Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Security researchers from NCC Group reported an increase in ransomware attacks in November 2021 over the past month, and PYSA (aka Mespinoza) and Lockbit were the most active ransomware gangs. CERT-FR’s alert states that the Pysa ransomware code is based on public Python libraries. in November compared to October. continues the report.

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Ransomware Encryption Government Retail 289

Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 18, 2022

When a participant uses a SNAP payment card at an authorized retail store, their SNAP EBT account is debited to reimburse the store for food that was purchased. The Massachusetts SNAP benefits card looks more like a library card than a payment card. Over the past several months, authorities in multiple U.S. banking system.

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Retail Libraries IT Risk 295

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

About 3% of the infected systems belong to organizations in different sectors, including education, professional services, healthcare, finance, and retail. One of the second-stage instances of PowerShell downloads the legitimate node.exe tool, while another drops WinDivert packet capture library components. Pierluigi Paganini.

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e-Delivery Retail Libraries Education 263

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2020

is an American bookseller with the largest number of retail outlets in the United States in fifty states. Over the weekend, users have been complaining on Nook’s Facebook page and Twitter that they were not able to access their library of purchased eBooks and magazine subscriptions. . Barnes & Noble, Inc. , The post U.S.

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Ransomware Encryption Retail Access 320

Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2019

FIN6 group has been active since 2015, past attacks were focused on point-of-sale (POS) machines used by retailers and companies in the hospitality sector in the U.S. The post FIN6 recently expanded operations to target eCommerce sites appeared first on Security Affairs. and Europe. . The experts discovered that the FIN6 group (a.k.a.

Retail 274

Retail Libraries Sales Phishing 274

Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2019

In fact, the “ fwmain32 ” process is part of the software services produced by Wincor Nixdorf International GmbH, one of the major vendors providing retail and banking hardware such as ATMs. Figure 5: “msxfs.dll”, library required by malware to communicate with ATM device. Figure 2: Research of “fwmain32.exe” exe” process by malware.

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Libraries e-Discovery Communications File names 233

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 7, 2018

” The following month, Michigan authorities found the same individual accessing personal consumer data via public Wi-Fi at a local library, and seized 45 SIM cards, a laptop and a Trezor wallet — a hardware device designed to store crytpocurrency account data. All four major U.S.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Compared to August, it was a comparatively quiet month, as we identified 88 publicly disclosed security incidents and 35,566,046 compromised records. Welcome to our September 2022 list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Ransomware. Data breaches. Malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents. Cyber attacks.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 1, 2021

In November, we discovered 81 publicly disclosed cyber security incidents, accounting for 223,615,390 breached records. In the meantime, you can find the full list of security incidents below, with those affecting UK organisations listed in bold. Cyber attacks. Ransomware. Data breaches. Financial information. In other news….

Data breaches 141

Data breaches Ransomware Computer and Electronics Healthcare 141

IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2022

We identified 77 security incidents during the month, resulting in 49,782,129 compromised records. Meanwhile, be sure to subscribe to our Weekly Round-up to receive the latest cyber security news and advice delivered straight to your inbox. If you’re facing a cyber security disaster, IT Governance is here to help.

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Data breaches Ransomware Phishing Education 126

The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 9, 2023

If left unremediated, the exposures would allow attackers and malicious insiders to drain funds from the wallets of millions of retail and institutional customers in seconds, with no knowledge to the user or vendor. New York, N.Y., The issue was promptly addressed and no user funds were affected.

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Retail Insurance Libraries Paper 100

IT Governance

MAY 4, 2021

It was another busy month in the cyber security sector, as we discovered 143 incidents that resulted in 1,098,897,134 breached records. discloses security incident (unknown) St. discloses security incident (unknown) St. discloses security incident (unknown) St. discloses security incident (unknown) St.

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Data breaches Ransomware Computer and Electronics Healthcare 115

IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2021

If you find yourself facing a cyber security disaster, IT Governance is here to help. Edinburgh mental health clinic in probe after client information accessed in scam (unknown) Iranian Hackers Hit H&M Israel (unknown) South Africa’s VirginActive goes offline after cyber attack (unknown) B.C. Spargo & Associates Inc.

Data breaches 124

Data breaches Ransomware Insurance Energy and Utilities 124

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 10, 2021

What’s driving the security of IoT? The Urgency for Security in a Connected World. Imagine a world where the retail value of your car actually grows over time – that’s now becoming a reality. It’s also enabling manufacturers to respond faster to security vulnerabilities, market demand, and even natural disasters.

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IoT Security Manufacturing Encryption 77

IT Governance

DECEMBER 1, 2020

We recorded 103 cyber security incidents in November, which accounted for 586,771,602 leaked records. The majority of those came from a credential-stuffing attack targeting Spotify and a data leak at the messaging app GO SMS Pro, which you can learn more about below. Here is our complete list of November’s cyber attacks and data breaches.

Data breaches 137

Data breaches Ransomware e-Discovery Personal data 137

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 7, 2024

“We are thrilled to be working with Badge, enabling a best-in-class authentication solution that builds on top of our market-leading identity data management and identity analytics capabilities to provide greater privacy and security to our customers,” said Wade Ellery , Field CTO, Radiant Logic.

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Authentication Privacy Analytics Digital transformation 100

IT Governance

APRIL 22, 2024

Compromised data includes names, passport numbers, Social Security numbers, online crypto account identifiers and bank account numbers. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Criminal hackers threaten to leak World-Check screening database A criminal group known as GhostR claims to have stolen 5.3

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Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Security 52

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 27, 2024

Modern Cryptography -- The Journey madhav Tue, 05/28/2024 - 05:04 Cryptography has been the backbone of security in our digital world, and it continues to grow in importance as more services, capabilities, and in fact, our lives become ever more digital. I am, of course, referring to the foundation of all digital security.

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Libraries Retail Risk Encryption 62

IT Governance

DECEMBER 19, 2023

An investigation determined that personal data, including names, addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, dates of birth and bank account numbers, belonging to nearly 15 million people was obtained by an unauthorised party between 30 October and 1 November. Data breached: personal data belonging to 14,690,284 individuals.

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Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Security 52

Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 22, 2019

The report contains lots of facts and figures relevant to crypto policy debates, including the chaotic nature of crypto markets in the mid-1990s, the number of approved devices and libraries of various kinds since then, other standards that invoke AES, and so on. Still, I like seeing this kind of analysis about security infrastructure.

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Encryption Agriculture Retail Manufacturing 64

IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2024

LockBit claims responsibility for Capital Health security incident The LockBit ransomware group has claimed responsibility for an attack on Capital Health , a healthcare provider in Pennington, New Jersey, last November. They accessed 41.5 The compromised data allegedly includes names, email addresses and phone numbers.

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Data Privacy Privacy Data breaches Security 63

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Compromised data includes policyholders’ and their families’ civil status, dates of birth and social security numbers, as well as the name of their health insurer and information relating to their contracts. It has since been confirmed by Anukul Peedkaew, the permanent secretary of social development and human security.

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Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Security 52

eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Attackers can compromise credentials because of extensive user password problems throughout most organizations; however, a number of security solutions provide credentials protection for both basic and advanced needs. Infrastructure Protection Defense against DDoS and DNS attacks starts with effective network security architecture.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Fowler sent a responsible disclosure notice when he discovered the database and it was secured the following day. Source New Telecoms USA Yes 6,158 Nabholz Construction Company Employee Welfare Health Plan Source 1 ; source 2 New Healthcare USA Yes 5,326 Dawson James Securities, Inc. North Hill Home Health Care, Inc.,

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Energy and Utilities 52

ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Machine learning algorithms are already being used in transportation to ease road congestion, in healthcare to spot medical errors and improve patient care and in retail to improve the customer shopping experience. But how exactly will artificial intelligence help bridge the information security skills gap? Listen here: [link].

Security 52

Security Artificial Intelligence Computer and Electronics Libraries 52

The Security Ledger

JULY 26, 2018

In this Spotlight Podcast, sponsored by Trusted Computing Group*, Dennis Mattoon of Microsoft Research gives us the low-down on DICE: the Device Identifier Composition Engine Architectures, which provides a means of solving a range of security and identity problems on low cost, low power IoT endpoints. Among them: establishing strong device.

IoT 40

IoT Security Military Retail 40

IT Governance

MAY 24, 2024

About Vanessa Horton Vanessa holds a degree in computer forensics, as well as a number of cyber security and forensics qualifications. Now, she’s part of our cyber incident response team, helping clients with their cyber security requirements. Return to contents Detection – security monitoring and what is ‘normal’?

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The post The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 20 – 26 November 2023 appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. We’ll be back next week with the biggest and most interesting news stories, all rounded up in one place for you. In the meantime, if you missed it, check out last week’s round-up.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Energy and Utilities Data breaches 52

IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Visual modeling: Combine visual data science with open source libraries and notebook-based interfaces on a unified data and AI studio. Key benefits of an AI platform AI platforms can help you harness the power of AI technology, driving a range of benefits for your business, such as increased automation, scale, security and more.

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Data science Manufacturing Artificial Intelligence Retail 71

Troy Hunt

AUGUST 5, 2021

But also full disclosure, I do buy Lenovo machines at full retail with my own hard-earned dollars because frankly, they're awesome: Bought @charlottelyng a *very* nice Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme to replace her MacBook Pro. These machines came courtesy of the Insiders program so full disclosure, I didn't pay for them.

Education 28

Education IT Retail Libraries 28

Preservica

MARCH 14, 2018

Preservica’s active digital preservation platform selected to future-proof unique digital assets that document nearly 150 years of corporate, brand and retail history. This is especially pertinent for material that is currently at risk of degradation and format obsolescence, such as film and VHS tapes.

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Archiving Digital preservation Cloud Retail 45

IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 15, 2023

.” — Babu Unnikrishnan, CTO, Relationship Incubation Group, TCS Financial institution reduces IT infrastructure spend by USD 300,000 annually Financial institutions have complex regulatory, compliance and security requirements, in addition to specific user expectations. This upgrade resulted in improved overall performance.

Cloud 58

Cloud Digital transformation Energy and Utilities Retail 58

ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Machine learning algorithms are already being used in transportation to ease road congestion, in healthcare to spot medical errors and improve patient care and in retail to improve the customer shopping experience. But how exactly will artificial intelligence help bridge the information security skills gap? Listen here: [link].

Security 40

Security Artificial Intelligence Computer and Electronics Libraries 40

ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Machine learning algorithms are already being used in transportation to ease road congestion, in healthcare to spot medical errors and improve patient care and in retail to improve the customer shopping experience. But how exactly will artificial intelligence help bridge the information security skills gap? Listen here: [link].

Security 40

Security Artificial Intelligence Computer and Electronics Libraries 40

Collibra

OCTOBER 4, 2022

There is a lack of prioritization on what data needs to be protected and likely a misalignment between security and business objectives in handling data. Semantic label: a generic descriptor for the column header, using an assigned value chosen from a library of approved data classes. Classification hierarchy . What is data governance?

Government 93

Government Access Sales Risk 93

IT Governance

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) has fined Heathrow Airport £120,000 for failing to secure sensitive personal data after a member of public found an unencrypted USB stick containing data about the airport’s staff. How did the data breach occur? The newspaper copied the data before returning the stick to Heathrow Airport.

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Data breaches Personal data Libraries Information Security 56

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Rogue security software. Architect a premium network security model like SASE that encompasses SD-WAN , CASB , secure web gateways , ZTNA , FWaaS , and microsegmentation. Ensure you install and run anti-malware software on your system and maintain high-security settings for browser activity. Jump ahead: Adware.

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