The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Government policymakers decided in the 1990s to promote inherently insecure, nascent Internet technology to be the world’s primary global information infrastructure for all the world’s communications, content, and commerce. Government policymakers decided in the 1990s to de facto nationally abdicate governing online.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Responding to a recent surge in AI-generated bot accounts, LinkedIn is rolling out new features that it hopes will help users make more informed decisions about with whom they choose to connect. “These warnings will also give you the choice to report the content without letting the sender know.” A follow-up story on Oct.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2021

Reached via LinkedIn, Sociogram founder Oluwaseun Medayedupin asked to have his startup’s name removed from the story, although he did not respond to questions about whether there were an inaccuracies in Hassold’s report. – Government entities. Image: Abnormal Security. “I beg you as a promising young man.”

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 20, 2023

Department of Justice (“DOJ”) released an update to its Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs guidance (“ECCP Guidance”). The ECCP Guidance serves as a guidance document for prosecutors when evaluating a corporate compliance program. Read more about the ECCP Guidance.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 11, 2022

This push is coming from the corporate sector. Last August, NTT , the Tokyo-based technology giant, unveiled its Health and Wellbeing initiative – an ambitious effort to guide corporate, political and community leaders onto a more enlightened path. Fixing data governance. That’s a sizable fish to fry.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2024

The Australian and New Zealand Nissan Corporation and Financial Services (“Nissan”) advises that its systems have been subject to a cyber incident. The company did not share details about the attack or its scope, but a few weeks later the Akira ransomware group claimed to have stolen 100 GB of information from the company.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 23, 2024

This year’s Data Privacy Week will center around one core theme – Take Control of Your Data: Online presence generates a significant amount of data collected by websites, apps, and companies globally, including details about interests, purchases, and behaviors. Give Data Brokers the Slip! Protect Our Kids’ Privacy!

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AIIM

APRIL 13, 2021

Prompted by new concerns about digital privacy and ethics, The State of Virginia recently became the second state, behind California, to adopt a comprehensive consumer data privacy law. and Jasen Hutchinson, Manager, Corporate Records Compliance, JEA.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 30, 2022

Fundamentally, cybersecurity professionals identify weaknesses and design systems and processes to protect any organization — government agencies, private companies — from cyberattacks. Many government and non-profit organizations like VetJobs and VetsinTech are doing just this. Plus — they tend to pay well too.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 20, 2023

The success of digital exploitation can be attributed to several factors, including difficulty in keeping up with the latest security measures, increased reliance on technology and the internet, and a general lack of awareness and education about the dangers of the internet.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

The government says Urban went by the aliases “ Sosa ” and “ King Bob ,” among others. 0ktapus used newly-registered domains that often included the name of the targeted company, and sent text messages urging employees to click on links to these domains to view information about a pending change in their work schedule.

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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. A quarter of its users are under 20 years old, and half are under 30.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2022

The collective Anonymous and its affiliated groups continue to target the Russian government and private organizations. The collective Anonymous, and other groups in its ecosystem, continue to target the Russian government and private organizations. Let’s summarize the most interesting attacks observed in the last few days.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2022

The Deep & Dark Web is a mystery to most in the mainstream today: many have heard about it, but few understand just a fraction of what’s going on there. Once vetted and accepted, threat hunters will go into these message boards and communities and search for anything connected to your business, for example: •Corporate login credentials.

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AIIM

MAY 11, 2021

A staple of many Information Technology (IT) policy suites is the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP), intended to govern what people working in the organization can and cannot do with the technology we provide them. disclosing any sensitive corporate information. destroying corporate information without authorization. Those are silos.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 20, 2022

LinkedIn declined to answer questions about the account purges, saying only that the company is constantly working to keep the platform free of fake accounts. LinkedIn declined to comment about that earlier account purge, saying only that, “We’re constantly working at taking down fake accounts.” A follow-up story on Oct.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 3, 2023

But publicly available information about this company and its leadership suggests otherwise. Companies House says Mykhailov is an officer in three other companies, including one called Blackstone Corporate Alliance Ltd. According to the Swiss business tracking service business-monitor.ch , Blackstone Corporate Alliance Ltd.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 8, 2023

“Sandwich provides developers with an easy set of tools to integrate the latest cryptography standards to reduce the number of vulnerable applications that security-minded organizations have to worry about.” SandboxAQ recently launched its Security Suite which handles discovery and remediation of encryption vulnerabilities.

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AIIM

JANUARY 7, 2021

A recent study commissioned by Egnyte surveyed 400 IT leaders to understand how COVID-19 has impacted businesses’ ability to maintain data security and governance with a distributed workforce. Enable Controlled Sharing: Deploy user-friendly collaboration with robust governance controls. This is about risk reduction over time.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Seiko Group Corporation (hereinafter referred to as “the Company” or “we”) has confirmed that on July 28th of this year, the Company suffered a possible data breach. “We had previously announced on August 10, 2023, about the unauthorized access to our servers (*). This unauthorized access was the result of a ransomware attack.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Computers collect data about what we’re doing on them, and as both storage and processing have become cheaper, that data is increasingly saved and used. Yes, spyware companies like NSO Group help the government hack into people’s phones , but someone still has to sort through all the conversations. It’ll tell you.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 15, 2019

Wipro has refused to respond to questions about the alleged incident. 12, Nair sent a statement that acknowledged none of the questions Wipro was asked about an alleged security incident involving attacks against its own customers. On Friday, Apr. “Wipro has a multilayer security system,” the company wrote.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Instead of listing data stolen from ransomware victims who didn’t pay, LockBit’s victim shaming website now offers free recovery tools, as well as news about arrests and criminal charges involving LockBit affiliates. This prompted several XSS members to start posting memes taunting the group about the security failure.

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IT Governance

JUNE 21, 2022

Data governance and regulatory compliance go hand in hand. Organisations need robust governance practices if they are to stay on top of their legal requirements, while those obligations are designed to help them operate more effectively. Why is data governance important? What to include in a data governance strategy.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 8, 2022

Lumen’s decision comes just days after a similar exit by backbone provider Cogent , and amid a news media crackdown in Russia that has already left millions of Russians in the dark about what is really going on with their president’s war in Ukraine. Monroe, La. ru) from the Internet. .”

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Gimmal

MARCH 8, 2023

HOUSTON, March 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Gimmal, the market’s only end-to-end information governance platform, announced its partnership with leading data discovery and review platform, CloudNine. About Gimmal Gimmal is information governance, simplified. Learn more about CloudNine at www.cloudnine.com.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

10, 2020, Citrix disclosed additional details about the incident. While the notification does not specify whether the attackers stole proprietary data about the company’s software and internal operations, the intruders certainly had ample opportunity to access at least some of that information as well. 13, 2018 and Mar.

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IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 26, 2023

A corporate sustainability report is a comprehensive document that outlines a company’s efforts, policies, practices and performance related to social, environmental and economic sustainability. Moreover, siloed software often doesn’t seamlessly integrate into a multi-hybrid cloud corporate architecture.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 12, 2019

In the last year, the news media has been full of stories about vicious cyber breaches on municipal governments. From Atlanta to Baltimore to school districts in Louisiana, cyber criminals have launched a wave of ransomware attacks on governments across the country. It is not of a matter of “if” but “when.”

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Related: How ‘Internet Access Brokers’ fuel ransomware I happened to be in the audience at Stanford University when President Obama took to the stage to issue an executive order challenging the corporate sector and federal government to start collaborating as true allies. I’ll keep watch and keep reporting.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Computers collect data about what we’re doing on them, and as both storage and processing have become cheaper, that data is increasingly saved and used. Yes, spyware companies like NSO Group help the government hack into people’s phones , but someone still has to sort through all the conversations. It’ll tell you.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Someone has recently created a large number of fake LinkedIn profiles for Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) roles at some of the world’s largest corporations. and includes this detail about how she became a self-described “old-school geek.” Maryann’s profile says she’s from Tupelo, Miss.,

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 5, 2022

On June 21, 2022, President Biden signed into law, the State and Local Government Cybersecurity Act of 2021 (S. 1097) (the “Cyber Workforce Program Act”), two bipartisan bills aimed at enhancing the cybersecurity postures of the federal, state and local governments.

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eDiscovery Daily

AUGUST 3, 2023

Exceeding Corporate Client Expectations The first session of the conference, moderated by Richard Clark from CloudNine, focused on introducing new ways of deepening the relationship between corporate in-house and outside counsel. Notably, this collaborative approach was evident in discussions about these common challenges for U.K.-based

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 20, 2023

Once dubbed “the world’s most wanted hacker” after his youthful exploits attacking Digital Equipment Corporation and Pacific Bell, Mitnick completed his decade-long transition to cybersecurity luminary when he joined KnowBe4 as Chief Hacking Officer and part owner in 2011. A memorial will be held August 1 in Las Vegas.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

In my talk at the RSA Conference last month, I talked about the power level of our species becoming too great for our systems of governance. Talking about those systems, I said: Now, add into this mix the risks that arise from new and dangerous technologies such as the internet or AI or synthetic biology.

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Data Protection Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

Read more about this development in our article: Singapore’s Court of Appeal Clarifies Right of Private Action under Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Act | Global law firm | Norton Rose Fulbright . Review of Singapore’s Cybersecurity Act 2018 and publication of report by Singapore government task-force on ransomware.

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