IT Governance

AUGUST 3, 2023

Vishing attempts to con potential victims into surrendering personal information such as passwords, card details and PINs, which can be used for identity theft. However, that software itself contains malware – typically a keylogger that tracks everything that the user types on their machine, such as passwords and other sensitive information.

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The Texas Record

AUGUST 27, 2019

On Friday, August 16, over twenty local government entities in Texas were targeted by a coordinated ransomware attack. This incident is the most recent in a year marked by cyberattacks on state and local governments across the country. In the wake of the attack, Texas local governments have been asking for help.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Employee training is crucial. Training team members regularly with real-life scenarios will help them spot potential threats and protect them from exposing your business. Taking an active role Your cybersecurity policy should address your employees and technology systems. Set access privileges and internal controls.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 24, 2019

One of cyber criminals’ favourite ways of hacking organisations is through brute-force or ‘password spraying’ attacks, which bombard targets with login attempts using lists of common passwords. million people in the UK use ‘123456’ as their password. million are securing their accounts with ‘password’ and 3.8

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2024

Each of us has probably sat through some level of cybersecurity awareness training during our professional lives. Don’t re-use a password across multiple sites. Factor this scenario into your awareness training, and more importantly, ensure that the visibility you have into your environment is not just a collection of logs.

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IT Governance

JUNE 15, 2022

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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IT Governance

MAY 17, 2018

This week, we discuss the exposure of millions of Facebook users’ data, security failings in train passenger networks and Kaspersky Lab’s relocation to Switzerland. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 18 May 2018. Here are this week’s stories.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Both national governments and private organisations have supported the campaign and are running programmes online and in person. The campaign also highlights the benefits of multi-factor authentication, strong passwords and regularly updating software. How IT Governance can help. appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog.

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IT Governance

JULY 4, 2018

After all, technology won’t help you if an employee leaves their password written down for anyone to see or misplaces a removable device. 2) Train your staff : what you teach your staff – and how those lessons are delivered – will depend on what they need to know. How to deliver training. What you should be doing.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

An advert is currently running in which a man gets his password hacked because, the ad implies, he wasn’t using a VPN (virtual private network). The man’s password? Sooner rather than later, someone will guess your password and stumble into a wealth of sensitive information. Are we all so useless? Security vs convenience.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 4, 2024

Security, governance, risk and compliance mechanisms are essential not only for governing AI but also for managing the IT estate running AI, providing evidence for regulatory compliance. An AI+ enterprise also recognizes that alongside the necessary tools, fostering a culture that embraces AI and trains talent is crucial.

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IT Governance

APRIL 4, 2024

This gave them access to names, phone numbers, emails, plaintext passwords, branch locations, confidential messages and shift information for Chattr employees, franchisee managers and job applicants. Passwords and bank details were not affected. The researchers then alerted all affected organisations, sending 842 emails over 13 days.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 7, 2023

The first looks at an alarming rise in phishing scams that impersonate the tech firm, while the second discusses a new security feature that’s designed to protect users from password compromise. One of the ways it does that is by warning people about security threats when they enter their Windows password into websites and documents.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2022

. “AvosLocker is a Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) affiliate-based group that has targeted victims across multiple critical infrastructure sectors in the United States including, but not limited to, the Financial Services, Critical Manufacturing, and Government Facilities sectors. Avoid reusing passwords for multiple accounts.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Other Iranian-based cyberattacks have included hackers targeting Albanian government systems and spear phishing scams. Text message phishing — also known as “smishing” — is when scammers send texts to entice people to transmit personal information, such as passwords or credit card numbers.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 19, 2023

The attackers might also have had access to Norton Password Manager users’ private vault data, which contains stored passwords for other online accounts. However, we strongly believe that an unauthorized third party knows and has utilized your username and password for your account,” NortonLifeLock said.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 7, 2017

This week, we discuss the NCSC’s warning to senior civil servants, the poor password habits of MPs, and a bug in the patch Apple rushed out last week. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 8 December 2017. Here are this week’s stories. This includes espionage, disruption and influence operations.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 1, 2022

The first cyber attack took place through a phishing email or password spray attack where unauthorized third parties gained access to 124 employee accounts and used that access to send a series of phishing emails.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Cybersecurity firm Wiz discovered that the Microsoft AI research division accidentally leaked 38TB of sensitive while publishing a bucket of open-source training data on GitHub. Due to a lack of monitoring and governance, SAS tokens pose a security risk, and their usage should be as limited as possible.”

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Data Protection Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Noticeably, covered entities are now subject to new requirements imposing heightened responsibilities on Chief Information Security Officers (“CISOs”) and more specific and prescriptive requirements in relation to governance, risk assessments, and notifications to the NYDFS.

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IT Governance

MAY 27, 2021

For all the talk of criminal hacking, ransomware infections and the technologies to prevent them, the key to protecting your organisation is cyber security awareness training. Similarly, employees with poor password practices could jeopardise the security of their accounts or the confidentiality of sensitive files.

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Spyware is a highly secretive malware that gathers sensitive information, like usernames, passwords, credit card numbers and other personal data, and transmits it back to the attacker without the victim knowing. Many password attacks use social engineering to trick victims into unwittingly sharing this sensitive data.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 12, 2024

Sample data classification from Proofpoint’s dashboard Train Employees on Their Roles in Data Security To initiate employee data security training, first examine the organization’s particular risk landscape and regulatory requirements. Well-informed employees can better identify and respond to security threats.

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IT Governance

APRIL 19, 2022

Likewise, the new rules further emphasise the importance of strong passwords, mandating that employees’ login credentials be at least 12 characters (or 8 if the organisation’s systems do not permit such long passwords). For those looking to get started, IT Governance is here to help. appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

26 posting confirming that the compromise was at the hands of the same nation-state threat group behind the SolarWinds hack and subsequent attacks on various technology companies and federal government agencies. Attacks like this are unfortunately frequent and even well-intentioned, well-trained, users can fall victim to a clever attack.

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IT Governance

JULY 23, 2019

Staff awareness training. Training courses show staff how security threats affect them and help them apply best-practice advice to real-world situations. One of the benefits of staff awareness training is that it can be conducted online via a third party. Password management. Take phishing , for example.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

However, the code is actually part of Facebook’s password reset mechanism. If the victim shares the code, the fraudster can use it change the victim’s password and take control of their account. This will send the one-time password to the victim’s account.

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IT Governance

JUNE 21, 2023

Use multi-factor authentication In many phishing scams, the attacker’s motive is to capture the victim’s passwords in order to compromise their account. No matter how strong your password is, it will mean nothing if you inadvertently hand it over to scammers.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

A served used by the SunWater statutory Queensland (Australia) Government-owned water supplier was compromised and threat actors remained undetected for nine longs, the annual financial audit report published by the Queensland Audit Office revealed. The compromised server was running an old and flawed version of the software.

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IT Governance

MARCH 7, 2023

Harr pointed to several recent security incidents in which employees were tricked – whether through social engineering or brute-force password breaches – and demonstrated the flaws in existing technical controls. IT Governance offers a range of training options to help you with this, including our Phishing Staff Awareness Training Programme.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 1, 2018

As this service has grown, it's become an endless source of material from which I've drawn upon for conference talks, training and indeed many of my blog posts. And this is precisely why I'm writing this piece - to talk about how I'm assisting the UK and Australian governments with access to data about their own domains.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Stormshield is a major provider of network security products to the French government, some approved to be used on sensitive networks. In response to the intrusion, as a precaution, the Stormshild experts reset the passwords of all accounts and enhanced the security measures to protect the portal. ” continues Stormshield.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2021

In March 2021, government experts observed state sponsored hackers scanning the internet for servers vulnerable to the above flaws, the attackers were probing systems on ports 4443, 8443, and 10443. Attackers were exploiting the flaw in the attempt to access multiple government, commercial, and technology services networks.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Weak passwords. Hackers can crack passwords in a variety of ways: Dictionary attacks : Hackers download a text file containing a list of words (usually from a dictionary) into a cracking application, and run it against user accounts located by the application. Rainbow tables : Most modern systems store passwords in a hash.

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The Texas Record

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

What types of information is your government creating? Where are your government’s offices geographically located? For e.g. If crossing a bridge is the only entry to the site, analyze how your government will access the information if that bridge were to collapse. So, prepare with a short-term and long-term impact in mind.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

This can include: Anti-malware technology; Information security policies; Access controls; Staff awareness training; Data protection impact assessments; Key cards to enter the office; and Locks for cabinets containing sensitive information. This online training course is the ideal way to teach your employees about data protection threats.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

In our latest round-up of phishing scams, we look at a novel Instagram scam that targets victims through their direct messages, review the latest campaign that imitates Microsoft Office’s log-in page and discuss how even a cyber security training provider can fall for a malicious email. Instagram ‘help centre’ scam steals your login details.

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