Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Home Office Contractor's Data Collection Sparks Privacy Concerns The Home Office faces scrutiny after revelations that its contractor, Equifax, collected data on British citizens while conducting financial checks on migrants applying for fee waivers.

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Cytelligence

MARCH 3, 2023

With the internet becoming a part of our daily lives it is sad but important to know that the dangers of Cyber attacks are increasing every day. First, let’s understand what is a cyber attack. So protecting your computers from different types of cyber attacks is very important. The number is huge.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 30, 2018

The average small and medium-size business experiences a cyber attack 44 times every day. The painful impact of cyber attacks on businesses is worsening despite advances in technology aimed at protecting enterprises from malicious network traffic, insider threats, malware, denial of service attacks and phishing campaigns.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2020

T-Mobile discovered that the attackers had access to the CPNI (Customer Proprietary Network Information). Customer proprietary network information (CPNI) is the data collected by telecommunications companies about a consumer’s telephone calls. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, T-Mobile).

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 6, 2018

And, in doing so, the IC has developed an effective set of data handling and cybersecurity best practices. Businesses at large would do well to model their data collection and security processes after what the IC refers to as the “intelligence cycle.” infrastructure from cyber attacks.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2021

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 24, 2022

These attacks also tend to be more successful in access and payout in the event of ransom demands, with 74% of attacks ending successfully for hackers. Here are a few prime examples of cyber-attacks in the education sector. In July, poor password hygiene led to another ransomware attack.

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

In recent years, we have seen explosive growth in the number of damaging cyber-attacks. Mandatory reporting and investigations would result better data collection. 2017 alone has seen the Wanna Cry, Petya, Not Petya, Bad Rabbit, and of course the historic Equifax breach, among many others.

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Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2019

Security researcher Gjoko Krstic from Applied Risk discovered over 100 vulnerabilities that expose buildings to cyber attacks. An attacker can exploit the vulnerabilities to gain full control of the vulnerable products and access to the devices connected to them.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Richard Moore, the MI6 boss, asserted the statement by stating that Chinese government was providing secret funding to back up financially weak nations in order to keep them in loop of conducting a large scale espionage and cyber attacks. The post China setting up data traps says UK appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Data breaches are fairly common occurrences these days – in 2014 alone, nearly half (43%) of all companies experienced a cyber attack. What can businesses do to prepare for and mitigate the inevitable cyber attack?

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 20, 2022

Cyber attacks are increasing at an alarming rate, and cybercriminals are devising new tactics to achieve their unscrupulous goals nearly on a daily basis. As new data protection legislation (such as the GDPR and the CCPA) joins current laws, the regulatory environment becomes increasingly complex (like HIPAA and PCI DSS).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 15, 2022

Remember, no cyber insurance policy cover will offer a loss cover incurred by bodily injury, sickness, emotional distress, disease, or the death of a person caused by a cyber attack. Some policies do not cover losses incurred by a company indulging in illegitimate data collection of individuals or clients.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2021

jailbreaking tool Attackers took over the Perl.com domain in September 2020 Bug bounty hunter awarded $50,000 for a Microsoft account hijack flaw Clop ransomware gang leaks data allegedly stolen from cybersecurity firm Qualys Cyber Defense Magazine – March 2021 has arrived.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 18, 2021

It’s never been more important to protect employees from cyber-attacks while also mitigating the risk they pose as trusted insiders. By cybersecurity expert and J2 CEO John Mc Loughlin.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 23, 2023

As a portion of data belongs to the armed forces personnel and some government employees holding bureaucrat status- an enormous threat to national security as such, info is often used to launch phishing or other forms of social engineering attacks. Voter ID details weren’t leaked in the cyber-attack.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Group-IB: The online market for counterfeit goods in Russia has reached $1,5 billion, while the number of phishing attacks has surpassed 1,200 daily. Group-IB, an international company that specialises in the prevention of cyber attacks, has estimated that online sales of counterfeit goods are now worth $1.5

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 3, 2023

The data collected from various sources is then analyzed using various tools. Main features of SDL There are five key features that SDL should have: The key component of SDL is the automation of data collection and parsing. Viewing this data manually is unrealistic. Automation of adding context for security logs.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

For example, SOAR solutions must improve at detecting what’s referred to as “ living off the land ” cyber attacks. SOAR has improved data collection and data enrichment, and playbook responses have helped reduce the workload of human analysts. Take PowerShell-enabled breaches, for instance.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Yesterday a worrying news made the headlines, the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP) was hit by a cyber attack. Attached pic is data collection from #KKNPP #Dtrack malware (a few other bits not pictured). Any cyber-attack on the Nuclear Power Plant Control System is not possible,” the statement stated categorically.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 15, 2021

Checkpoint Software Technologies released a mobile security report of 2021 that states that almost all enterprises operating in the world are at the risk of facing mobile attacks. It gives an insight on how organizations can defend themselves against such attacks by following a basic mobile cyber hygiene.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Besides the obvious benefits, IoT devices create an expanded threat landscape and have already been exploited in numerous cyber attacks (e.g., The root cause of these attacks is that the devices are lacking the security mechanisms to defend themselves against malicious actions that lead to the control of hijacked devices.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

Group-IB is one the world’s leading providers of solutions aimed at detection and prevention of cyber attacks, fraud exposure and protection of intellectual property on the Internet. GIB Threat Intelligence cyber threats data collection system has been named one of the best in class by Gartner, Forrester, and IDC.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

However, at this moment in history, two particularly worrisome types of cyber attacks are cycling up and hitting local government entities hard: ransomware sieges and election tampering. Related: Free tools that can help protect elections I had a deep discussion about this with Todd Weller, chief strategy officer at Bandura Cyber.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 19, 2021

"Furthermore, no systems or data maintained and managed by the Census Bureau on behalf of the public were compromised, manipulated or lost," Jarmin said. The data collected by the U.S. Census servers intriguing target for cybercriminals.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

According to Group-IB’s report findings, Asia is one of the most actively attacked regions in the world, the company presented latest cybercrime trends. Group-IB is one the world’s leading providers of solutions aimed at detection and prevention of cyber attacks, fraud exposure and protection of intellectual property on the Internet.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Group-IB is one the world’s leading providers of solutions aimed at detection and prevention of cyber attacks, fraud exposure and protection of intellectual property on the Internet. GIB Threat Intelligence cyber threats data collection system has been named one of the best in class by Gartner, Forrester, and IDC.

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Hacker Combat

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Government agencies in Taiwan have been facing frequent cyber attacks. With attacks coming in the millions the approximated number of probes coming in daily are around five million. The island has been facing increases in cyber warfare. . The continuous and ever-increasing cyber attacks are quite disturbing.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 3, 2022

They fuse robust data collection with a deep understanding of the adversarial mindset delivering smarter defense and more effective response against advanced cyber attacks, physical threats to personnel or facilities, disinformation and reputational attacks, and the abuse and fraud of digital platforms.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 24, 2023

Cyber threat actors rely on infrastructure hidden to most people not looking for it. Revealing such frameworks shines a light on how cyber adversaries operate. Cyber adversary infrastructure is hidden to those who don’t know how to look for it.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Cyber attackers are forever becoming more sophisticated, however, so companies have had to constantly incorporate new security solutions such as IDPS , UEBA , threat intelligence , patch management , encryption , DLP , DDoS protection , vulnerability management , and even mobile security management. Best XDR Solutions.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 5, 2024

With AI implementations, cybersecurity attacks can occur at different states of the AI pipeline including data collection, model creation and training, and at inference. The immense processing power of quantum computers could potentially break widely used encryption algorithms, which could compromise sensitive data.,

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Though the initiative is currently voluntary, this kind of collaboration between governments and private sector manufacturers is key to making progress toward doing a better job of preventing potentially catastrophic cyber attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 28, 2021

As attack methodologies evolve due to AI, machine learning and nation-state hackers , security startups are receiving a lot of funding to develop products that can secure application access for remote workers , provide real-time visibility into cyber attacks and protect data as it travels from the cloud to IoT devices.

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Centraleyes

MAY 5, 2024

In today’s digital age, where cyber attacks are a matter of when rather than if, assessing potential risks and their likelihood of occurrence is only getting more critical. Live Risk Management Real-time data insights enable organizations to make informed decisions promptly, enhancing agility and responsiveness to emerging risks.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Endpoint detection and response (EDR) is an advanced safety system for detecting, investigating, and resolving cyber attacks on endpoints. It examines incidents, inspects behavior, and restores systems to their pre-attack state. This capacity helps companies evaluate previous data to predict and avoid future attacks.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 5, 2024

With AI implementations, cybersecurity attacks can occur at different states of the AI pipeline including data collection, model creation and training, and at inference. The immense processing power of quantum computers could potentially break widely used encryption algorithms, which could compromise sensitive data.,

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