eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

Regulatory compliance and data privacy issues have long been an IT security nightmare. And since the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect May 25, 2018, IT compliance issues have been at the forefront of corporate concerns. GDPR-style data privacy laws came to the U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2019

Late last year, Atrium Health disclosed it lost sensitive data for some 2.65 The culprit: lax practices of a third-party data and analytics contractor. One might assume top-tier financial services firms and healthcare vendors would have solved third-party cyber exposures by now. Uphill battle.

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KnowBe4

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

link] Spear Phishing Attacks Increase 127% As Use of Impersonation Skyrockets Impersonation of users, domains and brands is on the rise, as is the use of malicious links, in response to security vendors improving their ability to detect malicious attachments. Blog post with links: [link] Are Your Users Making Risky Security Mistakes?

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Cyber Info Veritas

JULY 19, 2018

Did you know that 63% of all data breaches are directly or indirectly linked to third party companies? Let us get started with how third-party data breach occurs. How Third Party Data Breach Takes Place If a hacker is targeting a large organization, they look for the gateway that will not be easily noticed.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2021

Some instructive fresh intelligence about how cyber attacks continue to saturate the Internet comes to us from Akamai Technologies. Akamai, which happens to be the Hawaiian word for “smart,” recently released its annual State of the Internet security report. billion web attacks globally; 736 million in the financial services sector.

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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.

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Data breaches Phishing Security awareness Ransomware 76

Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

The growing volume and severity of cyber-attacks directed against public companies has caught the attention of federal regulators and investors. More and more, directors are viewing cyber-risk under the broader umbrella of corporate strategy and searching for ways to help mitigate that risk.

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