The Security Ledger

AUGUST 20, 2021

As we noted back in episode 204: that started with work to shore up the COVID vaccine supply chain , which was heavily reliant on a large number of small, specialized equipment and component makers, most of whom lacked any permanent IT security staff. Laissez-las utilizer ‘zero trust’!

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2021

Early this year the group announced that it will no longer attack organizations in the healthcare industry, companies involved in the development and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, and funeral service organizations. “Our goal is to make money, and not creating problems for society,” reads a statement from the group.

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Archive-It

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Public libraries, historical societies, and other regional collectors maintain 40 of these collections, comprising over 16TB of preserved data from over 11K seed URLs at the time of writing. Wisconsin Historical Society. Browse the list of public collections below to access them each. . Metropolitan Library System. Pennsylvania.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Beyond the emergency patch issued by the ASF, Cybereason this week issued a “vaccine” for the vulnerability while the NCC Group rolled out a mitigation to keep Log4j from loading classes remotely over LDAP and CrowdSec unveiled an exploit detection tool. CISA Steps In.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 10, 2022

COVID-19 again dominated the news, with initial optimism over vaccine rollouts and the potential end of the pandemic making way for new variants and the return of social restrictions. Additionally, the UK government website crashed – on the day that Britons aged 25–29 were invited to book their COVID-19 vaccines.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Weir Group suffers ‘sophisticated’ ransomware attack (unknown) Pottawatomie Co.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Humans have used technology to transform their societies from prehistoric times up to the present. Society begrudgingly accepted the transformative changes, yet the changes moved society forward. Now information technologies and the information revolution are again transforming society.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 23, 2018

This creates the need to offer annual vaccinations because, for the more vulnerable in society, it could prove fatal. As each new season is different from its predecessor, it is difficult to predict how mild or severe it might be. Influenza continually circulates round the world and the viruses mutate.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JANUARY 15, 2021

Despite the name, a vaccine passport is not a piece of paper; instead, in the most developed versions of the idea, it is an app or similar system that can prove the bearer has been vaccinated, tested positive for Covid antibodies, or recently received a negative test. Continue reading.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JANUARY 23, 2021

Moves to assess who has had coronavirus jab could be used by human resources teams to assess employability Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Employers are creating vaccine databases of their workers to track who has been inoculated against the coronavirus.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 17, 2021

“Our goal is to make money, and not creating problems for society,” the DarkSide criminals wrote last week. This can technically be used as a ‘vaccine’ against Russian malware.”

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 14, 2023

She documented instances where lobbyist comments—on health-care research, vaccine services, and other provisions—were translated directly into microlegislation in the form of amendments. Advancements in AI, meanwhile, seem to be making impressive breakthroughs at a much faster pace—and it’s still accelerating.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Their work is on society in general and vulnerable. It's far more common antivirus typically desktop software so if you install an anti virus vaccine, they should. Grooten: I think everyone working in security should understand everyone working in, in any country to understand the impacts. on iOS folkways rapid and and both.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 21, 2019

Much of it will be well-intentioned but wrong -- like the misinformation spread by the anti-vaccination community today ­-- but some of it may be malicious. Misinformation can affect society's ability to deal with a pandemic at many different levels.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Vaccine mis- and dis-information has become hopelessly entangled with the company’s brand image. We had the “hot vax summer” memes but… Delta and vaccine hesitancy killed that cold, then Omicron smacked us once more, even as we looked forward to what could have been a relatively normal holiday season.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 1, 2021

Businesses are waking up to the threat this poses to their bottom lines (and to society at large), most scholars and policymakers are already there. Chastened by our last bout with externality ignorance (see Facebook, above), 2021 will be the year society takes a step back and thinks hard about where this is all going.

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