IT Governance

FEBRUARY 21, 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. Fowler sent a responsible disclosure notice when he discovered the database and it was secured the following day. Data breached: 2.7 Date breached: 384,658,212 records.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Energy and Utilities 52

Data Matters

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

On February 4, 2021, the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) issued Circular Letter No. Authorized property/casualty insurers should use a data-driven and comprehensive plan to assess gaps and vulnerabilities in the cybersecurity of their insureds and potential insureds. Educate Insureds and Insurance Producers.

Insurance 79

Insurance Financial Services Cybersecurity Risk 79

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2022

“InfraGard connects critical infrastructure owners, operators, and stakeholders with the FBI to provide education, networking, and information-sharing on security threats and risks,” the FBI’s InfraGard fact sheet reads. That InfraGard member, who is head of security at a major U.S. Department of Defense.

Sales 359

Sales Energy and Utilities Communications Data breaches 359

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Resecurity researchers dumped Gigabytes of data from Agent Tesla C2Cs, one of the most well-known cyberespionage tools suffers a data leakage. The data extraction was made possible through a collaboration with Resecurity, law enforcement and several ISPs in the European Union, Middle East and North America.

Financial Services 136

Financial Services Retail Education Information Security 136

Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2023

Help us #StopRansomware by visiting [link] pic.twitter.com/G5jpxtB0Fw — Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (@CISAgov) June 14, 2023 The LockBit ransomware operation was the most active in 2022 and according to the researchers it is one of the most prolific RaaS in 2023. law enforcement). was the prevalent variant in 2023.

Ransomware 95

Ransomware Cybersecurity Agriculture Education 95

IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 12, 2024

“AI is driving a revolution in education, accessibility and productivity. For enterprises dealing with sensitive information, it is vital to maintain state-of-the-art data security in order to reap the rewards,” says Stuart Winter, Executive Chairman and Co-Founder at Lacero Platform Limited, Jamworks and Guardian.

Cloud 101

Cloud Data Privacy Encryption Privacy 101

The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Healthcare and public health, financial services, and IT organizations are frequent targets, although businesses of all sizes can fall victim to these schemes. The increase in remote workforces and difficulty enforcing security controls with expanding perimeters has played a role in the rise of ransomware. Incident response.

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Ransomware Education Phishing Financial Services 124

IT Governance

OCTOBER 13, 2023

October is both Cybersecurity Awareness Month in the US and European Cyber Security Month in the EU – twin campaigns on either side of the Atlantic that aim to improve awareness of the importance of cyber security both at work and at home, and provide tips on how to stay secure.

Phishing 105

Phishing Financial Services Manufacturing Personal data 105

Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

Data leak affected QBANK, Defence Bank, Bloom Money, Admiral Money, MA Money, and Reed. Using leaked data, threat actors could potentially breach banks’ backend infrastructure and consequently the infrastructure of their clients. Among the leaked data, researchers found Google and Liveness API keys.

IT 94

IT Financial Services Access Risk 94

Data Matters

MARCH 28, 2022

OCR concludes most cyber-attacks could be prevented or substantially mitigated if HIPAA covered entities and business associates implemented HIPAA Security Rule requirements to address the most common types of attacks. implement a security awareness and training program for all workforce members pursuant to the HIPAA Security Rule.

Cybersecurity 88

Cybersecurity Privacy Insurance Risk 88

Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

ICICI Bank leaked millions of records with sensitive data, including financial information and personal documents of the bank’s clients. A misconfiguration of the bank systems exposed millions of records with sensitive data. A misconfiguration of the bank systems exposed millions of records with sensitive data.

Personal data 98

Personal data Phishing Risk Financial Services 98

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2021

Cloudflare last month fought off a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack by a botnet that was bombarding 17.2 million requests per second (rps) at one of the internet infrastructure company’s customers in the financial services space. DDoS Attacks on the Rise. That prediction proved correct.

Financial Services 142

Financial Services IoT Education Passwords 142

IT Governance

DECEMBER 7, 2017

It has been revealed that there has been a 25% increase in the number of High Court cases involving stolen confidential data. One key contributory factor may be an increase in staff turnover, as employees may take key client and financial information with them when they leave. Staff education. Different opinions.

Education 71

Education Information Security Financial Services Risk 71

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Law enforcement also had access to data stolen from the victims of the ransomware operation, a circumstance that highlights the fact that even when a ransom is paid, the ransomware gang often fails to delete the stolen information. reads the NCA’s announcement.

Energy and Utilities 97

Energy and Utilities Ransomware Agriculture Manufacturing 97

ForAllSecure

JANUARY 31, 2023

The resource guide is a valuable tool for financial institutions of all sizes as it provides best practices, recommendations, and resources to help organizations protect their networks and data from cyber threats. The guide also serves as an educational resource on the latest security technologies. Why Not Both?

Cybersecurity 52

Cybersecurity IT Financial Services Risk 52

IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

DL models can improve over time through further training and exposure to more data. Predictive analytics integrates with NLP, ML and DL to enhance decision-making capabilities, extract insights, and use historical data to forecast future behavior, preferences and trends.

Analytics 103

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Marketing Education 103

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Law enforcement also had access to data stolen from the victims of the ransomware operation, a circumstance that highlights the fact that even when a ransom is paid, the ransomware gang often fails to delete the stolen information. ” reads the NCA’s announcement.

Energy and Utilities 109

Energy and Utilities Ransomware Manufacturing Agriculture 109

Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2020

Xchanging employs over 7,000 people worldwide and offers IT outsourcing, infrastructure including network managed services, software products and application management. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The company disclosed the security breach on July 5, but it is not clear when it has discovered the attack.

Ransomware 80

Ransomware Insurance Financial Services Manufacturing 80

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

They’re particularly dangerous because it’s difficult for security or development teams to see an XSS vulnerability, and it’s also hard to see the effects of an attack until the ensuing breach is well underway. The new malicious code is designed to steal data — like cookies or credentials — from that web application.

Risk 91

Risk Financial Services Security Libraries 91

Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2020

Security experts from Bitdefender recently discovered a new TrickBot variant that is targeting telecommunications organizations in the United States and Hong Kong. The downloaded plugins allow the malware to perform lateral movements, reconnaissance, data harvesting, set foothold, exfiltrate data, and perform brute-force attacks.

Financial Services 121

Financial Services Education Communications IT 121

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.

Cloud 59

Cloud Government Access Metadata 59

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Cyber criminals may damage, destroy, steal, encrypt, expose, or leak data as well as cause harm to a system. Also read: The Best Wi-Fi 6 Routers Secure and Fast Enough for Business. In May, cybersecurity researchers revealed that ransomware attacks are increasing their aggressive approach by destroying data instead of encrypting it.

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Ransomware Cybersecurity Phishing Encryption 137

IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 2, 2022

As social impact organizations accelerate digitization, they are increasingly aware of the untapped potential lying within their data, and how AI solutions leveraging this data can amplify impact. With ethical guardrails as a core consideration, pioneering organizations are blazing the trail for AI for social impact across the globe.

Data science 71

Data science Analytics Education Financial Services 71

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. Mapping Environment Data. Read more : Top Database Security Solutions for 2022. Risk-Reward Calculation.

Risk 121

Risk Cybersecurity Encryption Access 121

Data Matters

APRIL 20, 2021

The Cybersecurity Guidance is directed at plan sponsors and fiduciaries regulated by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) as well as plan participants and beneficiaries. Online Security Tips for plan participants and beneficiaries. Considerations for Plan Sponsors and Other Fiduciaries.

Cybersecurity 68

Cybersecurity Insurance Risk Compliance 68

IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Promote cross- and up-selling Recommendation engines use consumer behavior data and AI algorithms to help discover data trends to be used in the development of more effective up-selling and cross-selling strategies, resulting in more useful add-on recommendations for customers during checkout for online retailers.

Artificial Intelligence 86

Artificial Intelligence Retail Unstructured data Insurance 86

eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Bad actors are increasingly using a technique called HTML smuggling to deliver ransomware and other malicious code in email campaigns aimed at financial services firms and other organizations, according to Microsoft researchers. This is a major headache for security product vendors. See also: How to Prevent Ransomware Attacks.

Ransomware 106

Ransomware Education Phishing Passwords 106

Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Today, more than 120 countries have privacy and data protection laws or regulations in place. Many of the new or modernized laws tend to be based on comprehensive legislation, rather than sectoral rules, as data needs to move across industry groups and borders. An Overview of the BDPA.

Personal data 68

Personal data GDPR Data Privacy Privacy 68

IT Governance

APRIL 11, 2019

Financial services firms must do more to educate employees about cyber security, according to the FCA (Financial Conduct Authority). What should financial organisations be doing? BEC (business email compromise), which targets high-level employees, is a major security risk , and needs to be addressed head-on.

Retail 66

Retail Risk Education Financial Services 66

eSecurity Planet

APRIL 8, 2021

This includes security, help desk, networking, and application performance. The ManageEngine IT security portfolio spans everything from privileged access management (PAM) to network configuration to password management. It provides controls for managing security from all angles. ManageEngine’s key IT security solutions.

Cloud 52

Cloud Financial Services Compliance Manufacturing 52

KnowBe4

MARCH 28, 2023

Security awareness training still has a place to play here." Email and other elements of software infrastructure offer built-in fundamental security that largely guarantees we are not in danger until we ourselves take action," Tyson writes. Let's start by looking at some of the data around users engaging with mobile attack.

Phishing 84

Phishing Security awareness Insurance Cybersecurity 84

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. “We will provide updates as more information becomes available.”

Encryption 235

Encryption Passwords Access Financial Services 235

Rocket Software

MARCH 11, 2022

For businesses that rely on mainframes, secure access to the data stored there is simply a business requirement. Since Rocket’s solution supports BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), end-users can have platform diversity in a secure, web-based experience. Reduce costs without compromising security.

Retail 52

Retail Manufacturing Compliance Access 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.

Data Privacy 87

Data Privacy Privacy Security Data breaches 87

CGI

OCTOBER 25, 2015

Security in the finance sector: Whose role is it anyway? Thomson Reuters was recently quoted as saying, “Increased regulation isn’t just a temporary challenge for global financial institutions—it’s the new reality.”. Finance service providers. Mon, 10/26/2015 - 01:33.

IT 40

IT Security Digital transformation Compliance 40

John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Not to mention retirement (from Social Security to 401ks, etc.). I wonder how the folks at the Tea Party HQ would respond to this data: They spend an awful lot of time talking about Big Government, but they seem overly focused on the Big Bad Feds. Let’s take a look at some detail: Ahh… Education. Very interesting.

Government 111

Government Education Military Financial Services 111

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

MARCH 30, 2023

Two-thirds of the GDPR fines issued by EU data protection authorities last year where from the DPC, illustrating a continued commitment to enforcement. Two-thirds of the GDPR fines issued by EU data protection authorities last year where from the DPC, illustrating a continued commitment to enforcement.

Personal data 52

Personal data GDPR Compliance Financial Services 52