Personally Identifiable Information (PII) encompasses data that uniquely identifies an individual. Examples of PII include direct identifiers like full names, social security numbers, driver's license numbers, and indirect identifiers such as date of birth, email and IP addresses. The precise nature of PII can vary depending on the context and jurisdiction, but its defining characteristic is its ability to single out a specific person.

Over the years, door-to-door scams have become rampant, targeting unsuspicious homeowners with various tactics. The door-to-door scam involves individuals disguising themselves as sales representatives or service providers to access people's homes to gain personally identifiable information like social security numbers, properties, or money. There are various door-to-door scams, and understanding how they work is crucial to protecting oneself and the community.

In today's digital landscape, stealer logs have become a significant threat, targeting sensitive information and compromising security. At Foresiet Threat Intelligence Team, we continuously monitor and analyze these threats to help protect individuals and organizations. Here are the top 5 stealer logs currently affecting users.

Over the last decade, cybersecurity has emerged as a critical concern for financial institutions. With cyberattacks increasing in frequency and sophistication, it has become imperative for institutions in the financial sector to safeguard sensitive data and implement robust data protection measures. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, commonly known as the Dodd-Frank Act, plays a crucial role in regulating the American financial services industry.

The intersection of identity, endpoint, and network security is becoming increasingly self-evident. Despite all their efforts, modern organizations continue to struggle to safeguard their data and prevent unauthorized access. The Verizon Data Breach Investigations report for 2024 continues to highlight that human elements were a component of 68% of breaches.

Our team at Arctic Wolf has been following the CrowdStrike issue affecting Windows endpoints since approximately 12 AM EST on July 19th, 2024. Although Arctic Wolf’s service is not impacted, some of our customers who leverage CrowdStrike for endpoint security are experiencing widespread outages. Arctic Wolf continues to protect and monitor these customers’ environments while they focus their attention on recovering from this event.

Last year, 95% of organizations faced some kind of data outage or disruption. The impact of these incidents was overwhelming, with an average cost of $1.7 million per incident. This statistic shows how important it is for organizations to have a data safety plan. Organizations need robust measures to ensure data resiliency and effective disaster recovery. One such solution is cloud-to-cloud restore. Backup is the key to recovering and restoring your data in such scenarios.

As fraudsters are continuously finding new ways to strike, we’re continuously finding new ways to prevent them with controls such as encryption, multi-factor authentication, fraud detection software, etc. But not everyone is aware that it all begins with how electronic devices are designed. With the way Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) are laid out and built, to be precise. This assembly is far more important for cybersecurity than you might think.

Cybersecurity regulations often include audits that assess and strengthen an organization’s defenses against increasing cyber threats. In the United States, various cybersecurity regulations, including HIPAA, SOX, PCI DSS, and more, require audits. Each audit ensures your organization meets the required standards outlined in the regulation while also strengthening its overall cybersecurity framework.

With the threat landscape being on the rise, CISOs need to be much more attentive while building the organization’s security strategy. Constantly arising vulnerabilities, ransomware attacks, critical workflows, outages – all of that require CISOs to stay up to date to security issues and keep their finger on the pulse to change their security strategy once the prerequisites pop up. We’ve been tracking GitHub, GitLab, and Atlassian -related incidents for the latest few years…