IT Governance

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

For more details on the first core requirement, risk management, see our interview with Andrew Pattison, head of GRC [governance, risk and compliance] consultancy Europe, from two weeks ago. For DDoS [distributed denial-of-service] attacks, for example, it faced over 30% of attacks, making it the second-most attacked sector.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

A prime example is the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) cybersecurity frameworks , a comprehensive cyber hygiene roadmap applicable to businesses of all sizes and in all industries The trouble is the NIST guidelines are voluntary. The practices of government contractors typically get adapted universally, over time.

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Data Matters

APRIL 10, 2020

The AG’s revised March 2020 proposed regulations provide an example of how a business may respond to a request to know that may include biometric information. For example, in the March proposed regulations, the AG did not offer guidance on the protection of trade secrets or procedures to standardize “household” requests.

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Data Matters

JUNE 29, 2018

Publicly available” is narrowly defined in AB 375 to mean essentially only records of federal, state or local government that is used in a manner compatible with the purpose for which the records are maintained. Businesses cannot discriminate against consumers who exercise any of their rights under AB 375.

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Data Matters

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The regulations lay out a number of general principles to govern verification responsibilities. Verification for Password-Protected Accounts (§ 998.324). Require businesses that provide financial incentives for different types of products or services based on the value of the consumer’s information (e.g., General Rules (§ 998.323).

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The stakes are even higher for businesses, government and other organizations, as successful attacks can be devastating to operations and sensitive data. Exercise Caution with Emails The first two items on this list could be lumped together with a single warning: Don’t click.

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Data Matters

JUNE 29, 2018

Publicly available” is narrowly defined in AB 375 to mean essentially only records of federal, state or local government that is used in a manner compatible with the purpose for which the records are maintained. Businesses cannot discriminate against consumers who exercise any of their rights under AB 375.

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Data Protection Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

As Singapore moves towards living with COVID-19 as an endemic disease, the Government has issued guidance for employers on the COVID-19 measures to be implemented at the workplace. Enable lock screen when the device is not in use, and use password or biometric protection for device login.

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IT Governance

APRIL 1, 2020

Houseparty was quick to deny these allegations, tweeting that its service is secure: All Houseparty accounts are safe – the service is secure, has never been compromised, and doesn’t collect passwords for other sites. Houseparty (@houseparty) March 30, 2020.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

Passwords are everywhere, but they probably weren't intended to be used as much as they are today. Maybe you are at an organization that requires you to change your passwords every 90 days or so, and so you have password fatigue -- there are only so many variations you can do every 90 days or so. I must have the password.

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Data Matters

OCTOBER 22, 2019

In such circumstances, however, before selling the information in question, a business must either give the consumer an opportunity to opt out or obtain a “signed attestation” from the entity that collected the personal information stating that it provided notice at the point of collection to the consumer and include an example of the notice.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 13, 2022

Whether you think the exercise is a waste of money (or perhaps even an ecological issue ) or harmless fun, one thing is for sure: NFTs demonstrate the vulnerability of owning digital assets. Those sites lure people into entering their usernames and passwords, thinking they are logging in to the legitimate sites. million (about £1.5

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Data Protection Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

While these Mirai-based attacks were successful in creating extensive outages, the method for gaining control over the IoT devices was relatively straightforward—it relied on using weak or default passwords on these devices. Negotiating/Reviewing Contractual Liability. DDoS Mitigation. Further Investigation.

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KnowBe4

JULY 5, 2023

Use PasswordIQ to find which users are sharing passwords and which ones have weak passwords See the fully automated user provisioning and onboarding Find out how 60,000+ organizations have mobilized their end-users as their human firewall. Government. KnowBe4 Mobile Learner App - Users can now train anytime, anywhere!

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 4, 2017

In this case, that secret is her password and, well, just read it: My staff log onto my computer on my desk with my login everyday. To be fair to Nadine, she's certainly not the only one handing her password out to other people. In fact I often forget my password and have to ask my staff what it is. No one else has access.

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Passwords Access Risk Security 81

IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

You’ll also receive exam preparation exercises designed to ensure that you pass the exam at the first attempt. IT Governance is approved by CompTIA through the CompTIA Authorized Partner Program to provide the best instructor-led exam preparation experience. However, more advanced tests may involve attacks on physical security.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 9, 2024

Common compliance standards include GDPR, which governs data processing for EU members; PCI DSS, which guarantees safe credit card transactions; and NIST 800-53 for IT risk management. Social engineering, for example, is a threat that makes use of human vulnerabilities for illegal access.

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Security Compliance Cybersecurity Communications 89

Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

Collection #1 is a set of email addresses and passwords totalling 2,692,818,238 rows. In total, there are 1,160,253,228 unique combinations of email addresses and passwords. This is when treating the password as case sensitive but the email address as not case sensitive. There are 21,222,975 unique passwords. It'll be 99.x%

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

JUNE 17, 2019

Hong Kong’s past reforms to the PDPO have been “event driven”, the best example being the Octopus Rewards case in 2010, which led to extensive reforms to Hong Kong’s direct marketing controls. Customer passwords used to access profiles were not compromised through the attacks. When and how did the attacks begin?

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

These controls include: Active Directory (AD): Manages users, groups, and passwords as a fundamental access control for an organization and the basis for most other security tools. Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) tools help to prioritize the most valuable or the most damaging data and systems for additional layers of protection.

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Security Cloud Cybersecurity Risk 93

Data Protection Report

OCTOBER 11, 2019

For example, “Household” is defined as “a person or group of people occupying a single dwelling” (999.301(h)). The rules are not final. The Attorney General will hold public hearings in four California cities during the first week of December to hear comments. 999.305(d)).

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IT Governance

MAY 20, 2019

The most frequent examples of cyber attacks include phishing emails (which are designed to steal information), brute-force attacks (in which crooks use automated software to crack an employee’s password) and ransomware (which locks down an organisation’s system until a fee is paid). Table-top exercise. Cyber attacks.

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Data Matters

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The regulations flatly prohibit businesses from disclosing a consumer’s social security number, driver’s license number or government issued ID number, financial account number, health insurance or medical identification number, account password, or security questions and answers in response to right to know requests.

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Troy Hunt

AUGUST 7, 2020

I was reminded of this just yesterday when my friend from Cloudflare, Junade Ali, posted this: Now @LastPass has added breached password notifications using the k-Anonymity API design by me and @troyhunt - joining @1Password , Okta PassProtect, Apple, Google, etc. Visual Studio Code, for example, is open source.

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Preservica

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

The preservation of legacy information from a Lotus Notes Database, often during an application de-commissioning process, is one of the most complex examples and compromises have to be made to manage the process smoothly. A Lotus Notes Database is in some ways similar to the Office 365 example discussed in an earlier blog.

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Data Matters

MAY 17, 2022

Attorney General described a recent takedown of a Russian government-sponsored botnet called Cyclops Blink before it was weaponized and caused damage. and foreign government agencies. government reported a significant rise in hacks perpetrated against private companies by nation-state-sponsored threat actors. Agency (Feb.

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KnowBe4

JUNE 15, 2019

Emails requesting password resets for social media accounts, online banking, you name it. For example, attackers will craft emails to look like bank alerts hoping the targets will be tricked into giving up credentials on a fake login page. Examples of these include HR@companyXYZ, or payroll@companyXYZ. Tax-related W-2 requests.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2022

You're really looking at a government agency from some some country who's politically motivated and who can afford to put the money and the time into building a threat like this and who has the insider information from a uranium enrichment facility that would facilitate building a threat? So far, the impact on gas prices has been small.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

That, of course, was not all, but it is an example of how someone -- anyone on the internet -- can take a photo or blog post or Yelp review from social media, or some other seemingly random open source item and tie it back to a crime. You had to figure out how to configure Kermit, get passwords to get on. Daniel provides an example.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

And just a side-note before I jump into those fundamentals: I had a quick flick through the government's eSafety guidance for children under 5 whilst on the plane and it has a bunch of really good stuff. For example, my son teaching kids to code in London a couple of weeks ago: Teaching kids to code at #NDCLondon with @CodeCombat.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Cerf has chaired, formed, and participated in countless working groups, governing bodies, and scientific, technological, and academic organizations. I want to ask you to reflect on what you think the Internet’s greatest impact has been on democracy and how we govern ourselves? These are startling inventions.

Artificial Intelligence 69

Artificial Intelligence Computer and Electronics IT Risk 69

Troy Hunt

JUNE 10, 2019

Increasingly, I was writing about what I thought was a pretty fascinating segment of the infosec industry; password reuse across Gawker and Twitter resulting in a breach of the former sending Acai berry spam via the latter. And while I'm on Sony, the prevalence with which their users applied the same password to their Yahoo!

Data breaches 111

Data breaches Passwords IT Mining 111

Troy Hunt

MARCH 2, 2020

For example, I was regularly asked if I'd ever received any legal threats which is apparently pretty normal for any M&A process, but you can imagine why it'd be particularly interesting when dealing with a heap of data originally obtained via illegal methods. of the company.

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