Tag: data
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The 9 Types of PCI SAQs and Applicability
Key Takeaways SAQ eligibility depends on exactly how you accept payments, how you handle cardholder data, and how your payment systems connect to the rest of your environment. The PCI Security Standards Council defines the SAQ types, but your acquiring bank or payment processor is the one who decides which applies to you. They may……
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Workday Confirms Data Breach Tied to Salesforce Attacks
A New Corporate Victim in a Broader CRM Exploitation Campaign Workday, one of the world’s leading human capital management (HCM) software providers, has confirmed it was impacted in a recent string of coordinated cyberattacks targeting Salesforce CRM instances through sophisticated social engineering. While the company says no customer tenants or internal systems were compromised, attackers……
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Operation Secure Saint Paul: Interlock Ransomware Hits City with 43GB Data Leak
Have you heard about Operation Secure Saint Paul? The city of St. Paul, Minnesota, has confirmed the July 25 cyberattack was a ransomware assault carried out by the group Interlock. The hackers claim they posted 43 gigabytes of stolen city data online”, including HR files and even personal items. The city refused to pay ransom…
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Randall Munroe’s XKCD ‘Grounded’
Tags: datavia the cosmic humor & dry-as-the-desert wit of Randall Munroe, creator of XKCD Permalink First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: https://securityboulevard.com/2025/08/randall-munroes-xkcd-grounded/
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Securing Non-Human Identities and Workloads in the Generative-AI Era, TrustFour’s Role
Generative-AI systems are a dense web of non-human identities (NHIs)”, APIs, services, agents, schedulers, model endpoints, data pipelines”, talking to each other over Transport Layer Security (TLS). Attackers now target these NHIs to move laterally, hijack tools, exfiltrate models/data, and impersonate trusted workloads. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/08/securing-non-human-identities-and-workloads-in-the-generative-ai-era-trustfours-role/
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Allianz Life data breach affects 1.1 million customers
Data breach notification site Have I Been Pwned notified 1.1 million customers of a July data breach, a number not previously reported. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2025/08/18/allianz-life-data-breach-affects-1-1-million-customers/
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Intrusion Detection and Prevention
In today’s hyper-connected digital world, businesses of all sizes face relentless cyber threats. From ransomware and phishing campaigns to advanced persistent threats (APTs) and insider risks, attackers are becoming increasingly sophisticated in the ways they infiltrate corporate networks. Protecting sensitive data, ensuring business continuity, and maintaining regulatory compliance requires more than traditional security tools”, it…
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NY State Fines Dental Plan Firm $2M in Phishing Breach
Healthplex, Part of UnitedHealth Group, Lacked MFA on Compromised Email Account. New York State has fined a dental plan administrator owned by UnitedHealth Group $2 million for failing to protect data with multifactor authentication and other issues related to a phishing breach that affected 90,000 people. It’s the state’s second fine against Healthplex for the…
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Casino gaming company Bragg says hackers accessed ‘internal computer environment’
Bragg Gaming Group said on Monday that it “believes that the data breach was limited to Bragg’s internal computer environment” based on its preliminary investigation. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/casino-gaming-company-cyber-incident-bragg
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Extremist hacker who defaced websites and stole data imprisoned
Hacker Al-Tahery Al-Mashriky pled guilty to attacking multiple websites based on extremist political and religious ideology First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366629342/Extremist-hacker-who-defaced-websites-and-stole-data-imprisoned
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Extremist hacker who defaced websites and stole data imprisoned
Hacker Al-Tahery Al-Mashriky pled guilty to attacking multiple websites based on extremist political and religious ideology First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366629342/Extremist-hacker-who-defaced-websites-and-stole-data-imprisoned
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Threat Actors Exploit Telegram as the Communication Channel to Exfiltrate Stolen Data
tLab Technologies, a Kazakhstan-based company that specializes in advanced threat prevention, discovered one of the first known phishing attempts in the region that targeted public sector clients in a recent cybersecurity incident. The attack leveraged a professionally crafted fake login page to harvest user credentials, employing Telegram’s Bot API as a covert exfiltration channel. This…
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Workday Latest Company Hit by Third-Party CRM Platform Breach
Workday, a high-profile HR and finance software solutions maker, is the latest victim of a string of data breaches orchestrated by the resurgent ShinyHunters threat group through Salesforce’s CRM solution, joining a lineup of targets that includes Google, Qantas, Pandora, and Adidas. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/08/workday-latest-company-hit-by-third-party-crm-platform-breach/
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Manpower Data Breach Hits 144K, Workday Confirms 3rd-Party CRM Hack
A cyberattack on Manpower’s Michigan office compromised data for 144,000 people. Meanwhile, Workday reveals a data breach in… First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/manpower-data-breach-workday-3rd-party-crm-hack/
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Workday Breached as Ransomware Group Seeks Salesforce Data
CRM Breach May Be Tied to Ongoing Scattered Spider and ShinyHunters Campaign. Cloud software giant Workday said its customer relationship management software has been breached and customer data stolen. The alert comes as attackers continue to pose as employees to trick help desks into giving them direct access to a victim’s Salesforce CRM instance. First…
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Unternehmen zu lax bei KI-Sicherheit
Beim Einsatz von KI in Unternehmen fehlt es oft an Schutzmaßnahmen.Immer mehr Unternehmen setzen KI-Tools für ihre Prozesse ein. Allerdings schulen nur zwei von fünf Firmen ihre Mitarbeitenden zur sicheren Nutzung oder haben unternehmensweite KI-Guidelines etabliert. So lautet das Ergebnis einer Umfrage des Security-Spezialisten G Data. Demnach ergreifen zwar viele Verantwortliche bereits vereinzelt Maßnahmen, jedoch…
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Bragg Gaming Group Confirms Cyberattack, Says No Customer Data Impacted
Toronto-based Bragg Gaming Group, a provider of content and technology solutions for the online gaming sector, announced that it was the target of a cybersecurity incident early on Saturday, August 16, 2025, CEST time. The company discovered the Bragg Gaming Group cyberattack over the weekend and immediately took decisive action to limit potential damage. First seen on…
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UK’s Colt hit by cyberattack, support systems offline amid ransom threat
Tags: api, attack, china, communications, cve, cyberattack, data, data-breach, exploit, finance, flaw, group, infrastructure, Internet, microsoft, network, programming, ransom, rce, remote-code-execution, russia, service, software, threat, update, vulnerabilitywith samples on a Russian Tor site.”We’ve seen already this year that telecom is particularly vulnerable to attacks, and I think this WarLock attack highlights some recurring issues that telecom and large-scale network service providers are starting to see,” said Gabrielle Hempel, Security Operations Strategist at Exabeam. “There’s this operational ripple effect when you’re a…
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(g+) Verschlüsselung auf Datenbankebene: Wie Daten selbst bei physischem Zugriff geschützt werden
Wir zeigen, wie mittels Transparent Data Encryption vertrauliche Informationen wirksam vor Unbefugten geschützt werden – sogar bei Zugriff auf Back-ups oder Datenbanken. First seen on golem.de Jump to article: www.golem.de/news/verschluesselung-auf-datenbankebene-wie-daten-selbst-bei-physischem-zugriff-geschuetzt-werden-2508-198929.html
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North Korean Hackers’ Secret Linux Malware Surfaces Online
Phrack Magazine’s latest issue #72 has unveiled a significant data leak from a suspected North Korean hacking operation, including exploit tactics, compromised system details, and a sophisticated Linux rootkit. The dump, linked to a Chinese threat actor targeting South Korean and Taiwanese government and private sectors, shows overlaps with the North Korean Kimsuky APT group.…
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Wazuh for Regulatory Compliance
Organizations handling various forms of sensitive data or personally identifiable information (PII) require adherence to regulatory compliance standards and frameworks. These compliance standards also apply to organizations operating in regulated sectors such as healthcare, finance, government contracting, or education. Some of these standards and frameworks include, but are not limited to: First seen on thehackernews.com…
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Human resources firm Workday disclosed a data breach
Human resources firm Workday disclosed a data breach after attackers accessed a third-party CRM platform via social engineering. Workday is a cloud-based software company that specializes in enterprise applications for human capital management (HCM), financial management, and planning. The company provides services to over 11,000 organizations, including over 60% of Fortune 500 firms. The HR…
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Scammers Target BackSchool Deals, Diverting Shoppers to Fraud Sites
As the back-to-school season intensifies, cybercriminals are exploiting the heightened online shopping activity by deploying sophisticated scams aimed at siphoning funds and personal data from unsuspecting consumers. According to retail analytics, U.S. households allocate approximately $860 per child on essentials like supplies, apparel, and electronics, creating a lucrative window for threat actors. These perpetrators engineer…
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Agentic AI promises a cybersecurity revolution, with asterisks
Tags: ai, api, authentication, ceo, ciso, cloud, control, cybersecurity, data, endpoint, infrastructure, jobs, LLM, open-source, openai, risk, service, soc, software, supply-chain, technology, tool, update, vulnerabilityTrust, transparency, and moving slowly are crucial: Like all technologies, and perhaps more dramatically than most, agentic AI carries both risks and benefits. One obvious risk of AI agents is that, like most LLM models, they will hallucinate or make errors that could cause problems.”If you want to remove or give agency to a platform…
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Hundreds of TeslaMate Servers Expose Real-Time Vehicle Data
A security researcher has discovered that hundreds of self-hosted TeslaMate servers are exposing sensitive Tesla vehicle data to the public internet without any authentication, revealing real-time location tracking, charging patterns, and driving habits of unsuspecting owners. TeslaMate is a popular open-source data logger that connects to Tesla’s official API to collect detailed vehicle telemetry including…