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Hackers Were Inside Citrix for Five Months

Krebs on Security

The disclosure comes almost a year after Citrix acknowledged that digital intruders had broken in by probing its employee accounts for weak passwords. How would your organization hold up to a password spraying attack? As the Citrix hack shows, if you don’t know you should probably check, and then act on the results accordingly.

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Weekly podcast: Password managers, unpatched vulnerabilities, formjacking and Wendy’s

IT Governance

Hello, and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Thursday, 21 February 2019. The researchers explain that: “All password managers [they] examined sufficiently secured user secrets while in a ‘not running’ state. Each password manager also attempted to scrub secrets from memory. Here are this week’s stories.

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NYDFS Imposes Fine of $5 Million on Carnival for Cybersecurity Breaches

Hunton Privacy

Since Carnival was licensed by the Department to sell insurance in NY State, it was treated as a covered entity under the Cybersecurity Regulation. In addition to the monetary penalty of $5 million, NYDFS also accepted Carnival’s surrender of its insurance producer license; thus, Carnival has ceased selling insurance in New York.

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Top 5 Cyber Security Risks for Businesses

IT Governance

IT Governance identified more than 1,200 publicly disclosed data breaches in 2021 , while another report found that security incidents cost almost £3 million on average. Cyber Essentials is a UK government scheme that outlines five key controls, including patch management, that can prevent up to 80% of cyber attacks. Weak passwords.

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E-Verify’s “SSN Lock” is Nothing of the Sort

Krebs on Security

But KrebsOnSecurity recently discovered that this is not the case with all federal government sites built to help you manage your identity online. After verifying my email address, I was asked to pick a strong password and select a form of multi-factor authentication (MFA).

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A Cyber Insurance Backstop

Schneier on Security

In the first week of January, the pharmaceutical giant Merck quietly settled its years-long lawsuit over whether or not its property and casualty insurers would cover a $700 million claim filed after the devastating NotPetya cyberattack in 2017. The 9/11 attacks cost insurers and reinsurers $47 billion. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

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Connecticut Tightens its Data Breach Notification Laws

Data Protection Report

credit or debit card number, or any financial account number in combination with any required security code, access code or password that would permit access to such financial account. 60-Day Notification Window. Additional Considerations for Businesses.