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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2023

It was a bit shocking that we were able to reach the deserialization sink without any authentication.” Assetnote researchers discovered about 2.9k “From our analysis of WS_FTP, we found that there are about 2.9k Most of these online assets belong to large enterprises, governments and educational institutions.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 2, 2024

OpenAI’s Altman Sidesteps Questions About Governance, Johansson at UN AI Summit Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter)

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 14, 2022

On October 11, 2022, the Biden-Harris Administration released an informational statement about the current Administrations’ progress in strengthening America’s national cybersecurity.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Here’s the final installment of leading technologists sharing their observations about cybersecurity developments in the year that’s coming to a close — and the year to come. What should I be most concerned about – and focus on – in 2024? Educate your workforce. Their guidance: Snehal Antani , CEO, Horizon3.ai

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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.” Sandwich is available as free open source for non-commercial and educational use, and by request for other uses.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

As well as October’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month, there are many planned events to help educate on the emerging trends around cybersecurity and privacy. Find out more about the event or arrange a meeting with our Thales experts. Join Thales on booth Q18 to meet our experts from the region and learn more about our latest solutions.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2022

Security researchers released PoC exploit code for the critical authentication bypass vulnerability CVE-2022-22972 affecting multiple VMware products. VMware Workspace ONE Access, Identity Manager and vRealize Automation contain an authentication bypass vulnerability affecting local domain users.” using CVE-2022-22972.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The grants are part of the state’s SOC/Range Initiative, a program managed by MassTech’s MassCyberCenter that aims to help build a diverse generation of cybersecurity professionals through education, training, and workforce development. Preparation, communication, and active monitoring are key to defending against online attacks.” “The

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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2024

The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) issued an alert about at least 17,000 Microsoft Exchange servers in the country that are vulnerable to one or more critical vulnerabilities. The BSI also added that there is an unreported number of Exchange servers of comparable size that are potentially vulnerable.

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The Texas Record

AUGUST 27, 2019

On Friday, August 16, over twenty local government entities in Texas were targeted by a coordinated ransomware attack. This incident is the most recent in a year marked by cyberattacks on state and local governments across the country. In the wake of the attack, Texas local governments have been asking for help.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The report is part of the ongoing #StopRansomware effort that disseminates advisories about tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and indicators of compromise (IOCs) associated with ransomware groups. The group relied on compromised credentials to authenticate to internal VPN access points. ” reads the joint advisory.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 24, 2024

A ransomware attack against the Finnish IT services provider Tietoevry disrupted the services of some Swedish government agencies and shops. The company did not disclose details about the attack, it is unclear if threat actors also stolen data from its systems. ” reads an update published by the services provider.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 6, 2022

This October is Cyber Security Awareness Month, an event designed to educate people about information security and the steps they can take to stay safe online. Now in its nineteenth year, the campaign provides tools and resources to help people learn more about the cyber security industry and the ways they can get involved.

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Preservica

JANUARY 22, 2020

In 2002, I accepted the position of Statewide Records and Forms Coordinator for the Wisconsin Department of Electronic Government (DEG). Today, digital information and communications technologies are ubiquitous in the public sector and every agency is engaged in e-government. Playing Catch Up.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Related: It’s all about ‘ attack surface management ‘ However, today’s perpetrator isn’t standing in front of you brandishing a weapon. They’re often state-sponsored entities, foreign governments, or actual businesses. Educate employees on how to spot and respond to suspicious emails that bypass filters.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Facebook Messenger users are being warned about a phishing campaign in which fraudsters impersonate your friends and hijack your account. According to the message, there is a huge cash prize for the winner, and to enter, they need to share the link with a friend, who will receive an authentication code to verify that they are real.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Secure remote working tips and VPN insights from our senior penetration tester Leon Teale is a senior penetration tester at IT Governance. What have organisations been asking you about lately? Educate employees to not use untrusted wireless networks, such as those in public spaces, for work-related tasks, unless a VPN is enabled.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 30, 2018

DataLocker honed its patented approach to manufacturing encrypted portable drives and landed some key military and government clients early on; the company has continued branching out ever since. What’s that all about? On the receiving end, all they have to do is authenticate with a password to access the files.

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Preservica

MARCH 10, 2022

Digital Preservation on the other hand is all about long-term asset use – typically used by archival teams that need to ensure digital assets can be easily found and used over many decades - independent of the original file format they were created in. “As Product innovation – inspire retro product designs and heritage brands.

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Preservica

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The 2016 IGI Benchmark Report on The Governance of Long-term Digital Information confirmed that nearly all organizations represented have digital records and information that keep or need to keep in excess of 10 years. No specific digital preservation strategies, however, have yet been deployed for permanent and long-term digital records.

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Preservica

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Recording and preservation of land and real property is a foundational statutory and administrative operation of government. Nearly 7,000 documents in the Dutch collection have been digitized and translated and are available online to researchers, educators and genealogists. Evolution and Integration of Disciplines.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2023

“We had previously announced on August 10, 2023, about the unauthorized access to our servers (*). We have also implemented measures such as multi-factor authentication to prevent further breaches.” This unauthorized access was the result of a ransomware attack. ” reads the update provided by the company on August 22.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2023

Russia-linked APT group Sandworm is behind destructive cyberattacks against Ukrainian state networks, the Ukrainian Government Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) warns. CERT-UA started investigating the attack after it received information about an attack against an ICS system of one of the state organizations of Ukraine.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

One shocking statistic is that, even though 55% of the retailers had experienced a breach, only 33% of retailers prioritized multi-factor authentication (MFA) as the most effective method for preventing cyberattacks. Despite the above findings, retailers are pretty serious about the security of their businesses. Data Security.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

level vulnerability involves a lack of validation, which allows attackers to steal Kubernetes API credentials from the ingress controller, compromise the authentication process by modifying settings, and gain access to internal files including service account tokens. CVE-2022-4886 (Path Sanitization Bypass): This 8.8-level

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IT Governance

AUGUST 9, 2022

That’s why we are suspending your account in 48h if you don’t complete the authentication process.”. The bogus site also uses Twitter’s APIs to retrieve information about the genuine account, including the display photo, which adds another layer of legitimacy to the scam. Source: Bleeping Computer. Source: Bleeping Computer.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 22, 2021

As more information about IoT device vulnerabilities is published, the pressure on industry and government authorities to enhance security standards might be reaching a tipping point. government, standards will not apply to the IoT market at-large. Government-Grade Security. By 2025, we expect 21.5

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

When an organization’s senior management team decides to embrace DT and move forward with the initiative, the team may have varying ideas about DT, the key concepts, the scope of the initiative, the end product, and so on. Cloud-first is about cloud enablement. Introduction. This is a best-case scenario. Cloud-First.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2020

For about two hours starting around 5 p.m. Barrie said escrow.com would be sharing more details about the incident in the coming days, but he emphasized that no escrow.com systems were compromised, and no customer data, funds or domains were compromised. Nation-state level attackers also are taking a similar approach.

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IT Governance

APRIL 28, 2022

The group have put the information up for sale on the dark web, requesting just over $64,000 (about £51,000) in bitcoin. Coca-Cola’s hesitance to confirm this incident should make anyone suspicious about the veracity of Stormous’s claim. There usually isn’t much doubt about whether you’ve been hit by ransomware.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 22, 2020

publicly disclose and provide the school with material information about the operator’s collection, use and disclosure of covered information, including publishing terms of service, a privacy policy or similar document. The law is enforceable by the Vermont Attorney General.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Speaking to the Guardian , one victim said: “It’s been about a week now and Medibank have still not informed me that my data is in that dump.”. I think that’s probably a bad call given all of their earlier posturing about being transparent.”. First, it employed multi-factor authentication to protect employee accounts.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 24, 2024

Leon Teale is a senior penetration tester at IT Governance with more than ten years’ experience performing penetration tests for clients in various industries all over the world. We sat down with him to find out more about the implications of this historic data breach in this special edition of Expert Insight.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Keeping informed about current attacks is one of the best ways of reducing the risk of falling victim. You can find everything you might want to know about phishing on our website. You can help educate your staff with IT Governance’s Phishing Staff Awareness Training Programme.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Authentication guarantees that users are who they say they are, typically through usernames and passwords or multi-factor authentication (MFA). Authorization governs what activities users are permitted to take after being authenticated. To enhance security in a public cloud environment: Use strong authentication.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2023

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. government institutions, and about 250 Ukrainian victims. ” reads the joint advisory. ” continues the advisory.

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