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NEW TECH: DataLocker introduces encrypted flash drive — with key pad

The Last Watchdog

One sliver of the $90 billion, or so, companies are expected to spend this year on cybersecurity products and services is an estimated $85 million they will shell out for encrypted flash drives. We discussed why encrypted flash drives have become established as a must-have portable business tool in the digital age. Park: Exactly.

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City of Dallas has set a budget of $8.5 million to mitigate the May Royal ransomware attack

Security Affairs

The command-and-control beacons allowed Royal to prepare the City’s network resources for the May 03, 2023, ransomware encryption attack.” . “During the surveillance period, Royal performed several actions to inject command and control software and established command-and-control beacons. ” continues the report.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 16–22 October 2023

IT Governance

Incident details: The company found that data on its network had been encrypted without its knowledge. Breached organisation: D-Link Corporation, Taiwanese networking equipment manufacturer. Breached organisation: ClassPad.net, an educational web application operated by Casio Computer Co., Records breached: Unknown.

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China Publishes Draft Regulations on Protecting the Security of Key Information Infrastructure

Hunton Privacy

To be counted as “key information infrastructure,” however, the infrastructure must still meet the criterion that severe endangerment of national security, the national economy and the people’s livelihood and the public interest would result if the infrastructure suffers destruction, loss of functionality or leakage of data.

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Data security: Why a proactive stance is best

IBM Big Data Hub

Thirty percent of those incidents occurred in manufacturing organizations. It means physically securing servers and user devices, managing and controlling access, application security and patching, maintaining thoroughly tested, usable data backups and educating employees. Require strong passwords.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 27 November – 3 December 2023

IT Governance

35 TB of data exfiltrated from Henry Schein, plus ALPHV/BlackCat re-encrypted the newly restored files As we first reported last month , the US healthcare solutions provider Henry Schein announced on 15 October that it had suffered a cyber attack that caused disruption to its manufacturing and distribution businesses.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 26 February – 3 March 2024

IT Governance

Affected information includes users’ names, email addresses, IP addresses and encrypted passwords. TB Turtlemint Source (New) Insurance India Yes 1,800,000 Chunghwa Telecom Source (New) Telecoms Taiwan Yes 1.7 The threat actor, KryptonZambie, listed a 5.93