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

IT Governance

KG Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Manufacturing Germany Yes 1.1 TB Halara Cannabis Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes >1,000,000 Proax Technologies Ltd. Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Manufacturing USA Yes 735 Osteopathic Healing Hands Source (New) Healthcare USA Yes 707 Marathon Coach, Inc.

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How ‘digital transformation’ gave birth to a new breed of criminal: ‘machine-identity thieves’

The Last Watchdog

However, these fraudsters don’t really care about snatching up your credentials or mine. By now, your personal information and mine has been hacked multiple times and is readily on sale in the Dark Web. He then altered manufacturing production codes and pilfered copies of sensitive business data.

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Data monetization: driving the new competitive edge in retail

CGI

European retailers Carrefour and Fnac-Darty are exploring data-focused alliances with Google, while Intermarché is teaming with Microsoft, to name a few examples. Retailers have the opportunity to learn from the expertise of organizations that have built much of their success on data mining. Achieving next-level personalization.

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Malvertising Campaign Targets IoT Devices: GeoEdge

eSecurity Planet

Siev also couldn’t say exactly what the attackers were looking for or how they were manipulating the devices but did say that generally bad actors target IoT devices to either steal personal information or money like credit card numbers and to manipulate home systems like gates, safes and door locks. IoT a Security Concern.

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

The year started with the revelation of Spectre and Meltdown – major security flaws affecting processors manufactured by Intel, ARM and AMD. that the crooks were only able to mine a paltry $24 – which Coinhive refused to pay out anyway. Dixons Carphone admitted suffering a major data breach in July 2017, involving 5.9

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

IT Governance

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Compromised information includes patients’ personal data, health and medical records, financial data, internal emails and software source code. Data breached: 5 TB.

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How to Track Your Kids (and Other People's Kids) With the TicTocTrack Watch

Troy Hunt

Referencing that report, US Consumer groups drew a similar conclusion : US consumer groups are now warning parents not to buy the devices The manufacturers fixed the identified flaws. Wearco produces "mining consumables". Cellnet is a publicly listed company with a heap of different brands.

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