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Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks Quarterly Review: Q1 2022

IT Governance

Welcome to our first quarterly review of security incidents for 2022, in which we take a closer look at the information gathered in our monthly list of data breaches and cyber attacks. In this article, you’ll find an overview of the cyber security landscape from the past three months, including the latest statistics and our observations.

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Top 12 Cloud Security Best Practices for 2021

eSecurity Planet

From the very beginning of the cloud computing era, security has been the biggest concern among enterprises considering the public cloud. In addition, 95 percent of survey respondents confirmed that they are extremely to moderately concerned about public cloud security. What is cloud security?

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NEW TECH: This free tool can help gauge, manage third-party cyber risk; it’s called ‘VRMMM’

The Last Watchdog

Turn the corner into 2019 and we find Citigroup, CapitalOne, Wells Fargo and HSBC Life Insurance among a host of firms hitting the crisis button after their customers’ records turned up on a database of some 24 million financial and banking documents found parked on an Internet-accessible server — without so much as password protection.

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Types of Malware & Best Malware Protection Practices

eSecurity Planet

Rogue security software. Boost your organization’s IT literacy with ongoing cybersecurity training so they recognize the threats posed by malware attacks. Architect a premium network security model like SASE that encompasses SD-WAN , CASB , secure web gateways , ZTNA , FWaaS , and microsegmentation. RAM scraper.

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List of Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in September 2022 – 35.6 Million Records Breached

IT Governance

Compared to August, it was a comparatively quiet month, as we identified 88 publicly disclosed security incidents and 35,566,046 compromised records. As always, you can find the full list below – although, perhaps for the last time, they are broken down into their respective categories. Ransomware. Data breaches. Cyber attacks.

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IoT Devices a Huge Risk to Enterprises

eSecurity Planet

According to a pair of recent reports from cloud security vendor Zscaler, cybercriminals picked up on this, with the result being a significant surge in malware attacks against these devices. IoT device security has also been the target of a broad federal effort in recent months. ” Most Devices Communicate in Plaintext. .

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Mic Drop: California AG releases long-awaited CCPA Rulemaking

Data Protection Report

The rules also define “Third-party identity verification service” as “a security process offered by an independent third-party who verifies the identity of the consumer making a request to the business.” Article 4 of the proposed rules explicitly allows the business to use a third-party service to verify the consumer’s identity.

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