IT Governance

JULY 6, 2020

Beaming’s Five Years in Cyber Security found that 1.5 This equates to 25% of all UK businesses, compared to 13% in 2015. On the plus side, the average cost of breaches has fallen from £26,000 per incident in 2015 to £6,000 in 2019 – although that’s offset by the increase in the overall number of incidents.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The term ESG, or environmental, social and governance , is well-known in the investor community. In 1997, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) was founded with the aim of addressing environmental concerns, though it soon broadened its scope to also focus on social and governance issues.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2020

“This attack was done solely for fun” The group claims to have hacked numerous organizations and government agencies over the years, including US military, European Union, Washington DC, Israeli Defense Forces, the Indian Government, and some central banks. Ghost Squad Hackers did not attempt to report the flaw to ESA.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2018

2018 was the year of the Internet of Things (IoT), massive attacks and various botnets hit smart devices, These are 5 IoT Security Predictions for 2019. The regulation around IoT security was this year’s signal that the answer is, fortunately, no. Insights from VDOO’s leadership. 2019 will continue these trends but at a faster pace.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Security experts at vpnMentor’s discovered a breach in a database belonging to Autoclerk, a reservations management system owned by Best Western Hotels and Resorts Group. The list of affected users includes the US government, military, and Department of Homeland Security (DHS). . ” . . ” continues vpnMento r.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2020

“Our security systems have detected examples ranging from fake solicitations for charities and NGOs, to messages that try to mimic employer communications to employees working from home, to websites posing as official government pages and public health agencies.” government employees. ” concludes Google.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

House of Representatives passed the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act, a bill that aims at improving the security of IoT devices. House of Representatives last week passed the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act, a bill designed to improve the security of IoT devices. Mark Warner. “I

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 10, 2019

This is fast becoming a profound new security challenge for all companies – one that can’t be pushed to a side burner. However, the security of firmware has been largely overlooked over the past two decades. Locking down firmware. telecoms by Chinese tech giant Huawei. Vulnerability research took on a life of its own.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Ukraine’s government is asking for volunteers from the hacker underground to provide their support in protecting critical infrastructure and carry out offensive operations against Russian state-sponsored hackers, reported Reuters which cited two e experts involved in the project. . ” reported the Reuters. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2020

IBM security researcher continues to monitor the evolution of the infamous Zeus Sphinx banking Trojan (aka Zloader or Terdot ) that receives frequent updates and that was involved in active coronavirus scams. . Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. 2 Trojan that was leaked online.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 15, 2023

The World Wide Web Consortium today announced a standardization milestone for a new browser capability that helps to streamline user authentication and enhance payment security during Web checkout. Publication of Secure Payment Confirmation as a Candidate Recommendation indicates that the feature set is stable and has received wide review.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is embracing the work of ethical hackers and their researches to secure medical devices. People typically shudder to think about their smart speakers or home security systems getting compromised, and indeed, vulnerabilities in those devices would be traumatizing. Image by Rawpixel.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Despite its similarities to a Russian attack of a Ukrainian power plant in 2015, my bet is that it’s a disgruntled insider: either a current or former employee. This could have been fatal to people living downstream, if an alert operator hadn’t noticed the change and reversed it. We don’t know who is behind this attack.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2020

Google also revealed that hackers are also attempting to impersonate government authorities and healthcare organizations, including the WHO, to trick victims that are in smart working. ” wrote Gmail Security PM Neil Kumaran and G Suite & GCP Lead Security PM Sam Lugani. ” concludes Google. “Users should: .

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

A statement of facts filed by the government indicates Petr Pacas was at one point director of operations at Company A (Adconion). The government alleges the men sent forged letters to an Internet hosting firm claiming they had been authorized by the registrants of the inactive IP addresses to use that space for their own purposes.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

For years, security experts — and indeed, many top cybercriminals in the Spamit affiliate program — have expressed the belief that Sal and Icamis were likely the same person using two different identities. But the identity and whereabouts of Icamis have remained a mystery to this author until recently.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

It consists of government laws, rulings from the tax authorities, judicial decisions, and legal opinions. A recent example comes from the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. An example of a vulnerability is the “Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich.” In 2015, Volkswagen was caught cheating on emissions control tests. companies.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The British National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) released a guideline, dubbed The Vulnerability Disclosure Toolkit, for the implementation of a vulnerability disclosure process. Having a clearly signposted reporting process demonstrates that your organisation takes security seriously. ” states the document.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued an alert about a surge in ransomware attacks targeting education institutions. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), has issued an alert about a surge in ransomware attacks against education institutions. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Security researchers revealed in a recent paper that over the past years, China Telecom used BGP hijacking to misdirect Internet traffic through China. Security researchers Chris C. The incident also affected US government (‘‘.gov’’) Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Data Protection Report

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Significant changes to the law with respect to security of critical infrastructure in Australia, including enhanced cybersecurity incident reporting requirements and the inclusion of further asset classes have been passed. This legislation amends the Security of Critical Infrastructure Act 2018 (Cth) ( Act ) in four significant ways.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2022

Lookout Threat Lab researchers uncovered enterprise-grade Android surveillance spyware, named Hermit, used by the government of Kazakhstan to track individuals within the country. According to leaked documents published in WikiLeaks in 2015, RCS Lab was a reseller of the notorious Italian surveillance firm HackingTeam.

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IT Governance

JULY 26, 2022

Take cyber security for example. According to a Kaspersky report , a quarter of UK companies admit underfunding cyber security even though 82% of respondents have suffered data breaches. trillion) cost in 2015. Invest today, secure tomorrow. What’s at stake? The global cost of cyber crime is predicted to reach $10.5

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CGI

JUNE 17, 2019

Cybersecurity in utilities: Critical questions for securing distributed energy resources (DERs). Examples of DERs include rooftop solar photovoltaic panels, combined heating and power (CHP) systems, electric vehicles and chargers, wind turbines, generators and energy storage, among others. . Mon, 06/17/2019 - 05:09.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Secret Service issued a detailed advisory on the BlackByte Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) group, which has attacked critical infrastructure industries in recent months, among them government, financial and food and agriculture targets. CVE-2015-1635 : An RCE vulnerability in specific versions of Windows (e.g., 7 SP1, 8, 8.1)

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2020

A Server-side request forgery (also known as SSRF) is a web security vulnerability that allows an attacker to induce the server-side application to make HTTP requests to an arbitrary domain of the attacker’s choosing. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” the hackers said.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 22, 2024

However, by 2015, bad bot traffic had fallen to its lowest historical level of 18.6%, mainly due to increased human traffic from China, India, and Indonesia. Bad bots are so prevalent in the gaming industry because users use them to cheat – for example, performing high-speed interactions that would be impossible for human players.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2020

The leak also included scanned government and company IDs stored in an Amazon S3 bucket through the Amazon Simple Storage Service.” Examples of these entries can be found below.” The leaked data also included scanned government and employee IDs. ” reads the analysis published by VPNmentor. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 21, 2021

When the Ashley Madison data breach occurred in 2015, it made headline news around the world. But there's also a lot of consistency, for example, here's a piece on whether it's legal to access an employee's email account in Australia : The short answer is yes.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2020

Google also revealed that hackers are also attempting to impersonate government authorities and healthcare organizations, including the WHO, to trick victims that are in smart working. In the UK hackers are imitating government institutions to try to gain access to personal information using government measures to help businesses as lures.

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Collibra

AUGUST 4, 2020

But the general public is not the only ones concerned about data security. Data security and privacy professionals are also fearful about protecting sensitive information within their organization. . But how can businesses balance digital transformation, data security and data privacy?

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 21, 2019

Related: Cyber spies feast on government shut down. I had a lively discussion recently with a couple of experts from WhiteHat Security. I spoke with WhiteHat Security researchers Bryan Becker and Mark Rogan at RSA 2019. For example, last year, a vulnerability in the open source jQuery File Upload plugin was discovered.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The best and brightest security innovators continue to roll out solutions designed to stop threat actors very deep – as deep as in CPU memory — or at the cutting edge, think cloud services, IoT and DevOps exposures. In a production-oriented corporate environment, security often gets put on a side burner – or overlooked all together.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Department of Homeland Security issued a bulletin calling out Iran’s “robust cyber program,” and cautioning everyone to be prepared for Iran to “conduct operations in the United States.” Russia has twice now knocked out Ukraine’s power grid for extended periods, in the Industroyer attacks of December 2015 and again in December 2016.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Researchers at Check Point discovered that Egypt ‘ government has been spying citizens in a sophisticated surveillance program. Researchers at Check Point discovered that the Egyptian government has been spying on activists and opponents as part of a sophisticated surveillance program. ” continues the analysis.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 25, 2021

In a National Cyber Security Alliance report, research showed that of the 1,009 small businesses with 500 employees surveyed, 10% went out of business, 25% filed for bankruptcy, and 37% experienced financial loss. Security’s deep impact on company performance isn’t a thing of the past. The culprit?

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2020

Most of the infections were observed in organizations in the US and Europe, the most targeted industries were in the government, military, and manufacturing sectors. . Check Point’s experts have analyzed examples of targeted, hijacked email threads with subjects related to Covid-19, tax payment reminders, and job recruitment content.

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