IT Governance

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The financial sector is quite heavily regulated, and involves a lot of confidential data. You’d therefore expect that the sector fares better at data security than your average organisation. In fact, in 2020–2022, the financial sector was the second-most attacked sector, topped only by the retail and manufacturing sector.

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Risk Data breaches Authentication Financial Services 104

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 22, 2024

Counting Down to the EU NIS2 Directive madhav Thu, 05/23/2024 - 05:16 Our recently released 2024 Data Threat Report showed a direct correlation between compliance and cyber security outcomes. 84% of organizations that failed a compliance audit reported having a data breach in their history. Incident handling.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2021

ransomware gang BlackMatter ransomware also targets VMware ESXi servers Conti ransomware affiliate leaked gang’s training material and tools Conti Leak Indicators – What to block, in your SOC…. If you want to also receive for free the international pre ss subscribe here. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The other most vulnerable sectors were business services (23), construction (22), manufacturing (19) and transport (18). When you look at the data through this lens, you see why certain industries are more affected than others.”. Across the UK, the education sector was the most frequently targeted, with 24 incidents.

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Ransomware Manufacturing Data breaches Risk 136

Collibra

JUNE 21, 2023

There are a host of challenges to scaling AI, and they all start with data. For starters, just imagine the repeated cost of training an LLM on a data set that contains poor quality, inconsistent, inaccurate or incomplete data. If the data is flawed, inaccurate, or incomplete, then the predictive model is also unreliable.

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Government IT Risk Privacy 85

Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2022

LockBit ransomware gang claimed to have hacked Bridgestone Americas, one of the largest manufacturers of tires. LockBit ransomware gang claimed to have compromised the network of Bridgestone Americas, one of the largest manufacturers of tires, and stolen data from the company.

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Ransomware Manufacturing Systems administration Information Security 96

Security Affairs

APRIL 13, 2019

Hackers publish personal data on thousands of US police officers and federal agents. Media outlet Techcrunch reported that a hacker group has breached several FBI-affiliated websites and leaked the stolen info online. Now we are structuring all the data, and soon they will be sold. SecurityAffairs – FBI, Data leak).

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Encryption Ransomware Manufacturing Personal data 98

IT Governance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Cyber criminals continued to wreak havoc, with the likes of Twitter , Uber and Neopets all reporting mammoth data breaches. In total, we have so far reported more than 1,000 data breaches in 2022, with almost half a billion breached records. million) fine for twelve breaches of the GDPR.

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Security Data breaches Ransomware Military 132

IT Governance

JULY 7, 2021

The number of officially reported HMRC-branded phishing scams increased from 572,029 in the 2019–2020 fiscal year to 1,069,522 in 2020–2021, according to data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. School of Medicine), which alerted those affected about a breach that occurred earlier this year. Can you spot a scam?

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Phishing Manufacturing Insurance Data breaches 98

IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

When we consider the damage a data breach can cause, we tend to focus on the cost of breach reporting, potential fines and loss of reputation. For life sciences and pharmaceutical companies, this includes data on the development and testing of new therapies and details of how therapies are manufactured.

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Healthcare Insurance Manufacturing Risk 83

IT Governance

JANUARY 22, 2018

Different methods of attack will affect organisations in different ways, but according to the GSISS, many executives shared the same concerns: Disruption of operations/manufacturing (40%). Loss or compromise of sensitive data (39%). 48% said they don’t have an employee security awareness training programme.

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Security awareness Information Security Manufacturing Data breaches 99

IT Governance

OCTOBER 11, 2018

As many as 438 third-party apps were potentially able to access the data of up to 500,000 Google+ account holders without their permission because of a vulnerability in one of its APIs. However, it said it had found no evidence that profile data had been misused or that any developer was aware of the bug.

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Personal data Manufacturing Data breaches Government 73

Adam Levin

JUNE 30, 2020

Manufacturing giant Honda had its networks brought to a standstill by just such an attack. For instance, 71 percent of respondents said companies shouldn’t pay ransoms to hackers, but 55 percent wanted businesses to pay a ransom if their own personal data was at risk. 1-99-employee companies are a target.

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Ransomware Insurance Cybersecurity Manufacturing 74

IT Governance

JUNE 26, 2018

It’s hard to imagine things getting any more embarrassing after disclosing a data breach, but news stories of bungles, cover-ups, denials and dismissals prove that things really can go from bad to worse. When organisations are breached, affected individuals have a right to know. Except there was a data breach.

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Data breaches Passwords GDPR Personal data 63

CGI

JULY 5, 2018

When I worked with a major global chemical manufacturer, every meeting began with a PowerPoint presentation on safety, highlighting the importance of the topic. Today, agencies need to bring the same level of motivation to ensure that their data and devices are secure. has been estimated at more than $7 million.

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Cybersecurity Digital transformation Manufacturing Government 40

CGI

APRIL 19, 2018

When I worked with a major global chemical manufacturer, every meeting began with a PowerPoint presentation on safety, highlighting the importance of the topic. Today, agencies need to bring the same level of motivation to ensure that their data and devices are secure. has been estimated at more than $7 million.

Cybersecurity 40

Cybersecurity Digital transformation Manufacturing Government 40

CGI

MAY 15, 2018

When I worked with a major global chemical manufacturer, every meeting began with a PowerPoint presentation on safety, highlighting the importance of the topic. Today, agencies need to bring the same level of motivation to ensure that their data and devices are secure. has been estimated at more than $7 million.

Cybersecurity 40

Cybersecurity Digital transformation Manufacturing Government 40

IT Governance

JANUARY 23, 2024

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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Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Retail 52

IT Governance

MARCH 5, 2024

252,796,762 known records breached in 126 newly 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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Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Retail 52

IT Governance

JANUARY 16, 2024

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 is no longer publicly available. Data breached: >223,000,000 records. Data breached: >7,000,000 records. Data breached: 5,500,000 records.

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Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Retail 52

IT Governance

JANUARY 30, 2024

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 is more than mere credentials, too – according to Cybernews, most of the exposed data is sensitive. Data breached: more than 26 billion records.

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Data Privacy Retail Privacy Manufacturing 52

Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

HR data exemption : Adds 1798.145(g) to exempt the following from the CCPA’s application, except for § 1798.100(b) (notice provision) and § 1798.150 (private right of action provision):“. and the vehicle’s manufacturer. as part of CCPA compliance training). Code §§ 1798.130(a)(5)(A), (6)).

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Sales B2B Communications Data breaches 48

IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Connecting AI models to a myriad of data sources across cloud and on-premises environments AI models rely on vast amounts of data for training. Once trained and deployed, models also need reliable access to historical and real-time data to generate content, make recommendations, detect errors, send proactive alerts, etc.

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Government Analytics Metadata Compliance 76

ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Some technology trends such as real-time data analytics are on-going, while others are more recent, such as blockchain. Information and data are synonyms but have different definitions. ARMA defines information as “Data that has been given value through analysis, interpretation, or compilation in a meaningful form” (ARMA 2016, p 28).

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Digital transformation Blockchain IT Computer and Electronics 59

IT Governance

APRIL 25, 2023

According to the 2022 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report , insider threats account for 18% of all security incident. Meanwhile, a Ponemon Institute report found that data breaches caused by insiders increased by 14% between 2018 and 2022. But who exactly is causing these incidents and why?

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Data breaches Phishing Personal data Access 105

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Data privacy regulations like the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) can be hard to navigate for businesses of any size, but GRC tools can simplify and streamline compliance with all of the requirements. Its features include: Enterprise risk management. Audit management.

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Compliance Risk Government Retail 67

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Data privacy regulations like the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) can be hard to navigate for businesses of any size, but GRC tools can simplify and streamline compliance with all of the requirements. Its features include: Enterprise risk management. Audit management.

Compliance 57

Compliance Risk Government Retail 57

IT Governance

JUNE 6, 2019

According to Verizon’s 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report , 32% of all cyber attacks involved phishing. To ensure you don’t fall for schemes like this, you must train yourself to check where links go before opening them. The manufactured sense of urgency is equally effective in workplace scams.

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Phishing IT Communications Access 111

IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Over the past month or so, we’ve been discussing the threats associated with payment card breaches, and why it’s important to comply with the PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard). Further reading: Why you should be concerned about payment card data breaches. The cost of a payment card data breach.

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Data breaches Paper Retail Manufacturing 99

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

You still need to do the basics right, like employee cybersecurity training and patching ; those two areas alone could greatly reduce risk. Then you want to add extra protection around your most critical data, in the form of zero trust access tools and high-integrity data backups. Valuable Data. Remote Workers.

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Ransomware Risk Cybersecurity Education 131

ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

You name it, all the major automotive manufacturers in the world were represented in the room, but arriving the night before, blurry eyed from travel, I stumbled into this Marriot down the street from Fiat Chrysler headquarters and there’s Mike Amadhi standing at the registration desk. “Hi, Rob.” Well that's all changed.

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IT Manufacturing Government Paper 52

ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

You name it, all the major automotive manufacturers in the world were represented in the room, but arriving the night before, blurry eyed from travel, I stumbled into this Marriot down the street from Fiat Chrysler headquarters and there’s Mike Amadhi standing at the registration desk. “Hi, Rob.” Well that's all changed.

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IT Manufacturing Government Paper 52

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

While Google Pixel devices automatically receive monthly security updates, other device manufacturers may take a little longer to deploy updates since they need to test and tailor fixes for certain hardware setups. The flaws can expose systems to remote code execution, credential theft, and data breaches.

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IT Governance

APRIL 29, 2024

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 scraping or web scraping is a typically automated process that extracts information from websites, allowing criminals to compile datasets containing personal information.

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Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Security 94

IT Governance

APRIL 20, 2018

This week, we discuss an alert from the NCSC, US DHS and FBI, a £120,000 fine for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, and a data breach at IKEA’s TaskRabbit marketplace. Network device manufacturers, ISPs, and their owners or operators should refer to the mitigation advice provided in the advisory.

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Personal data Government Manufacturing Information Security 66

Data Matters

MARCH 21, 2022

The reporting requirements will cover multiple sectors of the economy, including chemical industry entities, commercial facilities, communications sector entities, critical manufacturing, dams, financial services entities, food and agriculture sector entities, healthcare entities, information technology, energy, and transportation.

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Ransomware Cybersecurity Agriculture Communications 97

Troy Hunt

APRIL 2, 2020

For example, nearly 5 years ago now I wrote about how "we take security seriously" was a ridiculous statement to make immediately after a data breach. I don't mean to question whether the statements are truthful or not, but rather whether they provide any actual assurance whatsoever. The pattern is alarmingly predictable.

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