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Ukrainian Websites Struck by Cyber Attacks as Russia Launches Invasion

IT Governance

Those warnings came true yesterday, after Ukraine was hit by a wave of DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks that crippled the country’s banks and government departments. Despite this, the incident is ongoing, with latency and outages continuing at the Security Service of Ukraine, which points to the severity of the incident.”.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 March 2024

IT Governance

Source (New) Transport USA Yes 3,815 Okta Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Cyber security USA Yes 3,800 Shah Dixit & Associates, P.C. million for security failings relating to a 2018 cyber attack on its mobile banking platform. Source (New) Professional services Netherlands Yes 28.3 UniCredit fined €2.8

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UK Foreign Office targeted by ‘serious’ cyber attack

IT Governance

The UK’s FCDO (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) was recently hit by a “serious cyber security incident”, according to a public tender document. According to the BBC , the attackers were able to breach the FCDO but were detected thanks to the support of third-party cyber security experts, who were called in “with extreme urgency”.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 1 – 7 April 2024

IT Governance

Kid Security breached again: children’s live GPS locations exposed on the Internet Last November , the parental control app Kid Security, which allows parents to monitor and control their children’s online safety, was found to have exposed more than 300 million records via misconfigured Elasticsearch and Logstash instances.

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Anatomy of a Quantum Attack

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Each present a unique set of challenges and require equally powerful next-generation cyber security. For most commercial businesses, countermeasures against cyberattacks are about preserving data privacy, integrity, and security. government. But another, far more damaging, attack vector is looming – quantum attack.

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2022 Cyber Security Review of the Year

IT Governance

Although there have still been a few surprises, with the death of Queen Elizabeth II and blazing heatwaves across the UK to name but two, it was a familiar year in the cyber security landscape. Google , Clearview AI , and Meta all receives hefty penalties in 2022, demonstrating the continued important of effective information security.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 15 – 21 January 2024

IT Governance

Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight More than 70 million email addresses added to Have I Been Pwned The security researcher Troy Hunt has added more than 70 million email addresses from the Naz.API data set to his Have I Been Pwned data breach notification service. VF Corporation confirms 35.5