Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2023

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The Texas Record

JUNE 28, 2021

In a nutshell, this is information governance. ARMA defines “information governance” as “the overarching and coordinating strategy for all organizational information. ARMA defines “information governance” as “the overarching and coordinating strategy for all organizational information.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 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 Hathaway breached, 41.5 The compromised data allegedly includes names, email addresses and phone numbers.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Years of data disappeared. It’s easy to think of it as a problem the federal government must address or something that enterprises deal with, but cybersecurity has to be addressed closer to home, as well. His company supplies a co-managed SIEM service to mid-sized and large enterprises, including local government agencies.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

FritzFrog P2P botnet is back and is targeting servers belonging to entities in the healthcare, education, and government sectors. The bot is written in Golang and implements wormable capabilities, experts reported attacks against entities in the government, education, and finance sectors. ” reads the report published by Akamai.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2023

The BlackCat Ransomware group claims to have hacked SOLAR INDUSTRIES INDIA and to have stolen 2TB of “secret military data.” The BlackCat Ransomware group claims to have breached the company infrastructure and to have stolen 2TB of data, including secret military data related to weapons production.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2024

Indeed, while anonymity provides privacy and security for transactions, it can also be exploited by criminals for illicit activities, such as money laundering , drug trafficking, illegal arms sales, and terrorist financing. Prevention comes through educating users and taking robust security measures to protect their digital assets.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The boundaries between research and grey data are blurring, making it more difficult to assess the risks and responsibilities associated with any data collection. Many sets of data, both research and grey, fall outside privacy regulations such as HIPAA, FERPA, and PII.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

This week, we discuss the Australian government’s loss of thousands of classified documents, DCMS Secretary of State Matt Hancock’s buggy new app and the growing trend of cybercriminals using cryptocurrency miners. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 2 February 2018. Here are this week’s stories.

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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. My current work is split between two projects: One has to do with data governance, the other political media. First, Data. Big data, data breaches, data mining, data science…Today, we’re all about the data.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The government alleges the men used malware-laced phishing emails and “supply chain” attacks to steal data from companies and their customers. ” Once inside of a target organization, the hackers stole source code, software code signing certificates, customer account data and other information they could use or resell.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2022

Link to the stolen data from the company have been published on the leak site DDoSecrets. Anonymous also hacked MashOiL and leaked the data through DDoSecrets. The dump includes nearly 140,000 emails from MashOil, which designs, manufactures and maintains equipment used in the drilling, mining and fracking industries.

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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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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 6, 2023

While data science and machine learning are related, they are very different fields. In a nutshell, data science brings structure to big data while machine learning focuses on learning from the data itself. What is data science? One challenge in applying data science is to identify pertinent business issues.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Security Forensics Investigation. He has “worked around the clock” to secure assets, identify crypto on the blockchain , find records, and work with regulators and government authorities. There were no “appropriate” security controls with digital assets. Security is another issue with the industry. Securing Crypto.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

. “CISA obtained four malicious files for analysis during an on-site incident response engagement at a Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) organization compromised by Iranian government sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) actors.” These files have been identified as variants of the XMRIG cryptocurrency mining software.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Akamai Security Intelligence Response Team (SIRT) discovered a new version of the KmsdBot botnet that employed an updated Kmsdx binary targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The malware was employed in cryptocurrency mining campaigns and to launch denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. ” reads the report published by Akamai.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 10, 2019

On May 28, 2019, the Cyberspace Administration of China (“CAC”) released draft Data Security Administrative Measures (the “Measures”) for public comment. The Measures cover 40 articles in total, divided among four chapters, that address data collection, processing and use and data security.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2020

The FBI has seized the WeLeakInfo.com websites for selling subscriptions to data that were exposed in data breaches. WeLeakInfo.com is a data breach notification service that allows its customers to verify if their credentials been compromised in data breaches. SecurityAffairs – WeLeakInfo, data breach).

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The Security Ledger

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Joshua Corman, the Chief Strategist for Healthcare and COVID on CISA’s COVID Task Force, joins us to talk about the myriad of cyber threats facing healthcare and the vaccine distribution system and how the federal government is working to counter them. residents that it can mine for intelligence. Read the whole entry. »

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 18, 2021

NYSE:FAF ] was leaking more than 800 million documents — many containing sensitive financial data — related to real estate transactions dating back 16 years. Securities and Exchange Commission settled its investigation into the matter after the Fortune 500 company agreed to pay a paltry penalty of less than $500,000.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) software helps businesses manage all of the necessary documentation and processes for ensuring maximum productivity and preparedness. It includes multi-disciplinary risk and compliance management solutions and tools, including: IT & security risk management. Third-party governance.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2018

2018 was the year of the Internet of Things (IoT), massive attacks and various botnets hit smart devices, These are 5 IoT Security Predictions for 2019. The regulation around IoT security was this year’s signal that the answer is, fortunately, no. Insights from VDOO’s leadership. 2019 will continue these trends but at a faster pace.

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ARMA International

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Whereas the pilots of yesteryear had to decide whether to take their aviation skills and adapt them to space flight, you must choose whether to adapt and expand your records disciplines and apply them to all of your organization’s information – regardless of its data type, format, delivery medium, department, or location. 3 … 2 … 1 ….

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2019

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. At least 23 Texas local governments targeted by coordinated ransomware attacks. Malware Analysis Sandboxes could expose sensitive data of your organization. million to allow towns to access encrypted data. Mastercard data breach affected Priceless Specials loyalty program.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2020

The company manufactures a variety of heavy equipment (bulldozers, dump trucks, hydraulic excavators, wheel loaders, rope shovels, walking draglines, motor graders and scrapers), such as that used for earthmoving, transport and mining. According to the researchers, the data breach has occurred in May 2020 and the data was published on May 25.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2022

In the last few hours, in addition to government sites, the sites of the country’s main banks have been brought to their knees. Stolen data included is DNS infrastructure, private keys for SSL, sberbank API, CLI and SDKs. Stolen data included is DNS infrastructure, private keys for SSL, sberbank API, CLI and SDKs.

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CGI

MAY 13, 2018

To get the most from blockchain in government, a sharing mindset is needed. However, blockchain requires organizations to think about their data not as an asset they own, but as a shared resource—a shift in mindset that is not easy for everyone. federal government. Mon, 05/14/2018 - 00:45. ACT-IAC guidance.

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IT Governance

APRIL 16, 2018

Last week the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the National Crime Agency (NCA) released their annual report on the cyber threats facing UK businesses. Cryptojacking is when cryptocurrency miners are delivered through malware, using a computer’s processing power to illicitly mine cryptocurrency. Cloud security.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2020

As KrebsOnSecurity observed back in 2018 , many people — particularly older folks — proudly declare they avoid using the Web to manage various accounts tied to their personal and financial data — including everything from utilities and mobile phones to retirement benefits and online banking services.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 1, 2018

This is a little project I started whilst killing time in a hotel room in late 2013 after thinking "I wonder if people actually know where their data has been exposed?" And this is precisely why I'm writing this piece - to talk about how I'm assisting the UK and Australian governments with access to data about their own domains.

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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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IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In today’s digital age where data stands as a prized asset, generative AI serves as the transformative tool to mine its potential. Businesses globally recognize the power of generative AI and are eager to harness data and AI for unmatched growth, sustainable operations, streamlining and pioneering innovation.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 4, 2020

One of the most-read advice columns on this site is a 2018 piece called “ Plant Your Flag, Mark Your Territory ,” which tried to impress upon readers the importance of creating accounts at websites like those at the Social Security Administration , the IRS and others before crooks do it for you.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In an 8-K form filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the company has disclosed the ransomware attack that took place on October 22nd, 2020. The company is not aware of data loss caused by the ransomware attack. “On October 22, 2020, Steelcase Inc. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Steelcase).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2020

.” “While it is an inconvenience for them to be disconnected, it’s safer for the state as a whole due to the critical nature of this network for all of North Carolina’s Law Enforcement,” reads the security breach notification sent by email. 911 calls, though, are being answered.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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