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GUEST ESSAY: Preparing for the dire cybersecurity consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

The Last Watchdog

These Russian cyber actors are government organizations and include other parties who take their orders from the Russian military or intelligence organizations – while not technically under government control. As the United States and other nations condemn Russia’s actions, the odds of Russian cyber actors targeting the U.S.,

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News alert: MxD roundtable with White House officials highlights cybersecurity workforce needs

The Last Watchdog

As a part of this effort, each organization made the following commitments: MxD , in collaboration with the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, created the Cybersecurity for Manufacturing Operational Technology (CyMOT) program to increase the security of U.S.

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Defense contractor Belcan leaks admin password with a list of flaws

Security Affairs

US Government and defense contractor Belcan left its super admin credentials open to the public, Cybernews research team reveals. Belcan is a government, defense, and aerospace contractor offering global design, software, manufacturing, supply chain, information technology, and digital engineering solutions.

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Iran-linked DEV-0343 APT target US and Israeli defense technology firms

Security Affairs

Researchers at Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) and Microsoft Digital Security Unit (DSU) uncovered a malicious activity cluster, tracked as DEV-0343, that is targeting the Office 365 tenants of US and Israeli defense technology companies. ” continues the report. ” continues the report. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Red Teaming Your Information Governance Program

Brandeis Records Manager

Red teaming (RT), with origins in the military, involves thinking differently and more objectively about your program, looking under rocks, and grasping alternative views of the way things are. RT philosophy is familiar to the cyber security community, which employs penetration (pen) testing and white hat, self-hacking activities.

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China: Navigating China episode 18: Increased scrutiny over connected car and automobile industry data from Chinese regulators, including push towards data localisation

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

China is a leading marketing for connected and autonomous vehicles, and use and analytics of connected vehicle data has been encouraged by Chinese Government support of big data and AI technology. other data that may affect national security and public interests. other data that may affect national security and public interests.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in July 2020 ­– 77 million records breached

IT Governance

Four military schools in Canada targeted in ‘mysterious’ cyber attack (unknown). Western Australia government hacked, with COVID-19 communications intercepted (unknown). Hackers stole GitHub and GitLab OAuth tokens from Git analytics firm Waydev (unknown). Brazilian health insurer Hapvida discloses cyber attack (unknown).