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Cyber-Criminal espionage Operation insists on Italian Manufacturing

Security Affairs

ZLab researchers spotted a new malicious espionage activity targeting Italian companies operating worldwide in the manufacturing sector. The group behind this activity is the same we identified in the past malicious operations described in Roma225 (12/2018), Hagga (08/2019), Mana (09/2019), YAKKA (01/2020). Introduction.

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

Hello and welcome to the final IT Governance podcast of 2018. The year started with the revelation of Spectre and Meltdown – major security flaws affecting processors manufactured by Intel, ARM and AMD. The NIS Directive was enacted in the UK as the NIS Regulations on 10 May. Patches were rushed out , but many.

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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. ” reads the press release published by the DoJ. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

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Vladimir Putin ‘s computers still run Windows XP, Media reports

Security Affairs

According to the Russian website Open Media, President Putin’s computers in his office at the Kremlin office and at his official residence are still running Windows XP , which reached the end-of-life in 2014. Microsoft Windows 10 is only allowed only for government systems that don’t manage secret information.

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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. and Tenable, which went public in 2018 with a market capitalization of approximately $4 billion. The current number of U.S.

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Internet of Things Statistics

Information Matters

Title: IDC Forecasts Worldwide Spending on the Internet of Things to Reach $772 Billion in 2018. billion in 2018, an increase of 14.6% in 2016 Led by Manufacturing, Transportation, and Utilities Investments, According to New IDC Spending Guide. Summary: IoT security expenditure to 2018. ZB per month) in 2014. ?

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NEW TECH: Semperis introduces tools to improve security resiliency of Windows Active Directory

The Last Watchdog

NotPetya wrought $10 billion in damages , according to Tom Bossert a senior Department of Homeland Security official at the time. In 2018 and 2019, ransomware-triggered business disruptions came not in global-spanning worms, ala WannaCry and NotPetya, but in unrelenting one-off attacks. This is true of all software, of course.