Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And it’s perhaps fitting that this was also a leap year, piling on an extra day to a solar rotation that most of us probably can’t wait to see in the rearview mirror. But it was hardly a dull one for computer security news junkies. Thank you all for your thoughtful engagement, wisdom, news tips and support.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 8, 2021

Sometimes when a complex story takes us by surprise or knocks us back on our heels, it pays to revisit the events in a somewhat linear fashion. When did Microsoft find out about attacks on previously unknown vulnerabilities in Exchange? 6, and officially informed Microsoft about it on Feb. Reston, Va.-based

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Editor’s note: I recently had the chance to participate in a discussion about the overall state of privacy and cybersecurity with Erin Kapczynski, OneRep’s senior vice president of B2B marketing. OneRep provides a consumer service that scrubs your personal information from Google and dozens of privacy-breaching websites.

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CILIP

MARCH 20, 2024

CILIP to launch Libraries Change Lives Advocacy Week this summer This summer will you join us to tell the stories of how Libraries Change Lives? We are inviting libraries across the UK to join us to share your successes during our brand new Libraries Change Lives Week.

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IT Governance

MARCH 16, 2023

The UK government has announced plans to ban ministers and civil servants from using TikTok on work devices. The problems stem from TikTok’s ties to the Chinese government and the ways that people’s personal data could be used for nefarious purposes. Are these rumours founded? Canada, Belgium and India have all taken similar action.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 17, 2022

The good news is that a long-overdue transition to a new attack surface and security paradigm is well underway, one built on a fresh set of cloud-native security frameworks and buttressed by software-defined security technologies. Coming Wed., May 18: How security teams can help drive business growth — by embracing complexity. .

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The fact-checking department of news agency AFP said the audio showed signs of being manipulated using AI. I just wrote about this. Consider this a preview to their actions in the US next year. That meant, under Slovakia’s election rules, the post was difficult to widely debunk.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2024

Each of us has probably sat through some level of cybersecurity awareness training during our professional lives. Don’t re-use a password across multiple sites. But have you thought about the potential impact of an adversary introducing a USB stick to a curious employee? All good advice!

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CILIP

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In this video he speaks about the heroic work of librarians and his libraries marathon. In this video he speaks about the heroic work of librarians and his libraries marathon. Join us to get involved. Joseph was awarded Honorary Fellowship of CILIP 2023 in recognition of his services to libraries and reading.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 23, 2023

I can’t remember the last time I thought about the US no-fly list: the list of people so dangerous they should never be allowed to fly on an airplane, yet so innocent that we can’t arrest them. The list is back in the news today, having been left exposed on an insecure airline computer.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2024

Earlier this week, Meta announced it will set up a team to tackle disinformation and the abuse of generative AI in the run-up to the European Parliament elections – amid concerns about fake news. They also allege that the social network giant potentially includes hidden clauses or misleading explanations about data usage.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2022

CommonSpirit, one of the largest hospital chains in the US, suffered a ransomware cyberattack that impacted its operations. Common Spirit , one of the largest hospital chains in the US, this week suffered a ransomware cyberattack that caused severe inconvenience to the facilities and to patients. ” reported NBC News. .

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Twitter removed around 130 Iranian accounts for attempting to disrupt the public recent US Presidential Debate. The social media giant Twitter announced to have removed around 130 Iranian Twitter accounts that attempted to disrupt the public conversation during the recent first Presidential Debate for the US 2020 Presidential Election.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 5, 2021

The facts aren’t news, but Zoom will pay $85M — to the class-action attorneys, and to users — for lying to users about end-to-end encryption, and for giving user data to Facebook and Google without consent.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JUNE 28, 2023

Welcome to the hellscape of “Made for Advertising” sites This past Monday NewsGuard , a journalism rating platform that also analyzes and identifies AI-driven misinformation, announced it had identified hundreds of junk news sites powered by generative AI. What I found was…disappointing.

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CILIP

DECEMBER 21, 2023

In January CILIP launched Welcome to Libraries an induction pack that supports new librarians as they start out on their careers. In January CILIP launched Welcome to Libraries an induction pack that supports new librarians as they start out on their careers.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 7, 2023

A bunch of networks, including US Government networks , have been hacked by the Chinese. The hackers used forged authentication tokens to access user email, using a stolen Microsoft Azure account consumer signing key. The phrase “ negligent security practices ” is being tossed about—and with good reason.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Turns out that with link taxes , content moderation nightmares, advertising blacklists, and consumer fatigue, “news” is just more trouble than its worth for our modern attention merchants. The Times ‘ piece turns on the news that Meta’s point person for news, Campbell Brown, is leaving the company.

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CILIP

APRIL 26, 2024

As already mentioned, I chartered in my first job, and talked about my experiences at a few CILIP events over the years. We get updates from CILIP about changes and policies, are briefed by the PR Panel on any trends and problems they’re seeing with submissions, and we liaise between our regions and the PRSO group on events, timings etc.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 10, 2024

Navigating the EU-US Data Protection Framework sparsh Thu, 01/11/2024 - 05:26 On 10 July 2023, the European Commission adopted a new adequacy decision regarding the Data Privacy Framework (“DPF”). This follows the invalidation of the EU-US Privacy Shield, by the Court of Justice of the European Union on 16 July 2020.

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CILIP

MARCH 6, 2024

We welcome the announcement of new real-terms investment in cultural programmes, including for the British Library North project. Instead, the Public Sector Productivity Plan announced today creates new pressure on Councils to find further financial savings, which can only be achieved through further reductions in statutory services.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 30, 2020

I've written a bunch about COVID-19 contact tracing apps recently as they relate to security and privacy, albeit in the form of long tweets. I loved being a part of this panel as it allowed us to step away from the speculation and conspiracy theories and instead focus on the facts of how the thing works.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The US and its allies have an imperative to strengthen the capabilities necessary to deter and respond to aggression that is ever more present in cyberspace. 2) Setting these attacks up takes time, and Putin was secretive about his plans. (3) 2) Setting these attacks up takes time, and Putin was secretive about his plans. (3)

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KnowBe4

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The Wall Street Journal recently published an article about using highly-emotionally charged, “controversial”, subjects in simulated phishing tests. Here is our general statement: KnowBe4 recommends caution when using controversial subjects in simulated phishing tests as they may generate anger upset if used incorrectly.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

However, there will be plenty of opportunity for us all to catch up as the Fall season is bustling with cybersecurity events worldwide. Find out more about the event or arrange a meeting with our Thales experts. Join Thales on booth D70 to meet our experts from the region and learn more about our cloud security solutions.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Welcome to a new series of weekly blog posts rounding up the biggest and most interesting news stories. At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Breached organisation: City of Philadelphia, US.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2020

On Sunday night, the National Security Council tweeted that the news about an alleged national quarantine are fake. The healthcare systems of any country are under pressure, for this reason, the news of a cyberattack against a hospital is regrettable. While the Coronavirus is spreading in the U.S., “The U.S.

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CILIP

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Nick will take up a new role in April 2024 as Chief Executive of Ukie, the trade association for the UK video games and interactive entertainment industry. Nick will take up a new role in April 2024 as Chief Executive of Ukie, the trade association for the UK video games and interactive entertainment industry.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

I predicted the death of Jimmy Finkelstein’s The Messenger as soon as I read about its impending launch back in March of last year. No, really, that’s what they called their approach to news coverage.) How on earth was some random digital news startup going to… Oh, wait. Well that didn’t go well.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 16, 2024

First, let us review some of the common ransomware detection approaches employed by cybersecurity professionals today: behavioral vs. signature vs. binary inspection. It’s no longer a matter of IF you get attacked, it’s a matter of WHEN you get attacked. As such, it would not be detected at process load time. CTE-RWP is behavior-based.

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The Security Ledger

DECEMBER 16, 2021

in of the firm ReversingLabs joins us to talk about Log4Shell, the vulnerability in the ubiquitous Log4j Apache library. Tomislav tells us why issues related to Log4j won’t be going away anytime soon and how organizations must adapt to deal with the risk it poses. In this episode of the podcast (#232), Tomislav Peri?in

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CILIP

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Four publicly available letters that CILIP has written in support of libraries facing cutbacks are also available to serve as examples or templates for librarians to use when they make their own representations. Find out more about membership, and how it helps you too.

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IT Governance

APRIL 4, 2024

Free PDF download: Data Breach Dashboards For quick, one-page overviews of this month’s findings, please use our Data Breach Dashboards : The above Dashboard includes our complete data for the month. You can learn more about our research methodology here. Top 10 biggest breaches Note 1: Where ‘around’, ‘about’, etc.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2020

Hackers have stolen confidential documents from the US military contractor Westech, which provides critical support for US Minuteman III nuclear deterrent. MAZE ransomware operators have stolen sensitive data from Westech, a company that supports the US Minuteman III nuclear deterrent. The LGM-30 Minuteman is a U.S.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 21, 2021

Threat actors in January attempted to poison the water at a US facility, a circumstance that highlights the importance of cybersecurity for water and wastewater utilities. The news that a threat actor in January attempted to poison the water at a facility in the U.S. “On Jan. “On Jan. It didn’t seem hard.”

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OpenText Information Management

APRIL 22, 2024

At OpenText World Europe , I spoke extensively about the power of AI, the importance of adopting an AI mindset, and the new AI-powered innovations that we are proud to offer our customers. As I return home from OpenText World Europe, I am feeling invigorated by the powerful conversations that occurred throughout the week.

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The Security Ledger

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

We speak with John Shegerian of ERI about his new book: “The Insecurity of Everything” and how our e-waste may be exposing sensitive data to other nations. Related Stories Episode 224: Engineering Trust In The Cyber Executive Order Episode 222: US Rep. If you’d like one use the button below to sign up and receive your copy!

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