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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Internet As A Pen Test

ForAllSecure

Small to Medium Business are, today, the target of APTs and ransomware. Chris Gray of Deep Watch talks about the view from the inside of a virtual SOC, the ability to see threats against a large number of SMB organizations, and the changes to cyber insurance we’re seeing as a result. VAMOSI: Cybersecurity insurance.

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SHARED INTEL: Study shows mismanagement of ‘machine identities’ triggers $52 billion in losses

The Last Watchdog

Now comes a study from Boston-based consultancy Air Worldwide that puts some hard numbers on the degree to which threat actors are plundering virtual machines. According to the study, poor management of machine identities leads directly to an estimated $52 billion to $72 billion in losses annually. LW: This isn’t theoretical is it?

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FTC Hosts Workshop on Informational Injury

Hunton Privacy

Panelists called on the FTC to take a number of measures to further study these informational risks and injuries, including studying different types of identity theft distinctly and not limiting this to one general topic, and writing reports on substantive harms that have meaningful impacts on people’s lives and the potential solutions.

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The Weeks in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 18 – 31 December 2023

IT Governance

TB exfiltrated Comcast Cable Communications, LLC (Xfinity) Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Telecoms USA Yes 35,879,455 Tecnoquadri Srl Source (New) Manufacturing Italy Yes 33,000,000 Asia Insurance Co.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in May 2021 – 116 million records breached

IT Governance

For the second month in a row, ransomware has dominated our list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Of the 128 publicly disclosed incidents that we discovered in May, more than 40% of them were ransomware attacks. Ransomware. Ransomware. Cyber attacks. Data breaches. Financial information. In other news…. Cyber attacks.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 December 2023

IT Governance

suffers second ransomware attack in months Having been struck by a ransomware attack in October by the BlackSuit group , which led to operations and appointments being postponed, Akumin Inc. has suffered a second attack, this time by the BianLian ransomware group. Source (New) Retail USA Yes 2,469 Three GreatStar Industrial Co.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 1 – 7 April 2024

IT Governance

Other databases contained health insurance data, such as patents’ names, dates of birth, addresses and medical data. EyeCare Services Partners exposes more 3.5 The biggest database in the blob contained 3.1 million patients and 1.6 million unique Social Security numbers. Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes 1.1