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Iranian hackers access unsecured HMI at Israeli Water Facility

Security Affairs

Furthermore, at the time of the publication, the system did not use any authentication method upon access.” ” reads the blog post published by OTORIO. Experts noticed that the system still allows communications on port 502, which is used for Modbus protocol, that doesn’t require any authentication/encryption.

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A deeper insight into the CloudWizard APT’s activity revealed a long-running activity

Security Affairs

In October 2022, Kaspersky researchers uncovered a malware campaign aimed at infecting government, agriculture and transportation organizations located in the Donetsk, Lugansk, and Crimea regions with a previously undetected framework dubbed CommonMagic.

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Knock, Knock; Who’s There? – IoT Device Identification & Data Integrity Is No Joke

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The use of IoT technologies holds enormous potential in practically every segment of human enterprise – government, banking and finance, healthcare, retail, agriculture, and ecommerce to name a few. These are: Enabling strong mutual authentication between connected devices and applications. Threats and Vulnerabilities.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 1 – 7 April 2024

IT Governance

In this instance, Kid Security failed to configure authentication for its Kafka Broker cluster, exposing at least 456,000 private social media messages, audio recordings, IP addresses, device locations, usage statistics and more for over a year. According to Politico , the targets include three MPs, including a serving government minster.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 15 – 21 April 2024

IT Governance

million records from World-Check, a screening database used to screen potential customers for links to illegal activity and government sanctions. Significant changes have been made to sections covering remote access, privileged operations, user access levels and the use of multifactor authentication. of its Cyber Assessment Framework.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Right To Repair

ForAllSecure

Vamosi: I want to restate the verb “educate” With infosec, there’s a lot of Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt or FUD within government. And if you didn't put on the, you know, manufacturer approved tire. It would say, Oh, I'm sorry I don't recognize that tire, you know I can't drive.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Right To Repair

ForAllSecure

Vamosi: I want to restate the verb “educate” With infosec, there’s a lot of Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt or FUD within government. And if you didn't put on the, you know, manufacturer approved tire. It would say, Oh, I'm sorry I don't recognize that tire, you know I can't drive.