Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

The government alleges Khoroshev created, sold and used the LockBit ransomware strain to personally extort more than $100 million from hundreds of victim organizations, and that LockBit as a group extorted roughly half a billion dollars over four years. That’s what the government believes. Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

Virtualfirefox.com is a domain registered via GoDaddy in 2013 and currently owned by The Mozilla Corporation , a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation — the makers of the popular Firefox Web browser. ” Update, 10:38 p.m.: 13, 2018 bomb threat hoax. “But it’s clearly still a big problem.”

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JANUARY 21, 2019

On 12 December 2018, the French Government issued an ordinance [1] finalizing, at the legislative level [2] , the alignment of the French Data Protection Law (“FDPL”) with the General Data Protection Regulation [3] (“GDPR”) and the Directive 2016/680 [4]. Clauses limiting such right are deemed null and void [10].

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

1 November 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. It confessed to another data leak in January 2017. Before the. Washington, DC 20515.

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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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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 16, 2020

organizations between January 2013 and July 2019. In the spring of 2017, the WannaCry and NotPetya ransomware worms blasted around the globe, freezing up the Active Directory systems of thousands of companies. Ransomware continues to endure as a highly lucrative criminal enterprise. Ransomware hacking groups extorted at least $144.35

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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

MARCH 21, 2018

The Industry Cleaned Up a Lot in 2017. 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. Not had a @haveibeenpwned notification!

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

ICYMI, Equifax forced to pull offline a huge database of consumer data guarded only by credentials "admin/admin" [link] — briankrebs (@briankrebs) September 13, 2017. — Jack Daniel (@jack_daniel) October 10, 2018. link] — Runa Sandvik (@runasand) March 8, 2017. Bruce Schneier | @schneierblog.

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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. So, in 2017, Pwned Passwords was born.

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Info Source

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In March 2013, Ukraine ranked fourth in the world in the number of certified IT professionals after the United States, India and Russia. In 2017, Ukraine emerged as the top outsourcing destination of the year, according to the Global Sourcing Association. Food and other agricultural products (worth $13 billion), metallurgy ($8.8

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Collibra

AUGUST 4, 2020

Look at these price tags for some of the most expensive data breaches over the last 10 years: Equifax – $700 million settlement, ~143 million people affected, 2017. Target – $300 million, ~40 million customers, 2013. And after the 2017 Equifax data breach, Equifax’s valuation decreased by $4 billion. Risk mitigation.

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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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Data Protector

OCTOBER 11, 2017

What follows below is an edited version of the debate in the House of Lords of the Second Reading of the Data Protection Bill, held on 10 October. Perhaps the Government could respond on that point. change it substantially.

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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. More and more, directors are viewing cyber-risk under the broader umbrella of corporate strategy and searching for ways to help mitigate that risk.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 19, 2017

The post Predictions 2017 – How’d I Do This Year? As I wrote nearly 12 months ago , 2017 felt particularly unpredictable. Score: 10 of 10. #2: Score: 5 of 10. #3. What I do know, however, is that in 2017, the table was well and truly set for open approaches to make a comeback.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 19, 2017

As I wrote nearly 12 months ago , 2017 felt particularly unpredictable. The backlash is at such a fever pitch, it seems tech has been crucified forever, but I peg the beginning of the end at Susan Fowler’s astonishing takedown of Uber , which was posted in mid February of 2017. Score: 10 of 10. #2: Score: 5 of 10. #3.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 19, 2017

As I wrote nearly 12 months ago , 2017 felt particularly unpredictable. The backlash is at such a fever pitch, it seems tech has been crucified forever, but I peg the beginning of the end at Susan Fowler’s astonishing takedown of Uber , which was posted in mid February of 2017. Score: 10 of 10. #2: Score: 5 of 10. #3.

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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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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Here are the world's 10 largest sites: no EV! pic.twitter.com/IYf2Km4LkD — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) July 14, 2017. They also failed to renew an Azure one in 2013 and just to be clear about it certainly not being a Microsoft thing, HSBC forgot one in 2008 , Instagram forgot one in 2015 and LinkedIn forgot one last year.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 6, 2017

The post Predictions 2017: A Chain Reaction appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. And in 2017, tech will be that villain. 2017 will be the year that open starts to win again as a business model and an approach to creating a developer (and hence consumer) ecosystem. This is my 14th annual predictions post.

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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. At the time, only about 60,000 computers had access to the internet, mostly at universities and within the military.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

For those who are unfamiliar, the NIST Cybersecurity Framework was created in 2013 as an attempt to standardize practices and give guidance on common, high-level security and privacy risks. This year, the framework became official federal policy for government agencies. Put simply, trust is critical to the IoT.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 10, 2019

Back in 2013, I was beginning to get the sense that data breaches were becoming a big thing. 10 — ???ll?? WilliamCaraher) October 10, 2017. The prevalence of them seemed to be really ramping up as was the impact they were having on those of us that found ourselves in them, myself included.

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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 post Podcast Episode 125: Long After The Election Kremlin’s.

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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 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 2017.

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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 2017.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Cast yourself back to late 2017 when Bitcoin was pushing $20,000 and the entire tech sector was obsessed with blockchain everything. Score: 10/10. I don’t usually make political predictions, but by 2017, Trump was the story, bigger than politics, and bigger than tech. Score: 10/10. Score: 7/10.

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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 2017. 2017: 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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