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Global Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in March 2024 – 299,368,075 Records Breached

IT Governance

This is largely caused by two outlier events: Misconfigured Google Firebase instances , exposing 124,605,664 records across 916 misconfigured websites. To minimise data skewing, we’ve accounted for this by providing two Data Breach Dashboards this month: one including and one excluding the above events.

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New SEC Cybersecurity Rules Could Affect Private Companies Too

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Technical managers that can clearly communicate internally to their own executives and board members may discover additional opportunities opening up after the SEC rules become finalized. Therefore, we should examine each category and consider what the rules fundamentally request. SEC cybersecurity policies preparation.

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List of Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in August 2022 – 97 Million Records Breached

IT Governance

Meanwhile, the bastion of password security, LastPass, announced that its systems had been breached – although the organisation is confident that customers’ details remain secure. You can find the full list of incidents below, broken into their respective categories. Cyber attacks. Ransomware. Data breaches. Financial information.

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How to Develop an Incident Response Plan

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An incident is an event that affects our scope of responsibility, and a response is how we deal with the incident. For IT managers, the scope might expand to encompass physical IT systems and events such as a flooded data center, a lost executive laptop, or squirrels chewing on network cables. Incident Response Execution.

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

IT Governance

As always, you can find the full list of data breaches and cyber attacks below, divided into their respective categories. However, it’s a warning sign for all organisations about the dangers of misconfigured Internet-facing servers. Cyber attacks.

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How To Set Up a Firewall in 8 Easy Steps + Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

Disabling default accounts and changing passwords improve security, as does requiring strong passwords for administrator accounts. To maximize security, thoroughly test configurations, including advanced features such as web category filtering and intrusion prevention, prior to deployment.

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Kali Linux Penetration Testing Tutorial: Step-By-Step Process

eSecurity Planet

Once installed, however, Kali Linux sorts packages by categories, which adds some helpful context and labels. The category usually matches the typical phases of a pentest, like “information gathering” or “post-exploitation,” but also recurrent tasks, such as “password attacks.” Kali Linux is a great place to start.