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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 20 – 26 November 2023

IT Governance

9 million records breached through decade-long data leak A former temporary employee of a subsidiary of NTT West (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corp) illegally accessed about 9 million personal data records over the course of a decade (2013 to 2023). Breached records: more than 56 million.

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OceanLotus APT group leverages a steganography-based loader to deliver backdoors

Security Affairs

Security researchers at Cylance discovered that the OceanLotus APT (also known as APT32 or Cobalt Kitty , group is using a loader leveraging steganography to deliver a version of Denes backdoor and an updated version of Remy backdoor. ” reads the report published by the experts. Pierluigi Paganini.

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After 2 years under the radars, Ratsnif emerges in OceanLotus ops

Security Affairs

Security experts spotted a news wave of attacks carried out by the OceanLotus APT group that involved the new Ratsnif Trojan. Experts at the security firm Cylance detected a new RAT dubbed Ratsnif that was used in cyber espionage operations conducted by the OceanLotus APT group. of the wolfSSL library , formerly known as CyaSSL.

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

IT Governance

Compromised data includes names, passport numbers, Social Security numbers, online crypto account identifiers and bank account numbers. million accounts compromised in Le Slip Français data breach The French underwear manufacturer Le Slip Français has suffered a data breach. Data breached: 5,300,000 records.

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

This week, in our last podcast of the year, we revisit some of the biggest information security stories from the past 12 months. As is now traditional, I’ve installed myself in the porter’s chair next to the fire in the library, ready to recap some of the year’s more newsworthy information security events.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking IoT

ForAllSecure

It seems everything smart is hackable, with IoT startups sometimes repeating security mistakes first made decades ago. How then does one start securing it? In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking IoT

ForAllSecure

It seems everything smart is hackable, with IoT startups sometimes repeating security mistakes first made decades ago. How then does one start securing it? In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication.

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