CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 17, 2021

Pearson, a London based e-textbook publishing firm that supplies software to Schools and Universities has been slapped with a fine of $1 million for misleading investors about a 2018 data breach that witnessed siphoning of millions of student records by hackers.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Yesterday, I wrote the first part of this 5-part series on fixing data breaches and I focused on education. The next few parts of this series all focus on cures - how do we fix data breaches once bad code has already been written or bad server configurations deployed? Best of all, it's about prevention rather than cure.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Since those early days, we’ve had several warnings about how submitting your genetic data can go sideways. In 2018, MyHeritage suffered a security incident which exposed the email addresses and hashed passwords of 92 million users. Data breaches happen to the best companies. I honestly hope they’re right.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Launched in 2018 under the name Firefox Monitor , Mozilla Monitor also checks data from the website Have I Been Pwned? to let users know when their email addresses or password are leaked in data breaches. Mozilla offers Onerep to Firefox users on a subscription basis as part of Mozilla Monitor Plus.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 20, 2020

To help mitigate the risk of financial losses, more companies are turning to cyber insurance. These risks are normally not covered by a general liability policy, which includes coverage only for injuries and property damage. Lopez Olson What’s more, cyberattacks are one of the risks that can cripple your business the most.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Now headlines about ransomware, cyberattacks and data breaches pour into social media feeds at a steady drumbeat. SecureWorld now takes a look at some of the largest data breaches to ever occur. Top 10 most significant data breaches. Yahoo data breach (2013). Equifax data breach (2017).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The sales intelligence firm Apollo is the last victim of a massive data breach that exposed more than 200 million contact records. Apollo collects a lot of its information from public sources, including names, email addresses, and company contact information, it also gathers data by scraping Twitter and LinkedIn.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Data Breach: WizCase team uncovered a massive data leak containing private information about Turkish Citizens through a misconfigured Amazon S3 bucket. Inova is an actuarial consultancy company, which means they compile statistical analysis and calculate insurance risks and premiums. How Did the Data Breach Happen?

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 3, 2018

banks issue credit cards to their account holders, said a Web site misconfiguration exposed the names, addresses, dates of birth and Social Security numbers of thousands of people who applied for cards between early March 2017 and mid-July 2018. TCM said it learned of the issue on July 16, 2018, and had the problem fixed by the following day.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

With this penalty, regulators are sending a strong message that inadequate data protections, especially in international transfers, will not be tolerated. The General Data Protection Regulation ( GDPR ), enacted in 2018, has set a new standard for data privacy across the European Union (EU).

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Dark Reading

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Hacking by external actors caused most breaches, but Web intrusions and exposures compromised more records, according to Risk Based Security.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 31, 2021

Organizations around the world must fulfill an increasing number of regulatory requirements including NIST, Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as well as federal and state data breach laws.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2023

Bad news for T-Mobile, the company disclosed a new data breach that resulted in the theft of data belonging to 37 customer accounts. T-Mobile suffered a new data breach, threat actor stole the personal information of 37 million current postpaid and prepaid customer accounts.

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Daniel Miessler

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

They were in 2018—and they still are—but pointing this out always raised the same challenge: Fine, but we have to do something. is the transition from external security checks to internal risk analysis. Let’s add more detail to what we are proposing with Vendor Risk 2.0. Perform Risk Assessment Analysis.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 21, 2018

That harm extends all the way from those in data breaches feeling a sense of personal violation (that's certainly how I feel when I see my personal information exposed), all the way through to people literally killing themselves (there are many documented examples of this in the wake of the Ashley Madison breach).

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2019

The culprit: lax practices of a third-party data and analytics contractor. Related: Atrium Health breach highlights third-party risks. Third-party cyber risks are likely to persist at the current scale for a while longer. There is impetus for change – beyond the fear of sustaining a major data breach.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2018

According to a report from cyber threat intelligence firm Risk Based Security some 2.6. billion data records have been exposed in data breached in the first half of 2018. billion data records have been exposed in the first half of 2018. 2018 has been a curious year. billion records. The post 2.6

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Businesses that had never even considered letting their teams work from home were suddenly thrust into a sink or swim environment where they simply had to make it work or risk stalling their operations. The post How to manage the security risk of remote working appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 21, 2023

Many things have changed since 2018, such as the names of the companies in the Fortune 100 list. This is actually down from five of the Fortune 100 in 2018, the last time KrebsOnSecurity performed this analysis. Nor is the average pay hugely different among all these roles.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Notably, 2024 was unprecedentedly precarious with the second largest in history National Public Data breach and the biggest healthcare data breach to date with the massive attack on Change Healthcare. The more variables in your network, the more potential vulnerabilities and data breaches. EU, and China.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 2, 2019

Small and midsize businesses — so-called SMBs — face an acute risk of sustaining a crippling cyberattack. This appears to be even more true today than it was when I began writing about business cyber risks at USA TODAY more than a decade ago. Many SMBs lack the wherewithal to recover from the long-run consequences of a serious breach.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 22, 2025

HHS Office for Civil Rights Proposes Measures to Strengthen Cybersecurity in Health Care Under HIPAA madhav Thu, 01/23/2025 - 06:25 Data Breaches in Healthcare: Why Stronger Regulations Matter A data breach involving personal health information isnt just about stolen filesits a gut punch to trust and a serious shake-up to peoples lives.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 12, 2018

For years, potential creditors have judged the relative risk of extending credit to consumers based in part on the applicant’s credit score — the most widely used being the score developed by FICO , previously known as Fair Isaac Corporation. Data accidentally released by FICO about the Cyber Risk Score for ExxonMobil.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 12, 2025

A 2022 PwC study found that 59% of directors admitted their board is not very effective in understanding the drivers and impacts of cyber risks for their organization, emphasizing the critical role of board members in these moments. For example, consider whether the risk committee or an ad hoc task force is best suited to manage the incident.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 23, 2021

As of 2018, more than 2 million people were working abroad for U.S. International workforces can be an excellent way to find top talent, but they can introduce unique security risks. While most governments won’t likely do anything nefarious with this information, it does heighten the risk of a data breach.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

.” LastPass declined to answer questions about the research highlighted in this story, citing an ongoing law enforcement investigation and pending litigation against the company in response to its 2022 data breach. As it happens, Plex announced its own data breach one day before LastPass disclosed its initial August intrusion.

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Adam Levin

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Following the multitude of hacks , leaked emails , data breaches , and disinformation campaigns that marred the 2016 elections, Congress has allocated $380 million to states requesting cybersecurity assistance. unprepared to protect the 2018 elections, there is still a chance to defend American democracy in 2020.”.

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Spinone

MARCH 18, 2019

In recent years, there has been an explosion of almost unbelievable data breaches making news headlines that have resulted in anything but a positive outcome for the organizations involved. As the world we live in has become much more digital in nature, information and data volumes are increasing exponentially.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Within this timeframe, Snatch threat actors exploited the victim’s network moving laterally across the victim’s network with RDP for the largest possible deployment of ransomware and searching for files and folders for data exfiltration followed by file encryption.” “Experience in backup, increase privileges, mikicatz, network.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 29, 2018

That being said, there is no body of evidence that indicates a direct correlation exists between an information security stakeholder’s non-technical background and the likelihood of a breach. The technologies existing in 2018 will undoubtedly differ from those that exist in 2020. Note that this is an organic expectation.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 4, 2022

The same types of security risks impact businesses, whatever their size. They are often unaware of the risks they take on, which can include hacking, fraud, phishing, and more. ” These types of attacks can allow hackers to steal massive amounts of sensitive data, disrupt operations, and even take down websites.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to resolve allegations stemming from a massive data breach that affected millions of guests. The breach, which occurred between 2014 and 2018, involved the exposure of sensitive customer information, including names, passport numbers, credit card details, and reservation information.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 6, 2018

This year, the major regulation that will be implemented, is the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) , which takes effect on May 25, 2018. GDPR enables consumers to view, limit and control how companies collect and process their personal data. appeared first on Data Security Blog | Thales e-Security.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 18, 2018

As retailers expand their digitization, they need to continually address cybersecurity since the challenge to secure critical and confidential data will only increase. In fact, this year’s report showed a massive increase in data breaches, with 50 percent of U.S. retailers experiencing a breach in the last year.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 4, 2020

All sorts of organisations are employing the service to keep passwords from previous data breaches from being used again and subsequently, putting their customers at heightened risk. A lot needs to line up for this to cause any practical risks, but let's talk mitigation anyway. my IP address).

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 3, 2019

It starts with an automated call that display’s Apple’s logo, address and real phone number, warning about a data breach at the company. Jody Westby is the CEO of Global Cyber Risk LLC , a security consulting firm based in Washington, D.C. A new phone-based phishing scam that spoofs Apple Inc.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 5, 2018

One of the top findings from the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report, Financial Services Edition was that data breaches in U.S. Not only are breaches at record highs – with 65% of U.S. Each and every environment and instance requires a data security plan and implementation tuned to the environment.

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