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Estonian National charged with helping Russia acquire U.S. hacking tools and electronics

Security Affairs

made electronics on behalf of the Russian government and military. The Estonian man is accused of having helped the Russian government and military to purchase US-made electronics and hacking tools. manufacturers on behalf of Russian end-users, including defense contractors and other Russian government agencies.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in July 2020 ­– 77 million records breached

IT Governance

You can find our full list of publicly disclosed data breaches from July in this blog. Meanwhile, you can stay up to date with the latest news by subscribing to our Weekly Round-up or visiting our blog. Four military schools in Canada targeted in ‘mysterious’ cyber attack (unknown). Cyber attacks.

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2020 Predictions – Quantum knows what you did last summer

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As technology becomes capable of defeating a higher proportion of current and legacy security efforts, cybersecurity in 2020 will be defined by the need to stand out. Therefore, governments and organizations, such as NIST, are racing to become cryptographically quantum resilient. National Initiatives in 2020.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in March 2020 – 832 million records breached

IT Governance

Medical and military contractor Kimchuk hit by ransomware (unknown). Dutch government loses two external hard drive containing personal data (6.9 Toronto government leaks personal data of elderly and vulnerable (7,227). Police investigate ransomware incident at Jamaica National Group (unknown). Data breaches.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in August 2020 – 36.6 million records breached

IT Governance

You can find our full list of publicly disclosed data breaches from August in this blog, with incidents affecting UK organisations listed in bold. Meanwhile, you can stay up to date with the latest news by subscribing to our Weekly Round-up or visiting our blog. The post List of data breaches and cyber attacks in August 2020 – 36.6

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UK emphasises cyber security in new foreign policy strategy

IT Governance

The UK government plans to invest £24 billion in cyber security and the armed forces as part of a major shake-up of its defence policy. Under the new strategy, the government says it’s prepared to launch nuclear attacks if the country faced an exceptional threat that used cyber weapons or other “emerging technologies”.

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US Department of State offers $10M reward for info to locate six Russian Sandworm members

Security Affairs

government offers up to $10 million for info that allows to identify or locate six Russian GRU hackers who are members of the Sandworm APT group. This isn’t the first time that the US government indicted these members of the Sandworm team, in October 2020 the U.S. critical infrastructure.” critical infrastructure.”