eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Only 38% of state and local government employees are trained for ransomware prevention, and only 29% of small businesses have experience with ransomware ( IBM ). In 2019, the municipal government of New Orleans was forced to declare a state of emergency and paid over $7 million. Microsegmentation. Statistics. Ransomware Types.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Additionally, I am a Fellow and Lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government --where I teach Internet security policy -- and a Fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. In May 2016, one of its websites was hacked, resulting in 430,000 people having their personal information stolen.

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

10 At that time, it was aimed most squarely at curbing the types of duplicative, excessive, “scorched earth” discovery practices that were prevalent — i.e., at the problem of so-called “overdiscovery.”11 19 No longer are the proportionality considerations described as separate “limitations” on an inquiry governed solely by relevance.20

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

It's operating in an era of increasingly large repositories of personal data held by both private companies and governments alike. Here, Motherboard talks about personal data being sold for less than $10 a pop in a case that sounds eerily similar to the previously mentioned Medicare one. — Khas Mek (@KhasMek) January 10, 2018.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2021

hospitals, governments, critical infrastructure), or how much of a ransom payment an affiliate should expect for bringing the group access to a new victim network. Throughout 2013 and 2014, PCs infected with Gameover were seeded with Cryptolocker , an early, much-copied ransomware strain allegedly authored by Bogachev himself.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Search for your account across multiple breaches [link] — Have I Been Pwned (@haveibeenpwned) December 4, 2013 And then, as they say, things kinda escalated quickly. And I never envisioned a time where dozens of national governments would be happy to talk about using the service. "Have I been pwned?" You could call it.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 21, 2018

I very consciously avoided talking about it publicly at the time (largely because I didn't want to draw attention to it), but particularly around late 2016 and very early 2017, I was quite concerned with the broader genre that is data breach search services. link] pic.twitter.com/rIBh5Y7dbj — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) March 10, 2018.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 10, 2021

On Monday, May 10, Colonial announced that it had set a “goal of substantially restoring operational service by the end of the week,” which means the Eastern U.S. Chris Krebs (@C_C_Krebs) May 10, 2021. Dmitri Alperovitch (@DAlperovitch) May 10, 2021. business cont plan (how long to restore backups?

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

— Jack Daniel (@jack_daniel) October 10, 2018. If the US government dictating iPhone encryption design sounds ok to you, ask yourself how you'll feel when China demands the same. — Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green) February 17, 2016. If the answer appalls you and keeps you up at night, HIRE THEM!

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Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

Increasingly, thought leaders, professional organizations, and government agencies are beginning to provide answers. Creating an enterprise-wide governance structure. Creating an Enterprise-Wide Governance Structure. Aligning cyber risk with corporate strategy.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 19, 2023

CODEN: From 2016 to 2021. And, and that did that for 13 years and because of my involvement in critical infrastructure, I was asked by the White House to assist in developing the NIST cybersecurity framework in 2013. You can if you can get this increased security for a little like $10 more memory. It's probably worth it.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

We’ll start with the top 10 overall and then look at other noteworthy startups in a number of markets. Top 10 Cybersecurity Startups. Open Raven analyzes data at rest, classifies inventory, and automates data governance as these become critical capabilities for the hybrid infrastructure’s security posture.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Designed to exploit a backdoor on Unix systems, and to stay hidden, the worm quickly spread, copying itself over and over again and infecting a full 10% of all networked computers. 2016: Mirai botnet As computers continue to evolve, branching out from desktop, to laptops, to mobile devices, and a myriad of networked devices, so does malware.

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The Security Ledger

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Priscilla Moriuchi of Recorded Future joins us once again in the Security Ledger studios to talk about the findings of two major reports released this week on Russia's online campaigns and how disinformation operations by foreign governments may be the "new normal." . The 2016 presidential campaign is even more distant.

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AIIM

JANUARY 23, 2020

For example, The US Government is deploying a pilot facial recognition system at the Southern Border that records images of people inside vehicles entering and leaving the country with the "ability to capture a quality facial image for each occupant position in the vehicle." Loomis, 2015AP157-CR, (July 13, 2016).

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Score: 10 of 10. #2: Score: 5 of 10. #3. Score: 4 of 10. #4. But last year I wrote: “But fear of cyber warfare, fraud, and over-reaching marketers and government will create huge openings for consumer friendly versions of currently opaque products like PGP, password managers, and the like.” Score: 7 of 10. #5.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Score: 10 of 10. #2: Score: 5 of 10. #3. Score: 4 of 10. #4. But last year I wrote: “But fear of cyber warfare, fraud, and over-reaching marketers and government will create huge openings for consumer friendly versions of currently opaque products like PGP, password managers, and the like.” Score: 7 of 10. #5.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Score: 10 of 10. #2: Score: 5 of 10. #3. Score: 4 of 10. #4. But last year I wrote: “But fear of cyber warfare, fraud, and over-reaching marketers and government will create huge openings for consumer friendly versions of currently opaque products like PGP, password managers, and the like.” Score: 7 of 10. #5.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

AI is driven by data, and as a society we’re not particularly good at structuring, governing, or sharing data. Advertising will no longer be a sideshow to its sexier device business; it will be a $10-15 billion juggernaut with 50-90-percent profit margins.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 6, 2017

But fear of cyber warfare, fraud, and over-reaching marketers and government will create huge openings for consumer friendly versions of currently opaque products like PGP, password managers, and the like. And yeah, that’s a fix, because I’ve already read it… 10. Related: Predictions 2016 . 2016: How I Did.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 27, 2020

authorities, and that the Russian government is probably concerned that he simply knows too much.” Vovnenko also served as administrator of his own cybercrime forum, which he used in 2013 to carry out a plan to have Yours Truly framed for heroin possession. Panin was sentenced in 2016 to 24 years in prison.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 2, 2019

I’ve written about this at length elsewhere, so I will just summarize: Facebook’s only salvation is through a new system of governance. Because of this, unhappily, we’ll end up governed by both GDPR and California’s homespun privacy law , neither of which actually force the kind of change we really need.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Nearly 10 million people were displaced by climate change in 2019. And way will a founding CEO get taken down a notch in that scenario, ridiculous governance structures be dammed. I was a year early and 10 trillion dollars short here. 10/A new “social network” emerges by the end of the year. Predictions 2016.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

I am a cautious proponent of crypto’s technology, philosophy, and new governance models, but there’s a hell of a lot of b t in there as well. And NFTs – the web3 equivalent of dot com stocks – grew into a massive market as well, clocking more than $10 billion in purchases last quarter. Predictions 2016.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Score: 10/10. Score: 10/10. Score: 7/10. ” Ummm… yep, and see the next two predictions… Score: 9/10. Score: 10/10. In March, it had a government AI contract blow up in its face, leading to employee protests and resignations. Prediction #2: Donald Trump blows up.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 1, 2021

Everyone’s talking about how it’s about time for the government to step up and do something , but I’m deeply cynical about anything changing in 2021. Predictions 2016. 2016: How I Did. Predictions 2013. 2013: How I Did. Please, MAKE IT SO. Africa rising, China…in question. 2020: How I Did.

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