Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 23, 2023

However, simple actions like adopting multi-factor authentication (MFA) or encrypting sensitive data everywhere should be exercised throughout the year and not just during that month. The threat of attacks against Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) – energy, utilities, telecommunications, and transportation – is a top priority.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

A major focus of cybersecurity as an industry is its efforts to detect, root out, and respond to potential fraudsters attempting to trick companies and people out of their money, data, or both. According to data from the Federal Reserve , the 55-69 age group currently controls 41.2% So why do scammers go after older individuals more?

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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. It’s unclear which version of the ransomware is targeted by the decryptor.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

. “As early as 2022, APT28 actors had utilized compromised EdgeRouters to facilitate covert cyber operations against governments, militaries, and organizations around the world.” The court order allowed authorities to use the Moobot malware to copy and delete stolen and malicious data and files from compromised routers.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Data breaches. victim of a cyber attack (unknown) Berkshire Partners LLC announces data breach (unknown) United HealthCare Services, Inc. victim of a cyber attack (unknown) Berkshire Partners LLC announces data breach (unknown) United HealthCare Services, Inc. Cyber attacks. Ransomware. Financial information. In other news….

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IT Governance

APRIL 2, 2020

With organisations across the globe turned upside down by the COVID-19 pandemic, there has never been a worse time to suffer a data breach or cyber attack. Victoria, Australia, school says former student gained unauthorised access to sensitive data (90,000). Randleman Eye Center says some files were encrypted in cyber attack (unknown).

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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. on January 5, 2020.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

That pace is unlikely to slow down over the coming years; Pagely noted that organizations are still turning to IoT devices as a way to automate and optimize their business processes as well as save on energy costs. zettabytes (ZB) of data by 2025. billion in number and generate 79.4 Healthcare is in Need of a Check-Up.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Tatsuaki Okamoto, director of NTT Research’s Cryptography and Information Security (CIS) Lab , and Dr. Amit Sahai, professor of computer science at UCLA Samueli School of Engineering and director of UCLA Center for Encrypted Functionalities (CEF). But it took massive processing power to make Gentry’s crude prototype work.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 13, 2021

When a network is breached and the data is not protected in transit, it leaves not just the data plane vulnerable, but the control plane and the management plane, essentially handing over access to the entire system. Data Manipulation. Network Encryption is Key. Learn more about Thales Network Encryption solutions.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Electric grid utilities are deploying smart meters to better correspond to consumers energy demands while lowering costs. To secure data exchanged between IoT devices and the software required for operating these devices – bootstrap, firmware, apps – we need to establish a chain of trust. Encryption. Data security.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

K-Electric (KE) (formerly known as Karachi Electric Supply Company / Karachi Electric Supply Corporation Limited) is a Pakistani investor-owned utility managing all three key stages – generation, transmission and distribution – of producing and delivering energy to consumers. million customers and around 10,000 people.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2019

We are just getting started with the process of turning over granular control of every aspect of human society to ubiquitous digital sensors tuned to feed endless streams of data into increasingly “intelligent” machine algorithms. This will be led by the manufacturing, consumer, transportation and utilities sectors.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2020

Then the malware encrypts the files on the system, skipping Windows system files and folders. a file named invoice.doc is encrypted and renamed like invoice.docIksrt. The experts noticed that the malware appends the ‘ EKANS ‘ file marker to each encrypted file. ” reads the report published by SentinelOne.

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Ransomware Energy and Utilities Manufacturing Encryption 93

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2022

These servers are a pretty popular database management system for various applications, from the largest to the smallest, and thus contain a lot of sensitive data. BlackByte, a notorious ransomware group, recently exfiltrated financial data from the National Football League’s San Francisco 49ers and demanded a ransom.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Related: Big data can foster improved healthcare Within that, video represents over 80 percent of the traffic that flows through this global network which is growing rapidly at about 25 percent per year. Encoders, for instance, consume significantly more energy than decoders – sometimes as much as 5 to 10 times as much energy, in comparison.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 11, 2017

To be counted as “key information infrastructure,” however, the infrastructure must still meet the criterion that severe endangerment of national security, the national economy and the people’s livelihood and the public interest would result if the infrastructure suffers destruction, loss of functionality or leakage of data.

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OneHub

MAY 17, 2021

Even deciphering a generic announcement about the office coffee maker requires effort, which leaves less energy for work that matters.” The first step in your email management plan should be to protect your business data from outside threats so you never have to worry about causing a serious security breach. Organize your emails.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 10, 2018

A new report from Cybereason has highlighted the alarming scale and variety of attacks faced by ICS or industrial control systems, and it seems that it’s not only nation-state attackers but also opportunistic traditional cybercriminals that are now targeting utility providers. These included recipients’ usernames and email addresses.

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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. According to CyberNews , more than 300 million data records were compromised, including 21,000 telephone numbers and 31,000 email addresses. Some payment card data was also exposed.

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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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IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 28, 2024

As cloud computing continues to transform the enterprise workplace, private cloud infrastructure is evolving in lockstep, helping organizations in industries like healthcare, government and finance customize control over their data to meet compliance, privacy, security and other business needs. billion by 2033, up from USD 92.64

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CGI

APRIL 22, 2019

In an earlier blog post, we addressed blockchain energy dependency. Indeed, blockchain’s distributed data structure results in a significantly higher storage demand compared to traditional centralized databases. Three producers of residual heat deliver to an energy wholesaler. Centralized data governance.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

For example, in 2009, the Obama administration provided financial incentives to utilities in the United States. And again, smart meters were positioned squarely as making the environment more friendly by knowing how and when energy is being used by individual customers. I logged all that data. Something security with the grid.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 28, 2021

For these industries and more, data storage, identity management, and smart contracts are applications where blockchains could shine. In a few words, blockchains are advanced databases that timestamp and store clusters of data in immutable virtual blocks linked chronologically. What is a Blockchain? DDoS: Overwhelming the Network.

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