IT Governance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Although there have still been a few surprises, with the death of Queen Elizabeth II and blazing heatwaves across the UK to name but two, it was a familiar year in the cyber security landscape. Cyber criminals continued to wreak havoc, with the likes of Twitter , Uber and Neopets all reporting mammoth data breaches.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 25, 2020

Establishments and companies in the UK will therefore be responsible for the additional collection and potential sharing of customers’ personal data. Any entity engaging in this kind of data collection will need to comply with the requirements of data protection law.

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Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 31, 2021

The SEC’s order alleges that on March 21, 2019, Pearson learned of a 2018 cyber intrusion that affected data stored on the server for one of its web-based software products. The SEC’s order also alleged that the media statement omitted the fact that millions of rows of student data were breached. “As On August 16, 2021, the U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 8, 2021

consumers a smidgen more control over their personal data while online. I asked Elizabeth Rogers, a privacy and data security partner at the law firm of Michael Best & Friedrich , about this. Roger is formerly Chief Privacy Officer for the state of Texas, the first person to hold that post.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

The CarsBlues attack leverages security flaws in the infotainment systems installed in several types of vehicles via Bluetooth to access user PII. The CarsBlues attack leverages security flaws in the infotainment systems installed in several types of vehicles via Bluetooth, it affects users who have synced their smartphone to their cars.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 7, 2023

But with a proactive approach to data security, organizations can fight back against the seemingly endless waves of threats. IBM Security X-Force found the most common threat on organizations is extortion, which comprised more than a quarter (27%) of all cybersecurity threats in 2022. Where do data breaches originate?

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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.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

There were a massive 99 data breaches and cyber attacks in August, making it the third-biggest monthly total of the year by number of security incidents. The true figure, as always, will be higher than this – in part because organisations rarely disclose how many records were involved in security incidents. Cyber attacks.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2018 from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has revealed that only 38% of businesses and 44% of charities have heard of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The industries with the least awareness were construction (25%) and production and manufacturing (27%).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2021

Interestingly, close to a half of all affected victims by Prometheus – paid ransom payment or their data has been sold to other parties interested in it. According to Resecurity, at the early stage of activity the group leveraged Sonar, a secure data transfer tool deployed in Tor network providing API ( [link] ).

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Among those that have started to prepare: 36% of businesses and charities have changed their cyber security practices; 21% of businesses and 10% of charities have invested in additional staff training; and. The finance and insurance (79%), information or communications (67%) and education (52%) sectors have the highest awareness of the GDPR.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Our research has highlighted that 86% of consumers would consider switching to another company if a breach were to occur, with 35% of consumers stating that a data breach under the GDPR would ‘definitely’ give them a negative perception of a company. Manufacturing & Utilities. The cost to business. A view from the C-Suite.

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IT Governance

MARCH 11, 2024

Glosbe dictionary exposes almost 7 million records The multilingual online dictionary Glosbe left a MongoDB instance unsecured last year, exposing nearly 7 million users’ information, including personal data, encrypted passwords and social media identifiers. Organisation(s) Sector Location Data breached? TB Paysign, Inc.

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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. million customers’ data.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 7, 2023

To cut to the chase before we get into the details: AI will make security worse before it makes it significantly better, but at the cost of a lot of jobs. Security is the biggest challenge facing IT, and expect that to get worse in the near term. The same goes for security. Read on for the full implications of all this.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Researchers from the German cyber security company Aplite discovered 3,806 servers from 111 countries accessible on the Internet. Compromised information includes patients’ personal data, health and medical records, financial data, internal emails and software source code. Data breached: 5 TB.

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IT Governance

MARCH 5, 2024

Known data breached Pure Incubation Ventures Source (New) Professional services USA Yes 183,754,481 EasyPark Source 1 ; source 2 ; source 3 (Update) Software Sweden Yes 21,100,000 Cutout.Pro Source (New) Software Hong Kong Yes 19,972,829 Optum Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Healthcare USA Yes 6 TB Kumagai Gumi Group Co.,

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IT Governance

JANUARY 3, 2024

Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Unprotected Real Estate Wealth Network database exposes more than 1.5 billion records The security researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered an unprotected database exposing more than 1.5 billion records containing property ownership data related to millions of people.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 30, 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: 2 PB. Compromised data includes victims’ names, addresses, phone numbers and Aadhaar numbers (a 12-digit government identification number).

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Data Privacy Retail Privacy Manufacturing 52

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 16, 2021

What Are the Cyber Security Trends Around the World? Enterprises have massively adopted multiple cloud platforms, moving data, applications and services outside the traditional corporate perimeter. In the UK, four out of ten businesses (40%) and 25% of charities report having cyber security breaches or attacks in 2020.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 14, 2021

During the week of October 4, 2021, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law bills amending the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (“CPRA”), California’s data breach notification law and California’s data security law. Genetic Data: California Data Breach Notification and Data Security Law Amendment Bill.

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IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2020

Entertainment law firm GSM&S hacked, exposing celebrities’ personal info (unknown). US Marshals Service says personal data of current and former prisoners was stolen (387,000). Indonesia probes breach of data on more than two million voters (2.3 Online education site EduCBA discloses data breach after hack (unknown).

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The education sector accounted for 20 of the 102 publicly disclosed incidents listed this month – with the majority being ransomware. September saw students around the globe returning to classes, only to be met with an avalanche of cyber attacks. Indeed, ransomware was the most common threat across all sectors.

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IT Governance

MARCH 1, 2021

The cyber security industry was rocked in February after a ransomware attack against the Cloud service provider Accellion. Dozens of organisations that used the software reported incidents in one of the worst months we’ve ever recorded. We found 118 publicly recorded incidents, of which 43 were ransomware attacks.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 19, 2023

An investigation determined that personal data, including names, addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, dates of birth and bank account numbers, belonging to nearly 15 million people was obtained by an unauthorised party between 30 October and 1 November. The data belonged to nearly 7 million individuals.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The new year comes with the promise of fresh beginnings and the promise to revolve the bad habits of our past, but we’ve had no such luck in the cyber security sector. Our research discovered 104 publicly disclosed security incidents, which accounted for 277,618,767 leaked records.

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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2020

US DoJ charged two Chinese hackers working with China’s Ministry of State Security with hacking into computer systems of government organizations and companies worldwide. The post US DoJ charged two Chinese hackers working with MSS appeared first on Security Affairs. Hong Kong and China). ” concludes the DoJ. .”

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

to discuss The Internet of Things: Privacy & Security in a Connected World. Chairwoman Ramirez raised three key issues for workshop participants to consider: The Internet of Things will result in increased data collection, amplifying the importance of simplifying choices and giving control to individuals with just-in-time notices.

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