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US Agencies and FireEye were hacked with a supply chain attack on SolarWinds Software

Security Affairs

Hackers broke into the networks of federal agencies and FireEye by compromising SolarWinds’ Orion Network Management Products. Treasury and Commerce departments, according to people familiar with the matter, adding they feared the hacks uncovered so far may be the tip of the iceberg.” ” reported the Reuters.

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DEA Investigating Breach of Law Enforcement Data Portal

Krebs on Security

On May 8, KrebsOnSecurity received a tip that hackers obtained a username and password for an authorized user of esp.usdoj.gov , which is the Law Enforcement Inquiry and Alerts (LEIA) system managed by the DEA. The DEA declined to comment on the validity of the claims, issuing only a brief statement in response.

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SolarWinds confirmes 18,000 customers may have been impacted

Security Affairs

Today security firm reported that hackers broke into the networks of federal agencies and FireEye by compromising SolarWinds’ Orion Network Management Products. According to the experts, the campaign may have begun as early as Spring 2020 and is still ongoing. through 2020.2.1 ” continues the SEC filing. Pierluigi Paganini.

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

The Last Watchdog

With the largest concentration of cybersecurity expertise –– the “oil” — in the world, Maryland is fast changing from the Old Line State into “Cybersecurity Valley.” There’s oil in the state of Maryland – “cyber oil.” Two notable examples are Sourcefire, acquired by Cisco for $2.7B

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ROUNDTABLE: Why T-Mobile’s latest huge data breach could fuel attacks directed at mobile devices

The Last Watchdog

Last Watchdog convened a roundtable of cybersecurity experts to discuss the ramifications, which seem all too familiar. The data that was stolen included personal identifiers that can’t be changed, the stuff identity thieves use to obtain and spend credit under other people’s names. We all know security is hard.

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Capita Admits That Its ‘Cyber Incident’ Was Ransomware and That Customer Data Was Breached

IT Governance

billion in contracts managing systems such as the BBC licence fee and the London congestion charge. 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.

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Security Compliance & Data Privacy Regulations

eSecurity Planet

For “grave” violations, such employees face fines between ¥100,000 and ¥1,000,000 – and may be prohibited from holding supervisory/management positions or a personal-information protection officer job. Type of Data Matters More Than Type of Enterprise. Location Matters. Geography matters just as much as data type.