Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

He had been working on the Edward Snowden archive for a couple of months, and had a pile of more technical documents that he wanted help interpreting. I didn’t know either of them, but I have been writing about cryptography, security, and privacy for decades. I tried to talk to Greenwald about his own operational security.

Computer and Electronics 125

Computer and Electronics Encryption Government Privacy 125

Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2024

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said today it is investigating a breach at business intelligence company Sisense , whose products are designed to allow companies to view the status of multiple third-party online services in a single dashboard. So mistake number one is leaving Amazon credentials in your Git archive.

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Encryption Passwords Access Financial Services 259

eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

But the attention paid to the malware by journalists, cybersecurity vendors and increasingly, government agencies , has pushed companies to improve their preparedness to defend themselves against ransomware gangs, according to a report this week by security solutions vendor Cymulate. Companies Invest More in Security.

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Ransomware Cybersecurity Cloud Security 131

Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 11, 2010

On October 7, 2010, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) released its first comprehensive handbook on the security of personal data (the “Guidance”). The Guidance provides general recommendations and best practices aimed at assisting data controllers with the implementation of appropriate security measures.

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Personal data Security Encryption Archiving 40

ARMA International

JULY 17, 2023

The former cohort will have found that they’re now practicing at a time when talent is well recognized and remunerated, firms are jostling to secure the best people, and there are lots of attractive opportunities to move firms. However, the firm should only keep data that it has a legitimate reason to keep.

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Information governance Government Risk IT 52

IT Governance

MARCH 11, 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 breached: 36 million records. Data breached: 6,935,412 individuals’ data. Data breached: 6.9 Only 3 definitely haven’t had data breached.

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Data Privacy Privacy Security Data breaches 87

eSecurity Planet

APRIL 13, 2022

In an age of strong data privacy laws like GDPR and CCPA , data loss prevention (DLP) technology is becoming a critically important IT security tool. Every organization has data, and some of that data is more sensitive than others. Often leaving with them is the sensitive data that fuels the business.

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Compliance Cloud Encryption Risk 124

IT Governance

DECEMBER 5, 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. The security researcher Bob Diachenko of SecurityDiscovery first identified the exposed information in mid-September. Some payment card data was also exposed.

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Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Retail 106

Positively RIM

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Today’s Blog is sponsored by MER 2017, Cohasset Associates’ 25 th annual educational conference on electronic records management, in Chicago, May 8-10. Sorry to be the one to tell you, but “secure information” is an illusion. No records are really 100 percent secure. That said, we can manage the risk of imperfect security.

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Records Management Risk Cloud Encryption 40

IT Governance

MARCH 5, 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 breached: 183,754,481 records. EasyPark data breach: 21.1 million data records belonging to EasyPark have been listed for sale on a hacking forum.

Data Privacy 52

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.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Retail 52

Data Protector

OCTOBER 11, 2017

What follows below is an edited version of the debate in the House of Lords of the Second Reading of the Data Protection Bill, held on 10 October. Data is not just a resource for better marketing, better service and delivery. Data is used to build products themselves. It has become a cliché that data is the new oil.

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GDPR Personal data Government IT 120

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Rogue security software. Architect a premium network security model like SASE that encompasses SD-WAN , CASB , secure web gateways , ZTNA , FWaaS , and microsegmentation. Rather than stealing data, adware is more of an irritant forcing users to see unwanted ads. Jump ahead: Adware. Bots and botnets. Browser hijacker.

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Phishing Ransomware Passwords Access 104

ForAllSecure

JULY 28, 2021

And now, kids were streaming into their office and getting food education, medical care, my work in Uganda had immediate life changing results right away, Vamosi: You might not think of hackers as charitable people as individuals who might be working to make the world a better place. Then again, if any of this comes as a surprise to you.

Computer and Electronics 52

Computer and Electronics Communications Education IT 52

Security Affairs

MAY 31, 2020

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 266 appeared first on Security Affairs. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! NetWalker ransomware gang threatens to release Michigan State University files.

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Security Data breaches Ransomware Sales 58

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