The Last Watchdog

JULY 13, 2023

The data shows how perceptions around cyber and technology risks, from ransomware and other cyber-attacks to the threats posed by AI, are changing the global business risk landscape. The perceived threat of cyber risk to global business leaders peaked in 2021 (34%) and over the past two years, the risk perception has dropped (27%).

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erwin

JUNE 11, 2020

What Is Data Intelligence? Data Intelligence is the analysis of multifaceted data to be used by companies to improve products and services offered and better support investments and business strategies in place. Data intelligence can encompass both internal and external business data and information. Healthcare.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

.” states a security notice published by the company. ” Cyber criminals also targeted crypto-mining firm NiceHash with the same technique and successfully carried out a DNS hijacking attack. .” The post Crooks social-engineered GoDaddy staff to take over crypto-biz domains appeared first on Security Affairs.

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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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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 15, 2023

When AI algorithms, pre-trained models, and data sets are available for public use and experimentation, creative AI applications emerge as a community of volunteer enthusiasts builds upon existing work and accelerates the development of practical AI solutions. Governments like the U.S.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Steelcase is a US-based furniture company that produces office furniture, architectural and technology products for office environments and the education, health care and retail industries. The company is not aware of data loss caused by the ransomware attack. It is the largest office furniture manufacturer in the world.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

And in May of this year, GoDaddy disclosed that 28,000 of its customers’ web hosting accounts were compromised following a security incident in Oct. 17 was not related to a security incident, but rather a technical issue that materialized during planned network maintenance. 2019 that wasn’t discovered until April 2020.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2020

Cybersecurity researchers spotted a crypto-mining botnet, tracked as Vollgar, that has been hijacking MSSQL servers since at least 2018. Researchers at Guardicore Labs discovered a crypto-mining botnet , tracked as Vollgar botnet , that is targeting MSSQL databases since 2018. and Windows Script Host Object Model (wshom).

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Welcome to our September 2023 catches of the month feature, which examines recent phishing scams and the tactics criminals use to trick people into compromising their data. Truesec reports that “current Microsoft Teams security features such as Safe Attachments or Safe Links was not able to detect or block this attack”.

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

A misconfigured database has exposed the personal data of nearly every Ecuadorian citizen, including 6.7 The data included official government ID numbers, phone numbers, family records, birthdates, death dates (where applicable), marriage dates, education histories, and work records. million children. It contained 20.8

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 25, 2019

Sovrn , a company I still chair, has a similar mission, but with a serious data and tech focus. Most of my career has been spent evangelizing the power of technology to positively transform business, education, and politics. My current work is split between two projects: One has to do with data governance, the other political media.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Yesterday, I wrote the first part of this 5-part series on fixing data breaches and I focused on education. The next few parts of this series all focus on cures - how do we fix data breaches once bad code has already been written or bad server configurations deployed? Who Owns Our Personal Data? Who now owns that data?

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Over the course of this week, I've been writing about "Fixing Data Breaches" which focuses on actionable steps that can be taken to reduce the prevalence and the impact of these incidents. Let's move on and talk about why this makes a lot of sense when it comes to fixing data breaches. Let's explore that further.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The sharp increase in ransomware attacks can be attributed to many reasons, from the low level of cyber hygiene of some enterprises to insufficient training and education of employees and patch management issues, according to Derek Manky, chief of security insights and global threat alliances for Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Some technology trends such as real-time data analytics are on-going, while others are more recent, such as blockchain. Information and data are synonyms but have different definitions. ARMA defines information as “Data that has been given value through analysis, interpretation, or compilation in a meaningful form” (ARMA 2016, p 28).

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Preservica

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Preservica for consortia is a collaborative platform that has enabled the members of FLO to combine requirements, resources and buying power, and work together to preserve and provide secure public access to each library’s digital assets.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Data privacy regulations like the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) can be hard to navigate for businesses of any size, but GRC tools can simplify and streamline compliance with all of the requirements. IT governance and security. Audit management. Riskonnect.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 11, 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. Researchers from the German cyber security company Aplite discovered 3,806 servers from 111 countries accessible on the Internet. Data breached: more than 59 million data records.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Data privacy regulations like the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) can be hard to navigate for businesses of any size, but GRC tools can simplify and streamline compliance with all of the requirements. IT governance and security. Audit management. Riskonnect.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 6, 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 Eye4Fraud database allegedly leaked – 14.9 Data breached: 14,900,000 lines. million unique records, with 9.4

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eDiscovery Daily

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In addition to that, CloudNine conducted another great NineForum Discovery Education Series where prominent and highly respected eDiscovery and litigation support experts delivered 9 TED-style talks, 20 minutes each, covering important topics impacting the legal community. , sponsored by EDRM, CloudNine and Compliance Discovery Solutions.

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Brandeis Records Manager

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

grade rosters) that might appear within certain categories, to mine applicable data. While safety and security record categories appeared underrepresented for such combustible record types (missing from 42% of the schedules), HR/personnel records are covered more consistently in 88% of the schedules.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Welcome to our September 2022 list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Compared to August, it was a comparatively quiet month, as we identified 88 publicly disclosed security incidents and 35,566,046 compromised records. That’s because we’re looking for ways to improve the way we deliver this data. Data breaches.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 4, 2023

James Campbell, CEO of Cado Security , shares his experience with traditional incident response, and how the cloud, with its elastic structure, able to spin up and spin down instances, is changing incident response. There’s been a major data breach, and you’re booked on the next night flight out, at 6am.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 14, 2021

You see, Mills, you see cotton gins, you see mines that have shut down, you see places and every now and then there's somewhat of a success story. Daniel: Due to some labor disputes, and, you know, mining, even open pit mining, is a rough job. And you know the hollow empty factories in different places. Besides, I was born.

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 7, 2020

Today, let’s take a look back at cases related to cooperation, form of production, privilege and confidentiality disputes, social media related disputes and a key case regarding biometric security. BIOMETRIC SECURITY. There are always a handful of cases each year related to discovery of social media data. 37(a)(1).”.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Incident Response is a systematic method for addressing and managing security incidents in organizations, focused on minimizing and investigating the impact of events and restoring normal operations. Organizations must practice incident response if they want to stop data breaches and cyberattacks.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 29, 2019

At first glance, August has been a quiet month for data breaches, with a total of 114,686,290 breached records. Australian education provider TAFE NSW hit by phishing scam (30). British Airways e-ticketing flaw exposes passenger’s personal data (unknown). Hackers steal personal data from website of Denmark’s Tivoli Park (1,000).

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Brandeis Records Manager

MAY 27, 2015

We made early acquaintances with Legal and Information Security leaders. in higher education (substitute your vertical market) were invaluable not only in getting up to speed with the industry, but also in empathizing with various university functions and their professionals. It’s about points of view. Services and Stakeholders.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2020

The bot is written in Golang and implements wormable capabilities, experts reported attacks against entities in government, education, and finance sectors. Files are split into blobs – bulks of binary data – which are kept in memory. “To share and exchange files between nodes, Fritzfrog uses a stealthy, fileless approach.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Enabling true transformation You’re on the lookout for adoption of industry best practices along with the capabilities of process mining and process discovery to both simplify and standardize the process flows. From a business and IT perspective, this helps in cycle time and eventually price per business object.

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KnowBe4

JULY 5, 2023

But I don't think an attack of such magnitude as the one identified by security researchers at Internet security monitoring vendor Bolster. This latest impersonation campaign makes the case for ensuring users are vigilant when interacting with the web – something accomplished through continual Security Awareness Training.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 7, 2022

Thales asked six women in the cybersecurity industry to provide their opinions on how business can build an inclusive work culture and what this means for security leaders around the world. Winnie Wong , APAC Regional & Channel Marketing for Data Security products at Thales. “An Let’s hear what they have to say.

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Collaboration 2.0

JULY 31, 2008

Google unplugs Windows Google decides that a security invasion from China was the last straw and bans the use of. All pretty cutting edge in the spirit of this conference which is a personal favorite of mine. Windows 7 Microsofts Windows 7 arrived in late 2009 and kicked off a PC upgrade cycle thats expected to.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

Smart Meters provide the data to support a cleaner future, showing how much energy is being used and how much this will cost you. Vamosi: But as someone who wrote a book questioning the security of our mass produced IoT devices, I wonder why no one bothered to test and certify these devices before they were installed?

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

What role might the security industry have in identifying or even stopping it? The FTC claims that spy phones secretly harvested and shared data on people's physical movements phone news online activities through a hidden hack. Welcome to the hacker mind, in original podcast from for all security. So I hope you'll stick around.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

In a moment, I'll introduce you to someone who built a scanner, the challenges he faced operating it and the good data that he's now providing others. We were able to scan one of the variants and we found out that the education sector was pretty overly represented in the victims. Vamosi: Welcome to The Hacker Mind.

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