Security Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2023

UK govt contractor MPD FM left an open instance that exposed employee passports, visas, and other sensitive data MPD FM, a facility management and security company providing services to various UK government departments, left an open instance that exposed employee passports, visas, and other sensitive data.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Many are addressing this via building accelerators that could be customized for enterprise consumption that helps accelerate specific areas of modernization and one such example from IBM is IBM Consulting Cloud Accelerators. We will explore key areas of acceleration with an example in this article.

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Armstrong Archives

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Everything from tax documents to employee files to bank statements must be kept on file, often for years at a time. At Armstrong Archives , we’re proud to stand at the forefront of records management, offering expert guidance in record retention policy and document management, ensuring that our clients stay compliant and efficient.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2020

Many users also store in the digital store copies of documents, including IDs, driver’s licenses, and credit cards. vpnMentor discovered a misconfigured Amazon S3 bucket that was leaking documents uploaded by the users. Experts also found CSV files storing membership lists and reports for some of North American retail brands.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Amid the mad dash for bargains and inevitable stories of shop-floor brawls, Black Friday brings with it a spike in cyber security threats, as cyber criminals take advantage of people desperate for bargains. Alternatively, you’ll download a Word document that asks you to ‘Enable Content’, which will unleash malware on your systems.

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Collibra

JULY 21, 2023

For example, Collibra can help government agencies improve their services to constituents and make more informed decisions about program improvements. Let’s dive into a specific example focused on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) — commonly known as the food stamp program.

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OpenText Information Management

APRIL 15, 2024

Throughout the conference--held in London today and moving to Munich then Paris this week--dozens of examples of how automation and AI acts as a force multiplier to empower people are being shared. Governance first: OpenText has a track record of security and trust. A year later, we have delivered on our promise.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Amid the mad dash for bargains and inevitable stories of shop-floor brawls, Black Friday brings with it a spike in cyber security threats – and it’s easy to see why. Alternatively, you’ll download a Word document that asks you to ‘Enable Content’, which will unleash malware on your systems. Exploiting public Wi-Fi.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Compliance madhav Tue, 09/19/2023 - 05:17 It is essential for any business that stores, processes, and transmits payment card information to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Consumers’ payment data is a compelling target for criminals who continue to circumvent IT security defenses.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

This ransomware strain emerged in September 2020, but the threat actors behind already managed to lock quite big companies, such as game developers Crytek, booksellers Barnes & Noble, and most recently a retail giant Cencosud from Chile. Same tools and naming convention have been used as well, for example md.exe, rdp.bat, svchost.exe.

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Info Source

JANUARY 31, 2019

which uses a specialized type of artificial intelligence called supervised machine learning to optimize operational efficiency in document-intensive processes. This means customers can use less power to process more documents at a lower cost.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

From the very beginning of the cloud computing era, security has been the biggest concern among enterprises considering the public cloud. In addition, 95 percent of survey respondents confirmed that they are extremely to moderately concerned about public cloud security. What is cloud security?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The TA544 group leverages phishing and social engineering techniques to lure victims into enabling macro included in weaponized documents. The spam messages use weaponized office documents to drop the Ursnif banking Trojan in the final stage. Upon enabling the macro, the infection process will start. Banca Sella UniCredit Group.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

For example, a marketing executive at a retailer hires a company to conduct a survey on shoppers’ browsing habits. The executive (and the retailer generally) is the data controller, and the company conducting the survey is the data processor. Sounds simple enough. Responsibilities of the data processor.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

You’d therefore expect that the sector fares better at data security than your average organisation. The public data set on the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) website shows that data security isn’t necessarily better for financial organisations. Simply losing access to an asset, for example, can be just as problematic.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Ten years ago, I wrote an essay : "Security in 2020." Here's what I said back then: There's really no such thing as security in the abstract. Security can only be defined in relation to something else. You're secure from something or against something. Well, it's finally 2020. I think I did pretty well.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2020

The attackers seek to steal documents that contain commercial secrets and employee personal data. Since then, it has conducted 26 targeted attacks on commercial organizations alone, including companies in the fields of construction , finance , consulting , retail , banking , insurance , law ,and travel.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Besides the traumatic experience for some retail employees and those injured in shop-floor brawls, Black Friday is also a time in which many of us are caught out by scams, with cyber criminals taking advantage of customers desperate for a bargain. Alternatively, you’ll download a Word document that asks you to ‘Enable Content’ to view.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Mobile payment platforms, like Apple Pay and Google Pay, use advanced technology, like fingerprint authentication and tokenization (in which credit card account numbers are replaced by randomly generated numbers) to provide brick-and-mortar shoppers with an added layer of security. Browse online using secure networks. Do your research.

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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2021

“For example, UNC2529 used a unique username, masquerading as an account executive for a small California-based electronics manufacturing company, which Mandiant identified through a simple Internet search.” In some attacks, the threat actors used weaponized Excel documents as a downloader. .” Pierluigi Paganini.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 3, 2019

There are six bases in total and, with the exception of consent , each one might be suitable in different circumstances: A contract with the individual : for example, to supply goods or services, which may include a provision that those services are monitored. For example, it might say, “CCTV is in operation for the purpose of public safety”.

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Data Protection Report

APRIL 23, 2024

In FS24/1, the FCA explains that it aims to mitigate the risk of competition in retail financial markets evolving in a way that results in some Big Tech firms gaining market power while enabling the potential competition benefits (from Big Tech entry and expansion).

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Data Matters

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

We will also discuss a developing range of services referred to as digital asset “prime brokerage” — describing the suite of services typically provided by these prime brokers and comparing them to traditional offerings of prime brokers in the securities space. Traditional OTC Derivatives.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 19, 2020

You need a lawful basis , and it’s the data controller’s responsibility to decide which basis applies and to document their justification. Say, for example, that you are a marketing executive at a retailer who wants to conduct a survey on shoppers’ browsing habits. Are you a data controller or a data processor?

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2019

The threat group is also known for its recent attack campaign against Bank and Retail business sectors, but the latest evidence indicates a potential expansion of its criminal operation to other industries too. XLS document. Example of junk instructions used in macro. Technical Analysis. Information about initial dropper.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 2, 2019

I often see a sizable gap between perceptions and reality among many SMB leaders,” Troy Gill a senior security analyst at AppRiver told me. I had the chance at RSA 2019 to discuss the SMB security landscape at length with Gill. They don’t know what they don’t know, and this lack of preparedness often aids and abets cybercriminals.”

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 9, 2018

This blog looks at some real-world examples of some of the most common causes of data breaches and explains how they occurred. Malware is a perfect example of just how simple attacks can be. For example, Scotland-based Arran Brewery was hit by a ransomware attack last month. Employee negligence.

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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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IT Governance

AUGUST 14, 2019

A security researcher has identified major flaws in many organisations’ DSAR (data subject access request) procedures. Two fifths of organisations complied with the request, accepting easily forged documents or without verifying Pavur’s identity at all. The GDPR has created security weaknesses.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Think: an online retailer that stores customers’ email addresses to send order updates. The only processing operations exempt from the GDPR are national security and law enforcement activities and purely personal uses of data. Organizations must document the legal basis for every processing operation before beginning.

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IT Governance

JUNE 8, 2023

A Digital Guardian report found that 90% of corporate security breaches are the result of phishing attacks. An Office for National Statistics report revealed that UK organisations have experienced a 57% increase in “consumer and retail fraud” compared to pre-pandemic levels. of attacks, while Excel was used in 8.7%. com’ websites.

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Data Matters

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Cryptoassets cannot be physically possessed, so they cannot be the object of a bailment, and only some types of security can be granted over them. Cryptoassets are not documents of title, documentary intangibles or negotiable instruments, nor are they instruments under the UK Bills of Exchange Act nor goods under the UK Sale of Goods Act.

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Data Matters

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Cryptoassets cannot be physically possessed, so they cannot be the object of a bailment, and only some types of security can be granted over them. Cryptoassets are not documents of title, documentary intangibles or negotiable instruments, nor are they instruments under the UK Bills of Exchange Act nor goods under the UK Sale of Goods Act.

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Preservica

MARCH 14, 2018

Preservica’s active digital preservation platform selected to future-proof unique digital assets that document nearly 150 years of corporate, brand and retail history. This is especially pertinent for material that is currently at risk of degradation and format obsolescence, such as film and VHS tapes. About The Sainsbury Archive.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Attached to the email a suspicious word document was waiting to be opened from the victim. Hash 7ebd1d6fa8c21b0d0c015475ab8c7225f949c13a33d0a39b8c069072a4281392 Threat Macro Dropper Brief Description Document Dropper Ssdeep 384:nFZ5ZtDGGkLmTUrioRPATRn633Dmej0SnJzbmiVywP0jKk:n1oqwT2J633DVgiVy25. Image1: Word Document Content.

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Data Matters

APRIL 10, 2018

The CDD Rule applies to banks, broker-dealers in securities, mutual funds, futures commission merchants and introducing brokers in commodities (collectively, covered financial institutions or CFIs). Nothing in the CDD Rule states that the private label retail exception is unavailable for online merchant private label credit products.

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Elie

MAY 30, 2018

Adversarial inputs include malicious documents designed to evade antivirus, and emails attempting to evade spam filters. This can be used, for example, to steal stock market prediction models and spam filtering models, in order to use them or be able to optimize more efficiently against such models. Data poisoning attacks.

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