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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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Snowden Ten Years Later

Schneier on Security

You read so much classified information about the world’s geopolitical events that you start seeing the world differently. Neither were any of the algorithm names I knew, not even algorithms I knew that the US government used. I’m sure that a bunch of major governments have a complete copy of everything Greenwald has.

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Fancy Bear continues to target sporting and anti-doping organizations

Security Affairs

” The attacks began on September 16, 2019, while the World Anti-Doping Agency was warning that Russia could face a ban from all major sports events over “discrepancies” in a lab database. According to Russian whistleblowers , the Russian Anti-Doping Agency ( RUSADA ) was enabling systemic doping in athletics.

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Russian Sednit APT used the first UEFI rootkit of ever in attacks in the wild

Security Affairs

Security researchers from ESET have discovered a new piece of a sophisticated malware used by the Russia-linked Sednit group (aka Fancy Bear , APT28 , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , and STRONTIUM ) in targeted attacks aimed at government entities in the Balkans as well as in Central and Eastern Europe. ” continues the report.

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Federal Agency Data is Under Siege

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Originally Featured in Global Military Communications Magazine’s June/July Issue. These statistics indicate data breaches remain pervasive within the federal government, and that the current methods being used to secure agency data are not working as effectively as they could.

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

Hello and welcome to the final IT Governance podcast of 2018. 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. For more information on each story, simply follow the links in the transcript on our blog.

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Ransomware Protection in 2021

eSecurity Planet

In the event of a successful breach, your team must be ready to restore systems and data recovery. Only 38% of state and local government employees are trained for ransomware prevention, and only 29% of small businesses have experience with ransomware ( IBM ). Rapid Response Testing. Sandbox Testing. Statistics. Ransomware Types.