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Tracing the Supply Chain Attack on Android

Krebs on Security

” “At present, pre-installed partners cover the entire mobile phone industry chain, including mobile phone chip manufacturers, mobile phone design companies, mobile phone brand manufacturers, mobile phone agents, mobile terminal stores and major e-commerce platforms,” reads a descriptive blurb about the company.

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Tracing the Supply Chain Attack on Android

Krebs on Security

” “At present, pre-installed partners cover the entire mobile phone industry chain, including mobile phone chip manufacturers, mobile phone design companies, mobile phone brand manufacturers, mobile phone agents, mobile terminal stores and major e-commerce platforms,” reads a descriptive blurb about the company.

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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. Hello and welcome to the final IT Governance podcast of 2018. The year started with the revelation of Spectre and Meltdown – major security flaws affecting processors manufactured by Intel, ARM and AMD.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 March 2024

IT Governance

Source (New) Transport USA Yes 3,815 Okta Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Cyber security USA Yes 3,800 Shah Dixit & Associates, P.C. We also found 14 organisations providing a significant update on a previously disclosed incident. Organisation(s) Sector Location Data breached? TB Paysign, Inc.

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NEW TECH: Semperis introduces tools to improve security resiliency of Windows Active Directory

The Last Watchdog

organizations between January 2013 and July 2019. NotPetya wrought $10 billion in damages , according to Tom Bossert a senior Department of Homeland Security official at the time. For instance, a scan might turn up a configuration setting that ought to be changed to boost security. million from U.S. I’ll keep watch.

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Is India's Aadhaar System Really "Hack-Proof"? Assessing a Publicly Observable Security Posture

Troy Hunt

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. agarwal_mohit) January 5, 2018. Here's the issue I (and many others) have with these statements and I want to make it crystal clear: Security is not a boolean proposition.

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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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