Data Matters

APRIL 6, 2022

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Division of Enforcement (EXAMS or Division) issued its annual examination priorities. Private Fund, ESG Investing, Retail Investors, Cybersecurity, Fintech, and Digital Assets. Microcap, Municipal, Fixed Income, and Over-the-Counter Securities. On March 30, 2022, the U.S.

Retail 88

Retail Compliance Sales Risk 88

IT Governance

MARCH 26, 2019

Although DPIAs (data protection impact assessments) are not a new concept, the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) now mandates them under certain circumstances. The primary aim is to reduce the possible harm to the data subject. It’s relevant for everyone, including retail and hospitality. A DPIA assesses risk.

Retail 78

Retail Risk GDPR Government 78

Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2020

vpnMentor researchers discovered that the popular digital wallet application Key Ring exposed data belonging to millions of users in a huge data leak. Many users also store in the digital store copies of documents, including IDs, driver’s licenses, and credit cards. ” reads the post published by vpnMentor.

Retail 106

Retail Encryption Insurance Passwords 106

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The incident was disclosed after threat actors have advertised the sale of more than 60 GB of data on an underground cybercrime forum. The threat actors now claim to have breached the servers of Acer Taiwan on October 15th and have stolen internal data, including employee and product information. Pierluigi Paganini.

Data breaches 98

Data breaches Sales Retail Ransomware 98

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Most online retailers grew wise to these scams years ago and stopped shipping to regions of the world most frequently associated with credit card fraud, including Eastern Europe, North Africa, and Russia. net/stuffer/login.php data-job[.]club/stuffer/login.php com/stuffer/login.php personalsp[.]com/user/login.php

Marketing 256

Marketing Retail Blockchain Communications 256

Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Group Using HTML Redirectors to Deliver Malware After a hiatus, TA505 - a sophisticated APT group that has targeted financial companies and retailers in several countries, including the U.S. - has returned with a campaign that uses HTML redirectors to deliver malicious Excel documents, according to Microsoft and other security researchers.

Retail 147

Retail Security 147

OneHub

AUGUST 12, 2021

Last week we covered how investing in internal documentation can save your organization significant time and money, not to mention hassle and stress. How do you keep internal documents accurate? What’s the easiest way to make this documentation accessible? Determine what information needs to be documented.

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Access Retail Encryption Communications 52

IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2022

Welcome to our May 2022 review of data breaches and cyber attacks. We identified 77 security incidents during the month, resulting in 49,782,129 compromised records. Meanwhile, be sure to subscribe to our Weekly Round-up to receive the latest cyber security news and advice delivered straight to your inbox. Data breaches.

Data breaches 126

Data breaches Ransomware Phishing Education 126

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Electricity company EnergyAustralia suffered a security breach, threat actors had access to information on 323 customers. EnergyAustralia is the country’s third-largest energy retailer. EnergyAustralia chief customer officer, Mark Brownfield, apologised for the security breach. “We Pierluigi Paganini.

Security 61

Security Passwords Retail Access 61

IT Governance

JULY 1, 2021

We found a comparatively low 9,780,931 breached records from publicly disclosed security incidents in June 2021. It’s simply the case that in the majority of cases, the breached organisation didn’t reveal how much data was compromised, either because it didn’t know or wasn’t obliged to reveal it publicly. Data breaches.

Data breaches 130

Data breaches Ransomware Computer and Electronics Retail 130

Collibra

JULY 21, 2023

In our data-driven age, data quality is crucial for any organization — but it’s particularly vital for citizens who rely on government agencies to provide essential services. Government programs of all kinds can benefit from the use of Collibra Data Quality & Observability.

Government 92

Government Retail Agriculture Compliance 92

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 25, 2018

This morning we announced, in tandem with our partner 451 Research, the Global Edition of the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report. It’s abundantly clear that medium to larger enterprises (the focus of the report and underlying survey) are finding it harder than ever to protect their sensitive data. Big Data – 99%. Encrypt the data.

Digital transformation 96

Digital transformation Blockchain Security Encryption 96

IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2023

Welcome to our review of security incidents for 2022, in which we take a closer look at the information gathered in our monthly lists of data breaches and cyber attacks. IT Governance discovered 1,063 security incidents in 2022, which accounted for 480,014,323 breached records. How security incidents occurred.

Data breaches 126

Data breaches Ransomware Government Passwords 126

IT Governance

JULY 11, 2022

Welcome to our second quarterly review of security incidents for 2022, in which we take a closer look at the information gathered in our monthly list of data breaches and cyber attacks. IT Governance discovered 237 security incidents between April and June 2022, which accounted for 99,019,967 breached records.

Data breaches 105

Data breaches Ransomware Phishing Government 105

IT Governance

AUGUST 19, 2020

The concept of data controllers and data processors has been around for years, but the roles come with clearly defined responsibilities under the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). In this blog, we take a close look at what a data controller and processor does and how they fit into your organisation.

GDPR 95

GDPR Personal data Compliance Privacy 95

IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In a month that saw the former US president accused of misappropriating classified government documents, there were also a spate of malicious insiders compromising their employer’s systems. In total, we identified 112 publicly disclosed security incidents in August, resulting in 97,456,345 compromised records. Data breaches.

Data breaches 116

Data breaches Ransomware Energy and Utilities Phishing 116

IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the European Union’s landmark data privacy law, took effect in 2018. Yet many organizations still struggle to meet compliance requirements, and EU data protection authorities do not hesitate to hand out penalties. Irish regulators hit Meta with a EUR 1.2 billion fine in 2023.

GDPR 83

GDPR Compliance Personal data Privacy 83

IT Governance

JANUARY 25, 2019

Home improvement retailer B&Q has suffered a data breach affecting 70,000 of its… well, not customers, exactly. The document included the names of the offenders, the items they had stolen, the value of the goods and the stores they were taken from. Classic illustration’ of poor security practices.

Data breaches 111

Data breaches GDPR Passwords Retail 111

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. Responsibilities of the data controller.

GDPR 107

GDPR Retail Data collection Personal data 107

Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2021

As of 2018, Ermenegildo Zegna operated 480 retail stores (267 of which company-owned) across the world. The RansomEXX ransomware group claims to have stolen 20.74GB of data from the company and leaked 43 archives (42 archives of 500MB in size and 1 archive containing 239.54MB of documents). Pierluigi Paganini.

Ransomware 117

Ransomware Archiving Retail Manufacturing 117

Collibra

MAY 11, 2022

It’s perhaps a shocking truth: We live in an era of stunning digital transformation that is only going to become more data-driven each day. By 2025, it’s estimated that 463 exabytes of data will be created every day. Only 32% realize tangible value from data. 77% integrate up to 5 different types of data in their data pipelines.

Analytics 90

Analytics Digital transformation Government Retail 90

Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2020

North Korea-linked Lazarus APT has been stealing payment card data from customers of large retailers in the U.S. Sansec researchers reported that North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group has been stealing payment card information from customers of large retailers in the U.S. and Europe for at least a year. Pierluigi Paganini.

Retail 96

Retail Phishing Marketing IT 96

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

FIN7 cybercrime gang used weaponized Windows 11 Alpha-themed Word documents to drop malicious payloads, including a JavaScript backdoor. The attack chain began with a Microsoft Word document (.doc) In order to avoid the analysis the threat actors also inserted junk data in VBA Macro, this is a common tactic used by threat actors.

Retail 119

Retail Sales Phishing IT 119

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

11, 2022 after they SIM-swapped an AT&T customer by impersonating them at a retail store using a fake ID. However, the document refers to the victim in this case only by the name “Victim 1.” The indictment states that the perpetrators in this heist stole the $400 million in cryptocurrencies on Nov.

Blockchain 223

Blockchain Ransomware Retail Analytics 223

IT Governance

APRIL 1, 2021

But there were dozens of other cyber attacks and data breaches where the organisation either didn’t know or reveal the extent of the damage. Data breaches. Agnes Medical Center patient data compromised in email breach at St. You can find our full list of incidents below, with those affecting UK organisations listed in bold.

Data breaches 130

Data breaches Ransomware Manufacturing e-Delivery 130

OpenText Information Management

APRIL 15, 2024

For most businesses, AI has introduced a new mindset, a new way to think, a new appreciation for trust and data, and a new outlook on how to unleash human potential. Help-desk employees can now find very specific, summarized answers from a deep repository of private, secured, semi-structured information in minutes instead of days.

Cloud 67

Cloud Compliance Government Retail 67

IT Governance

DECEMBER 1, 2020

We recorded 103 cyber security incidents in November, which accounted for 586,771,602 leaked records. The majority of those came from a credential-stuffing attack targeting Spotify and a data leak at the messaging app GO SMS Pro, which you can learn more about below. Data breaches. Cyber attacks. Ransomware. In other news….

Data breaches 137

Data breaches Ransomware e-Discovery Personal data 137

IT Governance

JUNE 14, 2018

Little more than three years since its previous security incident, electronics retailer Dixons Carphone has admitted to a data breach compromising 5.9 million personal records – making it the biggest online data breach in UK history. million customer cards and 1.2 The first of the GDPR mega-fines?

Data breaches 80

Data breaches GDPR Retail Compliance 80

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Compliance madhav Tue, 09/19/2023 - 05:17 It is essential for any business that stores, processes, and transmits payment card information to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Consumers’ payment data is a compelling target for criminals who continue to circumvent IT security defenses.

Compliance 77

Compliance Financial Services Data breaches Encryption 77

Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 1, 2021

30 , the FCC said it plans to move quickly on requiring the mobile companies to adopt more secure methods of authenticating customers before redirecting their phone number to a new device or carrier. In a long-overdue notice issued Sept. ” The FCC said the proposal was in response to a flood of complaints to the agency and the U.S.

Passwords 276

Passwords Authentication Communications Retail 276

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

From the very beginning of the cloud computing era, security has been the biggest concern among enterprises considering the public cloud. For many organizations, the idea of storing data or running applications on infrastructure that they do not manage directly seems inherently insecure. What is cloud security?

Cloud 102

Cloud Security Encryption Risk 102

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

A security expert discovered that the Cosmetic firm Estée L auder exposed 440 million records online in a database that was left unsecured. The security expert Jeremiah Fowler discovered an unsecured database belonging to the Cosmetic firm Estée L auder that contained 440,336,852 records. ” continues the post.

Archiving 111

Archiving Retail Manufacturing Authentication 111

IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Application modernization starts with assessment of current legacy applications, data and infrastructure and applying the right modernization strategy (rehost, re-platform, refactor or rebuild) to achieve the desired result. Duplicative capabilities across applications and channels give rise to duplicative IT resources (e.g.,

Cloud 100

Cloud Customer Experience Mining Marketing 100

IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

There were also a few more reported ransomware incidents than normal, some of which saw the victims paying the fine – something most security professionals advise against. The list tells me one thing: organisations need to get themselves ready for a data breach. Data Breach. Perth Mint data breach bigger than thought.

Data breaches 111

Data breaches Passwords Ransomware Phishing 111

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

During the Thales Trusted Access Summit 2021, I discussed how advances in identity proofing such as biometrics and smartphone technologies are enabling organizations to deliver KYC effectively by offering a quick, frictionless, and secure identity proofing environment. Registration and medical data access in healthcare.

Authentication 71

Authentication Privacy Compliance Retail 71

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.

Risk 104

Risk Data breaches Authentication Financial Services 104

Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2019

Security experts at riskIQ revealed today that another two organizations were victims of Magecart crime gang, the bedding retailers MyPillow and Amerisleep. Security experts at RiskIQ announced that the two bedding retailers MyPillow and Amerisleep were victims of the Magecart cybercrime gang. Pierluigi Paganini.

Retail 82

Retail Security IT 82