IT Governance

NOVEMBER 20, 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 OPB, the district didn’t provide details, but said that “our student credentials may have been compromised as part of a security incident”.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Another year is ending and this is the right time to discover which are the worst passwords of 2019 by analyzing data leaked in various data breaches. Independent anonymous researchers, compiled and shared with security firm NordPass a list of 200 most popular passwords that were leaked in data breaches during 2019.

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Passwords Data breaches Cybersecurity Risk 95

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. Google rolled out emergency fixes to address actively exploited Chrome zero-day Samsung discloses a second data breach this year The Prynt Stealer malware contains a secret backdoor. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2023

Hyundai disclosed a data breach that impacted Italian and French car owners and clients who booked a test drive. Hyundai has suffered a data breach that impacted Italian and French car owners and customers who booked a test drive. According to the letter, financial data were not exposed.

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Data breaches Manufacturing Cybersecurity Education 98

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Tianfu Cup 2019 Day 1 – Chinese experts hacked Chrome, Edge, Safari, Office365. Crooks use carding bots to check stolen card data ahead of the holiday season. Tianfu Cup 2019 – 11 teams earned a total of 545,000 for their Zero-Day Exploits. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2021

You can check if your personal information is included in the Facebook data leak by querying the data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned. The news of the availability on a hacking forum of the personal information for 533,313,128 Facebook users made the headlines. I’ve had a heap of queries about this.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2019

On September 23, Microsoft released an out-of-band patch to address a zero-day memory corruption flaw in Internet Explorer ( CVE-2019-1367 ) that has been exploited in attacks in the wild. reads the security advisory published by Microsoft. “An SecurityAffairs – CVE-2019-1367 , hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2020

The US-based children’s clothing maker Hanna Andersson has disclosed a data breach that affected its customers. The US-based children’s clothing maker and online retailer Hanna Andersson discloses a data breach, attackers planted an e-skimmer on its e-commerce platform. Hannah Anderson was breached.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday updates for November 2019 address over 70 flaws, including an Internet Explorer issue (CVE-2019-1429) that has been exploited in attacks in the wild. Microsoft doesn’t provide any information on the nature of the active attacks, it only pointed out that they are likely limited at this time.

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Metadata Security IT Information Security 74

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 Data breaches Data collection Cybersecurity 53

Data Matters

JANUARY 16, 2019

Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) released its report (the 2019 Report) setting forth its list of examination priorities for 2019 (the Exam Priorities). Exams are Risk-Based and Data-Driven. On December 20, 2018, the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) of the U.S. capital markets.

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2020

Maze Ransomware operators claim to have gained access to the network of Banco BCR of Costa Rica and stolen 11 million credit card credentials. Maze Ransomware operators claim to have hacked the network of the state-owned Bank of Costa Rica Banco BCR and to have stolen internal data, including 11 million credit card credentials.

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Ransomware Encryption Insurance Data breaches 143

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The N etBlocks internet observatory, which tracks disruptions and shutdowns, observed yesterday (February 8, 2019) a massive outage of the country’s connectivity to the Internet. Confirmed: Internet partially shut down #Iran from 11:45 a.m. ” #CyberAttack at 11:44 local time disrupted internet services in #Iran for an hour.

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Government Access Cybersecurity Security 145

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Experts discovered a huge data leak affecting Ecuador, maybe the largest full-country leak, that exposed data belonging to 20 million Ecuadorian Citizens. Security experts at vpnMentor have discovered a huge data leak affecting Ecuador that exposed data belonging to 20 million Ecuadorian Citizens.

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Data breaches Education Government Security 90

Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2020

German Police have arrested 32 individuals and detained 11 after a series of raids targeting users of an illegal underground economy forum. As a result of the raids on 232 sites, the agents have found weapons, drugs, computers, around 50,000 euros ($56,300) in cash, cryptocurrency, the police also seized 300 terabytes of data.

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Data Matters

JANUARY 14, 2019

On December 19, 2018, Ohio adopted the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) Insurance Data Security Model Law. See CT Gen Stat § 38a-999b (2015) ; 23 NYCRR 500. (For more information on South Carolina’s adoption of the Model Law, see our prior coverage.) . 11 to the Ohio Revised Code.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Welcome to the second part of our round-up of 2019’s information security stories. The second half of the year began with major data privacy news: the UK’s data protection authority, the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office), announced its intention to fine British Airways and Marriott International a combined £282.6

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Data breaches Personal data GDPR Ransomware 58

Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2019

Retrieval-Masters Creditors Bureau, the company that operates healthcare billing services provider AMCA, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy due to a recent data breach. The news is disconcerting and demonstrates the potential effects of a data breach on an organization. of LabCorp patients. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Data breaches IT Information Security 80

Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 14, 2019

On January 10, 2019, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signed legislation amending the state’s data breach law. The amendments take effect on April 11, 2019.

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Data breaches Information Security Security IT 54

Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2022

The Anonymous collective has hacked Russia’s Ministry of Culture and leaked 446 GB of data through the DDoSecrets platform. Data leak service DDoSecrets has published over 700 GB of data allegedly stolen from the Russian government, including over 500,000 emails. BREAKING: Over 700GB of Russian government data leaked.

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Archiving Cybersecurity Government Security 98

Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2021

Threat actors breached the servers of US Census Bureau on January 11, 2020, exploiting an unpatched Citrix ADC zero-day vulnerability, OIG revealed. “The exploit was partially successful, in that the attacker modified user account data on the systems to prepare for remote code execution. ” states the report.

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Access Communications Ransomware Security 121

Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2024

Vasinskyi is a REvil ransomware affiliate since at least March 1st, 2019. “Ransomware is malicious software designed to encrypt data on victim computers, allowing bad actors the ability to demand a ransom payment in exchange for the decryption key.” ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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Ransomware Encryption Information Security IT 104

IT Governance

DECEMBER 27, 2019

A royal baby, a fire at Notre-Dame, the highest grossing film of all time and more than 12 billion breached data records: 2019 has been quite a year. IT Governance is closing out the year by rounding up 2019’s biggest information security stories. million people – just under a third of the country’s population.

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Data breaches GDPR Passwords Personal data 55

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Under Christmas tree you can find great gifts such as significant improvements of user interface (panel), modal windows on loading and expansion of data collection objects. Presently, Meduza password stealer supports Windows Server 2012/2016/2019/2022 and Windows 10/11.

Passwords 137

Passwords Authentication Data collection Privacy 137

Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Assuming the plaintiff does so, she might face retroactivity hurdles, given the data breach allegedly “occurred from September 16, 2019 to November 11, 2019,” and the CCPA is not expressly retroactive. Weinberg v. Valeant Pharm. Int’l , 2017 WL 6543822, at *7 (C.D.

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Data breaches Privacy Retail Security 67

Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2022

Often easy to find and exploit, these can lead to exploitable vulnerabilities that allow adversaries to completely take over a system, steal data, or prevent applications from working.” 6 0 11 CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference 7.15 0 +4 12 CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data 6.68 32 -1 7 CWE-416 Use After Free 15.50

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Authentication Education Cybersecurity Security 98

Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2024

The FBI is informing victims of LockBit ransomware it has obtained over 7,000 LockBit decryption keys that could allow some of them to decrypt their data. “Additionally, from our ongoing disruption of LockBit, we now have over 7,000 decryption keys and can help victims reclaim their data and get back online.”

Energy and Utilities 122

Energy and Utilities Ransomware Agriculture Encryption 122

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 26, 2019

The vulnerabilities were discovered by researchers from the Tencent Blade security team. ” The flaws, tracked as CVE-2019-13734, CVE-2019-13750, CVE-2019-13751, CVE-2019-13752, CVE-2019-13753, could cause remote code execution, or could leak program memory or cause program crashes. Pierluigi Paganini.

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IoT Libraries Security IT 75

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

released of the popular software that was released on December 5th, 2019. link] pic.twitter.com/0xxfVGTvuA — Vitali Kremez (@VK_Intel) November 11, 2020. The license check is commented out pic.twitter.com/DOjqdIDhVq — Amit Serper (@0xAmit) November 11, 2020. Cobalt strike source leaked. Pierluigi Paganini.

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IT Access Security Information Security 135

Data Matters

JUNE 24, 2021

In the Order, the SEC alleges that First American’s disclosures concerning the vulnerability were deficient because senior executives were not provided all available and relevant information, specifically that First American’s information security personnel had identified and failed to remediate the vulnerability months earlier in January 2019.

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Cybersecurity Financial Services Risk Compliance 66

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 26, 2020

The Hospital Group has 11 clinics and has a celebrity clientele, but it made the headlines because the REvil ransomware gang, aka Sodinokibi, claims to have hacked its systems and threatens to release before-and-after pictures of celebrity clients. data security breach.” ” The Hospital Group said in a statement.

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Ransomware Personal data File names Security 129

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Yesterday, a joint law enforcement action, code-named Operation Cronos , conducted by law enforcement agencies from 11 countries disrupted the LockBit ransomware operation. “LockBit had a bespoke data exfiltration tool, known as Stealbit, which was used by affiliates to steal victim data.

Energy and Utilities 115

Energy and Utilities Ransomware Manufacturing Agriculture 115

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Four restaurant chains in the United States disclosed security breaches that impacted their payment systems over the summers, crooks used PoS malware to steal payment card data of the customers. The three restaurant chains confirmed that hackers compromised the payment systems in a period between April 29, 2019 an d July 22, 2019. .

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Data breaches Access Security IT 79

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The US National Security Agency (NSA) has shared the list of top 25 vulnerabilities exploited by Chinese state-sponsored hacking groups in attacks in the wild. The knowledge of these vulnerabilities could allow IT and security staffs at organizations worldwide to protect their infrastructure against Chinese state-sponsored hacking campaigns.

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MDM Access Security Passwords 114

Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2020

Cybersecurity blogger Brian Krebs reported that the company suffered a security breach that led to the disruption of some services. ” reads the data breach notification published by the company. At this time, we do not have any evidence that customer or employee data was accessed or exfiltrated.” Travelex deja vu?

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Ransomware Data breaches Access Cybersecurity 127

Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2020

Google’s March 2020 security updates for Android address over 70 flaws, including a critical vulnerability that affects the media framework. . Google’s March 2020 security updates for Android include the fix for a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-0032, that affects the media framework as part of the 2020-03-01 security patch level.

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Security Risk IT Information Security 127

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Hi folk, let me inform you that I suspended the newsletter service, anyway I’ll continue to provide you a list of published posts every week through the blog. Imperva explains how hackers stole AWS API Key and accessed to customer data. Pierluigi Paganini.

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