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GUEST ESSAY: The story behind how DataTribe is helping to seed ‘Cybersecurity Valley’ in Maryland

The Last Watchdog

Within these government labs and agencies, taking place is a groundswell of innovation in deep technology cyber disciplines to the tune of billions of dollars annually over the past three decades. Kleiner was the founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Perkins was an early Hewlett-Packard computer division manager.)

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OilRig APT group: the evolution of attack techniques over time

Security Affairs

group_a : from 2016 to August 2017 2. group_b : from August 2017 to January 2018 3. The group has targeted a variety of industries, including financial, government, energy, chemical, and telecommunications, and has largely focused its operations within the Middle East. group_c : from January 2018 to February 2018 4.

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Snowden Ten Years Later

Schneier on Security

I fly a lot—a quarter of a million miles per year—and being put on a TSA list, or being detained at the US border and having my electronics confiscated, would be a major problem. So would the FBI breaking into my home and seizing my personal electronics. Transferring files electronically is what encryption is for.

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MY TAKE: COVID-19’s silver lining could turn out to be more rapid, wide adoption of cyber hygiene

The Last Watchdog

The Shamoon “wiper” virus , for instance, devastated Saudi oil company Aramaco, destroying the hard drives of more than 30,000 Aramaco computers and forcing a weeklong shutdown of the company’s internal network. A few months later the UAE stood up its National Electronic Security Authority (NESA) which proceeded to do much the same thing.

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What’s a Lawyer’s Duty When a Data Breach Occurs within the Law Firm: Cybersecurity Best Practices

eDiscovery Daily

Janik begins his article by referencing the DLA Piper NotPetya ransomware attack in 2017, as follows: “Imagine it’s a usual Tuesday morning, and coffee in hand you stroll into your office. Right inside the door, you see a handwritten notice on a big whiteboard which says: All network services are down, DO NOT turn on your computers!

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MartyMcFly Malware: new Cyber-Espionage Campaign targeting Italian Naval Industry

Security Affairs

It’s not hard to see what the payload does (CVE-2017-11882 ), but if you run it on a dynamic engine you would probably have more chances to prove it. The Payload exploits CVE-2017-11882 by spawning the Equation Editor, dropping and executing an external PE file. It makes an explicit date control check to 0x7E1 (2017).

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Weekly podcast: NHS upgrade, $242m Equifax loss and prison hacker jailed

IT Governance

Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 4 May 2018. Thousands of operations and appointments were cancelled as a result of the infection according to the 2017 National Audit Office (NAO) report on the incident, Investigation: WannaCry cyber attack and the NHS. Fourth of may be with you. Or something like that.