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The UK and Australian Governments Are Now Monitoring Their Gov Domains on Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

This is a little project I started whilst killing time in a hotel room in late 2013 after thinking "I wonder if people actually know where their data has been exposed?" And this is precisely why I'm writing this piece - to talk about how I'm assisting the UK and Australian governments with access to data about their own domains.

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Vietnam-linked Bismuth APT leverages coin miners to stay under the radar

Security Affairs

The OceanLotus APT group is a state-sponsored group that has been active since at least 2013. The hackers targeted organizations across multiple industries and have also hit foreign governments, dissidents, and journalists. ” Microsoft said.

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White House Publishes Report on Government Surveillance Programs

Hunton Privacy

On December 18, 2013, the White House published a report recommending reforms to the federal government’s wide-ranging surveillance programs. The report then details 46 recommendations designed to balance these goals. companies to encrypt data in transit, at rest and in storage (including in the cloud); and.

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First American Financial Pays Farcical $500K Fine

Krebs on Security

.” Mark Rasch , also former federal prosecutor in Washington, said the SEC is signaling with this action that it intends to take on more cases in which companies flub security governance in some big way. ” The SEC said the 800 million+ records had been publicly available on First American’s website since 2013.

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LeakedSource Owner Quit Ashley Madison a Month Before 2015 Hack

Krebs on Security

us began in September 2013 as a forum for learning and teaching how to hack accounts at Runescape, an MMORPG set in a medieval fantasy realm where players battle for kingdoms and riches. A review of passive DNS records from DomainTools indicates that in 2013 pictrace[.]com An administrator account Xerx3s on Abusewithus. Abusewith[.]us

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Weekly podcast: Reports galore and more cryptojacking

IT Governance

This week, we discuss new reports from Cisco, McAfee and the CSIS, and Big Brother Watch, and hear more about malicious Monero mining. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 23 February 2018. I neglected to reveal the sum the criminals managed to mine in the few hours before they were detected.

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How Are Computers Compromised (2020 Edition)

Adam Shostack

Understanding the way intrusions really happen is a long-standing interest of mine. The US Government has some interesting advantages: a large collection of attractive targets, a mandate that all CFO agencies have a security process, published investments in security, a large and skilled incident response force. .’ ”

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