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OWASP discloses a data breach

Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2024

The OWASP Foundation disclosed a data breach that impacted some members due to a misconfiguration of an old Wiki web server. The OWASP Foundation has disclosed a data breach that impacted some of its members. No joke, we did have a data breach in late March involving the resumes of our earliest members.

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The Risk-Conscious, Security-Aware Culture: The Forgotten Critical Security Control

Cisco Security

JULY 12, 2021

Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) across the Global 2000 and Fortune 1000 are obsessed with protecting the workforce endpoints as critical vulnerabilities in the cybersecurity and risk management posture of their enterprises. Would a risk-conscious, security-aware workforce become a security enabler rather than a security risk?

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Threat actors offer for sale data for 50 millions of Moscow drivers

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 24, 2021

The threat actors claim to have obtained the data from an insider in the local police, they published a sample of database records containing model of the car, its registration and VIN number, date of registration, engine power, name of the owner, date of birth, and phone number. . Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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What Makes This “Data Privacy Day” Different?

Security Boulevard

JANUARY 27, 2025

As we celebrate Data Privacy Day, Bernard Montel, Tenables EMEA Technical Director and Security Strategist, wants to remind us that we live in a digital world and that we need to protect it. With data breaches a daily occurrence, and AI changing the playing field, he urges everyone to do better. Expose critical cloud risks.

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More than half of consumers would consider legal action if their data was compromised during a breach

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Our research has highlighted that 86% of consumers would consider switching to another company if a breach were to occur, with 35% of consumers stating that a data breach under the GDPR would ‘definitely’ give them a negative perception of a company. Gaining and maintaining consumer trust. Respondent breakdown: consumer.

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CSPM vs CWPP vs CIEM vs CNAPP: What’s the Difference?

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 4, 2023

Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM): Best used to effectively manage cloud resource entitlements, reduce access risks, and maintain compliance. Amazon did the same thing for cloud infrastructure (IaaS) with the launch of AWS in 2006, and platform as a service (PaaS) offerings began to appear around the same time.

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Are You the Keymaster?

CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The most recent study revealed that the application of consistent encryption policies by enterprises has steadily increased from just 15% in 2006 to 50% today, with no sign of slowing. Distributed keys often have no clear ownership or consistent management policy, creating risks for organizations. Lose the keys – lose the data.

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Alleged FruitFly malware creator ruled incompetent to stand trial

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 16, 2024

As a member of the club, he competed in a local programming competition, helping the team to win in both 2005 and 2006. We don’t just report on threats—we remove them Cybersecurity risks should never spread beyond a headline. Despite this, he was active in extracurricular activities. In high school, he participated in a computer club.

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What To Know About Privacy Data

Identity IQ

JANUARY 17, 2023

However, before the initiation of this special day, the signing of a treaty to protect personal data in 1981 occurred. As the digital age evolved, in 2006, the Council of Europe declared a Data Protection Day. Later, Data Protection Day was also initiated by the same council.

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Cybersecurity Report: June 29, 2015

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

LOT stated that no ongoing flights or other airport computer systems were affected and the flights already in the air to scheduled to land at Warsaw were at no risk. US to Raise Breach of Government Records at Talks with China. Wikileaks began to publish the files under the heading “Espionnage Elysee” on Tuesday.

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The Essential Guide to Radio Frequency Penetration Testing

Pen Test

OCTOBER 12, 2023

GHz and 5 GHz bands, providing high-speed wireless internet connectivity (Kurkovsky, 2006). Wireless communication is susceptible to diverse security challenges such as eavesdropping, data interception, and unauthorized access (Chen, 2015). For instance, Wi-Fi networks typically operate in the 2.4 H., & Yau, K. Kurkovsky, S.

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US Government Accountability Office Releases New Report On The Internet of Things (IoT)

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

MAY 19, 2017

One sensor called an accelerometer cost an average of $2 in 2006. With these benefits comes potential risk. The GAO report identifies five risk categories presented by the onset of new IoT technology: (1) information security; (2) privacy; (3) safety; (4) standards; and (5) economic issues. Ubiquitous connectivity.

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Google Apps for Education (GAFE) Backup and Security

Spinone

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Google Apps for Education (GAFE) Security G Suite for Education (GSFE) , previously Google Apps for Education (GAFE), was launched in 2006 and now has more than 40 million users worldwide. Google does not show ads on this platform, nor do they scan user data of students, faculties and teachers.

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Creating a Vulnerability Management Program – Patching: Take the Panic out of Patching by Managing CVE Threat Overload

NopSec

JULY 19, 2022

And while cybercrime is ramping up, the number of common vulnerabilities and exposures identified each year has been declining — from 6,610 in 2006 to 4,155 in 2011. Untested patches run the risk of breaking functions within your current systems and causing business disruption. Question: How do you implement a Patch Management process?

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How Banks Can Enhance Security of Office 365 and G Suite

Spinone

JANUARY 27, 2019

PCI-DSS is the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard and is a set of security standards designed to ensure that any organization that accepts, processes, stores, or transmits credit card information maintain a secure environment. One of the worst data breaches in history happened in 2017 with the Equifax data breach.

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Cloud Bucket Vulnerability Management in 2021

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Since 2004, there have been 11,000 US data breaches. These breaches left contact information, account passwords, credit card numbers, private photos, and more exposed. But in the process of adjusting the bucket’s configurations comes the greatest risk to your cloud security. In 2019, One GCP breach of 1.2

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Cyber CEO: The History Of Cybercrime, From 1834 To Present

Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

Gonzales is later involved in a string of hacking crimes, again stealing credit and debit card details, from around 2006 until he is arresting in 2008. 2004 — ChoicePoint — A 41-year-old Nigerian citizen compromises customer data of ChoicePoint, but the company only informs 35,000 people of the breach. million credit cards.

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