IT Governance

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

When MOVEit was hacked by the Russian Cl0p ransomware gang in May, email addresses and links to government employee surveys were compromised. According to Forbes , Defense Department employees affected included “officials from the Air Force, the Army, the Army Corps of Engineers, the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Staff”.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2020

Trojan Lampion is a malware observed at the end of the year 2019 impacting Portuguese users using template emails from the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax and EDP. The latest campaigns in Portugal were observed during February 2020, according to the threat indicators available at 0xSI_f33d – The Portuguese Abuse Open Feed.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 21, 2022

Thu, 07/21/2022 - 12:28. Security breaches in this sector can be incredibly disruptive to society and are attracting considerable attention from governments and regulatory bodies around the world. The Ongoing Cyber Threat to Critical Infrastructure. The effects of cyberattacks on critical infrastructure can be catastrophic.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The surveillance regime the UK government has built seriously undermines our freedom,” Megan Golding, a lawyer speaking for privacy advocates, stated. The partners aim to combine fingerprint and facial data to more effectively authenticate employees in workplace settings. Related: Snowden on unrestrained surveillance.

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Data Protection Report

JULY 12, 2022

Wegmans updated the container configurations to prohibit public access on May 12, 2021 and notified consumers. Given the deficiencies of SHA-I hashing, Wegmans started transitioning users to the PBKDF2 hashing algorithm to secure passwords in 2016, but nevertheless continued to store passwords with SHA- I until January 2020.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 16 November. However, according to a report issued by the GAO (Government Accountability Office) this week , the OPM has failed to comply with 28 of the 80 recommendations the GAO made in the aftermath of the debacle. Here are this week’s stories. million individuals ?

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 27, 2019

A royal baby, a fire at Notre-Dame, the highest grossing film of all time and more than 12 billion breached data records: 2019 has been quite a year. IT Governance is closing out the year by rounding up 2019’s biggest information security stories. Part one covers January to June, and will be followed by part in the coming days.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 27, 2022

Donahue is co-founder of Kodex , a company formed in February 2021 that builds security portals designed to help tech companies “manage information requests from government agencies who contact them, and to securely transfer data & collaborate against abuses on their platform.”

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eDiscovery Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Here are some of the eDiscovery-related sessions for today: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM: The Business of Law 2020: The FTI-Relativity General Counsel Survey. What does the future hold for law and business in 2020 and beyond? e-Discovery Data Management: Governance and Process Optimization.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

Listen to EP 12: Hacking Healthcare. A network monitoring company for the federal government and other large companies, Solar Winds, had been breached. And then the tools are used by government entities and accruals are used by big industries and it's one of the more popular and robust packages out there. Apple Podcasts.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

Listen to EP 12: Hacking Healthcare. A network monitoring company for the federal government and other large companies, Solar Winds, had been breached. And then the tools are used by government entities and accruals are used by big industries and it's one of the more popular and robust packages out there. Apple Podcasts.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 22, 2022

T-Mobile says no customer or government information was stolen in the intrusion. In most cases, this involved social engineering employees at the targeted firm into adding one of their computers or mobiles to the list of devices allowed to authenticate with the company’s virtual private network (VPN).

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Data Matters

OCTOBER 22, 2019

In the summer of 2018, the California Legislature drafted and passed the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) in record time. This abbreviated legislative process produced a bill with numerous gaps and anomalies, however. update their privacy policies with numerous disclosures.

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KnowBe4

JULY 5, 2023

Join us Wednesday, July 12, @ 2:00 PM (ET) , for a live demonstration of how KnowBe4 introduces a new-school approach to security awareness training and simulated phishing. Date/Time: Wednesday, July 12, @ 2:00 PM (ET) Save My Spot! Government. Get a look at FOUR NEW FEATURES and see how easy it is to train and phish your users.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

— Dave Kennedy (@HackingDave) July 15, 2020. link] pic.twitter.com/cVIyB44o6q — Eugene Kaspersky (@e_kaspersky) June 22, 2020. Starting with her first desktop on a Unix machine at age 12, Eva Galperin’s contributions to cybersecurity include research on malware and privacy. Eugene Kaspersky | @e_kaspersky.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

link] — Bank Security (@Bank_Security) November 20, 2020. After analyzing the leaked data, we noticed the list of vulnerable targets includes domains belonging to large enterprises, financial institutions, and government organizations from all over the world. Geomap of impacted countries. Complete list of affected countries.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Over the past 12 months, MSTIC experts observed increasingly sophisticated attacks orchestrated by Iranian APT groups. Since September 2020, researchers analyzed the ransomware operations conducted by six Iranian threat groups that were launched in waves every six to eight weeks on average.

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IT Governance

APRIL 9, 2024

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. We also found 15 organisations providing a significant update on a previously disclosed incident.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Armis was acquired at a $1 billion price tag by Insight Partners in January 2020, joining Insight’s other cybersecurity subsidiaries like SentinelOne, Perimeter81, Mimecast, and Tenable. Armis’ solutions include cybersecurity asset management, OT security, ICS risk assessment, zero trust , and more. Armis Features.

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Data Matters

MAY 17, 2022

Attorney General described a recent takedown of a Russian government-sponsored botnet called Cyclops Blink before it was weaponized and caused damage. and foreign government agencies. government reported a significant rise in hacks perpetrated against private companies by nation-state-sponsored threat actors. Not anymore.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2022

No longer is traffic inside the network automatically presumed to be from authorized and authenticated sources. All resource authentication and authorization are dynamic and strictly enforced before access is allowed. And many users now work outside the safety of the network. See the Top Zero Trust Security Solutions.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Multi-factor authentication : Protects stolen credentials against use by requiring more than a simple username and password combination for access to resources. Passwordless authentication : Eliminates passwords in favor of other types of authentication such as passkeys, SSO, biometrics, or email access.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2021

Alternative social media platforms, also known as “alt” or alt-tech, were catapulted into the spotlight near the end of 2020 due to US President Donald Trump’s claims of election interference. Twitter-alternative Parler in particular is in the spotlight after being banned from Google’s Play store and Apple’s App Store. The biggest takeaway?

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Investments in cybersecurity more than doubled from $12 billion to $29.5 Company Sector Year Status Isovalent Cloud security 2020 Private Illumio Cloud security 2015 Private SignalFx Monitoring 2015 Acquired: Splunk CipherCloud Cloud security 2012 Acquired: Lookout Lookout Mobile security 2011 Private. AllegisCyber Capital.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

And, now, in 2020, both have escalated to catastrophic proportions. 10 report from Microsoft details how hacking groups backed by Russia, China and Iran have aimed such attacks against hundreds of organizations involved in both the 2020 presidential race and U.S. It behooves us all to pay much closer attention to credential stuffing.

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