Krebs on Security

JANUARY 29, 2022

Several articles here have delved into the history of John Bernard , the pseudonym used by a fake billionaire technology investor who tricked dozens of startups into giving him tens of millions of dollars. What’s remarkable about Freidig Shipping’s fleecing is that we heard about it at all.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 17, 2023

Most people who operate DDoS-for-hire businesses attempt to hide their true identities and location. Proprietors of these so-called “booter” or “stresser” services — designed to knock websites and users offline — have long operated in a legally murky area of cybercrime law.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

But there is a fascinating and untold backstory behind the two Russian men involved, who co-ran the world’s top spam forum and worked closely with Russia’s most dangerous cybercriminals. Dmsell said: “I’m actually very glad that I switched to legal spam mailing,” prompting Tarelka and Ika to scoff.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Infoblox found the domains involved are typically three to seven characters long, and hosted on bulletproof hosting providers that charge a premium to ignore any abuse or legal complaints. “We have not found any legitimate content served through their shorteners.” domains registered daily.US

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Artificial intelligence will change so many aspects of society, largely in ways that we cannot conceive of yet. And we can see the first stages of many of them today. We don’t know how long this will continue, but my bet is on continued major technological advances in the coming years. This has applications for democracy.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 22, 2019

Here’s a look at a recent spam campaign that peppered more than 100,000 business email addresses with fake legal threats harboring malware. Our {legal team | legal council | legal departement} has prepared a document explaining the {litigation | legal dispute | legal contset}. Wiseman & Assoc.|

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Security firm FireEye dubbed that hacking blitz “one of the broadest campaigns by a Chinese cyber espionage actor we have observed in recent years.” “SonarX served as an easily searchable repository for social media data that previously had been obtained by CHENGDU 404.” Security analysts and U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

As a result of collaborative efforts, the VTI Principles serve as a comprehensive set of best practices for VPN providers that bolster consumer confidence and provider accountability, promoting wider VPN adoption and access to the technology’s benefits.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 22, 2022

During the first two decades of this century, virtual private networks —VPNs—served as a cornerstone of network security. LW: Who would you rank in the Top 5 suppliers of VPNs used by enterprises and SMB? LW provides consulting services to the vendors we cover.). Related: Deploying human sensors.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

John Bernard , the subject of a story here last week about a self-proclaimed millionaire investor who has bilked countless tech startups , appears to be a pseudonym for John Clifton Davies , a U.K. man who absconded from justice before being convicted on multiple counts of fraud in 2015. PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE EMPTY BOOKSHELVES.

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Data Protector

AUGUST 17, 2020

Here we go again. The compulsory Sunday morning church services for all Anglicans at my boarding school served as an opportunity for The Reverend James Culross, (or Druid, as we boys affectionately called him), to churn out stuff from the Book of Common Prayer. I think not. I think not.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 7, 2020

September featured two stories on a phony tech investor named John Bernard , a pseudonym used by a convicted thief named John Clifton Davies who’s fleeced dozens of technology companies out of an estimated $30 million with the promise of lucrative investments. After eluding justice in the U.K., Docklands Enterprise Ltd.,

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 16, 2020

Anyone who’s seen the 1984 hit movie Ghostbusters likely recalls the pivotal scene where a government bureaucrat orders the shutdown of the ghost containment unit , effectively unleashing a pent-up phantom menace on New York City. But now that we need to do funding it’s a different story.”

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Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2020

It is not uncommon for crooks who sell malware-as-a-service offerings such as trojan horse programs and botnet control panels to include backdoors in their products that let them surreptitiously monitor the operations of their customers and siphon data stolen from victims. RedBear’s profile on the Russian-language xss[.]is

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The Texas Record

JANUARY 7, 2021

Case 2: We have several ordinances and/or letters from different periods instead of one document that has all our records management policy information. ? Case 4: Our RMP does not clearly state who will serve as RMO. ? Case 6: We do not have an RMP yet, or I am not sure if we have one on file with TSLAC. ?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2021

60 of those were served with cease and desist notices. Through the identification of UK customers of WeLeakInfo, we were able to locate and arrest those who we believe have used stolen personal credentials to commit further cyber and fraud offences.” The police warned them of their potential criminal activity.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

We are not there yet. Historically, major disasters have needed to occur to spur regulation—the types of disasters we would ideally foresee and avoid in today’s AI paradigm. Laws need to clarify who is responsible, and what the legal consequences are, when a robot’s actions result in harm.

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AIIM

DECEMBER 19, 2019

In this blog post, we present an approach and checklist for migrating your information from one system to another. We believe that an effective migration process consists of four primary phases: Strategy. Who Needs to be Involved? Identify Key Stakeholders for the Source System: Who uses or relies on that content?

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Info Source

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

“We are excited to welcome the Kryon team and look forward to offering Nintex customers and community members more advanced automation capabilities and automated process discovery technology within our platform,” said Nintex CEO Eric Johnson. Baird is serving as financial advisor to Nintex. BELLEVUE, Wash.,

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Info Source

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

“We are excited to welcome the Kryon team and look forward to offering Nintex customers and community members more advanced automation capabilities and automated process discovery technology within our platform,” said Nintex CEO Eric Johnson. Baird is serving as financial advisor to Nintex. BELLEVUE, Wash.,

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

This investigation shows that we will use every lawful tool at our disposal to disrupt cybercriminals, regardless of their location,” said U.S. The FBI this week revealed US law enforcement’s dismantlement the IPStorm botnet. Attorney Stephen Muldrow.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 7, 2022

financial institutions are legally obligated to reverse any unauthorized transactions as long as the victim reports the fraud in a timely manner. Fooshee said the legal phrase “commercially reasonable” is the primary reason why no bank has much — if anything — in the way of controlling for scam detection.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The server contained 55,000 court papers regarding over 15,000 legal cases, which affected hundreds of thousands of people. Our online security team has uncovered a massive data breach originating from a misconfigured Amazon Bucket, which was operated by a Turkish Legal advising company, INOVA YÖNETIM & AKTÜERYAL DANI?MANLIK.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 9, 2023

We stand on the frontier of an AI revolution. But we’ve faced a paradoxical challenge: automation is labor intensive. It sounds like a joke, but it’s not, as anyone who has tried to solve business problems with AI may know. .” When objectionable data is identified, we remove it, retrain the model, and repeat.

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Sean also previously served at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), as the Deputy Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Competition. Sean, who has spent his entire career handling complex antitrust litigation matters and government investigations, is among the country’s most experienced and highly regarded antitrust lawyers.

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The Texas Record

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

To say goodbye to October, Archives Month, we think it’s time to explore the differences between the Records Management and Archives disciplines. the process of determining the length of time records should be retained, based on legal requirements and on their current and potential usefulness 3.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 8, 2023

We are only human Nearly half (47%) of the survey respondents say that attacks are increasing in volume or severity, similar to numbers reported in 2021 and 2022. 55% of respondents who experienced a recent cloud data breach said human error is the #1 root cause of cloud data breaches.

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eDiscovery Daily

JUNE 3, 2019

On the veritable eve of the annual Georgetown Law Center eDiscovery Training Academy (covered by us here ), Craig Ball (who is in the midst of that very academy now) has asked the question Have We Lost the War on E-Discovery? There are a lot of challenges and we will touch on that tomorrow and later this month in our monthly webcast.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 7, 2022

We will not tolerate concealment of important information from the public by corporate executives more interested in protecting their reputation and that of their employers than in protecting users.”. Sullivan, who is currently free on bond, faces up to eight years in prison. His sentencing date hasn’t yet been set.

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Collibra

JULY 13, 2023

We’ve heard about the benefits of big data, but we now know that for many applications, it is more fruitful to focus on making sure we have good data — data that clearly illustrates the concepts we need the AI to learn. . … the bottleneck for many [AI] applications is getting the right data to feed to the software.

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Gimmal

APRIL 13, 2022

Carpenter and Gonsowski bring a long history of rapidly scaling prominent legal & regulatory technology companies to Gimmal as it expands its presence in the GRC market. The left-hand side of the EDRM is garnering the most interesting investment, innovation and expansion in the legal technology market,” said Gonsowski.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

A DPO is an independent data protection expert who is responsible for advising an organisation on how to comply with its regulatory requirements. However, but training courses such as our Data Protection Officer (C-DPO) Training Course are highly beneficial for those who want guidance on how to perform the necessary tasks.

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Data Matters

OCTOBER 13, 2020

He previously served as an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. We are excited to have Sujit join us at this critical time for cybersecurity and data privacy issues around the world,” said Neal Sullivan, global leader of Sidley’s Securities Enforcement and Regulatory group and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.

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ARMA International

MARCH 22, 2022

Using these estimates, we can infer that a law firm could experience almost $8,000 a week in lost time for someone billing at $995 per hour. In order to mitigate the risk of the data being related to an existing legal hold or being needed down the line, analyze the information, and consult the owners and other involved parties (e.g.,

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Adam Levin

JUNE 24, 2020

A security breach at Netsential, a Houston-based web hosting company, which primarily serves law enforcement agencies and fusion centers is thought to be the source of the leak. We would not advocate looking at the data, but if you do it is advisable to use a VPN and exercise extreme caution. .

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 28, 2020

On July 23, 2020, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (the “ICO”) published the first two reports of its Data Protection Regulatory Sandbox Beta phase (the “Beta phase”) involving projects by Jisc (a not-for-profit organization serving the higher and further education and skills sectors) and Heathrow Airport Ltd.

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AIIM

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

First, we wanted these blog posts to be informative and insightful, rather than be perceived as self-aggrandizement. And second, we figured that most people reading these posts would already know AIIM’s offerings. Unfortunately, they were not successful – apparently, we were a little bit ahead of our time in our thinking.

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