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Google warned users of 33,015 nation-state attacks since January

Security Affairs

Google sent 11,856 government-backed phishing warnings during Q1 2020, 11,023 in Q2 2020, and 10,136 in Q3 2020. Google sent 11,856 government-backed phishing warnings during Q1 2020, 11,023 in Q2 2020, and 10,136 in Q3 2020. This week, the Google Cloud team revealed that in September 2017 it has mitigated DDoS attack that reached 2.54

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Cambridgeshire crowned the UK’s cyber crime capital

IT Governance

In 2017, Cambridge became the fastest-growing city in the UK , with businesses attracted to its proximity to London and the North, as well as its highly educated workforce. For example, the pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, which is based in Cambridge, was last year imitated in a sophisticated phishing scam targeting job seekers.

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China-linked APT10 leverages ZeroLogon exploits in recent attacks

Security Affairs

The group, also known as Cicada, Stone Panda , and Cloud Hopper , has been active at least since 2009, in April 2017 experts from PwC UK and BAE Systems uncovered a widespread hacking campaign, tracked as Operation Cloud Hopper , targeting managed service providers (MSPs) in multiple countries worldwide. ” Pierluigi Paganini.

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BEST PRACTICES: Rising complexities of provisioning identities has pushed ‘IGA’ to the fore

The Last Watchdog

Identity governance and administration, or IGA , has suddenly become a front-burner matter at many enterprises. Related: Identity governance issues in the age of digital transformation. SailPoint, which went public in November 2017, has grown to more than 1000 employees in 30 locations. Users re-defined. Compliance matters.

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Why Is The News Business So Terrible?

John Battelle's Searchblog

Brown was hired in 2017 to put a familiar face on Facebook’s tumultuous relationship with the press. Turns out that with link taxes , content moderation nightmares, advertising blacklists, and consumer fatigue, “news” is just more trouble than its worth for our modern attention merchants.

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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. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. ” continues the DoJ’s Press release.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Top 10 for 2018

Data Matters

In November 2017, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Carpenter v. In Carpenter , the government obtained months’ worth of a suspect’s cell phone location records pursuant to the Stored Communications Act (SCA). Robins will certainly be back in play. Supreme Court Developments. persons. Safe Harbor.