IT Governance

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Equifax agreed to pay up to $700 million (£561 million) as part of a settlement with the FTC over its 2017 data breach. The Chinese smart home vendor Orvibo leaked more than two billion user logs containing sensitive personal data such as names, email addresses, passwords and locations. Each company is appealing its respective fine.

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Data Matters

AUGUST 19, 2020

The NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation became effective in March 2017 and, beginning on February 15, 2019, required all NYDFS-regulated entities (Covered Entities), including First American, to annually certify compliance with the Regulation. e) and 500.01(g), g), respectively. Background to the NYDFS’s First American Statement of Charges.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Ransomware frequently contains extraction capabilities that can steal critical information like usernames and passwords, so stopping ransomware is serious business. The internet is fraught with peril these days, but nothing strikes more fear into users and IT security pros than the threat of ransomware. Jump to: What is ransomware?

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

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. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The 9/11 attacks cost insurers and reinsurers $47 billion.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Cryptocurrency is a digital currency designed to work as a medium of monetary exchange through transactions on a computer network and is not reliant on any central authority, such as a government or bank, to uphold or maintain it. So what if you accidentally forget the password? For some people, crypto means cryptography.

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KnowBe4

MAY 9, 2023

The payload is a cryptojacking Monero miner. A cryptojacker is bad enough since it will drain power and degrade device performance. This one also carries the potential for compromising sensitive information, particularly credentials, and serving as staging for further attacks. This campaign may be more effective for its routine, innocent look.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 21, 2018

The Industry Cleaned Up a Lot in 2017. I very consciously avoided talking about it publicly at the time (largely because I didn't want to draw attention to it), but particularly around late 2016 and very early 2017, I was quite concerned with the broader genre that is data breach search services.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

ICYMI, Equifax forced to pull offline a huge database of consumer data guarded only by credentials "admin/admin" [link] — briankrebs (@briankrebs) September 13, 2017. Normally account take overs are due to insecure passwords or recovery options, this is definitely something different. Bruce Schneier | @schneierblog.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

government's company of choice when it comes to unlocking mobile devices, is this month telling customers its engineers currently have the ability to get around the security of devices running iOS 11. There's also a credible rumor that Cellebrite's mechanisms only defeat the mechanism that limits the number of password attempts.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 3, 2019

I've also been travelling with family far more so whilst those 140 days equate to 38% of my year, there were 14 days in Hawaii, 10 days at the Aussie snow, 11 days in Texas and 17 days in Canada where I wasn't flying solo. SSW in Sydney: How safe is your #password ?! I love this post. I love the reaction it's had.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 21, 2018

The data included contact information, usernames and encrypted passwords. This short video breaks down the numbers relating to the UK-specific cyber attacks and data breaches of 2017. increase on the 2017 cost of $3.62 Data breaches. It seems like there is another one being reported in the news every week. million, which is a 6.4%

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Students forced to reset passwords after learning platform Naivance hacked (1,343). NordVPN, TorGuard and VikingVPN disclose data breaches dating back to 2017 (unknown). A DDoS gang is extorting business posing as Russian government hackers (unknown). Bradford, PA, government has swift response to ransomware attack (8,305).

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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. Not anymore.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

And Lamb later found evidence that the election-related files he found were all deleted from the server on March 2, 2017. There were PDFs of Election Day passwords that supervisors use to start in elections. Bee: Can you tell me what the password was? It also lead to even more testing of election system devices in other states.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

And Lamb later found evidence that the election-related files he found were all deleted from the server on March 2, 2017. There were PDFs of Election Day passwords that supervisors use to start in elections. Bee: Can you tell me what the password was? It also lead to even more testing of election system devices in other states.

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Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2019

An Australian study later reported that 95% of 8- to 11-year-olds have accessed the Internet in the last month. Don’t share passwords. Young people have access to a nearly infinite pool of content thanks to websites like YouTube and Reddit. How can you restrict what your children watch on YouTube? What Children Do Online.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 20, 2020

And Lamb later found evidence that the election-related files he found were all deleted from the server on March 2, 2017. There were PDFs of Election Day passwords that supervisors use to start in elections. Bee: Can you tell me what the password was? It also lead to even more testing of election system devices in other states.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 10, 2019

This week, we discuss a high-profile German data breach, the top worst passwords of 2018, the resignation of NHS Digital’s CISO, and Microsoft’s latest patches. Hello and welcome to the first IT Governance podcast of 2019 – for Friday, 11 January. The top ten worst passwords of 2018 were, counting down from ten to one: 10.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

Open Raven analyzes data at rest, classifies inventory, and automates data governance as these become critical capabilities for the hybrid infrastructure’s security posture. Series A SenseOn 2017 London, UK 61 $26.4 It uses this data to show a complete narrative of an attack in real-time. Perimeter 81.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2019

Figure 2: password required to view and modify macros on document. The first peculiarity of the malicious document is the protected macro, in fact, when the user tries to read it immediately shows a message box asking for password. Introduction. A copy of the Daily Express’ article published back in February. Technical Analysis.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Economic stimulus checks were targeted. Approximately 30% of phishing web pages were related to Covid-19. In April 2020, Google reported 18 million instances per day of malware and phishing email sent via its Gmail service using Covid-related topics as a lure. Another factor limiting the spread of deepfakes: Scammers don’t need them.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Satori DataSecOps 2021 Private BluBracket Software supply chain 2021 Private Cape Privacy Data security 2021 Private ZecOps Digital forensics 2019 Private SecurityScorecard Risk ratings 2017 Private Carbon Black Security software 2015 Acquired: VMware AVG Antivirus software 2015 Acquired: Avast. Accel Investments.

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