Krebs on Security

JANUARY 14, 2019

Also last week, a 30-year-old in the United Kingdom was sentenced to 32 months in jail for using an army of hacked devices to crash large portions of Liberia’s Internet access in 2016. The Boston Globe reports that Gottesfeld and his wife in 2016 tried to flee to Cuba in a rented boat, but the trip didn’t go as planned.

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Data Protection Report

MAY 24, 2024

These principles (the Principles) are: Safety, security and robustness. Accountability and governance. For more information on the interaction between AI and competition law, watch our video interview. Appropriate transparency and explainability. Contestability and redress. It states that its budget has remained static at £17.1

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The access was first blocked via national provider Turk Telecom (AS9121), but later other service providers applied the government restrictions. In December 2016 , the Turkish blocked social media in the country to prevent the sharing of a video of the executions of Turkish soldiers by the IS group. local time (8:30 p.m.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2020

Army this week has banned the popular TikTok app from government mobile amid fear of China-linked cyberespionage. The US Army has banned the use of the popular TikTok app on mobile phones used by its personnel for security reasons. TikTok is a social media app that allows its users to create and share short form videos.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2020

The government says the defendants built and maintained their IoT botnets by constantly scanning the Web for insecure devices. But the group also seized upon a series of newly-discovered security vulnerabilities in these IoT systems — commandeering devices that hadn’t yet been updated with the latest software patches.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 26, 2018

According to sentencing memo submitted by government prosecutors, in his freshman and sophomore years at Rutgers Jha used a collection of hacked devices to launch at least four distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against the university’s networks. 2016 attack that sidelined this Web site for nearly four days.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The Sweden government is going to authorize the use of spyware on suspects’ devices to spy on their communications and track them. ” Starting from March 1, 2020, the Police Authority, the Security Police, the Customs Administration and the Swedish Crime Agency will be granted extended powers with the proposal.

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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2019

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Croatia government agencies targeted with news SilentTrinity malware. Cyberattack shuts down La Porte County government systems. UK ICO fines British Airways £183 Million under GDPR over 2018 security breach. Microsoft released Patch Tuesday security updates for July 2019.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

At Thales eSecurity we are always eager to obtain data on how the world perceives threats to personal data, because it has the potential to inform us on how to make our everyday lives more safe and secure. increased from 24% in 2016 ) and 18% in the UK. and UK and found that ownership of internet-connected cars is on the rise.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Until recently, I was fairly active on Twitter , regularly tweeting to more than 350,000 followers about important security news and stories here. Facing a backlash from lawmakers and the public, the IRS soon reverses course , saying video selfies will be optional and that any biometric data collected will be destroyed after verification.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 4, 2024

February 26, 2024 FCKeditor Used for SEO Poisoning on Government, University Sites Type of vulnerability: Malicious URL redirect. The attack bypasses security checks in the whitelisting tool and allows the attackers to disable security products such as Microsoft Defender or Crowdstrike Falcon, hide activities, and maintain system persistence.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 21, 2019

The second battle will be like the Russian disinformation campaigns during the 2016 presidential election, only with the addition of a deadly health crisis and possibly without a malicious government actor. Rumors and misinformation could easily overwhelm legitimate news channels, as people share tweets, images and videos.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 16, 2023

TikTok is hands down the most significant threat to the US digital media business that’s ever emerged – and it came not from a garage in Palo Alto, but from a massive Chinese company under the direct control of the Chinese government. And how has TikTok effected such a breathtaking success? operations.”

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

We each need to consider how these trends may affect our organizations and allocate our budgets and resources accordingly: AI will turbo-charge cybersecurity and cyberthreats: Artificial intelligence (AI) will boost both attackers and defenders while causing governance issues and learning pains.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

In July 2018, email users around the world began complaining of receiving spam which began with a password the recipient used at some point in the past and threatened to release embarrassing videos of the recipient unless a bitcoin ransom was paid. EARLY WARNING SIGNS.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

It's operating in an era of increasingly large repositories of personal data held by both private companies and governments alike. It's not the only such claim either; earlier last year in the wake of another security controversy, another similarly spectacular claim was made : In public, UIDAI claimed Aadhaar was completely secure.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2020

Matthew Keys is a former Reuters journalist who was convicted in October 2015 of supporting the Anonymous collective and that was sentenced to 24 months in prison for computer hacking charges in April 2016. The post Journalist Matthew Keys is now charged with an attack on a magazine appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The popular US whistleblower Edward Snowden has reported the abuse of surveillance made by many governments, he blamed the Israeli company NSO Group for developing and selling surveillance software to Saudi Arabia. The Snowden Video Interview was published by almasdarnews.com. Security Affairs – NSO Group, Khashoggi).

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 19, 2019

Since the 2016 US presidential election, there have been an endless series of ideas about how countries can defend themselves. I started with the seven commandments , or steps, laid out in a 2018 New York Times opinion video series on "Operation Infektion," a 1980s Russian disinformation campaign.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2019

The STRONTIUM APT group (aka APT28 , Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , and Sednit ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2018

A video on the Rossiiskaya Gazeta government daily’s website showed a police officer explaining people waiting in line that the cable car would not reopen “for technical reasons.”. The post Moscow’s New Cable Car closed due to a ransomware infection appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 31, 2019

Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Thursday, 31 st January 2019. After being passed around by various employees and departments at Apple, filing a bug report and even registering as a developer to highlight the bug, she turned to twitter to mention the issue announcing she had video evidence of the bug.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 15, 2020

IT Governance has recorded more than 1,000 publicly disclosed cyber security incidents so far this year and 20 billion breached records. The top story from February was the long-awaited conclusion to a series of data breaches that Yahoo experienced between 2012 and 2016. Oh, and did we mention the Zoom quizzes?

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 4, 2023

ChatGPT was released just nine months ago, and we are still learning how it will affect our daily lives, our careers, and even our systems of self-governance. People talk about the danger of campaigns that attack opponents with fake images (or fake audio or video) because we already have decades of experience dealing with doctored images.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 11, 2018

The story behind this request is one of sophisticated malware and unsophisticated home-network security, and it's a harbinger of the sorts of pervasive threats ­ from nation-states, criminals and hackers ­ that we should expect in coming years. More than 500,000 routers in at least 54 countries have been infected since 2016.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2019

In the last weeks, a new Android surveillance malware dubbed Exodus made the headlines, now expert found the iOS version of the government spyware. Security experts at LookOut have discovered an iOS version of the dreaded surveillance Android app Exodus that was initially found on the official Google Play Store. on Feb 28, 2016.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2019

But did you know that YouTube allows comments on most videos and that those comments sections can contain links posted by predatory adults hiding behind fake profiles? What does this have to do with streaming videos? These are videos being broadcast to the user’s friends list, but the recording of it can be shared. Elsagate.

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The Security Ledger

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Priscilla Moriuchi of Recorded Future joins us once again in the Security Ledger studios to talk about the findings of two major reports released this week on Russia's online campaigns and how disinformation operations by foreign governments may be the "new normal." . The 2016 presidential campaign is even more distant.

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Preservica

JANUARY 23, 2023

What the history tells us Millions of Americans cast their ballots each election cycle to improve our government and engage in issues that impact their lives. When she took the city's data analytics team on an Archives tour in 2016, the team saw the Archives' Women's Voter Registers and identified the registers as an enormous dataset.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Here are the top Twitter accounts to follow for the latest commentary, research, and much-needed humor in the ever-evolving information security space. Security enthusiast and Linux evangelist Binni Shah consistently offers valuable tutorials, guides, and insights for the cybersecurity community. Binni Shah | @binitamshah.

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The Texas Record

MAY 20, 2019

Successfully meeting these goals are best practices any organization would want to achieve—let alone the federal government. In the 2014 article, we calmed fears that these requirements were also expectations for state and local governments; they are not. microfiche, microfilm, analog video, analog audio).

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 26, 2019

I first heard of this concept from Anthony Soules, a former National Security Agency (NSA) employee who now leads cybersecurity strategy for Amgen. A 2018 New York Times opinion video series on the operation described the Russian disinformation playbook in a series of seven "commandments," or steps. Governments will have to disclose.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Hello and welcome to a the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 9 November. We responded to this incident by fortifying our log-on and authentication processes, and implemented additional layers of security for digital and mobile access to all personal and business banking accounts. The bug was first disclosed in 2016.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2020

The Transparent Tribe cyber-espionage group continues to improve its arsenal while targets Military and Government entities. The post Transparent Tribe APT hit 1000+ victims in 27 countries in the last 12 months appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, transparent tribe).

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JANUARY 26, 2022

With the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), adopted in 2016, the EU has created a solid framework for the protection of personal data in line with the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. the proposed Data Governance Act. The proposed Data Governance Act and (expected) Data Act. the proposed Digital Markets Act.

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Preservica

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

This content includes the nation’s published heritage acquired through legal deposit, records of the federal government, private papers of historically significant Canadians, and the Government of Canada Web Archive. It also includes processes being as automated as possible, and all full digital preservation functions supported.

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The Texas Record

MAY 7, 2018

We are happy to welcome guest writers from the Texas Department of Information Resources, Daniel Hankins, Shared Services Security Manager and Andy Bennett, Director Information Security Governance. For additional resources from the Texas Department of Information and Resources visit their Information Security page. [1]

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