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National Safety Council data leak: Credentials of NASA, Tesla, DoJ, Verizon, and 2K others leaked by workplace safety organization

Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2023

On its digital platform, NSC provides online resources for its nearly 55,000 members spread across different businesses, agencies, and educational institutions. Also, the credentials could have been used to gain initial access into corporate networks to deploy ransomware, steal or sabotage internal documents, or gain access to user data.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 292

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 292 appeared first on Security Affairs. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter).

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List of Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in April 2023 – 4.3 Million Records Breached

IT Governance

MAY 2, 2023

Welcome to our April 2023 list of data breaches and cyber attacks. You can find the full list of data breaches and cyber attacks below, along with our rundown of the biggest incidents of the month. Biggest data breaches of April 2023 1. million people.

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New Gimmal Partnership with NNIT Brings Life Science Customers an Accelerated, GxP-Capable Information Governance Solution

Gimmal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The new collaboration is off to a great start with its first successfully completed joint solution delivery for a top, leading global pharmaceutical company. Join Gimmal and NNIT for an Educational Webinar NNIT and Gimmal will be co-hosting an educational webinar in March 2024, more details about this will be published shortly.

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Virginia’s new Consumer Data Protection Act

Data Protection Report

MARCH 8, 2021

On March 2, 2021, the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia signed into law the Consumer Data Protection Act , which contains many elements of California’s Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). institution of higher education. The new law goes into effect on January 1, 2023.

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Cambridgeshire crowned the UK’s cyber crime capital

IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Figures from the ONS (Office of National Statistics) show that security incidents in Cambridgeshire increased from 2,789 in 2016 to 4,155 in 2018. In 2017, Cambridge became the fastest-growing city in the UK , with businesses attracted to its proximity to London and the North, as well as its highly educated workforce.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in August 2020 – 36.6 million records breached

IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

There were a massive 99 data breaches and cyber attacks in August, making it the third-biggest monthly total of the year by number of security incidents. The true figure, as always, will be higher than this – in part because organisations rarely disclose how many records were involved in security incidents. Cyber attacks.

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Financially motivated Earth Lusca threat actors targets organizations worldwide

Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2022

According to the security firm, the group is financially motivated, its cyberespionage campaign hit high value targets such as government and educational institutions, religious movements, pro-democracy and human rights organisations in Hong Kong, Covid-19 research organisations, gambling and cryptocurrency companies, and the media.

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Connecting the Bots – Hancitor fuels Cuba Ransomware Operations

Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

Its operators have a DLS site, where they post exfiltrated data from their victims who refused to pay the ransom. As of April 28, the site mentioned nine companies primarily from aviation, financial, education and manufacturing industries. Downloaded data is decrypted, decompressed and injected to newly started svchost.exe process.

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SILENTFADE a long-running malware campaign targeted Facebook AD platform

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2020

The attackers primarily ran malicious ad campaigns, often in the form of advertising pharmaceutical pills and spam with fake celebrity endorsements.” The malware sends the data to the C2 servers in the form of an encrypted JSON blob through custom HTTP headers. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Facebook).

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FINLAND: PARLIAMENT APPROVES NEW ACT ON THE SECONDARY USE OF SOCIAL AND HEALTH CARE PERSONAL DATA

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

APRIL 8, 2019

The Finnish Parliament has approved the new general Act on the Secondary Use of Social Welfare and Health Care Data (Laki sosiaali- ja terveystietojen toissijaisesta käytöstä, based on government proposal HE 159/2017) in March 2019. By Joonas Dammert. Background. The Act shall become effective within the following weeks.

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The most valuable AI use cases for business

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.

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Mobile Malware: Threats and Solutions

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 11, 2021

While the total volume of mobile malware is a fraction of that created for desktops, it is nonetheless a growing security concern, as more and more high-value and sensitive tasks are performed on mobile devices. Security researchers at Kaspersky determined that it accounted for 61.43% of mobile malware detected in Q1 2021. ransomware?

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 March 2024

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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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 26 February – 3 March 2024

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.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 15 – 21 January 2024

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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The Weeks in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 18 – 31 December 2023

IT Governance

JANUARY 3, 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. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Unprotected Real Estate Wealth Network database exposes more than 1.5 Data breached: 1,523,776,691 records.

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The Good, Bad, And The Ugly: Key Takeaways From California’s New Privacy Law

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

California law also requires businesses that suffer a breach of security to disclose the breach to consumers, and in some instances law enforcement, if sensitive information is compromised. CCPA Background. 17-0039). race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, etc.);

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in April 2021 – 1 billion records breached

IT Governance

MAY 4, 2021

It was another busy month in the cyber security sector, as we discovered 143 incidents that resulted in 1,098,897,134 breached records. Ransomware was again one of the biggest contributors to that total, accounting for almost one in three data breaches. Data breaches. discloses security incident (unknown) St. Ransomware.

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Information security and compliance training for the healthcare sector

IT Governance

JULY 12, 2018

Healthcare is one of the hardest-hit industries when it comes to data breaches. Healthcare providers (HCPs) and industry partners process significant amounts of data which that is both attractive and valuable to cyber criminals. and healthcare must address the new DSP (Data Security and Protection) Toolkit. ISO 27001

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Digging the recently leaked Chinese Communist Party database

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2020

KELA researchers analyzed a database recently leaked online that contains data for 1.9 This database includes the members’ name, sex, ethnicity, hometown, organization, ID number, address, mobile number, landline, and education. The “Data Cleaner” converted the database to a Microsoft Excel file on July 3, 2016.

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Requirements of a DPO in health and social care

IT Governance

JUNE 6, 2018

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect on 25 May 2018, extending the rights of individuals over how their data is processed and bringing consistency in the data protection laws across the EU by directly applying to organisations. Most health and social care organisations are required to appoint a DPO.

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How To Solve The Cybersecurity Skills Shortage

Cyber Info Veritas

MAY 18, 2018

Solving and closing the gap for the cybersecurity skills shortage can’t be achieved with the traditional education and formation of employees by creating a curriculum in a college, training a person on how to “do” or “work” in cybersecurity, submitting an application for a cybersecurity job, then hiring the selected candidate to fill the position.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2022

So there’s a need, a definite need, for information security professionals to have access to industrial control systems -- not virtual, but actual hands on systems -- so they can learn. In a moment I’ll introduce you to someone who is trying to do that--bring ICS equipment to security conferences. Technology Security.

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US DoJ charged two Chinese hackers working with MSS

Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2020

US DoJ charged two Chinese hackers working with China’s Ministry of State Security with hacking into computer systems of government organizations and companies worldwide. The hackers stole terabytes of data which comprised a sophisticated and prolific threat to U.S. ” continues the DoJ. Demers declared. Pierluigi Paganini.

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National Safety Council data leak: Credentials of NASA, Tesla, DoJ, Verizon, and 2K others leaked by workplace safety organization

Security Affairs newsletter Round 292

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List of Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in April 2023 – 4.3 Million Records Breached

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New Gimmal Partnership with NNIT Brings Life Science Customers an Accelerated, GxP-Capable Information Governance Solution

Virginia’s new Consumer Data Protection Act

Cambridgeshire crowned the UK’s cyber crime capital

List of data breaches and cyber attacks in August 2020 – 36.6 million records breached

Financially motivated Earth Lusca threat actors targets organizations worldwide

Connecting the Bots – Hancitor fuels Cuba Ransomware Operations

SILENTFADE a long-running malware campaign targeted Facebook AD platform

FINLAND: PARLIAMENT APPROVES NEW ACT ON THE SECONDARY USE OF SOCIAL AND HEALTH CARE PERSONAL DATA

The most valuable AI use cases for business

Mobile Malware: Threats and Solutions

The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 March 2024

The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 26 February – 3 March 2024

The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 15 – 21 January 2024

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The Good, Bad, And The Ugly: Key Takeaways From California’s New Privacy Law

List of data breaches and cyber attacks in April 2021 – 1 billion records breached

Information security and compliance training for the healthcare sector

Digging the recently leaked Chinese Communist Party database

Requirements of a DPO in health and social care

How To Solve The Cybersecurity Skills Shortage

The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

US DoJ charged two Chinese hackers working with MSS

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