Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2020

Several stories here have highlighted the importance of creating accounts online tied to your various identity, financial and communications services before identity thieves do it for you. This post examines some of the key places where everyone should plant their virtual flags. Before we dive into the list, a couple of important caveats.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Hello and welcome to the final IT Governance podcast of 2018. Even government and public bodies’ websites – including, ironically, the ICO – were found to be running cryptomining software after a third-party plug-in was compromised, but it transpired. The Russian foreign ministry denied rumours of Muscovite involvement.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

ARMA (2017) describes RIM practices as the “knowledge and skills required to systematically manage information assets from creation or receipt through processing, distributing, sharing, using, accessing, organizing, storing and retrieving, and disposing of them. Part 3 will discuss how to manage the various DT risks. Enabling CS for DT.

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IT Governance

APRIL 16, 2018

Cryptojacking is when cryptocurrency miners are delivered through malware, using a computer’s processing power to illicitly mine cryptocurrency. The successful use of worms in the WannaCry attack in 2017 has likely encouraged criminal hackers to use them as an automated and faster way to spread malware. Supply chain compromises.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 28, 2019

Related: Long run damage of 35-day government shutdown. The end game for this particular hacking ring is to install crypto currency mining routines on compromised Linux servers. Worldwide spending on information security products and services rose to $114 billion in 2018, up from $102 billion in 2017, an increase of 12.4

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The surveillance regime the UK government has built seriously undermines our freedom,” Megan Golding, a lawyer speaking for privacy advocates, stated. It’s now commonplace for high-resolution video cams to feed endless streams of image data into increasingly intelligent data mining software.

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Information Matters

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

I recently sat down with Gus Tugendhat, founder of UK-based government tenders and contracts data provider, Tussell. UK public procurement was worth about £220bn in 2017 – equivalent to more than 10% of UK GDP. We want to make it as easy as possible for companies to do business with the government – in the UK and around the world.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

The investigators also found a connection between the ASUS attack to the ShadowPad backdoor that was first detected in 2017 and that was attributed to the Axiom group (also known as APT17 or DeputyDog ). Experts also linked the incident to the supply chain attack that targeted CCleaner in September 2018. ASUSTeK Computer Inc.”).”

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 24, 2018

Of those organizations, 57 percent have been breached in the last year – a number that is three times the rate of just two years ago (in our 2016 report, 18 percent reported a breach within the last year, and in our 2017 report, 34 percent reported a breach within the last year). But, that’s not the whole story.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

In 2017-2018 hackers’ interest in cryptocurrency exchanges ramped up. Thirteen exchanges were hacked in 2017 and in the first three quarters of 2018, amounting to a total loss of $877 million. In 2018 Group-IB detected five successful “51% attacks”, when attackers take control over at least 51% of mining power. Group-IB in Asia.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 10, 2019

The Measures, which, when finalized, will be legally binding, supplement the Cybersecurity Law of China (the “Cybersecurity Law”) that took force on June 1, 2017, with detailed and practical requirements for network operators who collect, store, transmit, process and use data within Chinese territory. Filing Requirement.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Cryptocurrency is a digital currency designed to work as a medium of monetary exchange through transactions on a computer network and is not reliant on any central authority, such as a government or bank, to uphold or maintain it. Nor am I going to wade into the debate about the ecological consequences of mining cryptocurrencies.

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CILIP

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The World Wide Web was very much a niche technology for decades before it bloomed to such an extent that it now touches more than half the world?s s population in one way or another. Now we are in a place where Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are the ideas that are set to launch the next big thing. s going on and what?s Structural Change.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

And in this hacker mine episode, I'm going to be giving some practical insight around the world of bug bounties through the eyes of various hackers I have previously interviewed on the show. Here's the crazy thing: prior to 2017 Prior to attending DEF CON 25 Stoke never tried his hand at bug bounty. I hope you'll stick around.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

A network monitoring company for the federal government and other large companies, Solar Winds, had been breached. And then the tools are used by government entities and accruals are used by big industries and it's one of the more popular and robust packages out there. TuneIn Podcasts. TheHackerMind.com. Vamosi: True story.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

A network monitoring company for the federal government and other large companies, Solar Winds, had been breached. And then the tools are used by government entities and accruals are used by big industries and it's one of the more popular and robust packages out there. TuneIn Podcasts. TheHackerMind.com. Vamosi: True story.

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AIIM

JUNE 30, 2020

Since this article was published in 2017, the Information Management industry exploded with new questions, like, Is ECM really dead? Few announcements in information management have been bigger than Gartner’s article heard round the world that announced the death of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) as we knew it.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

While security experts have been aware of printer vulnerabilities for quite a while, even previous large-scale attacks on printers like the Stackoverflowin hack in 2017 and the PewDiePie hack in 2018 did not seem to shock the public into securing their networked devices. How we did it. The results. Securing your printer.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

What if companies stopped treating consumers as wellsprings of behavioral data – data to be voraciously mined and then sold to the highest bidder? These are ponderings that have been debated by captains of industry, government regulators, and consumer advocates in Europe and North America for the past decade and a half.

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CILIP

JUNE 29, 2021

In 2017, when the UK amended its law and extended Public Lending Right (PLR) payments to authors for eLending? In 2017, when the UK amended its law and extended Public Lending Right (PLR) payments to authors for eLending? t refuse to sell paper books to libraries, but they can and do refuse to sell them eBooks. says Ben, adding: ?And

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eDiscovery Daily

MARCH 29, 2018

Jason is a member of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP ’s Information Governance and eDiscovery practice and co-chair of the Information Governance Initiative. Today’s thought leader is Jason R. What were your general observations about LTNY this year? Interviewed the last day of the show}. You see it everywhere. or whatever.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 4, 2017

— Nadine Dorries (@NadineDorries) December 2, 2017. link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) December 2, 2017. — Nick Boles MP (@NickBoles) December 3, 2017. Seems slightly unfair to vilify @NadineDorries for what is common practice — JamesClayton (@JamesClayton5) December 3, 2017. No one else has access.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2024

Companies and Government Agencies ArcaneDoor – New espionage-focused campaign found targeting perimeter network devices Israel Tried to Keep Sensitive Spy Tech Under Wraps.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2019

The New York Times, citing current and former government officials, revealed that the United States planted a potentially destructive malware in Russia’s electric power grid. ” The hacking operations aimed at warning the Russian Government about the cyber capabilities of the U.S. . ” states the NYT. … ALSO, NOT TRUE!

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 10, 2019

And there are the governments around the world using it to protect their departments , the law enforcement agencies leveraging it for their investigations and all sorts of other use cases I never, ever saw coming (my legitimisation of HIBP post from last year has a heap of other examples). (@WilliamCaraher) October 10, 2017.

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Adam Levin

MAY 13, 2019

Email is the preferred tool hackers use to access their targets’ networks: 83% of organizations reported phishing attacks in 2018, up from 76% in 2017. Domain names were initially intended as a means of identifying remote academic, military, and government locations. Email is foundational. It was made to communicate fast.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 20, 2020

Imagine a government using this sort of attack against another government, coordinating a series of fake tweets from hundreds of politicians and other public figures the day before a major election, to affect the outcome. Yet they are run by for-profit companies with little government oversight. But the banks have no choice.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Cast yourself back to late 2017 when Bitcoin was pushing $20,000 and the entire tech sector was obsessed with blockchain everything. I don’t usually make political predictions, but by 2017, Trump was the story, bigger than politics, and bigger than tech. I love writing this post, and thankfully you all love reading it as well.

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