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Canadian authorities arrested alleged Snowflake hacker

Security Affairs

. “Through the course of our incident response engagements and threat intelligence collections, Mandiant has identified a threat campaign targeting Snowflake customer database instances with the intent of data theft and extortion.

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Why DSPM is Essential for Achieving Data Privacy in 2024

Security Affairs

million terabytes of data are created daily. According to other reports, most of that data is unstructured. As organizations deal with such high volumes of dark and unstructured data, most of this data contains sensitive information , making it a primary target for data breach attacks.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) as an Enabler for Enhanced Data Security

Security Affairs

AI-driven systems overcome these limitations by using advanced machine learning models and context-aware algorithms to recognize complex data types, providing a more reliable and dynamic classification framework. This is particularly useful for unstructured data (as found in most document stores, email and messaging systems, etc.)

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Why would a lawyer ever need an Information Security Professional?

CyberSecurity Insiders

As an information security professional, have you often found yourself frustrated by the growing collection of cyber-based rules, guidance, regulations, and contemplations that our lawmakers can conjure up? It is also clear that information security professionals see things differently than most non-security people.

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GUEST ESSAY: Recalibrating critical infrastructure security in the wake of evolving threats

The Last Watchdog

But as cybersecurity threats evolve, it’s equally important to involve the chief information security officer (CISO) and their team in the due diligence process for any vendor an organization may consider using.Once again, the Unitronics attack offers a great example of why involving security teams early and often is a good idea.

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MediSecure data breach impacted 12.9 million individuals

Security Affairs

.” reads a company’s statement on cyber security incident. “The impacted server analysed by McGrathNicol Advisory consisted of an extremely large volume of semi-structured and unstructured data stored across a variety of data sets.”

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CNA legal filings lift the curtain on a Phoenix CryptoLocker ransomware attack

Malwarebytes

Two months after fully restoring its systems, CNA Financial, the leading US insurance company that was attacked by a group using Phoenix CryptoLocker ransomware, issued a legal notice of an information security incident to the Consumer Protection Bureau in New Hampshire.