IT Governance

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This week, we’re taking a slightly different approach with the ‘publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks’ category, presenting the most interesting data points in a table format. This should make it easier for you to quickly find the information you want. We’ve also included more details on the top 3 biggest breaches of the week.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Energy and Utilities Data breaches 52

Info Source

MARCH 31, 2023

Over the past year, Libraries and Archiving, Education, Mining, Media Companies, and Agriculture have also demonstrated noteworthy progress towards adopting digitalisation, resulting in increased scanning needs. These devices are primarily marketed in retail settings or for use in home offices.

Marketing 52

Marketing Sales Agriculture Mining 52

Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 22, 2019

The report contains lots of facts and figures relevant to crypto policy debates, including the chaotic nature of crypto markets in the mid-1990s, the number of approved devices and libraries of various kinds since then, other standards that invoke AES, and so on. There's a lot to argue with about the methodology and the assumptions.

Encryption 47

Encryption Agriculture Retail Manufacturing 47

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. The Sainsbury Archive is undertaking a large-scale digitisation project which prompted the team to examine its digital preservation strategy. About The Sainsbury Archive.

Archiving 45

Archiving Digital preservation Cloud Retail 45

IT Governance

APRIL 22, 2024

Mobile Guardian, which is used to help parents manage their children’s device usage, was hacked on 19 April, according to the Singaporean Ministry of Education. Compromised data includes names, passport numbers, Social Security numbers, online crypto account identifiers and bank account numbers. Data breached: 5,300,000 records.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Security 52

IT Governance

JANUARY 3, 2024

GB Bladen County Public Library Source (New) Public USA Yes 85 GB National Amusements Source (New) Leisure USA Yes 82,128 Enstar Group Limited Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Insurance USA Yes 71,301 Kimco Staffing Services, Inc. Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes >400 GB Hafez Insurance Co.

Data Privacy 107

Data Privacy Insurance Manufacturing Retail 107

Troy Hunt

AUGUST 5, 2021

And without doubt, the best educational technology thing I've ever brought home is my Prusa 3D printer. Once it was done, the kids took to it like ducks to water: My @Prusa3D printer is the best educational device I’ve ever bought. And it did, which has been particularly useful when performing later maintenance.

Education 28

Education Retail IT Libraries 28

ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Machine learning algorithms are already being used in transportation to ease road congestion, in healthcare to spot medical errors and improve patient care and in retail to improve the customer shopping experience. Advances in the use of polymers revolutionized everything from food packaging to electronics, telecommunication and medicine.

Security 52

Security Artificial Intelligence Computer and Electronics Libraries 52

ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Machine learning algorithms are already being used in transportation to ease road congestion, in healthcare to spot medical errors and improve patient care and in retail to improve the customer shopping experience. Advances in the use of polymers revolutionized everything from food packaging to electronics, telecommunication and medicine.

Security 40

Security Artificial Intelligence Computer and Electronics Libraries 40

ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Machine learning algorithms are already being used in transportation to ease road congestion, in healthcare to spot medical errors and improve patient care and in retail to improve the customer shopping experience. Advances in the use of polymers revolutionized everything from food packaging to electronics, telecommunication and medicine.

Security 40

Security Artificial Intelligence Computer and Electronics Libraries 40

IT Governance

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Welcome to our September 2022 list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Compared to August, it was a comparatively quiet month, as we identified 88 publicly disclosed security incidents and 35,566,046 compromised records. However, we’d like to know more about how our readers use this data, and what you’d like to see in this list in the future.

Data breaches 143

Data breaches Ransomware Education Phishing 143

ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

Well, unlike large organizations, small to medium businesses lack the full accompaniment of network defenses. So they’re often unprepared when a nation state APT choses to focus on them. A lot of SMBs do not have security operations centers or SOCs. I’ve spoken about this before, about managed service providers or MSPs.

Insurance 40

Insurance Privacy Ransomware GDPR 40

IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Visual modeling: Combine visual data science with open source libraries and notebook-based interfaces on a unified data and AI studio. .” Of this, PwC estimates that “USD 6.6 trillion is likely to come from increased productivity, and USD 9.1 trillion is likely to come from consumption-side effects.” trillion in value.

Data science 76

Data science Manufacturing Artificial Intelligence Retail 76

IT Governance

MAY 4, 2021

It was another busy month in the cyber security sector, as we discovered 143 incidents that resulted in 1,098,897,134 breached records. Ransomware was again one of the biggest contributors to that total, accounting for almost one in three data breaches. The report takes the information collected in these lists and summarises our findings.

Data breaches 115

Data breaches Ransomware Computer and Electronics Healthcare 115

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

User education is one of the most powerful tools for preventing malicious mobile apps. Malware, short for “malicious software,” is any unwanted software on your computer that, more often than not, is designed to inflict damage. Since the early days of computing, a wide range of malware types with varying functions have emerged.

Phishing 104

Phishing Ransomware Passwords Access 104

CILIP

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Take action with your library this Libraries Week. This Libraries Week (4-10 October 2021) libraries across the UK showcase their vital role in supporting active and engaged communities as we celebrate the transformative impact libraries can have on people?s s much-loved libraries.

Libraries 52

Libraries Retail Sales Education 52

IT Governance

DECEMBER 19, 2023

GB City of Defiance Source (New) Public USA Yes >390 GB Dafiti Argentina Source (New) Retail Argentina Yes 321.63 GB City of Defiance Source (New) Public USA Yes >390 GB Dafiti Argentina Source (New) Retail Argentina Yes 321.63 Data breached: personal data belonging to 14,690,284 individuals. Source (New) Finance USA Yes 1.1

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Energy and Utilities 52