eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Through the years, we’ve seen several strains of ransomware make headlines: CryptoLocker in 2013, Locky in 2016, WannaCry and Hermes in 2017, GandCrab in 2018, and now, Ryuk joins the pack of notable names in criminal malware. The Ryuk ransomware family spawned in 2018 from a sophisticated Russia-based cybercrime group.

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 24, 2019

million Washingtonians between July 2017 and July 2018. The request to amend the current law followed Attorney General Ferguson’s third annual Data Breach Report , which found that data breaches affected nearly 3.4 The Bill’s key amendments include: Expanding breach notification requirements to more types of consumer information.

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IT Governance

MARCH 11, 2024

Source (New) Finance USA Yes 3,494 Woodruff Sawyer Source (New) Insurance USA Yes 3,087 Blackburn College Source (New) Education USA Yes 3,039 CAIRE Inc. million for security failings relating to a 2018 cyber attack on its mobile banking platform. Source (New) Professional services Netherlands Yes 28.3 UniCredit fined €2.8

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IT Governance

JANUARY 23, 2024

AI ICO launches consultation on generative AI and data protection The Information Commissioner’s Office has launched a consultation series on the application of data protection law to generative AI models, particularly in relation to the UK GDPR and Part 2 of the DPA 2018. O’Hara & Sons, Inc.

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Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

* This article first appeared in In-House Defense Quarterly on April 3, 2018. Board-management discussions about cyber risk should include identification of which risks to avoid, which to accept, and which to mitigate or transfer through insurance, as well as specific plans associated with each approach. Mandatory Access Control.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The HSE ultimately enlisted members of the Irish military to bring in laptops and PCs to help restore computer systems by hand. That compliance centered on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA), which prioritizes protecting the integrity and privacy of patient data.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

For example, here’s Jerry Lewis in a scene from a 1950s film, where he’s trying to break into a Nazi German military base. We have to order food, you have to get deliveries, do your banking, insurance, government services, everything's digital, and then how do you consume those services? Lewis: Good. Other: Wait.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

But, by contrast, only 36,673,575 records were confirmed to have been leaked, which is the fewest we’ve recorded since May 2018. There were a massive 99 data breaches and cyber attacks in August, making it the third-biggest monthly total of the year by number of security incidents. Cyber attacks. Hitachi Chemical Co. Financial information.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2021

This very high-profile caper is part of an extended surge of ransomware attacks, which quintupled globally between the first quarter of 2018 and the fourth quarter of 2020, and is expected to rise 20 percent to 40 percent this year, according to insurance giant Aon. Pulitzer Prize-winning business journalist Byron V.

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KnowBe4

MAY 2, 2023

In 2018, the UK government stated that they believed the Kremlin was responsible for a hoax call made to the Foreign Secretary at the time, Boris Johnson. Looking, apparently, for a bigger payday, yesterday the Russian cyber auxiliary KillNet announced that they would become Russia's 'Private Military Hacker Company (PMHC).'"

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

A 2018 deepfaked video of Barack Obama synced to an audio track created by comedian Jordan Peele caused politicians sparked popular demand that technology companies more actively filter out content utilizing the technology, citing concerns about potential election interference. The issue is not limited to home and office environments, either.

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