Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2020

million users due to critical vulnerability Nefilim ransomware gang published Luxottica data on its leak site NSA details top 25 flaws exploited by China-linked hackers Pay it safe: Group-IB aids Paxful in repelling a series of web-bot attacks U.S. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived!

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Information Governance Perspectives

MAY 10, 2020

In May of 2020 I was honored to speak at the MERv conference with John Frost of Box on the topic of Using Information Governance with a Privacy Compliance Plan as the Fulcrum for Data Privacy and Continuous Compliance. Just think about ransomware. Below are some excerpts from my transcribed remarks.

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Data Protection Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

On 1 October 2022, the enhanced financial penalties under the Singapore PDPA, which were first introduced with the amendments to the PDPA in 2020, came into effect. Review of Singapore’s Cybersecurity Act 2018 and publication of report by Singapore government task-force on ransomware. 2562 (2019) ( Thai PDPA ) came into effect.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

When Markowitz departed Portfolium after selling the company to Instructure, he teamed up with Daniel Marashalin and Troy Markowitz to launch Drata in the summer of 2020. The cloud computing services company was hit by a ransomware attack in early December that disrupted the mail servers for thousands of customers.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 22, 2022

billion in direct written premiums in 2020. Ransomware Drives Up Costs, Lowers Coverage. Not surprisingly, ransomware insurance has become popular and is included in many policies. This is driven by the proliferation of cyber claims across the entire market, particularly ransomware related. was worth roughly $4.1

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Related: Can Europe’s GDPR restore data privacy? billion by 2020, up 55% as compared to 2015, according to Allied Market Research. For instance, with ransomware, one of the best protections is to have a physical offline backup. And yet today there is a resurgence in demand for encrypted flash drives.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

Still, over time, they’ve been woven into baseline data security regulations far and wide. NIST specs are echoed in the data loss disclosure and data privacy laws that have cropped up in many U.S. Ransomware hacking groups extorted at least $144.35 states, for instance. million from U.S.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 7, 2020

However, regardless of where it is stored or where it migrates (on your own servers, in a public cloud, or a hybrid environment) encryption must always be used to protect sensitive data. In addition, most data breach notification regulations don’t apply to compromised encrypted data.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Furthermore, 21% of incidents saw backdoors deployed, 17% of attacks were ransomware and 41% of incidents involved phishing for initial access. Backdoor deployments, which enable remote access to systems, were the most common type of attacker action that X-Force incident responders handled.

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KnowBe4

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Industry analysts predict that by 2020 there will be estimated to be 1.8 And with the constant stream of breaking news reporting phishing and ransomware attacks, data leaks, and hacking, you can quickly see why there has never been a better time to be in the fast-growing field of cybersecurity.

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IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2020

Ransomware. Accounting firm MJ Payne reportedly infected with ransomware (unknown). Ransomware crooks leak ExecuPharm files after negotiation fails (unknown). Fibre optic provider Dakota Carrier Network hit by ransomware (unknown). Two Taiwanese oil companies hit by ransomware (unknown). Data breaches.

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Data Protection Report

AUGUST 16, 2022

2020-2021 reporting period. malware, ransomware, hacking). While the report includes statistics for each of the ten years, we have included the first year and most recent year for the sake of comparison. By the Numbers [5]. . 2010-2011 reporting period. Number of reports made. Types of cases Reported. Transmission Error (ie.

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IT Governance

APRIL 9, 2024

Enforcement Google agrees to delete billions of records and reduce incognito user tracking Google has agreed to settle a 2020 class action lawsuit accusing it of invading people’s privacy by collecting user data even in incognito mode.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

MARCH 15, 2021

According to security company PurpleSec LLC, in 2020 alone, cybercrime is reported to have increased by up to 600% as a result of new incentives and opportunities for hackers – including many more remote work environments – in the COVID-19 pandemic. Notably, ransomware and phishing attacks have become increasingly common.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 30, 2024

UK NCSC warns of rise in AI-enabled ransomware The UK’s NCSC has warned that AI, which is already being used to facilitate cyber crime, “will almost certainly increase the volume and impact of cyber attacks – including ransomware – in the near term”. SolarWinds seeks dismissal of SEC cyber security lawsuit SolarWinds Corp.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Phishing Attacks: Phishing is the top cyber attack, causing 90% of data breaches. Ransomware Attacks: In 2023, a whopping 72.7% of organizations faced ransomware. Data Breach Costs: The average global cost of a data breach in 2023 was $4.45 Shockingly, 96% of these attacks come through email.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

Small to Medium Business are, today, the target of APTs and ransomware. MUSIC} VAMOSI: In EP 49, I talked with Huntress, a managed service provider that discovered the ransomware affecting customers of Keysea. And because they were plugged into those clients, they were able to limit the spread of the ransomware.

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IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The “ Cost of a Data Breach 2023” report also uncovered that, since 2020, healthcare data breach costs have increased by 53.3%. Even if it adheres to a lot of regulatory practices, for the 13th year in a row, the healthcare industry reported the most expensive data breaches, at an average cost of USD 10.93

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 20, 2021

Open Raven Data security platform 2019 Los Angeles, CA $19.1M. Satori Data access cloud security 2019 Tel Aviv, Israel $5.3M. Wiz Public cloud security solution 2020 Tel Aviv, Israel $230M. in 2020, second only to ransomware. The goal: accelerate the adoption of ML across industries while securing data privacy.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

Series A Cado Security 2020 London, UK 26 $11.5 Series B Wiz 2020 Tel Aviv, Israel 186 $230.0 Ethyca is compliance -focused as regulatory enforcement becomes an essential part of data privacy. With Ethyca, clients get a bundle of tools for privacy by design in the development process. Series B SECURITI.ai

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

Between high-profile ransomware attacks and mergers, it is a time of high stakes and great change for the industry. But constant breaches of organizations large and small, and a trail of victims to ransomware and phishing opened a massive opportunity. billion valuation. Headquarters: Cambridge, UK. Founded: 1985. Founded: 2003.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Hacked hospital patients’ data ‘not important’ (bangkokpost.com) (10,000). Provides Notice Of Data Privacy Event | | djournal.com (0). Desorden Group claims to have stolen 200 GB of data from ABX Express (databreaches.net) (15,000,000). Notice of Data Event – Simon Eye (14,400).

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

If we want to address the real problem, we need to enact serious privacy laws, not security theater, to stop our data from being collected, analyzed, and sold—by anyone. Then-President Donald Trump tried this in 2020, but it was blocked by the courts and rescinded by President Joe Biden a year later.

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