Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2022

“InfraGard connects critical infrastructure owners, operators, and stakeholders with the FBI to provide education, networking, and information-sharing on security threats and risks,” the FBI’s InfraGard fact sheet reads. . “If it was only the phone I will be in [a] bad situation,” USDoD said.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 11, 2023

When it comes to alternative asset trading, protecting investor data is of critical importance. Here are seven tips to protect investor data in alternative asset trading. By working together, a robust cybersecurity framework can be established to protect investor data. Implement strong data encryption.

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Encryption IT Risk Financial Services 189

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Solid Data Security: The Foundation of a Safe Digital World madhav Thu, 10/17/2024 - 04:58 It’s that time of year again. It recognizes that, in an increasingly interconnected world, your data is subjected to more threats than ever before. Data security provides the foundation to safely operate in an increasing complex digital world.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

Data leak affected QBANK, Defence Bank, Bloom Money, Admiral Money, MA Money, and Reed. Using leaked data, threat actors could potentially breach banks’ backend infrastructure and consequently the infrastructure of their clients. Among the leaked data, researchers found Google and Liveness API keys.

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IT Financial Services Access Risk 246

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Law enforcement also had access to data stolen from the victims of the ransomware operation, a circumstance that highlights the fact that even when a ransom is paid, the ransomware gang often fails to delete the stolen information. reads the NCA’s announcement. It’s unclear which version of the ransomware is targeted by the decryptor.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

ICICI Bank leaked millions of records with sensitive data, including financial information and personal documents of the bank’s clients. A misconfiguration of the bank systems exposed millions of records with sensitive data. A misconfiguration of the bank systems exposed millions of records with sensitive data.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Law enforcement also had access to data stolen from the victims of the ransomware operation, a circumstance that highlights the fact that even when a ransom is paid, the ransomware gang often fails to delete the stolen information. ” reads the NCA’s announcement.

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Energy and Utilities Ransomware Manufacturing Agriculture 334

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

During that window, the actor successfully compromised at least nine global entities across the technology, defense, healthcare, energy and education industries.” defense contractors , financial services firms, and a national data center in Central Asia. Subsequently, exploitation attempts began on Sept.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

Regulatory compliance and data privacy issues have long been an IT security nightmare. And since the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect May 25, 2018, IT compliance issues have been at the forefront of corporate concerns. GDPR-style data privacy laws came to the U.S. Healthcare Data Privacy Laws.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Targeted Sector Vulnerabilities: Financial Services, IT, Healthcare, Education, and Government sectors have emerged as primary targets, with attackers fine-tuning their strategies to exploit specific vulnerabilities within these industries.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 14, 2022

Financial services, health, home security, governance and all other mission critical services are now provided online. All these activities leave a massive digital footprint comprising our private data. With the prospect of metaverse and other completely immersive online worlds, our data becomes us.

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

On February 4, 2021, the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) issued Circular Letter No. Authorized property/casualty insurers should use a data-driven and comprehensive plan to assess gaps and vulnerabilities in the cybersecurity of their insureds and potential insureds. Educate Insureds and Insurance Producers.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 4, 2024

The cloud represents a strategic tool to enable digital transformation for financial institutions As the banking and other regulated industry continues to shift toward a digital-first approach, financial entities are eager to use the benefits of digital disruption. Most of these new technologies are born-in-cloud.

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Financial Services Cloud Compliance Digital transformation 55

Data Protector

DECEMBER 31, 2016

The incoming Deputy Information Commissioner (Policy), who starts work in Wilmslow on 30 January, will amaze the data protection community with his knowledge of data protection law and practice. He will be supported through the year by key ICO staff who have a very considerable amount of knowledge of data protection law and practice.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 11, 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. Data breached: more than 59 million data records. BianLian claims to have exfiltrated 5 TB of data, comprising millions of sensitive documents. Data breached: 5 TB.

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Data Privacy Energy and Utilities Privacy Manufacturing 97

Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 20, 2023

As financial services authorities move to regulate digital assets in jurisdictions worldwide, the paper highlights the need to bring privacy regulators into the discussion so that data privacy issues affecting blockchain are addressed in tandem. Data minimization. Data security. Accountability. Purpose limitation.

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Collibra

MARCH 26, 2025

This is why we offer certified Data Citizen User Groups in the Collibra Community to keep the conversation and inspiration going among all of you our customers. What are Data Citizens User Groups? Our Data Citizen User Groups are interactive, real-time opportunities for our customers to connect.

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Financial Services Insurance Education Government 52

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2021

Cloudflare last month fought off a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack by a botnet that was bombarding 17.2 million requests per second (rps) at one of the internet infrastructure company’s customers in the financial services space. DDoS Attacks on the Rise. Mirai Still on the Loose.

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Financial Services IoT Education Passwords 142

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 11, 2023

The Most Popular Data Security Webinars of 2022: Sovereignty, Cloud Security and Compliance Top the List. Throughout 2022, Thales hosted more than 40 webinars on a wide variety of cybersecurity topics, including, cloud security, data sovereignty, compliance, data threat trends, and rethinking approaches to role-based authentication.

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Compliance Cloud Security Financial Services 83

IT Governance

JULY 31, 2019

Department of Health Services email hacked exposing patient data (14,591). Pennsylvania-based software firm and healthcare provider accuse each other of data theft (unknown). TX-based Wise Health reports data breach caused by phishing attack (35,899). Capital One says credit card applicants’ data stolen (100 million).

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Data breaches Ransomware Personal data Government 111

The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Healthcare and public health, financial services, and IT organizations are frequent targets, although businesses of all sizes can fall victim to these schemes. They can refuse to pay the ransom and have criminals release sensitive data. Data, even when returned, can be damaged or useless, delaying ongoing projects.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 28, 2011

I wonder how the folks at the Tea Party HQ would respond to this data: They spend an awful lot of time talking about Big Government, but they seem overly focused on the Big Bad Feds. Let’s take a look at some detail: Ahh… Education. Now, education is, in the main, a government enterprise. Very interesting.

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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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IT Governance

DECEMBER 7, 2017

It has been revealed that there has been a 25% increase in the number of High Court cases involving stolen confidential data. One key contributory factor may be an increase in staff turnover, as employees may take key client and financial information with them when they leave. Staff education. Different opinions.

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Education Information Security Financial Services Risk 63

The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

15, 2024 – Harter Secrest & Emery LLP , a full-service business law firm with offices throughout New York, is pleased to announce that it has been selected as a NetDiligence-authorized Breach Coach ® , a designation only extended to law firms that demonstrate competency and sophistication in data breach response.

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Data breaches Financial Services Big data Retail 100

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 78

Collibra

JUNE 16, 2021

Today we kicked off our best Data Citizens yet with 45 speakers across 8 industries including retail, financial services, telecommunications, technology, healthcare and education. Our Data Citizens community came together to share best practices, learn from each other, collaborate, and network.

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Digital transformation Education Financial Services Retail 59

Data Matters

MARCH 28, 2022

OCR’s reminders and recommendations for regulated entities include to: assess and reduce risks and vulnerabilities to the availability of ePHI, which is defined as “the property that data or information is accessible and useable upon demand by an authorized person” pursuant to the HIPAA Security Rule. 45 CFR 164.308(a)(5)(i).

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Cybersecurity Privacy Insurance Risk 88

IT Governance

OCTOBER 13, 2023

So, as ever, this blog series examines recent phishing campaigns and the tactics criminals use to trick people into compromising their data. These phishing emails have reached the inboxes of users in multiple industries, including finance, manufacturing, financial services, energy, construction and healthcare.

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Phishing Financial Services Manufacturing Personal data 105

Collibra

MAY 15, 2019

Our Data Citizens conference is just one week away, and I am excited to announce that we are sold out ! Everyone joining us next week is focused on transforming their businesses and delivering on strategic goals through better approaches to data. DNB, Norway’s largest financial services group , will outline their data journey.

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Financial Services Data Privacy Privacy Retail 53

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

As data and IT infrastructure become more valuable by the day, cybersecurity risk management is increasingly important for enterprises with a steep cost for noncompliance or extensive, unaddressed vulnerabilities. Mapping Environment Data. Remember that reputational harm from a breach can do more damage than the breach itself.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 12, 2024

“AI is driving a revolution in education, accessibility and productivity. For enterprises dealing with sensitive information, it is vital to maintain state-of-the-art data security in order to reap the rewards,” says Stuart Winter, Executive Chairman and Co-Founder at Lacero Platform Limited, Jamworks and Guardian.

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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. In this type of attack, criminals take control of a system or network and encrypt valuable data, often making it impossible for organizations to continue their normal operations. Ransomware. Crimeware and spyware.

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Data Protection Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

Colorado’s privacy law does not have any “data localization” or “international data transfer” requirements. The list appears in proposed rule 6.04.A. 2. b. Profiling is not prohibited for purposes of granting credit. The list appears in proposed rule 9.03.A. 3.

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Privacy Cybersecurity Personal data Insurance 115

Reltio

MARCH 11, 2019

The third Modern Data Management annual summit ( #DataDriven19 ) held on February 26-27 2019 attracted more than 400 business and IT professionals getting together in San Francisco to witness the future of data management, share success stories and learn best practices. This year’s theme was “ Organize Master Data.

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Digital transformation Financial Services Data science Retail 40

eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Bad actors are increasingly using a technique called HTML smuggling to deliver ransomware and other malicious code in email campaigns aimed at financial services firms and other organizations, according to Microsoft researchers.

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Ransomware Education Phishing Passwords 124

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

In addition to data subjects’ rights to be informed, of access, to rectification, to erasure, to restrict processing, to data portability and to object, the EU’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) sets out requirements relating to automated individual decision-making, including profiling. What is profiling under the GDPR?

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