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Data Breaches 101: What They Are And How To Prevent Them

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A data breach could ruin your business overnight. Are you prepared to deal with regulatory fines, lawsuits, costly investigations, disrupted operations, and destroyed trust while cybercriminals profit freely from stolen data? That’s the harsh aftermath companies face today following high-profile breaches.

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Chip maker launches probe into data theft amid cybersecurity concerns

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AMD) announced that it has launched a probe of a data breach carried out by a cybercriminal group called Intelbroker that led to several private documents and information being stolen which occurred early this month. American chip giant Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. This is not the first time that AMD has suffered a cyber-attack.

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Unencrypted Vistaprint Database Exposed Personal Customer Data

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Printing company Vistaprint left an online database containing customer interactions unencrypted, according to a report. A security researcher named Oliver Hough discovered the unprotected database on Nov. After the report was published, the company quietly took down the database.

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Encryption vs. Tokenization for Banking and Payment Professionals

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Data protection is a top priority in banking and payment systems, where sensitive information such as cardholder details and personal data are frequently exchanged. The rapid rise in cybercrime and data breaches makes robust security frameworks indispensable for financial institutions. databases).

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Data Breach Leaks 198M Car Buyers’ Personal Data

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A massive data breach has compromised the records of 198 million car buyers. Jeremiah Fowler, a senior security researcher at Security Discovery , discovered the breach after coming across the same 413GB dataset multiple times. “It While Fowler notified DealerLeads via email about the breach on Aug.

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2018 Data Breaches: The List No One Wanted To Make

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So far this year (and there’s still one more day), Verizon reported that there have been 2,216 confirmed data breaches across 65 countries. Even more disturbing, perhaps, is that 68 percent of those breaches took months for the breached companies to discover. According to early reports, the data breach impacted 0.5

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T-Mobile Data Breach Puts Personal Data Of 1M+ Customers At Risk

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A recent data breach exposed the personal data of more than 1 million prepaid T-Mobile customers, reports said on Friday (Nov. The information exposed did not include any financial information, social security numbers or password data. The company found that in 2018, breaches cost a company $1.23