The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 27, 2022

Such consolidation across markets is good news for customers and vendors alike in terms of market growth and maximizing security investments. Throughout this period, the risk level of the acquirer is much higher than the acquired company, creating a major cybersecurity gap as they merge their tech stack and security tools together.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 4, 2022

Related: ‘SASE’ framework extends security to the network edge. That said, APIs are certain to get a lot more attention by security teams — and board members concerned about cyber risk mitigation — in 2022. Legacy security architectures just don’t fit this massively complex, highly dynamic environment.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 15, 2019

Researchers have found several vulnerabilities in the WPA3 Wi-Fi security protocol: The design flaws we discovered can be divided in two categories. The discovered flaws can be abused to recover the password of the Wi-Fi network, launch resource consumption attacks, and force devices into using weaker security groups.

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IT Governance

JUNE 30, 2022

We identified 80 security incidents during the month, resulting in 34,908,053 compromised records. You can find the full list below, broken down into categories. Meanwhile, be sure to subscribe to our Weekly Round-up to receive the latest cyber security news and advice delivered straight to your inbox. In other news….

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 15, 2023

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Below are the vulnerability details: Vulnerability Category Vulnerability Impact Severity CVSS base score CVSS vector CVE Number Out-of-bounds Write ( CWE-787 ) Arbitrary code execution Critical 7.8 ??CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H An attacker could trigger these flaws for?arbitrary Pierluigi Paganini. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 18, 2021

In May 2019, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the website of mortgage settlement giant First American Financial Corp. Securities and Exchange Commission settled its investigation into the matter after the Fortune 500 company agreed to pay a paltry penalty of less than $500,000. This week, the U.S.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2022

Cisco addressed a critical bypass authentication flaw in Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) and Secure Email and Web Manager. Cisco addressed a critical bypass authentication vulnerability affecting Email Security Appliance (ESA) and Secure Email and Web Manager. Email Security Appliance: CSCvy13453.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 1, 2022

We identified 85 security incidents during the month, resulting in 99,243,757 compromised records. You can find the full list below, broken into categories. Meanwhile, be sure to subscribe to our Weekly Round-up to receive the latest cyber security news and advice delivered straight to your inbox. In other news….

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2020

The list of sites blocked in MYANMAR includes many websites that did not fall under the categories adult content or fake news. However, the block list included many websites that did not fall under the categories “adult content or fake news”. Original post at: [link]. Telenor Myanmar – an attempt to resistance.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2022

The activity of the Lyceum APT group was first documented earlier in August 2019 by researchers at ICS security firm Dragos which tracked it as Hexane. The attack chain observed by the researchers starts with spear-phishing messages using weaponized Word document disguised as a news report related to military affairs in Iran.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2020

“Adobe has published security bulletins for Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application ( APSB20-33 ), Adobe Media Encoder ( APSB20-36 ), Adobe Genuine?Service ” Adobe has released a security update for the Adobe Download Manager for Windows that addresses a? .” ” reads the post published by Adobe.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

This week, authorities in Nigeria arrested a suspect in connection with the scheme — a young man who said he was trying to save up money to help fund a new social network. Image: Abnormal Security. But after his name appeared in the news media, he received thousands of inquiries from people interested in his idea.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

This month’s Patch Tuesday offers a little something for everyone, including security updates for a zero-day flaw in Microsoft Windows that is under active attack, and another Windows weakness experts say could be used to power a fast-spreading computer worm. ” And Adobe axed 63 vulnerabilities in a range of products.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2020

70 percent of mobile and desktop applications that today we use are affected at least by one security flaw that is present in open-source libraries. Some security issues are relatively exotic or difficult to exploit while others may be much more significant to their application. ” reads the report. .”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2022

The leaked document are arranged in two major categories, one containing more than 360,000 files that date up to March 5 (536.9 Clearly, at this time, it is very difficult to check the source of the leak and confirm their authenticity because documents are in Russians and much similar news is circulating online. Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2024

Ransomware remains just one of many different threats and as security teams eliminate key vectors of attack, adversaries will shift tactics. Unmanaged devices consist of any device that connects to the network, cloud resources, or other assets without corporate-controlled security. What Are Unmanaged Devices?

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Welcome to this week’s round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. This week, we’re taking a slightly different approach with the ‘publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks’ category, presenting the most interesting data points in a table format. The ‘enforcement’ and ‘other news’ categories remain unchanged.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 12, 2022

Meta also blocked the accounts of Russian media outlets and news agencies supporting Moscow’s disinformation, including RIA Novosti, Sputnik, and Russia Today. ” Probably the truth is different, the Russian government fears that the spreading of news related to its cruel invasion of Ukraine could destabilize internal contest.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2020

Adobe has released security updates to address several critical code execution vulnerabilities in its Bridge, Photoshop and Prelude products. “Adobe has published security bulletins for Adobe Bridge ( APSB20-44 ), Adobe Photoshop ( APSB20-45 ), Adobe Prelude ( APSB20-46 ) and Adobe Reader Mobile ( APSB20-50 ). it addresses three?

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

For example, when surveying the market for email security, survey results should include respondents from each category that might represent different needs. The survey should have representation from categories such as: Company size: small to large Industry vertical: healthcare, energy, etc.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2022

“We leverage speculative execution attacks to bypass an important memory protection mechanism, ARM Pointer Authentication, a security feature that is used to enforce pointer integrity. Anyway, the bad news is that the hardware mechanisms used by PACMAN cannot be patched with software updates. ” the researchers concluded.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 31, 2019

A year ago , the Norwegian Consumer Council published an excellent security analysis of children's GPS-connected smart watches. The security was terrible. This is a lesson in the limits of naming and shaming: publishing vulnerabilities in an effort to get companies to improve their security. News article.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 15, 2024

From analyzing attack methods and suggesting defense tactics to doing vulnerability assessments, it provides users with the knowledge to improve their security posture. Aside from ethical hacking, HackerGPT seeks to assist professionals and improve security assessments. Launch of HackerGPT 2.0 It has an intuitive UI similar to ChatGPT.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Welcome to our third quarterly review of security incidents for 2022, in which we take a closer look at the information gathered in our monthly list of data breaches and cyber attacks. In this article, you’ll find an overview of the cyber security landscape from the past three months, including the latest statistics and our observations.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Welcome to our third quarterly review of security incidents for 2021, in which we take a closer look at the information gathered in our monthly list of cyber attacks and data breaches. In this article, you’ll find an overview of the cyber security landscape from the past three months, including the latest statistics and our observations.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

In our examples, the clothing brand secures a segregated design team with physical locks on the doors, extra computer security to prevent digital theft, and a backup solution for their marketing data. These include new opportunities, clear priorities, and better security, performance, and resilience.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 21, 2019

The CNIL also suggested that users “are not fully able to understand” the extent of Google’s data processing, partly because “the purposes of processing are described in a too generic and vague manner, and so are the categories of data processed for these various purposes.” .

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IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2023

IT Governance found 98 publicly disclosed security incidents in May 2023, accounting for 98,226,877 breached records. You can find the full list below, divided into four categories: cyber attacks, ransomware, data breaches, and malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents. million) Apria Healthcare suffers security breach (1.8

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IT Governance

APRIL 20, 2023

It also works extensively with the Department of Work and Pensions, managing its payment assessment systems, and has contracts with the NHS, National Cyber Security Centre, the Cabinet Office and other government agencies. Capita is one of the largest public-sector service providers in the UK, with £6.5

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Meanwhile, the bastion of password security, LastPass, announced that its systems had been breached – although the organisation is confident that customers’ details remain secure. In total, we identified 112 publicly disclosed security incidents in August, resulting in 97,456,345 compromised records. In other news….

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2021

This is bad news for WhatsApp users and their privacy, the company is notifying them that starting February 8, 2021, they will be requested to share their data with Facebook companies. “WhatsApp currently shares certain categories of information with Facebook Companies. ” states WhatsApp. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

A system called Mayhem, created by a team of Carnegie-Mellon computer security researchers, won. It came in last overall, but it didn’t come in last in every category all of the time. It would be the same story we’ve seen in so many other areas of AI: the games of chess and go, X-ray and disease diagnostics, writing fake news.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 4, 2019

GCIS was a Davos-level conference with no vendors and no selling, where scores of chief security information officers (CISOs), top CEO’s, industry and government thought leaders and leading innovators discussed the myriad challenges in and around cybersecurity and possible solutions in today’s environment. On average in the U.S,

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This important feature uses header information from established communication connections to improve overall security. An understanding of how stateful inspection works, the key pros and cons, and its use cases provides important insight into how stateful inspection can be used successfully in a security stack.

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IT Governance

MARCH 27, 2018

There isn’t an exception for small businesses, so if you fall into the following categories , you’ll need a DPO: You are a public authority (except for courts acting in their judicial capacity). You carry out large-scale processing of special categories of data or data relating to criminal convictions and offences.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 5, 2019

I’m privileged to share news that two Last Watchdog articles were recognized in the 2019 Information Management Today MVP Awards. I’ve been paying close attention to privacy and cybersecurity since 2004, first as a technology reporter at USA TODAY, then as Editor-In-Chief of ThirdCertainty.com, a corporate-underwritten news analysis blog.

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