The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 17, 2018

And then last Friday, as if to serve as a reminder that even routine security best practices may not be getting the emphasis they deserve, the Pentagon disclosed how attackers manipulated the account of a third-party vendor to access DoD travel records. military and civilian personnel were compromised. Timely trust decisions.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 21, 2021

Let's start with a poll: At your place of work, does your employer have the right to access the contents of your corporate email account if necessary? But there's also a lot of consistency, for example, here's a piece on whether it's legal to access an employee's email account in Australia : The short answer is yes.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2021

Of course, the U.S. He published thousands of classified diplomatic and military documents on WikiLeaks in 2010. In 2010, Assange gained unauthorized access to a government computer system of a NATO country and years later he contacted s LulzSec leader who was working for the FBI and provided him a list of targets.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 2, 2022

The intent of this tradition was to ensure trusted access to and physical security of the Tower, the most secure castle in the land, so that intruders would not be able to gain access. These men and women are obviously highly trained in security matters, as it’s reported that they need to have 22 years of military service to even.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JUNE 6, 2023

Of course, this is only the tip of the proverbial iceberg when it comes to what’s possible with data sets like these. Regulations like GDPR guarantee a user’s right to access and download their own data, but most big tech platforms have “ terms of service ” policies that prohibit automated retrieval of user data.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2020

Unauthenticated remote attacker with network access via HTTPS can send a specially crafted URI to perform an arbitrary file reading vulnerability.” Companies on the list have to update their Pulse Secure servers and of course, change their passwords. UPDATE: [link] — Bank Security (@Bank_Security) August 5, 2020.

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Data Protection Report

OCTOBER 3, 2021

credit or debit card number, or any financial account number in combination with any required security code, access code or password that would permit access to such financial account. The amended law expands this requirement to breaches involving Social Security numbers and taxpayer identification numbers.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

IoT devices help remotely control our household appliances, power plants, smart buildings, factories, airports, shipyards, trucks, trains and military. Most companies have only a vague sense of all of the IoT sensors tied into their networks, and each device represents an access path beckoning intruders. And we’re just getting started.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

For example, in 2010 Spamdot and its spam affiliate program Spamit were hacked, and its user database shows Sal and Icamis often accessed the forum from the same Internet address — usually from Cherepovets , an industrial town situated approximately 230 miles north of Moscow. And there were many good reasons to support this conclusion.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

The RCMP said the raid was part of an international coordinated effort with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Australian Federal Police, as part of “a series of ongoing, parallel investigations into Remote Access Trojan (RAT) technology. I tend to have a violent nature, and have both Martial arts and Military training.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2019

military information.” The MICROCHIPS Act would address China’s practice of four non-kinetic areas of warfare: Supply chain exploitation; cyber-physical attacks, cyberattacks ; and unlawfully accessing sensitive information, the senators explained. that could potentially harm and expose both consumer and U.S.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 14, 2018

Applicability: The information security and disposal provisions of the Bill apply to “covered entities,” defined as persons that maintain, own or license personal identifying information in the course of the person’s business, vocation or occupation.

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Unwritten Record

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The project, called Visual History of the Holocaust (VHH), is multi-faceted, with goals of providing access to the footage itself and and tools to analyze the images and curate collections for research and education. . Those reels are a significant part of a major project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 program.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Driverless autos, trucks and military transport vehicles are on a fast track for wide deployment in the next five years. military and intelligence agencies. Ever opportunistic cyber criminals, of course, can be expected to swiftly find and exploit any weak spots. Get ready for smart ground transportation. Deep testing.

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AIIM

MARCH 13, 2018

On the one hand , technology has revolutionized both the access and potential value of very long-term archival information -- much of which originated as paper -- exposing it to the light of day after years in the basement and giving it new life. Much of the world’s cultural, economic, social, and political memory is at some long-term risk.

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IT Governance

JUNE 27, 2019

The ransomware was accompanied by a note: “Your files are encrypted with the strongest military algorithms. To access the decoder, the organisation was asked to pay a large ransomin bitcoin. Our Phishing and Ransomware – Human patch e-learning course teaches your staff everything they need to know about ransomware.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

military complex, who got frustrated by their inability to extract actionable intel from a deluge of threat feeds. It was really about setting up a central repository,” Couch says, “where anybody could come into the library and pull out a book on a given topic and have access to everything the organization knows about the topic.”

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Unwritten Record

JUNE 26, 2019

RG 77: Fortification Map File Plans of Military Forts, 1818-1941. Over the course of the building’s history, it has served as a garrison, a prisoner of war camp, was the first federal building seized by Confederate forces. Plan of a Projected Castle for Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. NAID: 6039496.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 7, 2023

The information provided includes source code and user credentials, privileged administrative access, and other critical data, which can be used to simulate an internal attack. Since much of the access information is provided up front, these tests are less expensive than black box tests.

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AIIM

OCTOBER 22, 2019

More specifically, priority for scanning should be given to documents where there are requirements for simultaneous access; documents that are retrieved regularly; or documents that need to be accessed quickly. The information is also easily accessible on the desktop, rather than having to identify and go to a filing cabinet.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JUNE 4, 2021

The Draft Provisions are particularly helpful in highlighting data and infrastructure within the automobile industry that the lead regulators (notably the CAC, but others to be specified in due course) consider to be high risk, as well as guidance on tricky connected vehicle issues such as obtaining consent. outside of the vehicle; and.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Rather than dropping ransomware on victims’ machines and hoping they would pay to regain access to their files, cyber criminals were increasingly cutting out the middle man and infecting victims’ machines with software that used their spare processing power to mine for cryptocurrency. And, of course, on 25 May the GDPR came into effect.

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KnowBe4

APRIL 4, 2023

With the younger generation now having access to the internet and social media at an early age, they are known for juggling multiple tasks and devices at the same time, which can lead to a lack of focus and attention to detail. Education about cybersecurity needs to start early," Karabin says. and Monika L.

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The Schedule

AUGUST 9, 2019

Kelly Spring, Access Archivist at East Carolina University, described their work process for migrating data into ArchivesSpace from Archivists’ Toolkit and other homegrown databases. He recognized that the government archives identified the seat of power, so he sent a military detachment to remove the records from Austin.

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KnowBe4

MARCH 28, 2023

The capacity to craft compelling, well-formed text is in the hands of anyone with access to ChatGPT, and that's basically anyone with an internet connection." In a statement by Xavier Chango, the National Head of Forensic Science, "It's a military-type explosive, but very small capsules." This is where social engineering starts.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

Endpoint: Enables access for human users and computer services and commonly includes PCs, laptops, Internet of Things (IoT), and operational technology (OT). Security Elements Security elements protect each element within the network, network access, and the data transmissions. or segregated as cloud or network attached storage (NAS).

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Further victims of last year’s Perry Johnson & Associates data breach identified Last year, the medical transcription company PJ&A (Perry Johnson & Associates) suffered a data breach in which an unauthorised third party was able to access its computer network.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A large cache of more than 500 documents published to GitHub last week indicate the records come from i-SOON , a technology company headquartered in Shanghai that is perhaps best known for providing cybersecurity training courses throughout China.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Several strong themes emerged from 2022’s crop of breaches, including the targeting or impersonating of employees to gain access to internal company tools; multiple intrusions at the same victim company; and less-than-forthcoming statements from victim firms about what actually transpired. com, which was fed by pig butchering scams.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 4, 2022

While they were romantically together, Hughes gave the bar complete access to his team of scientists. He told her he really wanted to create faster planes so that he could sell them to the US military. We have moved on to other RF technologies such as orthogonal frequency division multiple access. I decided that's not right.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 14, 2022

Honestly I disagree with that and so while I was actually on a plane I was very blunt having paid for my wireless access. Hard to access, so to get like minded folks coming together to get exposure for other folks to go hey, what's going on over there? And of course, when you say things like that you get a lot of press.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

So, it has access really unfettered access to everything on the network. So you don't want to block it from getting to something because obviously you need it to have free access to everything. If I could figure out a way to get some mauler into that package I could get access to everything on the network.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

So, it has access really unfettered access to everything on the network. So you don't want to block it from getting to something because obviously you need it to have free access to everything. If I could figure out a way to get some mauler into that package I could get access to everything on the network.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Compounding the problem, configuring Identity and Access Management (IAM) in the cloud can be difficult. And of course, we can’t forget about Uber, who was in the news twice for major data breaches. Most organizations haven’t developed the expertise, and mistakes are commonly made. Hope isn’t considered a best security practice.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2023

Vladimir Putin issued multiple warnings that Russia would respond in kind if Nato set up military infrastructure in Finland after they joined the alliance. Finnish officials believe that the surge in the number of attacks is politically motivated.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Another wonderful example is the Global Positioning System (GPS), once the realm only of the United States military, but now the driver of countless commercial opportunities around the globe (again thanks to decisions made during the Clinton administration). Anyone can access civilian GPS data – it’s open and free to all.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

On May 10, one of the hospitals detected malicious activity on its Microsoft Windows Domain Controller, a critical “keys to the kingdom” component of any Windows enterprise network that manages user authentication and network access. Still, the work to restore infected systems would take months.

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