IT Governance

MARCH 1, 2022

The cyber security industry, much like the rest of the world, is on edge. Our figures for this month are comparatively low – with 83 data breaches and cyber attacks accounting for 5,127,241 breached records – but there is a sense that we are on the brink of something. Data breaches. Cyber attacks. Ransomware. In other news….

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 30, 2018

DataLocker honed its patented approach to manufacturing encrypted portable drives and landed some key military and government clients early on; the company has continued branching out ever since. All the user needs is a strong password to access to the data. You need to rely on external storage to securely transport your data.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 14, 2018

Recently, Colorado’s governor signed into law House Bill 18-1128 “concerning strengthening protections for consumer data privacy” (the “Bill”), which takes effect September 1, 2018. Timing: Notice to affected Colorado residents and the Colorado Attorney General must be made within 30 days after determining that a security breach occurred.

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Information Governance Perspectives

APRIL 5, 2023

The following excerpt about Artificial Intelligence is based on the book Tomorrow’s Jobs Today , available at Barnes & Noble , Amazon , and other fine booksellers. Wireless telematics devices and “black box” technologies collect and transmit data on vehicle use, maintenance requirements, and automotive servicing.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 9, 2019

As reported by Bloomberg Law , on May 7, 2019, Washington State Governor Jay Inslee signed a bill ( HB 1071 ) amending Washington’s data breach notification law. The new requirements include the following: Expanded Definition of Personal Information. HB 1071 expands the definition of “personal information.”

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 22, 2020

On July 1, 2020, amendments to Vermont’s data breach notification law, signed into law earlier this year, will take effect along with Vermont’s new student privacy law. Security Breach Notice Act. Where a breach is limited to login credentials for an online account other than an email account, notice may be provided electronically.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JUNE 4, 2021

Increased scrutiny over connected car and automobile industry data from Chinese regulators, including push towards data localisation. China is a leading marketing for connected and autonomous vehicles, and use and analytics of connected vehicle data has been encouraged by Chinese Government support of big data and AI technology.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In the first week of January, the pharmaceutical giant Merck quietly settled its years-long lawsuit over whether or not its property and casualty insurers would cover a $700 million claim filed after the devastating NotPetya cyberattack in 2017. The 9/11 attacks cost insurers and reinsurers $47 billion. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

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KnowBe4

MARCH 28, 2023

Security awareness training still has a place to play here." Email and other elements of software infrastructure offer built-in fundamental security that largely guarantees we are not in danger until we ourselves take action," Tyson writes. Let's start by looking at some of the data around users engaging with mobile attack.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 3, 2023

The initiatives that stand out the most — critical infrastructure security standards, a national data privacy and security law, and liability for security failures — will likely take time and the support of Congress to implement. is the creation of mandatory requirements for critical infrastructure security.

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Data Protection Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

As Data Protection Report posted on January 29, 2018 , lawmakers in Colorado are considering legislation that, if enacted, would significantly strengthen Colorado’s data privacy protections. On Wednesday, February 14, 2018, an amended bill passed unanimously in Colorado’s House Committee on State, Veterans and Military Affairs.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Malware has been around for nearly 40 years, longer even than the World Wide Web, but ransomware is a different kind of threat, capable of crippling a company and damaging or destroying its critical data. Zero trust is an important new tool to add to all that, essentially walling off your most important data. Data backup.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

A credit freeze — also known as a “security freeze” — restricts access to your credit file, making it far more difficult for identity thieves to open new accounts in your name. For example, how do companies that provide background screening and credit report data to landlords decide who can sign up as a landlord?

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

If you’ve been holding out because you’re not particularly worried about ID theft, here’s another reason to reconsider: The credit bureaus profit from selling copies of your file to others, so freezing your file also lets you deny these dinosaurs a valuable revenue stream. By Mail: Equifax Security Freeze. Box 105788.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

Chris Gray of Deep Watch talks about the view from the inside of a virtual SOC, the ability to see threats against a large number of SMB organizations, and the changes to cyber insurance we’re seeing as a result. A lot of SMBs do not have security operations centers or SOCs. They have those security capabilities.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The internet is fraught with peril these days, but nothing strikes more fear into users and IT security pros than the threat of ransomware. A ransomware attack is about as bad as a cyber attack can get. Attackers will inform the victim that their data is encrypted. How ransomware works. Screenshot example. Description.

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IT Governance

JUNE 27, 2019

You might be wondering why, given that the decision has so far cost Norsk Hydro an estimated 650 million Norwegian crowns (about £60 million). The ransomware was accompanied by a note: “Your files are encrypted with the strongest military algorithms. Without our special decoder it is impossible to restore the data.”.

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IT Governance

APRIL 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 US Environmental Protection Agency allegedly breached: nearly 8.5 Data breached: 8,460,182 accounts.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

Network security architecture is a strategy that provides formal processes to design robust and secure networks. Effective implementation improves data throughput, system reliability, and overall security for any organization. or segregated as cloud or network attached storage (NAS).

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IT Governance

MARCH 11, 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: 36 million records. Data breached: 6,935,412 individuals’ data. Data breached: 6.9 Only 3 definitely haven’t had data breached.

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Data Protection Report

MARCH 7, 2024

China Cuba Iran North Korea Russia Venezuela What is “personally identifiable data” that is “in combination with each other”? The proposed regulation would define the term to mean any “listed identifier” that is linked to any other “listed identifier.” Note that the only difference between the two examples is the addition of IP addresses.

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IT Governance

APRIL 22, 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. Compromised data includes names, passport numbers, Social Security numbers, online crypto account identifiers and bank account numbers. Data breached: 5,300,000 records.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Until recently, I was fairly active on Twitter , regularly tweeting to more than 350,000 followers about important security news and stories here. I will also continue to post on LinkedIn about new stories in 2023. Some of that work is highlighted in the 2022 Year in Review review below.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 23, 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. The data set is a collection of 1 billion credentials sourced from stealer logs and hosted on the illicit.services website. Data breached: 70,840,771 email addresses.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

According to PWC’s report (PDF), there were multiple warning signs about a serious network intrusion, but those red flags were either misidentified or not acted on quickly enough: On Mar. On 10 May 2021, security auditors first identified evidence of the attacker compromising systems within Hospital C and Hospital L.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 1, 2023

IT Governance found 87 publicly disclosed security incidents in June 2023, accounting for 146,290,598 breached records. You can find the full list below, divided into four categories: cyber attacks, ransomware, data breaches, and malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents.

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KnowBe4

MAY 9, 2023

There are no spectacular threats, no promises of instant wealth, just a notice about a failed update. New school security awareness training can help any organization sustain that line of defense and create a strong security culture. Blog post with links: [link] A Master Class on IT Security: Roger A. Join Roger A.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 3, 2018

I have a Yahoo email account, I’ve shopped at Home Depot and Target , my father was in the military and had a security clearance, which included a dossier on his family, archived at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management , I’ve had insurance coverage from Premera Blue Cross and I’ve stayed at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

According to Group-IB’s experts, the most frustrating trend of 2019 was the use of cyberweapons in military operations. As for 2019, it has become the year of covert military operations in cyberspace. The threat actor mainly targets insurance, consulting, and construction companies. The energy sector: Hidden threats.

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IT Governance

MARCH 28, 2019

There’s a new compiler at the helm of our monthly list of data breaches, following the departure of IT Governance stalwart Lewis Morgan, who leaves me with some mighty big shoes to fill. Fortunately – or, rather, unfortunately ­– the new regime has a familiar ring to it, with another mammoth list of data breaches. Data breaches.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Since many people use the same passwords or patterns when generating passwords, hackers have more and more opportunities to gain access to sensitive company data. The boom in remote work due to the COVID-19 pandemic has further amplified the need to secure network endpoints , in which finding software to manage passwords plays a big role.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 30, 2023

Mark Lance, the VP of DFIR and Threat intelligence for GuidePoint Security, provides The Hacker Mind with stories of ransomware cases he’s handled. VAMOSI: Four days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, on February 28, 2022, members of the Conti ransomware group began leaking information about the internal operations.

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Collibra

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) came into effect four years after the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was adopted. Despite coming at the heels of the GDPR, the recent California privacy law promptly established and defined its own concepts around consumer-related data. . Geolocation data.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

Is there something more secure? Simon Moffatt from CyberHut joins The Hacker Mind to discuss how identity and access management (IAM) is fundamental to everything we do online today, and why even multi-factor access, while an improvement, needs to yield to more effortless and more secure passwordless technology that’s coming soon.

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Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

Recent guidance from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on disclosure and enforcement actions by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) make clear that cybersecurity is no longer a niche topic, but a concern significant enough to warrant the oversight of corporate boards of directors.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The recent boom in remote work due to the Covid-19 pandemic has further amplified the need to secure network endpoints , in which effective password management plays a big role. Password manager tools allow organizations and their employees to seamlessly and securely handle login credentials. Top Password Manager Software.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

IT Governance found 73 publicly disclosed security incidents in August 2023, accounting for 79,729,271 breached records. You can find the full list below, divided into four categories: cyber attacks, ransomware, data breaches, and malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents.

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