Data Protection Report

APRIL 22, 2021

On April 14, 2021, the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) announced a $3 million settlement with insurance company National Securities Corp. NSC’s investigation revealed that the unauthorized access to the employee’s MS O365 account occurred between September 13 and September 18, likely through phishing.

Cybersecurity 94

Cybersecurity Financial Services Phishing Compliance 94

Data Protection Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The latter is the 2019 data security law known as the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security (SHIELD) Act. EyeMed engaged a forensic investigator, which was unable to determine whether any exfiltration of personal data had occurred, due in part to a lack of log data. In total, information for approximately 2.1

Passwords 98

Passwords Financial Services Authentication Insurance 98

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Cyber criminals may damage, destroy, steal, encrypt, expose, or leak data as well as cause harm to a system. In this type of attack, criminals take control of a system or network and encrypt valuable data, often making it impossible for organizations to continue their normal operations. Ransomware. Crimeware and spyware.

Ransomware 145

Ransomware Cybersecurity Phishing Encryption 145

Ascent Innovations

MAY 17, 2018

State Attackers Moving from Stealing Data to Social Meddling. State-sponsored attacks are expanding from cyber-physical (compromise data or critical infrastructure), to cyber-social (influence the opinions and actions of people). Email phishing remains the top malware delivery mechanism. New bad actors. Cyber-social.

Energy and Utilities 40

Energy and Utilities IoT Mining Financial Services 40

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The simplest example may be insurance. Life, health, auto, and other insurance are all designed to help a person protect against losses. Cybersecurity should follow a layered approach, with additional protections for the most important assets, such as corporate and customer data. Mapping Environment Data.

Risk 144

Risk Cybersecurity Encryption Access 144

Rocket Software

AUGUST 17, 2020

For some sectors, like finance, security and data protection are top of mind for everything that is done. Financial services organizations typically experience the most data breaches and hacks, which makes security a priority. Patient data is highly sensitive and confidential. Benefits for Financial Services.

Authentication 52

Authentication Financial Services Passwords Insurance 52

Data Protection Report

OCTOBER 24, 2022

On October 18, 2022, the New York Department of Financial Services announced a settlement with EyeMed, a licensed life, accident, and health insurer, with respect to a security incident that occurred in 2020. Those emails came to the attention of EyeMed’s IT department and also its customers, who complained. 23 NYCRR § 500.13.

Cybersecurity 52

Cybersecurity Personal data Risk Financial Services 52

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 88

Artificial Intelligence Retail Unstructured data Insurance 88

KnowBe4

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The first phishing campaigns have already been sent and more will be coming that try to trick you into clicking on a variety of links about blood drives, charitable donations, or "exclusive" videos. New data found in GreatHorn's 2023 State of Email Security report shows that this is exactly what's been happening in the last 12 months.

Phishing 83

Phishing Security awareness Compliance Risk 83

Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Malware is malicious software designed to harm devices or glean data to commit identity-related crimes. VPNs encrypt data , making it much harder to intercept when transmitted through a shared or suspect internet connection. SSLs ensure all data is encrypted. Phishing schemes don’t only travel by way of email.

Retail 97

Retail e-Delivery Passwords Phishing 97

Data Matters

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Ransomware attacks use malware, often injected through phishing schemes, to encrypt a victim’s data files or programs, followed by a ransom demand by the threat actor that offers the decryption key in exchange for payment. Payment is often demanded in bitcoin, and thus third-party services are often used to make such payments.

Ransomware 68

Ransomware Compliance Risk Government 68

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Without a comprehensive network segmentation or microsegmentation policy, malicious actors can also move laterally within your organization’s network, infect endpoints and servers, and demand a ransom for access to your data. Attackers will inform the victim that their data is encrypted. How ransomware works. Screenshot example.

Ransomware 97

Ransomware Encryption Insurance Cloud 97

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

APRIL 2, 2020

In the context of this global crisis, cyber risk management involves balancing the productivity of a workforce with ensuring confidentiality, integrity and availability of the company’s own systems and data, as well as that of their supply chain. Employees should be on alert for increased phishing attempts related to the current situation.

Cybersecurity 52

Cybersecurity Phishing Authentication Access 52

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. Insurance & claims management. LogicManager. Back to top.

Compliance 65

Compliance Risk Government Retail 65

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. Insurance & claims management. LogicManager. Back to top.

Compliance 57

Compliance Risk Government Retail 57

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

One of the more common ways cybercriminals cash out access to bank accounts involves draining the victim’s funds via Zelle , a “peer-to-peer” (P2P) payment service used by many financial institutions that allows customers to quickly send cash to friends and family.

IT 354

IT Passwords Authentication Phishing 354

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. Data breached: more than 59 million data records. BianLian claims to have exfiltrated 5 TB of data, comprising millions of sensitive documents. Data breached: 5 TB.

Data Privacy 101

Data Privacy Energy and Utilities Privacy Manufacturing 101

KnowBe4

JUNE 20, 2023

1 Root Cause of Data Breaches Verizon's DBIR always has a lot of information to unpack, so I'll continue my review by covering how stolen credentials play a role in attacks. This year's Data Breach Investigations Report has nearly 1 million incidents in their data set, making it the most statistically relevant set of report data anywhere.

Data breaches 75

Data breaches Phishing Security awareness Ransomware 75

The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2021

billion hitting financial services organizations — an increase of more than 45 percent year-over-year in that sector. billion web app attacks last year, with more than 736 million targeting financial services. billion web attacks globally; 736 million in the financial services sector. A: Everything.

Financial Services 178

Financial Services Passwords Data breaches Authentication 178

eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

An MFA security solution may also incorporate additional factors, such as geolocation data or a time component. Many services now send alerts or require additional authentication when you log into their service from a new device. Something you have. Something you are. VPN Authentication.

Authentication 104

Authentication Passwords Access Computer and Electronics 104

Data Protection Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

3. Does an insurance policy that covers direct physical loss or damage to media cover the situation where ransomware renders downloaded software useless because it could not be decrypted? Colorado’s privacy law does not have any “data localization” or “international data transfer” requirements. 2. b.

Privacy 115

Privacy Cybersecurity Personal data Insurance 115

KnowBe4

MAY 31, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #22 | May 31st, 2023 [Eye on Fraud] A Closer Look at the Massive 72% Spike in Financial Phishing Attacks With attackers knowing financial fraud-based phishing attacks are best suited for the one industry where the money is, this massive spike in attacks should both surprise you and not surprise you at all.

Phishing 78

Phishing File names Security awareness Risk 78

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.

Data Privacy 94

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Security 94

Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

A high-profile cyber incident may cause substantial financial and reputational losses to an organization, including the disruption of corporate business processes, destruction or theft of critical data assets, loss of goodwill, and shareholder and consumer litigation. Encrypting critical data assets. Managing digital identities.

Cybersecurity 60

Cybersecurity Risk Passwords Authentication 60

ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

You might not think of it as a major aspect of security and yet, stolen credentials are really the key to data breaches today. In most cases, this regards the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR, and in the UK that law continues as the UK GDPR. So today, we'll go for the low hanging fruit.

Passwords 52

Passwords Authentication Access Data breaches 52

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 1, 2021

Agency for International Development (USAID) to launch phishing campaigns against a broad array of targets. “This backdoor could enable a wide range of activities from stealing data to infecting other computers on a network.” Now the group is back with the USAID phishing campaign.

Phishing 69

Phishing Cybersecurity Government Authentication 69