IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Hello and welcome to the final IT Governance podcast of 2018. Equifax issued its financial report for the first quarter of 2018, revealing that its huge 2017 data breach had so far cost it $242.7 Users were encouraged to change their passwords. The NIS Directive was enacted in the UK as the NIS Regulations on 10 May.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) is warning of the North Korea-linked ARCHIPELAGO group that is targeting government and military personnel, think tanks, policy makers, academics, and researchers in South Korea, the US and elsewhere. The experts pointed out that ARCHIPELAGO focuses on building a rapport with targets.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The Verizon 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report advises organizations to deploy multifactor authentication throughout all systems and discourage password reuse. billion records exposed, and a more than 54% increase in the number of reported breaches vs. the first half of 2018. MFA awareness is not new to CISOs or IT teams.

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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 Transparent Tribe APT group is carrying out an ongoing cyberespionage campaign aimed at military and diplomatic targets worldwide. ” reads the analysis published by Kaspersky.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 12, 2019

While not confirmed, the FBI has advised that the hackers likely used a tactic known as password spraying, a technique that exploits weak passwords. Resecurity previously alerted Citrix that their systems had been targeted by Iridium in late December 2018, according to president Charles Yoo.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

These are, of course, on top of the obviously ominous features such as password retrieval and key logging that are normally seen in Remote Access Trojans.”. ” “I am not your A-typical computer geek, Brian,” he wrote in a 2018 email. “I I tend to have a violent nature, and have both Martial arts and Military training. “I

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

“In the early part of 2021, PHOSPHORUS actors scanned millions of IPs on the internet for Fortinet FortiOS SSL VPN that were vulnerable to CVE-2018-13379. Threat actors are launching extensive password spraying attacks aimed at the target organizations, the malicious campaign was first spotted in July 2021.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2021

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2021

MoleRATs is an Arabic-speaking, politically motivated group of hackers that has been active since 2012, in 2018 monitoring the operation of the group, Kaspersky identified different techniques utilized by very similar attackers in the MENA region.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The Callisto APT group (aka “ Seaborgium “, “Star Blizzard”, “ ColdRiver” , “TA446”) targeted government officials, military personnel, journalists and think tanks since at least 2015. The nation-state actor is carrying out spear-phishing attacks for cyberespionage purposes.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 6, 2022

The Paris Call for Trust and Stability in Cyberspace is an initiative launched by French President Emmanuel Macron during the 2018 UNESCO’s Internet Governance Forum. It’s not real to the older military veterans, or to the even older politicians who confuse Facebook with TikTok and use the same password for everything.

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 24, 2019

million Washingtonians between July 2017 and July 2018. Usernames or email addresses in combination with passwords or security questions and answers. Usernames or email addresses in combination with passwords or security questions and answers. Introducing a specific rule for breach of usernames and passwords.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2019

Figure 2: password required to view and modify macros on document. The first peculiarity of the malicious document is the protected macro, in fact, when the user tries to read it immediately shows a message box asking for password. This IP is was first seen on October 2018 and was active until April 2019.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

At the 2018 Winter Olympic Games held in PyeongChang, for instance, cyber criminals leveraged a previously unknown family of malware called Olympic Destroyer to attack the Games’ servers just before the opening ceremony. Unfortunately, digital criminals are also closely following the buzz surrounding this tournament.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 14, 2018

Recently, Colorado’s governor signed into law House Bill 18-1128 “concerning strengthening protections for consumer data privacy” (the “Bill”), which takes effect September 1, 2018.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 13, 2018

But fuel it I did and I spent a big whack of the week doing things I hope to talk about next week (namely some major architectural changes to HIBP services), as well as preparing both the Pemiblanc credential stuffing list for HIBP and then pushing out Pwned Passwords V3. Polar Fitness and military personnel tracking.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2018

The Russia-linked APT28 group targets Senator Claire McCaskill and her staff as they gear up for her 2018 re-election campaign. The Russian APT group tracked as Fancy Bear (aka APT28 , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ), that operated under the Russian military agency GRU, continues to target US politicians.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Findings from the 2018 Federal Edition of the Data Threat Report. So far in 2018, we’ve already seen a handful of government agency mishaps when it comes to security. To see the full results of the Federal Edition of the 2018 Global Data Threat Report, please click here. national security at risk.

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The Security Ledger

JANUARY 10, 2020

» Related Stories Eliminate the Password, Eliminate the Password Problem. military bases in Iraq, the world assumed that it was an escalation of tensions between Iran and the U.S. We talk with Levi Gundert at the firm Recorded Future about what cyber "payback" from Tehran might look like. Read the whole entry. »

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

But, by contrast, only 36,673,575 records were confirmed to have been leaked, which is the fewest we’ve recorded since May 2018. There were a massive 99 data breaches and cyber attacks in August, making it the third-biggest monthly total of the year by number of security incidents. Cyber attacks. Hitachi Chemical Co. Cyber attacks.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2019

After the revelations, the Russia team was suspended from participating in the 2018 Winter Olympics. The TTPs used in the most recent attacks are similar to those observed in attacks against governments, militaries, think tanks, law firms, human rights organizations, financial firms and universities around the world.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

A 2018 deepfaked video of Barack Obama synced to an audio track created by comedian Jordan Peele caused politicians sparked popular demand that technology companies more actively filter out content utilizing the technology, citing concerns about potential election interference. The issue is not limited to home and office environments, either.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

In June 2018, experts at Kaspersky were investigating attacks against government and military entities in South and Southeast Asian countries, The experts tracked the campaign as EasternRoppels, they speculate it may have started as far back as 2012. Its new Titanium backdoor attempt to hide at every stage by mimicking common software.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

Passwords are everywhere, but they probably weren't intended to be used as much as they are today. Maybe you are at an organization that requires you to change your passwords every 90 days or so, and so you have password fatigue -- there are only so many variations you can do every 90 days or so. I must have the password.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 28, 2020

We don’t know how, but last year the company’s update server was protected by the password “solarwinds123” — something that speaks to a lack of security culture.) This strategy was credited with foiling a plot by the Russian Internet Research Agency to disrupt the 2018 elections.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The victim was one of the most important leaders in the field of security and defensive military grade Naval ecosystem in Italy. How Microsoft Excel is able to decrypt such a content if no password is requested to the end user? That object was crafted on 2018-10-09 but it was seen only on 2018-10-12.

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IT Governance

MARCH 11, 2024

According to a listing on a popular hacking forum, the database includes customers’ names, email addresses, hashed passwords, and more. million for security failings relating to a 2018 cyber attack on its mobile banking platform. The claim is yet to be verified. Data breached: 36 million records. UniCredit fined €2.8

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

21, 2018 it will be free to freeze and unfreeze your credit file and those of your children or dependents throughout the United States. In addition, the law requires the big three bureaus to offer free electronic credit monitoring services to all active duty military personnel.

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Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

* This article first appeared in In-House Defense Quarterly on April 3, 2018. On February 21, 2018, the SEC issued an additional cybersecurity disclosure guidance document to assist public companies in drafting their cybersecurity disclosures in their SEC filings. Mandatory Access Control. Role-Based Access Control.

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Adam Levin

MAY 13, 2019

Because email isn’t deleted from most servers by default, this target-rich digital information environment is often accessible to anyone with a login and password–something that is regularly served up to hackers by the billio ns. While the underlying structures seem naïve, none of it was designed for the general public.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 23, 2024

The leaked information allegedly includes customers’ names, dates of birth, email addresses, passwords and phone numbers. Data breached: 10,870,524 lines. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: full list This week, we’ve found 130,036,285 records known to be compromised, and 116 organisations suffering a newly disclosed incident.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Ransomware frequently contains extraction capabilities that can steal critical information like usernames and passwords, so stopping ransomware is serious business. The Ryuk ransomware family spawned in 2018 from a sophisticated Russia-based cybercrime group. In this new decade, the Ryuk ransomware remains the most dangerous strain.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

Vamosi: Okay, so you're 16, still in high school, and the Department of Defense is introducing you to members of the military and the Air Force. It's tasked with protecting these 17 critical infrastructure areas from span everything from health care to electricity to dams and military. Whoa, how cool is that.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

Vamosi: Okay, so you're 16, still in high school, and the Department of Defense is introducing you to members of the military and the Air Force. It's tasked with protecting these 17 critical infrastructure areas from span everything from health care to electricity to dams and military. Whoa, how cool is that.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

There were PDFs of Election Day passwords that supervisors use to start in elections. Bee: Can you tell me what the password was? Here’s how Lit News described the system in 2018. That all sounded good enough for the Secretary of State in West Virginia to try it out in the 2018 elections. Lamb: A four digit PIN.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

There were PDFs of Election Day passwords that supervisors use to start in elections. Bee: Can you tell me what the password was? Here’s how Lit News described the system in 2018. That all sounded good enough for the Secretary of State in West Virginia to try it out in the 2018 elections. Lamb: A four digit PIN.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 20, 2020

There were PDFs of Election Day passwords that supervisors use to start in elections. Bee: Can you tell me what the password was? Here’s how Lit News described the system in 2018. That all sounded good enough for the Secretary of State in West Virginia to try it out in the 2018 elections. Lamb: A four digit PIN.

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