eSecurity Planet

JULY 12, 2022

The first signs of the ransomware attack at data storage vendor Spectra Logic were reports from a number of IT staffers about little things going wrong at the beginning of the day. Screens then started to display a ransom demand, which said files had been encrypted by the NetWalker ransomware virus. “As Cyber Insurer Provides Help.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

MILES/CBS NEWS TEXAS The Royal ransomware group is behind the attack and threatens to publish stolen data if the City will not meet its ransom demand. Between April 7, 2023, and May 4, 2023, Royal performed data exfiltration and ransomware delivery preparation activities. ” continues the report.

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IT Governance

JUNE 7, 2024

Nonetheless, the risk of a cyber incident is significant, and as data leaks such as the ‘mother of all breaches’ suggest, sooner or later, every organisation will ‘get done’. This trend was confirmed by the 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report : Verizon found a significant jump in ransomware/extortion attacks compared to the 2023 report.

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Ransomware Encryption Data breaches Access 91

The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Adding to this will be very smart uses of generative AI – centered around wisely directing LLM capacities onto specific data lakes containing threat intelligence information. Byron: Companies often underestimate threats, neglect basic cyber hygiene, and fail to educate employees on cybersecurity.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Cyber criminals may damage, destroy, steal, encrypt, expose, or leak data as well as cause harm to a system. Encrypted threats spiked 167%, ransomware increased 105%, and 5.4 In May, cybersecurity researchers revealed that ransomware attacks are increasing their aggressive approach by destroying data instead of encrypting it.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The simplest example may be insurance. Life, health, auto, and other insurance are all designed to help a person protect against losses. Cybersecurity should follow a layered approach, with additional protections for the most important assets, such as corporate and customer data. Mapping Environment Data.

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IT Governance

MAY 2, 2023

Welcome to our April 2023 list of data breaches and cyber attacks. You can find the full list of data breaches and cyber attacks below, along with our rundown of the biggest incidents of the month. Biggest data breaches of April 2023 1. million people.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Encryption uses mathematical algorithms to transform and encode data so that only authorized parties can access it. What Encryption Is and How It Relates to Cryptology The science of cryptography studies codes, how to create them, and how to solve them. How Does Encryption Process Data?

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 17, 2019

The settlement resolves a multistate litigation arising out of a May 2015 data breach in which hackers infiltrated WebChart, a web application run by MIE, and stole the electronic Protected Health Information (“ePHI”) of over 3.9 failed to encrypt the sensitive ePHI. failed to encrypt the sensitive ePHI. million individuals.

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Data breaches IT Insurance Privacy 58

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Along with celebrating Cyber Security Awareness Month, several exciting events are taking place across the world, aiming to educate people on the latest trends in cybersecurity and privacy. We will have two meeting rooms, and focus will be on how to discover, protect and control access to your most sensitive data.

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Armstrong Archives

AUGUST 25, 2023

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ensures individuals’ health data protection and privacy. This includes insurance companies, nurses, and doctors. Limiting access to only authorized personnel will help keep patient data safe and ensure HIPAA rules are followed.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 7, 2023

Threats to your data are virtually everywhere these days, and too often, data compromises seem almost inevitable. But with a proactive approach to data security, organizations can fight back against the seemingly endless waves of threats. Data breaches can be disastrous for organizations.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Data Matters

APRIL 20, 2021

This development indicates that sponsors and fiduciaries may soon be subject to focused scrutiny over their cybersecurity practices in DOL investigations and adds to the multiple existing sources of cybersecurity legal risk in the wake of data breaches or insufficient cybersecurity controls.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

This is despite increased data protection requirements, with the introduction of the likes of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) , and a growing number of cyber attacks, many of which have sparked high-profile debates about the importance of an effective defences. But that’s only one part of the equation. Get started.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Barely a day goes by where we don’t hear of a data breach. Affecting big companies and small in virtually every vertical and hitting government institutions at the local, state and federal level, sensitive data is routinely exfiltrated, stolen and leveraged with shocking regularity. For example, are they encrypting their data?

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IoT Encryption Military Insurance 89

eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 30, 2020

This while the Insurance Journal reported (via Reuters – hat tip again to Ride the Lightning) last week that U.S. insurers are ramping up cyber-insurance rates by as much as 25% and trying to curb exposure to vulnerable customers after a surge of costly claims. Where did I find that out? It’s the RTL trifecta! : o ).

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Ransomware Cybersecurity Insurance Education 69

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The ICO found that Interserve had failed to put appropriate technical and organisational measures in place to secure personal data (in contravention of Articles 5(1)(f) and 32 GDPR) for a period of ~20 months. The attacker then compromised four HR databases containing data of 113k employees and former employees. The Incident.

Security 52

Security GDPR Personal data Insurance 52

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. Thanks to an article I came across last week, I now know that there was a recent ABA opinion on the topic.

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Data breaches Cybersecurity e-Discovery Computer and Electronics 57

IT Governance

APRIL 11, 2023

Welcome to our April 2023 review of phishing attacks, in which we explore the latest email scams and the tactics that cyber criminals use to trick people into handing over personal data. For instance, it could monitor users’ keystrokes or encrypt the user’s files in a ransomware attack.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2019

TA505 also used in one attack an updated version of ServHelper that included the strings’ binary encrypted in Vigenère cipher. and which used emails with subjects pertaining to finance or urgent concerns on insurance policies. 36/p2, that is the same binary we found in the. ISO and.LNK files that install ServHelper.

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e-Delivery Insurance Retail Government 77

IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2023

Welcome to our new-look list of data breaches and cyber attacks. So, each month, we’ll update this page with the latest figures and links, so be sure to bookmark it to keep an eye out for the latest data breach news. In August 2020, it was embroiled in a data breach affecting more than 800,000 EyeMed and Lenscrafters patients.

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Data breaches Insurance Personal data Ransomware 113

KnowBe4

MAY 29, 2019

According to the 2019 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report , ransomware persisted as the second-most common type of malware reported, accounting for nearly 24% of incidents where malicious code was used. Hackers break in and rely on the malware to encrypt vital files or render machines useless. The critical data stays locked up.

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Ransomware Security awareness Insurance Cybersecurity 40

Hunton Privacy

JULY 11, 2017

To be counted as “key information infrastructure,” however, the infrastructure must still meet the criterion that severe endangerment of national security, the national economy and the people’s livelihood and the public interest would result if the infrastructure suffers destruction, loss of functionality or leakage of data.

Energy and Utilities 45

Energy and Utilities Security Cybersecurity Manufacturing 45

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Data privacy regulations like the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) can be hard to navigate for businesses of any size, but GRC tools can simplify and streamline compliance with all of the requirements. Its features include: Compliance education & management.

Compliance 67

Compliance Risk Government Retail 67

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Data privacy regulations like the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) can be hard to navigate for businesses of any size, but GRC tools can simplify and streamline compliance with all of the requirements. Its features include: Compliance education & management.

Compliance 57

Compliance Risk Government Retail 57

HIPAA

OCTOBER 21, 2013

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability of Act demands that all HIPAA covered businesses prevent unauthorized access to “Protected Health Information” or PHI. Google uses Ernst and Young third party evaluated and ISO 27001 certified encryption and authentication. Enter Google’s Business Associate Agreement (BAA).

Compliance 31

Compliance Education Encryption Insurance 31

HIPAA

OCTOBER 21, 2013

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability of Act demands that all HIPAA covered businesses prevent unauthorized access to “Protected Health Information” or PHI. Google uses Ernst and Young third party evaluated and ISO 27001 certified encryption and authentication. Enter Google’s Business Associate Agreement (BAA).

Compliance 28

Compliance Education Encryption Insurance 28

eSecurity Planet

APRIL 6, 2023

Ransomware is a type of malicious program, or malware, that encrypts files, documents and images on a computer or server so that users cannot access the data. Ransomware is the most feared cybersecurity threat and with good reason: Its ability to cripple organizations by locking their data is a threat like no other.

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Ransomware Encryption Cybersecurity Risk 98

IT Governance

MARCH 5, 2024

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breached: 183,754,481 records. EasyPark data breach: 21.1 million data records belonging to EasyPark have been listed for sale on a hacking forum.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Retail 52

HIPAA

OCTOBER 21, 2013

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability of Act demands that all HIPAA covered businesses prevent unauthorized access to “Protected Health Information” or PHI. Google uses Ernst and Young third party evaluated and ISO 27001 certified encryption and authentication. Enter Google’s Business Associate Agreement (BAA).

Compliance 28

Compliance Education Encryption Insurance 28

IT Governance

DECEMBER 5, 2023

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. According to CyberNews , more than 300 million data records were compromised, including 21,000 telephone numbers and 31,000 email addresses. Some payment card data was also exposed.

Data Privacy 86

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Retail 86

IT Governance

MARCH 11, 2024

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breached: 36 million records. Data breached: 6,935,412 individuals’ data. Data breached: 6.9 Only 3 definitely haven’t had data breached.

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Data Privacy Privacy Security Data breaches 66

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 24, 2024

Protecting Against the Risks and Managing the Complexities of a Quantum World with Thales and IBM Consulting madhav Thu, 01/25/2024 - 11:03 Contributors: Ollie Omotosho - Director, Strategir Partnerships, Thales Antti Ropponen, Head of Data & Application Security Services, IBM Consulting In the world of business, data security is paramount.

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Risk Encryption Blockchain Authentication 87

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

APRIL 2, 2020

In the context of this global crisis, cyber risk management involves balancing the productivity of a workforce with ensuring confidentiality, integrity and availability of the company’s own systems and data, as well as that of their supply chain. Secure systems enabling remote access.

Cybersecurity 52

Cybersecurity Phishing Authentication Access 52

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

In the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and in the footsteps of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), California privacy advocates introduced a ballot initiative on October 12, 2017 called “The Consumer Right to Privacy Act of 2018” (No. CCPA Background. 17-0039). Right of Deletion. Right to Opt-Out.

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Privacy Sales Education Compliance 58

IT Governance

JANUARY 16, 2024

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. The data is no longer publicly available. Data breached: >223,000,000 records. Data breached: >7,000,000 records. Data breached: 5,500,000 records.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Retail 52