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U.S. Charges 4 Chinese Military Officers in 2017 Equifax Hack

Krebs on Security

Justice Department today unsealed indictments against four Chinese officers of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) accused of perpetrating the 2017 hack against consumer credit bureau Equifax that led to the theft of personal data on nearly 150 million Americans. commercial and government interests.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in March 2020 – 832 million records breached

IT Governance

Randleman Eye Center says some files were encrypted in cyber attack (unknown). Medical and military contractor Kimchuk hit by ransomware (unknown). Data breaches. Nursing home probed after leaving disabled patients’ data on street (36). Millions of Brazilians’ data leaked after being stored in unprotected database (81.5

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 450 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Security Affairs

CISA and ENISA enhance their Cooperation CISA adds Qlik bugs to exploited vulnerabilities catalog Report: 2.6 CISA and ENISA enhance their Cooperation CISA adds Qlik bugs to exploited vulnerabilities catalog Report: 2.6

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List of Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in October 2022 – 9.9 Million Records Breached

IT Governance

By contrast, comparatively little personal data was breached, with our figures confirming that at least 9,990,855 records were compromised. If you’re facing a cyber security disaster, IT Governance is here to help. Cyber attacks.

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How to Ensure Your Digital Security During the Rugby World Cup

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

First, it said that it would invest in cultivating military assets in the digital space, as reported by the Organization for World Peace. Second, Japan announced that the government-backed National Institute of Information and Communications Technology would conduct a national scan of Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

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2022 Cyber Security Review of the Year

IT Governance

You can see more incidents from January in our list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Tensions rose throughout February as the Russian military amassed across the Ukrainian border. Articles 24(1) and 32(1) state that organisations must implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect personal data.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 March 2024

IT Governance

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. Glosbe did not reply, but the open instance was soon closed.