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US DoJ indicts Chinese hackers over state-sponsored cyber espionage

Security Affairs

The US Department of Justice charged two Chinese hackers for hacking numerous companies and government agencies in a dozen countries, US Indicts Two Chinese Government Hackers Over Global Hacking Campaign. The APT10 Group stole hundreds of gigabytes of sensitive data and information from the victims’ computer systems.

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Mitsubishi Electric discloses data breach, media blame China-linked APT

Security Affairs

Mitsubishi Electric had also already notified members of the Japanese government and Ministry of Defense. “An internal survey found that computers and servers at headquarters and major sites were subject to numerous unauthorized accesses.” ” reported the Asahi Shimbun. ” reported the Asahi Shimbun.

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GUEST ESSAY: The story behind how DataTribe is helping to seed ‘Cybersecurity Valley’ in Maryland

The Last Watchdog

Within these government labs and agencies, taking place is a groundswell of innovation in deep technology cyber disciplines to the tune of billions of dollars annually over the past three decades. Kleiner was the founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Perkins was an early Hewlett-Packard computer division manager.)

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Regulation of AI-Based Applications: The Inevitable New Frontier

AIIM

The scope of the harmful impacts AI algorithms was documented by the AI Now Institute 2019 Report : “ Litigating Algorithms, New Challenges to Government Use of Algorithmic Decision Systems. ” Bill, the California government will be left to its own devices and resources, which are already thinly spread.

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2019 end-of-year review part 1: January to June

IT Governance

IT Governance is closing out the year by rounding up 2019’s biggest information security stories. Victims of Equifax’s 2017 data breach were given the go-ahead to launch a class-action lawsuit. The alarm manufacturers provide an app – which they claimed was “unhackable” – that allows users to lock their cars using their smartphone.

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Different types of cyber attacks

IT Governance

Originally published 1 December 2017. Malware is designed to disrupt and gain unauthorised access to a computer system. Ransomware one of the fastest-growing forms of cyber attacks and has been behind a number of high-profile breaches, including the massive NHS data breach in 2017. There are the main forms: Ransomware.