Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2021

The American multinational investment bank and financial services firm Morgan Stanley discloses a data breach caused by the hack of an Accellion FTA server of a third-party vendor. Guidehouse advised us that data that it maintained for Morgan Stanley had been accessed through the Accellion FTA vulnerability.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2021

Experts spotted a new mysterious malware that was used to collect a huge amount of data, including sensitive files, credentials, and cookies. terabyte of stolen data. Threat actors used custom malware to steal data from 3.2 “The data was collected from 3.25 How to protect your data from such kind of malware?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2021

Recently Cyber researchers for Cyble investigated an attack suffered by on May 30, 2021, by Nucleus Software, an India-based IT company in the Banking and Financial Services sector. Nucleus Software declared that it does not store customers’ financial data. BlackCocaine ” to the filenames of encrypted files.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2020

The drug testing firm Hammersmith Medicines Research LTD (HMR), which performs live trials of Coronavirus vaccines, discloses a data breach. Stolen data included the personal information for volunteers who surnames begin with D, G, I, or J. ” reads the data breach notification published by the company.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Unpatched vulnerabilities are at fault in anywhere from a third to more than half of all data breaches, depending on the study, so it’s natural to wonder why organizations don’t do a better job of patch management. How to build in that cyber resiliency was the focus of a number of talks at the conference. Patching Is Hard.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 6, 2024

Nearly one-third (28%) of all DDoS attacks on APIs focus on financial services organizations, the most targeted industry for this type of attack. Shadow APIs Fuel Data Leakage Undiscovered or poorly documented APIs increase the attack surface. Encryption Lebin Cheng | VP, API Security More About This Author > Schema

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

As data and IT infrastructure become more valuable by the day, cybersecurity risk management is increasingly important for enterprises with a steep cost for noncompliance or extensive, unaddressed vulnerabilities. Documenting and Implementing Procedures. Mapping Environment Data. Apping the Capability Maturity Model and.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 27, 2019

-based Synoptek is a managed service provider that maintains a variety of cloud-based services for more than 1,100 customers across a broad spectrum of industries , including state and local governments, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, media, retail and software. When the site was first set up on Dec.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The advent of quantum-safe cryptography is essential to protect sensitive data against the superior capabilities of quantum computers. This strategy addresses security concerns related to intellectual property and sensitive data in large language models (LLMs). The implications for business are profound.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

For many organizations, the idea of storing data or running applications on infrastructure that they do not manage directly seems inherently insecure. According to IDC’s 2021 State of Cloud Security Report , 79 percent of surveyed companies reported a cloud data breach in the last 18 months.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 24, 2020

On Wednesday, July 22, the New York Department of Financial Services (the “NYDFS”) announced that it had filed administrative charges against First American Title Insurance Co. under the NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation , marking the agency’s first enforcement action since the rules went into effect in March 2017. NYCRR 500.14(b):

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Collibra

MARCH 23, 2021

ATB Financial provides a diversified set of financial services to more than 770,000 residents of Alberta, Canada. Being a regionally focused institution, the group is dedicated to knowing its customers intimately, understanding their needs and providing products and services that help them achieve their goals.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

All of your files are encrypted with RSA-2048 and AES-128 ciphers.” ” Or you might see a readme.txt stating, “Your files have been replaced by these encrypted containers and aren’t accessible; you will lose your files on [enter date] unless you pay $2500 in Bitcoin.” IMPORTANT INFORMATION !!!

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Data Matters

APRIL 20, 2021

This development indicates that sponsors and fiduciaries may soon be subject to focused scrutiny over their cybersecurity practices in DOL investigations and adds to the multiple existing sources of cybersecurity legal risk in the wake of data breaches or insufficient cybersecurity controls.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

“The company recently discovered that an unauthorized party had copied and encrypted information, and took steps towards removing it,” Marriott disclosed in a statement. The vulnerability that the hackers took advantage of had been in place and used for “unauthorized access,” according to the company statement, since 2014.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Malware is malicious software designed to harm devices or glean data to commit identity-related crimes. VPNs encrypt data , making it much harder to intercept when transmitted through a shared or suspect internet connection. SSLs ensure all data is encrypted. Shred financial documents.

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Data Protection Report

OCTOBER 1, 2019

New York was among the majority of states whose breach law focused on acquisition of personal data (including Social Security Number, driver’s license number, or credit card number and security code). Once that determination is made, the person or business must document it in writing and maintain it for five years.

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eDiscovery Daily

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Areas such as financial services, technology, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, and energy industries all needed systems with these two factors. Or think of it as a document in Google Docs that is being seen by multiple people simultaneously. How Blockchain Works.

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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. LogicManager’s GRC solution has specific use cases across financial services, education, government, healthcare, retail, and technology industries, among others.

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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. LogicManager’s GRC solution has specific use cases across financial services, education, government, healthcare, retail, and technology industries, among others.

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

MAY 13, 2019

Major data breaches in recent years are spurring state legislators and regulators across the US into action. Later that year, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (‘NAIC’) adopted its Insurance Data Security Model Law (‘the NAIC Model’) as a framework cybersecurity law for the insurance industry.

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Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 15, 2022

On July 29, 2022, the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) posted proposed amendments (“Proposed Amendments”) to its Cybersecurity Requirements for Financial Services Companies (“Cybersecurity Regulations”). A covered entity’s incident response plan, as required by Section 500.16

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 24, 2024

This includes protecting data from internet threats, but it also means restricting unauthorized traffic attempting to leave your enterprise network. Network admins must configure firewall rules that protect their data and applications from threat actors. NAT changes that address data so the IP address is then different.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

What's on your mobile than our external API's and in the past few years there's been an explosion of external API data. What's on your mobile than our external API's and in the past few years there's been an explosion of external API data. They're on all your devices, [Peloton commercial]. Okay, that's starting to get very personal.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

What's on your mobile than our external API's and in the past few years there's been an explosion of external API data. What's on your mobile than our external API's and in the past few years there's been an explosion of external API data. They're on all your devices, [Peloton commercial]. Okay, that's starting to get very personal.

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

MARCH 14, 2019

It must also address the goals of the plan, internal processes for responding to a security event, and documentation and reporting regarding security events and related incident response activities. The plan must enable FIs to promptly respond to and recover from security events affecting customer information.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This dupes a Windows machine that has not been patched against the vulnerability into allowing illegitimate data packets into the legitimate network. These data packets can contain malware such as a trojan, ransomware, or similar dangerous program. The client and server communicate over the SMB Protocol. Does EternalBlue still exist?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Rock the Blockchain: Thales and DigiCert Secure the Data. It’s a staggering statistic, but 39% of companies are still not using robust data security measures. billion data records were breached, quadrupling in 2020 to 36 billion globally. Are Distributed Ledger Technologies the Answer to Securing Data? In 2019 alone, 7.9

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IT Governance

JULY 31, 2019

Department of Health Services email hacked exposing patient data (14,591). Pennsylvania-based software firm and healthcare provider accuse each other of data theft (unknown). TX-based Wise Health reports data breach caused by phishing attack (35,899). Capital One says credit card applicants’ data stolen (100 million).

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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 Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

A high-profile cyber incident may cause substantial financial and reputational losses to an organization, including the disruption of corporate business processes, destruction or theft of critical data assets, loss of goodwill, and shareholder and consumer litigation. Encrypting critical data assets.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

You might not think of it as a major aspect of security and yet, stolen credentials are really the key to data breaches today. In most cases, this regards the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR, and in the UK that law continues as the UK GDPR. So today, we'll go for the low hanging fruit.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 11, 2023

We’ll go over them briefly here but the details can be found on page 16 of the document. All data sources and computing services are considered resources. Below is a picture of the NIST stack from DoD: The DoD document is very good, as it defines specific requirements and implementation.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Israeli man sentenced to 80 months in prison for providing hacker-for-hire services Russian APT Gamaredon uses USB worm LitterDrifter against Ukraine The board of directors of OpenAI fired Sam Altman Medusa ransomware gang claims the hack of Toyota Financial Services CISA adds Sophos Web Appliance bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (..)

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The Security Ledger

AUGUST 12, 2021

Between 1998 and today there have been countless hearings on cyber risks and countless reports documenting the federal government’s ineptitude on matters of information security. Capitol Hill’s Long Learning Curve. There have been even more head slapping pronouncements of lawmakers utter cluelessness when it comes to matters of technology.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 4, 2021

Vamosi: ATT&CK started as a workshop exercise to document common tactics, techniques and procedures, T TPS that advanced persistent threats used against Windows Enterprise environments, advanced persistent threats are just as they seem. So it's it's a fun time. In the case of ransomware. Vamosi: they chose APT 29.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 4, 2021

Vamosi: ATT&CK started as a workshop exercise to document common tactics, techniques and procedures, T TPS that advanced persistent threats used against Windows Enterprise environments, advanced persistent threats are just as they seem. So it's it's a fun time. In the case of ransomware. Vamosi: they chose APT 29.

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