Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2020

Maze ransomware operators claims to have breached the South Korean multinational electronics company LG Electronics. Researchers at Cyble discovered a data leak of LG Electronics published by Maze ransomware operators. ” reads the post published by Cyble. . ” reads the post published by Cyble.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 4, 2021

We’ll have a separate post looking at the year’s data breaches and cyber attacks in more detail, but in the meantime, you can find the full list of December’s incidents below. Data breaches. That brings the total for 2020 to more than 20 billion. As usual, incidents affecting UK organisations are in bold. Cyber attacks.

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IT Governance

JULY 12, 2019

Digital Guardian recently asked a group of cyber security experts what the most important step is following a data breach. So how should you approach a data breach investigation? This might be, for example,the victim’s computer, a web page or a physical space in which documents were compromised. The crime scene.

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

On December 3, 2018, twelve attorneys general (“AGs”) jointly filed a data breach lawsuit against Medical Informatics Engineering and its subsidiary, NoMoreClipboard LLC (collectively “the Company”), an electronic health records company, in federal district court in Indiana. See Indiana v. Informatics Eng’g, Inc. , filed Dec.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Cybersecurity laws and regulations encompass a range of legal requirements designed to protect information systems and data from cyber threats. These laws aim to establish standards for securing data, ensuring privacy, and mitigating risks associated with digital information. What are Federal Cybersecurity Regulations?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

CISA adds SonicWall SonicOS, ImageMagick and Linux Kernel bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Electronic payment gateway Slim CD disclosed a data breach impacting 1.7M

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2019

– card issuer and financial corporation suffered a data breach that exposed personal information from more than 100 million credit applications. Thompson (33) is suspected to be responsible for the data breach. Thompson was charged with computer fraud and abuse in U.S. Capital One, one of the largest U.S.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 4, 2021

CryptoAgility to take advantage of Quantum Computing. The same goes with the advent of Quantum Computing , which is supposed to bring exponential computing power that shall not only bring endless benefits but also raises question marks on the current state of cryptography that is the bedrock of all information security as we know today.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Rather than posting the usual long list of data breaches and cyber attacks, I’ve decided to go down a new route. It’s been the usual mix of data breaches this month, with lots of mistakes being made and lots of ransoms being paid. First, who sends data via a posted USB stick? Buckets of thumb drives”.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Rather than posting the usual long list of data breaches and cyber attacks, I’ve decided to go down a new route. It’s been the usual mix of data breaches this month, with lots of mistakes being made and lots of ransoms being paid. First, who sends data via a posted USB stick? Buckets of thumb drives”.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The Lake Charles Memorial Health System (LCMHS) disclosed a data breach that affected almost 270,000 patients at its medical centers. The security breach took place on October 21, 2022, when the internal security team detected unusual activity on its computer network. Physical addresses. Dates of birth. Medical records.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Magecart hackers have stolen customers’ credit card data from the computer hardware and consumer electronics retailer Newegg. The Magecart cybercrime group is back, this time the hackers have stolen customers’ credit card data from the computer hardware and consumer electronics retailer Newegg.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2024

Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The charges being pursued by investigators include criminal conspiracy for unauthorized access to computer systems, illegal interception, falsification of electronic communications, disclosure of confidential information, aiding and abetting, and extortion. ” reads a statement from a lawyer for Del Vecchio.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2024

The Scranton School District is working with third-party forensic specialists to investigate the security breach and restore impacted systems. The attack is causing a temporary disruption to some of our computer systems and services. ” reported The Time Tribune. ” reported The Time Tribune.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Payment gateway provider Slim CD disclosed a data breach, credit card and personal data of almost 1.7 The electronic payment gateway Slim CD disclosed a data breach following a cyberattack. Personal data and credit card details of 1,693,000 individuals were compromised.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The case arose from a data breach in which criminals accessed UPMC’s computer systems and stole the personal and financial information of 62,000 current and former UPMC employees. The court explained that it was not creating a new, affirmative duty.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Furman for crimes of espionage, computer hacking, contempt of Court, making false statements to the FBI, and child pornography.” The huge trove of data, called “ Vault 7 ,” exposed the hacking capabilities of the US Intelligence Agency and its internal infrastructure. District Judge Jesse M.

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eDiscovery Daily

APRIL 7, 2019

When I spoke at the University of Florida E-Discovery Conference last month, there was a question from the live stream audience about a lawyer’s duty to disclose a data breach within his or her law firm. When a breach is discovered, the ABA Opinion finds that the duty of competence under Model Rule 1.1 No exceptions*.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2021

Experts spotted a new mysterious malware that was used to collect a huge amount of data, including sensitive files, credentials, and cookies. terabyte of stolen data. Threat actors used custom malware to steal data from 3.2 “The data was collected from 3.25 million computers. The database includes 6.6

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The Snatch ransomware group claims to have hacked HENSOLDT France, a company specializing in military and defense electronics. HENSOLDT is a company specializing in military and defense electronics. The company develops specific electronics solutions and offers dedicated COTS solutions for hazardous environments.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Data loss refers to the destruction of sensitive information. It’s a specific type of data breach, falling into the ‘availability’ category of data security (the other two categories being ‘confidentiality’ and ‘integrity’). In this blog, we explain what you need to know and provide data loss prevention tips.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

In this blog, we explain what information security and cyber security are, the differences between them and how they fit into your data protection practices. Information is at the heart of any organisation, whether it’s business records, personal data or intellectual property. What is information security? This is cyber security.

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 10, 2019

Just as the number of data breaches continues to rise, the number of lawsuits over data breaches continues to rise as well. Chances are that your data has been hacked at some point from at least one company with which you do business. But this lawsuit is unique. million US citizens. million US citizens.

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Data Protection Report

JUNE 28, 2023

This briefing looks at the Regulator’s draft General Code and its recent statement in response to a highly publicised pensions data breach and sets out some actions trustees should consider taking to protect their schemes from this increasing risk. Cybersecurity – why is it essential? The introduction of a virus or malware.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Taiwanese electronics technology giant Acer discloses a security breach suffered by its after-sales service systems in India after an isolated attack. Bad news for the Taiwanese electronics technology giant Acer, it disclosed a second security breach this year. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2023

” The Snatch ransomware was first spotted at the end of 2019, Sophos researchers discovered a piece of the Snatch ransomware that reboots computers it infects into Safe Mode to bypass resident security solutions. Snatch threat actors conduct ransomware operations involving data exfiltration and double extortion.”

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

On September 22, 2011, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved three separate bills that would establish a national data breach notification standard. The Data Breach Notification Act of 2011 (the “Feinstein Bill”), is the fifth such bill introduced by Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA).

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 7, 2021

” The AO declined to comment on specific questions about their breach disclosure. Nicholas Weaver , a lecturer at the computer science department at University of California, Berkeley, said the court document system doesn’t hold documents that are classified for national security reasons.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 18, 2024

Ransomware attacks , where hackers encrypt critical data and demand payment for decryption, have skyrocketed. These attacks not only compromise sensitive patient data but also disrupt essential hospital services, putting lives at risk. million records were breached, marking a bad year for data security. In 2021, 45.9

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The Middle East’s data protection regulatory landscape is complex, and continues to develop with Saudi Arabia’s ( KSA ) newly published Personal Data Protection Law ( PDPL ). While the PDPL contains the main features of a modern data protection law, it cannot be considered a direct analogue of the GDPR. Deceased’s data.

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eDiscovery Daily

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Hackers stole the personal data of 57 million customers and drivers from Uber last year. Conceal the breach for more than a year, and pay the hackers $100,000 to delete the data (sure they did) and keep quiet about the breach. The post Uber’s Response to Data Breach? Their response? driver’s license numbers.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 26, 2021

As the infrastructure changes, the adversaries change along with it to take the easiest path to data. Figure 1: Web application breaches in the Retail industry. As reported in the UK Finance “Fraud: The Facts” 2020 report, the theft of personal and financial data through data breaches was a major contributor to fraud losses in 2019.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2020

” Data amassed by the hackers were obtained from third-party data breaches, they were offered on several hacking forums. The agents seized electronic equipment, external hard drives and hardware cryptocurrency wallets, all worth around €100 000. Infinity Black also used the hacking tools that was offering for sale.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

Spamit), an invite-only community for Russian-speaking people in the businesses of sending spam and building botnets of infected computers to relay said spam. Collectively in control over millions of spam-spewing zombies, those botmasters also continuously harvested passwords and other data from infected machines.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Some criminal hackers want data, whereas others want a ransom fee to be paid. Malware is designed to disrupt and gain unauthorised access to a computer system. Ransomware is a type of malicious software that demands a ransom fee be paid after the software is installed on a computer system. There are five main forms: Ransomware.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 26, 2023

Cloud computing offers the potential to redefine and personalize customer relationships, transform and optimize operations, improve governance and transparency, and expand business agility and capability. In 2017, 94% of hospitals used electronic clinical data from their EHR.

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