Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

government online. Many readers were aghast that the IRS would ask people to hand over their biometric and personal data to a private company that begin in 2010 as a way to help veterans, teachers and other public servants qualify for retail discounts. to commercialize what should be a core government service.” ”

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erwin

JUNE 14, 2019

The following three examples highlight the extent to which digital transformation is reshaping the nature of business and government and how we – as a society – interact with the world. Digital Transformation in Retail. The inherently competitive nature of retail has made the sector a leader in adopting data-driven strategy.

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Collibra

JULY 21, 2023

In our data-driven age, data quality is crucial for any organization — but it’s particularly vital for citizens who rely on government agencies to provide essential services. Government programs of all kinds can benefit from the use of Collibra Data Quality & Observability.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The malware was used in attacks against multiple industries, including education, real estate, retail, non-profit organizations, telecom companies, and governments. The backdoor is written in.NET and leverages the domain name service (DNS) protocol to establish a covert communication channel with the command and control infrastructure.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 27, 2019

-based Synoptek is a managed service provider that maintains a variety of cloud-based services for more than 1,100 customers across a broad spectrum of industries , including state and local governments, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, media, retail and software.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

. “PIONEER KITTEN tradecraft is characterized by a pronounced reliance on exploits of remote external services on internet-facing assets to achieve initial access to victims, as well as an almost total reliance on open-source tooling during operations.” ” reads the report published by Crowdstrike. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Digital transformation (DX) is fundamentally impacting all aspects of the economy across every industry, and nowhere is this truer than in retail. Tools that reduce multi-cloud data security complexity are critical. Analysis of this year’s results showed that the percentage of retailers increasing IT security spending declined.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) software helps businesses manage all of the necessary documentation and processes for ensuring maximum productivity and preparedness. GRC tools are also useful for preventing and addressing vulnerabilities that will inevitably impact your systems, resources, and stakeholders. RSA Archer.

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Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2020

issued a flash alert to warn organizations of the new threat actor targeting healthcare, government, financial, and retail industries in the US. ” In March, threat actors behind PwndLocker changed the name of their malware to ProLock, immediately after security firm Emsisoft released a free decryptor tool.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Several strong themes emerged from 2022’s crop of breaches, including the targeting or impersonating of employees to gain access to internal company tools; multiple intrusions at the same victim company; and less-than-forthcoming statements from victim firms about what actually transpired.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 14, 2018

The variety of laws and regulations governing how organizations manage and share sensitive information can look like a bowl of alphabet soup: HIPAA, GDPR, SOX, PCI and GLBA. You are responsible for governing the data your employees access, regardless of how they access it. Train employees.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

“As early as 2022, APT28 actors had utilized compromised EdgeRouters to facilitate covert cyber operations against governments, militaries, and organizations around the world.” and foreign governments and military, security, and corporate organizations. ” reads the joint report. ” concludes the report.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

26 posting confirming that the compromise was at the hands of the same nation-state threat group behind the SolarWinds hack and subsequent attacks on various technology companies and federal government agencies. The intruders got in by tricking UScellular retail store employees into downloading malicious software on store computers.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

is a stock company with the Hungarian MOL Group and the Croatian Government as its biggest shareholders, while a minority of shares is owned by private and institutional investors. Fuel sales at our retail locations continue unhindered. ” reads a security breach notice published by the company on its website.

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Ransomware Encryption Retail Sales 144

The Last Watchdog

MAY 2, 2019

Cyber criminals in today’s environment have ready access to powerful tools — and innumerable support services — available on the Dark Net to anyone wishing to attempt to plunder businesses. In the not-so-distant past, only elite hackers had access to high-end, cutting-edge hacking tools. Talk more soon.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Experts observed a 400% increase in the number of attacks, compared with October, that hit government organizations. PYSA ransomware operators focus on large or high-value finance, government and healthcare organisations. The PYSA ransomware group (aka Mespinoza) recorded an increase of 50% in November. in November compared to October.

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Ransomware Encryption Government Retail 117

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

The landscape of cybersecurity laws and regulations today is set to undergo significant changes, impacting businesses, government entities, and individuals alike. Government Government agencies face unique cybersecurity challenges and are subject to federal regulations such as the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA).

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Cybersecurity Computer and Electronics Compliance Privacy 114

The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Local government agencies remain acutely exposed to being hacked. However, at this moment in history, two particularly worrisome types of cyber attacks are cycling up and hitting local government entities hard: ransomware sieges and election tampering. That’s long been true.

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Ransomware Government Security Retail 153

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2020

TA505 hacking group has been active since 2014 focusing on Retail and banking sectors. The malicious updates employed in the Zerologon attacks are able to bypass the user account control (UAC) security feature in Windows and abuse the Windows Script Host tool (wscript.exe) to execute malicious scripts.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 9, 2023

This ultimately resulted in the 2020 roll out of DigiCert ONE, a new platform of tools and services aimed at “embedding digital trust across the board within the enterprise and between all parts of the cloud ecosystem,” Chauhan says. Back in Silicon Valley, Oracle was playing catchup. “Our

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) software helps businesses manage all of the necessary documentation and processes for ensuring maximum productivity and preparedness. GRC tools are also useful for preventing and addressing vulnerabilities that will inevitably impact your systems, resources, and stakeholders. RSA Archer.

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Compliance Risk Government Retail 58

erwin

JUNE 11, 2020

Collectively, data intelligence refers to the tools, processes, and activities that are developed from business-related data that the company collects and processes for enhancing business processes. Several hospitals have also employed data intelligence tools in their services and operational processes. Healthcare.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

There are dozens of private companies that specialize in providing consumer credit reports and scores to specific industries, including real estate brokers, landlords, insurers, debt buyers, employers, banks, casinos and retail stores.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2023

IT Governance discovered 1,063 security incidents in 2022, which accounted for 480,014,323 breached records. Criminal hackers are always developing new techniques to outsmart defences, and as soon as organisations develop tools that are effective against one method of attack, criminals move on to something else. That represents an 14.8%

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IT Governance

MARCH 5, 2019

Online retailers and other organisations using ecommerce functionality must prepare for the threat of formjacking, Symantec has warned , after detecting 3.7 million instances of the attack method in 2018. Vulnerability scans are automated tests that look for weaknesses in organisations’ systems and applications.

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Retail Government IT Security 83

John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Artists Take Up Digital Tools – NYTimes. “Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital” at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York explores 3-D printers as tools for new art. “In versus ‘How can I use this as part of the tool kit to achieve what I want to do?’ ” The New Yorker has a nice slideshow.

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Retail Government IT 86

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

ransomware builder used by multiple threat actors Cisco fixes 3 high-severity DoS flaws in NX-OS and FXOS software Cybercrime Unpacking the MOVEit Breach: Statistics and Analysis Cl0p Ups The Ante With Massive MOVEit Transfer Supply-Chain Exploit FBI, Partners Dismantle Qakbot Infrastructure in Multinational Cyber Takedown U.S.

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Reltio

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Nicola Askham is the leading data governance training provider in the UK with over 16 years of experience and research in the field. She delivers training and consulting to major organisations to help them implement full data governance frameworks. ” However, I got into data governance totally by accident.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2023

We are aware of a cyber security incident that has impacted a third-party tool from Progress called MOVEit Transfer, which is used by a small number of Shell employees and customers,” said Shell US spokesperson Anna Arata in a statement. There is no evidence of impact to Shell’s core IT systems,” Arata added.

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Ransomware Data breaches Retail Government 98

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

UK retailer Matalan, US publisher Pantheon Books, and official government Twitter accounts such as the Ministry of Transportation of Colombia and the National Disaster Management Authority of India.) Crooks are exploiting the popularity of Elon Musk and a series of hacked verified Twitter accounts to implement a new fraud scheme.

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Retail Government Security 107

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

LockBit ransomware gang claims to have stolen data from PayBito crypto exchange FBI issued a flash alert on Lockbit ransomware operation CISA orders federal agencies to fix actively exploited CVE-2022-21882 Windows flaw Over 500,000 people were impacted by a ransomware attack that hit Morley Ransomware attack hit Swissport International causing delays (..)

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 28, 2022

Consequently, a data fabric self-manages and automates data discovery, governance and consumption, which enables. Data fabric in action: Retail supply chain example. Data fabric in action: Retail supply chain example. enterprises to minimize their time to value.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 26, 2019

Pick any company in any vertical – financial services, government, defense, manufacturing, insurance, healthcare, retailing, travel and hospitality – and you’ll find employees, partners, third-party suppliers and customers all demanding remote access to an expanding menu of apps — using their smartphones and laptops.

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Collibra

JANUARY 25, 2019

Collibra organized a Data Governance and Business Transformation seminar in Paris recently, bringing together data managers from the financial, retail, transportation, and logistics industries. What Forrester describes as “Data Governance 2.0” According to Forrester, Governance 2.0 Governance Across the Enterprise.

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Government Digital transformation Customer Experience Metadata 40

IT Governance

OCTOBER 3, 2019

This will typically cover public authorities such as government departments, schools and other educational institutions, hospitals and the police. Many retailers sell signs like this, leaving the purpose blank so that you can fill it in with the appropriate message. appeared first on IT Governance Blog.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

In Scotland, this will impact most significantly on sectors such as banking and retail however other key organisations in Scotland will also be affected. Some of the major Scottish organisations which you can request your data from include: National Records of Scotland , Scottish Government , Police Scotland and NHS Scotland.

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Access GDPR Personal data Retail 77

Interactive Information Management

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Yes, you may freely use the platform for your own communications purposes — but it’s not a garden walled from publisher-owner influence or governance, at all. Setting aside brick-and-mortar retail for a while more). Some “participate” more than others, supporting or suppressing content, paid or not.

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