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U.S. Charges 4 Chinese Military Officers in 2017 Equifax Hack

Krebs on Security

as members of the PLA’s 54 th Research Institute, a component of the Chinese military. Attorney General Bill Barr said at a press conference today that the Justice Department doesn’t normally charge members of another country’s military with crimes (this is only the second time the agency has indicted Chinese military hackers).

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Hacker leaks passwords for 900+ Pulse Secure VPN enterprise servers

Security Affairs

ZDNet has reported in exclusive that a list of plaintext usernames and passwords for 900 Pulse Secure VPN enterprise servers, along with IP addresses, has been shared on a Russian-speaking hacker forum. ZDNet has obtained a copy of the list with the help of threat intelligence firm KELA and verified confirmed the authenticity of the data.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 253

Security Affairs

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. FireEye Mandiant M-Trends 2020 report: 500+ new Malware strains in 2019. European Commission has chosen the Signal app to secure its communications. New strain of Cerberus Android banking trojan can steal Google Authenticator codes. Lampion malware v2 February 2020.

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How to Ensure Your Digital Security During the Rugby World Cup

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Now that it’s September, the excitement is beginning to build in earnest for the 2019 Rugby World Cup. Just a couple of months after that, World Rugby itself announced that one of its training websites had suffered a security breach that exposed subscribers’ account information.

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UK, US agencies warn of large-scale brute-force attacks carried out by Russian APT

Security Affairs

US and UK cybersecurity agencies said today that a Russian military cyber unit has been behind a series of brute-force attacks that have targeted the cloud IT resources of government and private sector companies across the world. and foreign organizations using brute force access to penetrate government and private sector victim networks.”

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California Amends Breach Notification Law

Hunton Privacy

AB 1130 also specifies that “[i]n breaches involving biometric data,” the reporting entity must provide “instructions on how to notify other entities that used the same type of biometric data as an authenticator to no longer rely on [that] data for authentication purposes.”. The amendments take effect January 1, 2020.

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Washington Amends Data Breach Notification Law

Hunton Privacy

As reported by Bloomberg Law , on May 7, 2019, Washington State Governor Jay Inslee signed a bill ( HB 1071 ) amending Washington’s data breach notification law. The new requirements include the following: Expanded Definition of Personal Information. HB 1071 expands the definition of “personal information.” Method of Notification.