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Over a billion records belonging to CVS Health exposed online

Security Affairs

This week WebsitePlanet along with the researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered an unsecured database, belonging to the US healthcare and pharmaceutical giant CVS Health, that was exposed online. The researchers responsible disclosed to CVS Health which promptly secured the archive the same day. Pierluigi Paganini.

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National Safety Council data leak: Credentials of NASA, Tesla, DoJ, Verizon, and 2K others leaked by workplace safety organization

Security Affairs

The vulnerability posed a risk not only to NSC systems but also to the companies using NSC services. Leaked credentials could have been used for credential stuffing attacks, which try to log into companies’ internet-connected tools such as VPN portals, HR management platforms, or corporate emails.

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Google warned users of 33,015 nation-state attacks since January

Security Affairs

The IT giant pointed out that major events like elections and COVID-19 represent opportunities for threat actors. During the last summer, Google observed threat actors from China, Russia, and Iran targeting pharmaceutical companies and researchers involved in the development of a vaccine. . Tbps, the largest DDoS attack of ever. .

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Why You Need to Tune EDR to Secure Your Environment

eSecurity Planet

This allows EDR to deploy very quickly, but it also allows for a number of security vulnerabilities. Here we’ll discuss why EDR vendors choose these configurations, and how organizations can tune their EDR systems to fit their organization and improve security. Also read: 10 Top Active Directory Security Tools.

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New Gimmal Partnership with NNIT Brings Life Science Customers an Accelerated, GxP-Capable Information Governance Solution

Gimmal

The new collaboration is off to a great start with its first successfully completed joint solution delivery for a top, leading global pharmaceutical company. Follow and keep an eye on our Gimmal events page and LinkedIn to get updates.

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Optimizing clinical trial site performance: A focus on three AI capabilities

IBM Big Data Hub

Despite advancements in the pharmaceutical industry and biomedical research, delivering drugs to market is still a complex process with tremendous opportunity for improvement. The ability to seize these advantages is one way that pharmaceutical companies may be able to gain sizable competitive edge.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in November 2020 – 586 million records breached

IT Governance

We recorded 103 cyber security incidents in November, which accounted for 586,771,602 leaked records. The majority of those came from a credential-stuffing attack targeting Spotify and a data leak at the messaging app GO SMS Pro, which you can learn more about below. Here is our complete list of November’s cyber attacks and data breaches.