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On April 2 2021 it was confirmed that a malicious user published the phone numbers and personal data of hundreds of millions of Facebook users for free online The information spanning from users across the globe includes phone numbers user IDs full names locations birthdates and some email addresses A...
An updated cybersecurity law that the IT organization along with other college university departments will need to continue to integrate into its compliance programs policies and controls is the recent changes to New York s General Business Law 899 aa and 899 bb aka SHIELD Act The compliance actions supporting...
The year 2020 will be forever remembered for the impacts of how the global pandemic forced the adoption of innovative production logistics and workforce solutions Many best practices emerged from the experiences of COVID 19 we continue to learn that these new methods can pay significant dividends in 2021 and...
In our increasingly digital world individual s personal information resides on hundreds if not thousands of servers across the globe resulting in a huge rise in identity theft Defined as the crime of obtaining the personal or financial information of another person to use their identity to commit fraud or...
With many still reeling from the aftermath of the SolarWinds hack enough dust has settled that we ve started to ask the important questions How did this happen What can we do to prevent this in the future And will it happen again The good news is that this cyber...
This post originally appeared on Security Magazine Ensuring the confidentiality integrity and availability of information must be at the forefront of any business in today s environment While many think they are up to this task there s a lot that goes into protecting data Cyberattacks and data security breaches...
The Department of Homeland Security has issued this emergency directive DHS DIRECTIVE 21 01 8211 Treat all hosts monitored by the SolarWinds Orion monitoring software as compromised by threat actors and assume that further persistence mechanisms have been deployed 8221 Visit the DHS Website and read about the directive If...
FoxPointe Solutions has been closely following the major data breach that was recently announced involving Cit0day as well as the subsequent analyses to accurately identify the true risk levels that could be associated with it Following the emergence of updated forensic reports it has been determined that this breach could...
Like almost every organization doing business in 2020 HITRUST® has had to adopt some changes due to the COVID 19 Pandemic As the year progressed and we were able to see the long term impact that COVID 19 has caused we began to see changes in guidelines and options for...
Credible information regarding a well known Russian cybercriminal organization plotting a mass ransomware attack across the United States healthcare industry led officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Homeland Security to formally warn industry executives of the threat on Tuesday October 28th In short evidence discovered...