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Locked Shields 2019 – Chapeau, France wins Cyber Defence Exercise

Security Affairs

The international live-fire cyber defence exercise Locked Shields 2019 (LS19) took place on April 8-12 in Tallinn, Estonia, and the figures behind this important competition are important. “This year the exercise evolved around 4000 virtualised systems that had to take more than 2500 attacks. Pierluigi Paganini.

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US Cyber Command and Australian IWD to develop shared cyber training range

Security Affairs

“Cyber mission forces first identified the need for a shared, iterative virtual cyber range during exercise Cyber Flag 2015 and has since galvanized an expedited effort to define the requirement and find technical solutions. The agreement is valued at $215.19 ” reads the press release published by the US Cyber Command.

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MY TAKE: Michigan’s cybersecurity readiness initiatives provide roadmap others should follow

The Last Watchdog

Other hubs followed at military bases, other state universities and even a high school and a non-profit community arts and tech center. The early Cyber Range hubs were mainly used to help educate and certify military technicians and cybersecurity professionals at selected companies. They answered, yes. Shoring up weak links.

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Russia-linked Gamaredon APT targeted a western government entity in Ukraine

Security Affairs

Drawing a delineation between the two then becomes an exercise in tracking the most recent infrastructure.” The Gamaredon group was first discovered by Symantec and TrendMicro in 2015, but evidence of its activities has been dated back to 2013. The group targeted government and military organizations in Ukraine.

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Vladimir Putin ‘s computers still run Windows XP, Media reports

Security Affairs

In June, the Russian military announced it was in the process of replacing the Windows system with the Linux distribution Astra Linux . The exercises aimed at testing and ensuring the integrity and the security of Russia’s Internet infrastructure, so-called RuNet. ” concludes The Guardian. Pierluigi Paganini.

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INTERNET BLOCKING IN MYANMAR – SECRET BLOCK LIST AND NO MEANS TO APPEAL

Security Affairs

There are four operators in Myanmar: state-owned Myanma Posts and Telecommunications ( MPT ) , Qatar based Ooredoo, military-aligned Mytel, and privately owned Telenor Myanmar. Blocked websites have no means to identify and contact the organization responsible of the blocking and exercise their rights to object. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

Also in January, the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) fined Carphone Warehouse £400,000 – one of the largest fines it issued under the DPA (Data Protection Act) 1998 – for multiple security inadequacies that led to a 2015 data breach in which three million customers’ personal data was compromised.