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Pro-Russia hackers target critical infrastructure in North America and Europe

Security Affairs

Pro-Russia hacktivists have been targeting and compromising small-scale Operational Technology (OT) systems in North American and European Water and Wastewater Systems (WWS), Dams, Energy, and Food and Agriculture Sectors. ” The pro-Russia hacktivists tend to over exaggerate their the effects of the attacks. In early 2024, several U.S.-based

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 5 – 11 February 2024

IT Governance

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. Financial information, medical data, health reimbursements, postal addresses, telephone numbers and emails are not thought to have been compromised.

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Operation Blacksmith: Lazarus exploits Log4j flaws to deploy DLang malware

Security Affairs

In March, the threat actors hit a South American agricultural organization. ” reads the analysis published by Talos. Talos believes that NineRAT was built around May 2022, but was first spotted on March 2023 as part of Operation Blacksmith.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 12 – 18 February 2024

IT Governance

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. TB of ASA Electronics data to its leak site The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang is attempting to extort a ransom from ASA Electronics for 2.7 Data breached: 2.7

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Examples and uses of GIS

IBM Big Data Hub

One of the largest sources of data is all around us—that is, geospatial data. Geographic information systems (GIS ) visualize and make sense of this data, helping people and businesses better understand the patterns and relationships of our world. Read more about the initiative here.

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Mitigating the impact of climate change in insurance and other financial services  

IBM Big Data Hub

Firms can also reduce their investment risk by using weather and climate data to make investment decisions. ” analysis to better understand the likelihood of various climate scenarios and help to draw up mitigation plans to counter extreme weather risks. Financial services firms can use the tool for “what if?”

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in June 2020 ­– 7 billion records breached

IT Governance

The only saving grace for the organisation – which didn’t do itself any favours by initially denying the story and threatening to sue people who reported on it – is that the leaked database comprised a list of records from past data breaches. You can take a look at every data breach and cyber attack that we recorded in June in this blog.