Tag: data
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FleshStealer: A new Infostealer Attacking Chrome Mozilla Users
A newly identified strain of information-stealing malware, FleshStealer, is making headlines in 2025 due to its advanced evasion techniques and targeted data extraction capabilities. Flashpoint analysts have shed light on its operation, revealing a sophisticated tool that poses significant risk to organizations worldwide. Designed to bypass traditional defenses and target sensitive data, FleshStealer is emerging…
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CISOs are moving closer to the board, but budget hurdles remain
In recent years, CISOs have often felt that their board of directors did not take them seriously. This key issue for cybersecurity, however, is turning around, with 82% of CISOs now reporting directly to their CEOs, versus 47% in 2023, according to a survey by Splunk.Splunk’s report, which surveyed 500 CISOs, CSOs, and similar security officers,…
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Improving Secrets Management in Healthcare Systems
Why is Secrets Management Crucial in Healthcare Systems? Have you ever considered how privileged access to digital systems in healthcare organizations can be both a boon and a bane? As more healthcare institutions migrate to cloud-based services, ensuring the security of sensitive data becomes paramount. Inadequate secrets management could lead to severe consequences, including security……
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Keeping Your Automated Systems Safe and Secure
Can NHI Management Be the Key to Unlocking Cybersecurity for Automated Systems? Where data is the new oil, we need to continually revisit and beef up our cybersecurity measures to protect crucial information. The rise in automated systems across various industries has paved the way for Non-Human Identities (NHIs) to gain prominence. This poses an……
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Data Privacy Day 2025: Time for Data Destruction to Become Standard Business Practice
Compliance standards are mandating better data security. There are several ways to do this, but most organizations would admit that erasure is not one of them. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/data-privacy/data-privacy-day-2025-time-for-data-destruction-to-become-standard-business-practice
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Zyxel CPE Devices Face Active Exploitation Due to Unpatched CVE-2024-40891 Vulnerability
Cybersecurity researchers are warning that a critical zero-day vulnerability impacting Zyxel CPE Series devices is seeing active exploitation attempts in the wild.”Attackers can leverage this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands on affected devices, leading to complete system compromise, data exfiltration, or network infiltration,” GreyNoise researcher Glenn Thorpe said in an alert First seen on thehackernews.com…
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Cybersecurity crisis in numbers
The number of US data compromises in 2024 (3,158) decreased 1% compared to 2023 (3,202), 44 events away from tying a record for the number of compromises tracked in a year, … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/01/29/data-breach-notices/
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Unknown threat actor targeting Juniper routers with backdoor: Report
Network administrators using routers from Juniper Networks are being urged to scan for possible compromise after the discovery that an unknown threat actor has been installing a backdoor in customer routers since at least 2023.The bad news: According to researchers at Lumen Technology’s Black Lotus Labs, the unknown attacker can install a reverse shell on…
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CISA warns of critical, high-risk flaws in ICS products from four vendors
Tags: access, authentication, automation, cisa, cloud, computing, control, credentials, cve, cvss, cybersecurity, data, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, injection, leak, mitigation, monitoring, open-source, remote-code-execution, risk, service, software, threat, update, vulnerability, windowsThe US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Alliance has issued advisories for 11 critical and high-risk vulnerabilities in industrial control systems (ICS) products from several manufacturers.The issues include OS command injection, unsafe deserialization of data, use of broken cryptographic algorithms, authentication bypass, improper access controls, use of default credentials, sensitive information leaks, and more. The flaws…
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Report: Almost half of state consumer privacy laws fail to protect individuals’ data
Nearly half of state consumer privacy laws fail to adequately protect individuals’ data and have made consumer protections weaker than they were before the laws were passed, according to a report released Tuesday. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/state-consumer-privacy-laws-failing-to-protect-data
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MGM agrees to pay $45 million to victims of 2019 data breach and 2023 ransomware attack
MGM Resorts International agreed to pay $45 million to settle multiple class action lawsuits related to a data breach in 2019 and a ransomware attack the company experienced in 2023. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/mgm-agrees-45-million-payment-data-breach-ransomware-victims
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SLAP, Apple, and FLOP: Safari, Chrome at risk of data theft on iPhone, Mac, iPad Silicon
It’s another cousin of Spectre, here to read your email, browsing history, and more First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/01/29/flop_and_slap_attacks_apple_silicon/
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Only 13% of organizations fully recover data after a ransomware attack
Ransomware attacks are disrupting and undermining business operations and draining revenue streams, according to Illumio. Findings from the study reveal that 58% of … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/01/29/ransomware-attacks-business-operations-disruption/
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Reverse engineering your test data: It’s not as safe as you think it is
Not all approaches to data de-identification and anonymization are created equal. Many approaches leave your data exposed to the very real risk of re-identification. Here’s how that can happen and how to avoid it. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/01/reverse-engineering-your-test-data-its-not-as-safe-as-you-think-it-is/
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What is the role of data synthesis in my CI/CD pipeline, anyway?
Tags: dataThe short answer? Adding data synthesis to your CI/CD pipeline makes your processes better, faster, and more efficient. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/01/what-is-the-role-of-data-synthesis-in-my-ci-cd-pipeline-anyway/
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UHG’s PR Headache: How Did Breach Total Jump to 190 Million?
Experts Explain Complexity of Company’s Massive Data Breach Analysis Endeavor. UnitedHealth Group says its previously eye-popping estimate of 100 million people affected by last year’s attack on its Change Healthcare unit nearly doubled in recent months to a staggering 190 million victims. Why did it take so long for the company to figure out the…
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5 ways boards can improve their cybersecurity governance
Tags: attack, breach, business, ciso, cloud, cyber, cybersecurity, data, election, endpoint, finance, gartner, governance, government, group, identity, incident, india, infrastructure, jobs, middle-east, network, ransomware, regulation, risk, skills, technology, threat, trainingAs chairman of the board for Cinturion Group, Richard Marshall is intimately involved in ensuring the security of the fiber optic network his company is constructing from India through the Middle East and on to Europe.The monumental Trans Europe Asia System (TEAS) will be difficult enough to build given it will be buried beneath thousands…
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Comic Agilé Luxshan Ratnaravi, Mikkel Noe-Nygaard #321 Use Jira
Tags: datavia the respected Software Engineering expertise of Mikkel Noe-Nygaard and the lauded Software Engineering / Enterprise Agile Coaching work of Luxshan Ratnaravi at Comic Agilé! Permalink First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: https://securityboulevard.com/2025/01/comic-agile-luxshan-ratnaravi-mikkel-noe-nygaard-321-use-jira/
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New Apple CPU side-channel attacks steal data from browsers
A team of security researchers has disclosed new side-channel vulnerabilities in modern Apple processors that could steal sensitive information from web browsers. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-apple-cpu-side-channel-attack-steals-data-from-browsers/
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How to Protect and Secure Your Data in 10 Ways
Use this comprehensive list of strategies to help you safeguard your company’s data from threats and data breaches. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-protect-and-secure-data/
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New Apple CPU side-channel attacks steals data from browsers
A team of security researchers has disclosed new side-channel vulnerabilities in modern Apple processors that could steal sensitive information from web browsers. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-apple-cpu-side-channel-attack-steals-data-from-browsers/
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Stimmen zum World Data Privacy Day 2025
Der Data Privacy Day (in Europa als Datenschutztag bekannt) findet jedes Jahr am 28. Januar statt. Ziel des Datenschutztages ist es, das Bewusstsein für den Schutz der Privatsphäre zu schärfen und bewährte Verfahren für den Datenschutz zu fördern. Er wird … First seen on borncity.com Jump to article: www.borncity.com/blog/2025/01/28/stimmen-zum-world-data-privacy-day-2025/
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ENGlobal Cyber-Attack Exposes Sensitive Data
Energy contractor ENGlobal reported that sensitive personal data was stolen by threat actors, with the incident disrupting operations for six weeks First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/englobal-attack-sensitive-data/
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Texas utility firm investigating potential leak of customer data tied to 2023 MOVEit breach
A large Texas energy company confirmed it is investigating reports of stolen customer data that has been published on a cybercriminal forum after it was allegedly taken during a 2023 breach. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/texas-utility-firm-investigating-potential-data-leak-moveit-breach
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PowerSchool starts notifying victims of massive data breach
Education software giant PowerSchool has started notifying individuals in the U.S. and Canada whose personal data was exposed in a late December 2024 cyberattack. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/powerschool-starts-notifying-victims-of-massive-data-breach/
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PowerSchool begins notifying students and teachers after massive data breach
The edtech giant is notifying state attorneys general about the breach but won’t say how many individuals have been affected First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2025/01/28/powerschool-begins-notifying-students-and-teachers-after-massive-data-breach/
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Security pros more confident about fending off ransomware, despite being battered by attacks
Data leak, shmata leak. It will all work out, right? First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/01/28/research_security_pros_gain_ransomware/
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NinjaOne to Acquire Dropsuite for $252 Million
Endpoint management and security firm NinjaOne to acquire cloud data backup, archiving, and recovery solutions provider Dropsuite for $252 million. The post NinjaOne to Acquire Dropsuite for $252 Million appeared first on SecurityWeek. First seen on securityweek.com Jump to article: www.securityweek.com/ninjaone-to-acquire-dropsuite-for-252-million/
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Mega-Breaches Bump Up 2024 Victim Count
Identity Theft Resource Center Catalogs 3,158 Known US Incidents in 2024. The number of U.S. organizations falling victim to a data breach appears to be holding steady, as viewed on an annual basis, according to the latest annual data breach report from the Identity Theft Resource Center, which counted 3,158 reported data breaches in 2024,…