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Dental group lied through teeth about data breach, fined $350,000

Malwarebytes

A US chain of dental offices known as Westend Dental LLC denied a 2020 ransomware attack and its associated data breach, instead telling their customers that data was lost due to an accidentally formatted hard drive. No physical safeguards were implemented to limit access to servers containing patient data.

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SunCrypt Ransomware behind North Carolina school district data breach

Security Affairs

A school district in North Carolina disclosed a data breach after having unencrypted files stolen during a SunCrypt Ransomware attack. The Haywood County School district in North Carolina has suffered a data breach after having unencrypted files stolen during a SunCrypt Ransomware attack. Pierluigi Paganini.

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OmniVision disclosed a data breach after the 2023 Cactus ransomware attack

Security Affairs

The digital imaging products manufacturer OmniVision disclosed a data breach after the 2023 ransomware attack. “On September 30, 2023, OVT became aware of a security incident that resulted in the encryption of certain OVT systems by an unauthorized third party. ” reads the data Breach Notification.

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Top 10 Data Breaches of All Time

SecureWorld News

Now, headlines about ransomware, cyberattacks, and data breaches pour into social media feeds as steady as a river flows. SecureWorld News takes a look at some of the largest data breaches to ever occur. Top 10 most significant data breaches. Yahoo data breach (2013). Who attacked: no attacker.

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Morgan Stanley discloses data breach after the hack of a third-party vendor

Security Affairs

The American multinational investment bank and financial services firm Morgan Stanley discloses a data breach caused by the hack of an Accellion FTA server of a third-party vendor. The security breach was first reported by BleepingComputer that also shared a copy of the data breach notification letter sent to the impacted customers.

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EDR-as-a-Service makes the headlines in the cybercrime landscape

Security Affairs

In Dark Web environments as well as on specialized forums, sellers are posting synthetic ads inviting potential buyers to contact them privately, often via Telegram, Session, and other encrypted messaging apps. Payments are mostly made in Bitcoin or Monero, to ensure confidentiality and irreversibility.

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News alert: Seventh Sense unveils a revolutionary privacy solution — face-based PKI and ‘eID’

The Last Watchdog

Instead of traditional methods that rely on storing and matching biometrics, SenseCrypt eID utilizes acts of encryption and decryption for registration and authentication, with no public/private keys stored anywhere. A user can have any number of Face Certificates, each with a unique public key for specific purposes.