Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Japanese defense contractors Pasco and Kobe Steel have disclosed security breaches that they have suffered back in 2016 and 2018. Kobe identified unauthorized access to its network in August 2016 and in June 2017, Pasco had detected the intrusion in May 2018. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – Pasco and Kobe Steel, hacking).

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Data Matters

MAY 4, 2022

By adding these two global market leaders, we are expanding our expertise to better support our clients with the ever growing risks associated with national security and cybersecurity matters across our multi-disciplinary practices.”. political parties. political parties. appeared first on Data Matters Privacy Blog.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 353 appeared first on Security Affairs. US seizes $3.6 US seizes $3.6 Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Computer security and data privacy are often poorly considered issues, experts urge more awareness of cyber threats. Computer security and data privacy are often poorly considered issues until incidents occur and unfortunately sometimes even the very seriousness of the events, understood as virtual happenings, is not adequately perceived.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Microsoft addressed the flaw with the release of Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for November 2021 , the vulnerability impacts on-premises Exchange Server 2016 and Exchange Server 2019. “We The post Expert released PoC exploit code for Microsoft Exchange CVE-2021-42321 RCE bug appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

These days, dozens of teams from around the world compete in weekend-long marathon events held all over the world. In 2016, DARPA ran a similarly styled event for artificial intelligence (AI). A system called Mayhem, created by a team of Carnegie-Mellon computer security researchers, won. Details of these events are few.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

North Korea-linked threat actors posed as Samsung recruiters in a spear-phishing campaign aimed at employees at South Korean security firms. North Korea-linked APT group posed as Samsung recruiters is a spear-phishing campaign that targeted South Korean security companies that sell anti-malware solutions, Google TAG researchers reported.

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 23, 2021

On April 22, 2021, the Belgian Constitutional Court annulled (in French) the framework set forth by the Law of 29 May 2016 (the “Law”) requiring telecommunications providers to retain electronic communications data in bulk.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2022

. “We have addressed the issue causing messages to be stuck in transport queues of on-premises Exchange Server 2016 and Exchange Server 2019. This is not an issue with malware scanning or the malware engine, and it is not a security-related issue.” Event ID: 5300. Event ID: 1106. Log Name: Application.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The post Predictions 2016: How’d I Do? Here’s a short report card for each of my twelve 2016 predictions. #1 1 – 2016 will be the year that “business on a mission” goes mainstream. Oh, and at the end of this prediction, I ventured that in 2016, we’d see a blockchain based adtech player emerge.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2021

. “In recent months, Microsoft has detected cyberattacks targeting security researchers by an actor we track as ZINC. “Observed targeting includes pen testers, private offensive security researchers, and employees at security and tech companies. .” ” states the report published by Microsoft.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The Army told Reuters it removed an app containing Pushwoosh in March, citing “security concerns.” Reuters said the CDC likewise recently removed Pushwoosh code from its app over security concerns, after reporters informed the agency Pushwoosh was not based in the Washington D.C. THE PINCER TROJAN CONNECTION.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 8, 2019

The updates aim to answer questions about data breaches received by the Dutch DPA from organizations since 2016. In particular, the Dutch DPA expanded its Q&As section on the obligation to report data breaches and on how companies must react in the event of a data breach.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2019

According to records maintained by Farsight Security , that address is home to a number of other likely phishing domains: securemail.pcm.com.internal-message[.]app. microsoftonline-secure-login[.]com. microsoftonline-secure-login[.]com. microsoftonline-secure-login[.]com. microsoftonline-secure-login[.]com.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

they impact Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019, an authenticated attacker can trigger them to elevate privileges to run PowerShell in the context of the system and gain arbitrary or remote code execution on vulnerable servers. CVE-2022-41082 – Microsoft Exchange Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2019

The former National Security Agency contractor Harold Thomas Martin III , who was accused and subsequently pled guilty to stealing over 50TB of classified NSA data, was sentenced to nine years in prison. 13, 2016, asked one of the researchers to arrange a conversation with Kaspersky Lab CEO Eugene Kaspersky. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2021

million through its bug bounty program since 2016. million since 2016. 2021 has seen significant investment and growth across GitHub’s security program. The post GitHub paid out over $500K through its bug bounty program for 203 flaws in 2020 appeared first on Security Affairs. “2020 was our busiest year yet.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Security experts Simon Zuckerbraun from Zero Day Initiative published technical details on how to exploit the Microsoft Exchange CVE-2020-0688 along with a video PoC. Researchers from Rapid7 reported that 61 percent of Exchange 2010, 2013, 2016 and 2019 servers are still vulnerable to the vulnerability. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 28, 2020

Wawa said the breach did not expose personal identification numbers (PINs) or CVV records (the three-digit security code printed on the back of a payment card). The United States is the last of the G20 nations to make the shift to more secure chip-based cards, which are far more expensive and difficult for criminals to counterfeit.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

“Microsoft recently mitigated a vulnerability reported by a security researcher in the Azure Container Instances (ACI) that could potentially allow a user to access other customers’ information in the ACI service. rc2, it was released in 2016, and was affected by at least two container escape issues. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Data Protection Report

JULY 12, 2022

In brief, on April 5, 2021, a security researcher contacted Wegmans about a serious flaw the left some of Wegmans’ customers’ personal data available to the public. The NYAG faulted Wegmans on five security areas: access controls, password management, asset management, logging and monitoring, and data collection and retention.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 15, 2021

In an ironic turn of events, a lapsed domain registration tied to WeLeakInfo let someone plunder and publish account data on 24,000 customers who paid to access the service with a credit card. 24, 2016 with the domain registrar Dynadot. A little over a year ago, the FBI and law enforcement partners overseas seized WeLeakInfo[.]com

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2019

In August 2016, the FBI has arrested the former NSA contractor Harold Thomas Martin over a massive secret data theft. prosecutors believe was Martin used an anonymous Twitter account with the name ‘HAL999999999’ to send five cryptic, private messages to two researchers at the Moscow-based security firm,” Politico reports.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Key events include the European Parliament elections in June, the U.S. According to the latest threat landscape report from the European Cyber Security Agency (ENISA) , there has been an increase in the use of AI-based chatbots for fraudulent activities, deepfakes, and similar technologies over the last 12 months.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Now for the big challenge - security. The "s" in IoT is for Security Ok, so the joke is a stupid oldie, but a hard truth lies within it: there have been some shocking instances of security lapses in IoT devices. But there are also some quick wins, especially in the realm of "using your common sense". Let's dive into it.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

I didn’t know either of them, but I have been writing about cryptography, security, and privacy for decades. You read so much classified information about the world’s geopolitical events that you start seeing the world differently. I tried to talk to Greenwald about his own operational security. It made sense.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 1, 2019

McConnell recently blocking a bi-partisan bill to fund better election security , as well as the disclosure that his wife, Transportation Security Elaine Chao, has accepted money from voting machine lobbyists. Our goal is to help organizations create more secure ecoystems to support a free and fair election processes.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2021

US bank Capital One notified a number of additional customers that their Social Security numbers were exposed in the data breach that took place in July 2019. Thompson for the security breach. Paige Thompson is a former Amazon Web Services software engineer who worked for a Capital One contractor from 2015 to 2016.

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

In addition, the Commission will take the UK’s crime and national security legislation into account in its assessment of UK data protection laws, which means that the controversial Investigatory Powers Act 2016 will be relevant to its decision.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2023

According to the security measure, any repository with more than 100 clones at the time its user account is renamed is considered “retired” and cannot be used by others. Websites such as the GHTorrent project records any public event (commit, PR, etc.) The combination of the username and the repository name is considered “retired.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2021

Securities and Exchange Commission in 1975. The agency evaluated the resilience of water and sewer utilities to unexpected events, including cyberattacks, which could pose financial and operating risks, and even credit quality of the critical infrastructure. ” reads the alert published by Fitch Ratings. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

We will describe the value in providing granular cryptographic insights provided by AgileSec ™ Analytics into Thales products like CipherTrust Manager (CTM) and Luna Hardware Security Modules (HSM) which will ensure enhanced security, compliance, and operational efficiency.

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Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2023

The Triada Trojan was spotted for the first time in 2016 by researchers at Kaspersky Lab that considered it the most advanced mobile threat seen to the date of the discovery. In March 2018, security researchers at Antivirus firm Dr. Web discovered that 42 models of low-cost Android smartphones are shipped with the Android.Triada.231

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2019

The security expert Dirk- jan Mollema with Fox-IT discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange that could be exploited by a user with a mailbox to become a Domain Admin. The post Microsoft Exchange zero-day and exploit could allow anyone to be an admin appeared first on Security Affairs. and ntlmrelayx.py.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The French government announced a “Paris Call” for global talks about cyberspace security aimed at laying out a shared framework of rules. The French government is promoting a series of Global Talks on cyberspace security, it urges for a “code of good conduct” for states in the cyberspace. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The European Union enacted the Network and Information System (NIS) regulation in July 2016 with the intention of ensuring a specific level of security for networks and information systems belonging to critical and sensitive infrastructures in EU member states. As a result, security in the public and private sectors became fragmented.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 31, 2018

I've been at the AusCERT conference this week which has presented a rare opportunity to walk to a major event from my home rather than fly to the other side of the world. Not just because of the award or the event, but because of the role they play here in Australia. jamver) May 31, 2018.

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