Most Common This Year What kinds of health data breaches have been most common so far in 2018? An analysis of the official HHS breach tally reveals the latest trends, and security experts offer an analysis
Data Breach Today
JULY 9, 2018
Microsoft's Diana Kelley on How to Ensure Your Data's Reliability Stolen data is one thing - the consequences are obvious. But what if data is not stolen or leaked, but rather altered?
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 14, 2018
CEO Took Two Years to Acknowledge Incident FreshMenu, a food delivery provider based in India, has come under social media attack for keeping under wraps a data breach two years ago that exposed the personal information of over 110,000 users
Information Management Resources
DECEMBER 10, 2018
Data security Cyber security Data managementCompliance concerns certainly have their place in today’s enterprise, however, they should not be viewed as interchangeable with security best practices.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 27, 2018
British and Dutch data protection regulators fined the ride-sharing company Uber with $1,170,892 for the 2016 data breach. British and Dutch data protection regulators have fined Uber with $1,170,892 for the 2016 security breach that exposed personal data of 57 million of its users.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 30, 2018
Starwood Data Breach – Hackers accessed the guest reservation system of the Marriot owned Starwood since 2014 and copied and encrypted the information. ” reads the data breach notification published by Marriot. ” continues the data breach notification.
Information Management Resources
JANUARY 31, 2018
MDM Data governance Data miningOrganizations can integrate various information types into a single MDM platform by leveraging emerging options for schema and taxonomies, producing virtually limitless competitive advantage.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 29, 2018
Individuals Report Organizations for Allegedly Failing to Secure Personal Data Three months after the EU's General Data Protection Regulation went into full effect, the U.K.'s
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 13, 2018
Pentagon – Defense Department travel records suffered a data breach that compromised the personal information and credit card data of U.S. The data breach could have happened some months ago and could have affected as many as 30,000 workers.
Krebs on Security
JUNE 13, 2018
In the days following revelations last September that big-three consumer credit bureau Equifax had been hacked and relieved of personal data on nearly 150 million people , many Americans no doubt felt resigned and powerless to control their information.
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