IT Governance

APRIL 22, 2024

Compromised data includes names, passport numbers, Social Security numbers, online crypto account identifiers and bank account numbers. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Criminal hackers threaten to leak World-Check screening database A criminal group known as GhostR claims to have stolen 5.3

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Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Security 52

IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Ransomware. Police investigate after ransomware found on Sherman School, CT, systems (unknown). Flagstaff, AZ, school district hit by ransomware (unknown). Thousands of Linux servers infected with new Lilocked ransomware (unknown). Utah-based Premier Family Medical notifies patients of ransomware attack (320,000).

Data breaches 22

Data breaches Ransomware Personal data Military 22

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Until recently, I was fairly active on Twitter , regularly tweeting to more than 350,000 followers about important security news and stories here. Ransomware group Conti chimes in shortly after the invasion, vowing to attack anyone who tries to stand in Mother Russia’s way.

Passwords 220

Passwords Ransomware Computer and Electronics Encryption 220

IT Governance

APRIL 9, 2024

Kid Security breached again: children’s live GPS locations exposed on the Internet Last November , the parental control app Kid Security, which allows parents to monitor and control their children’s online safety, was found to have exposed more than 300 million records via misconfigured Elasticsearch and Logstash instances.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Security Manufacturing 52

ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

Small to Medium Business are, today, the target of APTs and ransomware. A lot of SMBs do not have security operations centers or SOCs. They have IT contractors who can provision laptops and maintain a certain level of compliance and security. They can provide that additional security, remotely. GRAY: Absolutely.

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Insurance Privacy Ransomware GDPR 40

IT Governance

JANUARY 23, 2024

Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight More than 70 million email addresses added to Have I Been Pwned The security researcher Troy Hunt has added more than 70 million email addresses from the Naz.API data set to his Have I Been Pwned data breach notification service. VF Corporation confirms 35.5

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Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Retail 52

IT Governance

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Compared to August, it was a comparatively quiet month, as we identified 88 publicly disclosed security incidents and 35,566,046 compromised records. Ransomware. Welcome to our September 2022 list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Cyber attacks. Data breaches. Malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents. Cyber attacks.

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Data breaches Ransomware Education Phishing 143

IT Governance

MAY 4, 2021

It was another busy month in the cyber security sector, as we discovered 143 incidents that resulted in 1,098,897,134 breached records. Ransomware was again one of the biggest contributors to that total, accounting for almost one in three data breaches. Ransomware. discloses security incident (unknown) St. Ransomware.

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Data breaches Ransomware Computer and Electronics Healthcare 115

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

According to Group-IB’s experts, the most frustrating trend of 2019 was the use of cyberweapons in military operations. While 2017 was the year of WannaCry , NotPetya , and BadRabbit ransomware epidemics, 2018 revealed a lack of preparedness for side-channel attacks and threats related to microprocessor vulnerabilities.

IT 86

IT Military Cybersecurity Phishing 86

ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

Microsoft, for example, stopped patching Windows XP for security vulnerabilities in 2014. I’m Robert Vamosi and this episode about best practices in information security, and how critical life services, in particular, remain at risk today -- in the middle of a global pandemic. Especially in the world of security standards.

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IT Manufacturing Government Paper 52

ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

Microsoft, for example, stopped patching Windows XP for security vulnerabilities in 2014. I’m Robert Vamosi and this episode about best practices in information security, and how critical life services, in particular, remain at risk today -- in the middle of a global pandemic. Especially in the world of security standards.

IT 52

IT Manufacturing Government Paper 52

KnowBe4

MARCH 7, 2023

This is an excellent article that exposes the vulnerabilities when communications systems are not secure by design. They started out with: "As Putin began his invasion of Ukraine, a network used throughout Europe—and by the Ukrainian military—faced an unprecedented cyberattack that doubled as an industrywide wake-up call. government.

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Phishing Ransomware Cybersecurity Security awareness 74

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The most severe financial damage has occurred as a result of ransomware activity. Group-IB: The ransomware plague cost the world over $1 billion. Group-IB: The ransomware plague cost the world over $1 billion. Late 2019 and all of 2020 were marked by an unprecedented surge in ransomware attacks.

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Ransomware Phishing Sales Manufacturing 133