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Google warned 12K+ users targeted by state-sponsored hackers

Security Affairs

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) revealed that it has detected and blocked attacks carried out by nation-state actors on 12,000 of its users in the third quarter of this year. “TAG tracks more than 270 targeted or government-backed groups from more than 50 countries. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Google warned users of 33,015 nation-state attacks since January

Security Affairs

Google delivered 33,015 alerts to its users during the first three quarters of 2020 to warn them of phishing attacks, launched by nation-state actors, targeting their accounts. Google sent 11,856 government-backed phishing warnings during Q1 2020, 11,023 in Q2 2020, and 10,136 in Q3 2020. of all Gmail accounts. election. .

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Microsoft Targets Critical Outlook Zero-Day Flaw

eSecurity Planet

. “An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could access a user’s Net-NTLMv2 hash which could be used as a basis of an NTLM Relay attack against another service to authenticate as the user,” the company wrote. Consider using it for high value accounts such as Domain Admins when possible.

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Catches of the Month: Phishing Scams for December 2022

IT Governance

Over the weekend, a verified account posing as FTX founder SBF posted dozens of copies of this deepfake video offering FTX users “compensation for the loss” in a phishing scam designed to drain their crypto wallets pic.twitter.com/3KoAPRJsya — Jason Koebler (@jason_koebler) November 21, 2022. Hurry up!”.

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Data privacy examples

IBM Big Data Hub

Even then, the admins can only use the data to help customers troubleshoot account issues, and only with the user’s explicit permission. An online retailer always gets users’ explicit consent before sharing customer data with its partners. A navigation app anonymizes activity data before analyzing it for travel trends.

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Data management sets the next phase of zero-trust

Collibra

Zero trust, a government wide initiative Zero-trust was originally introduced as a network-based architecture mode, which centralized on identity and multi-factor authentication. In fact, the US federal government has made it a mandate; it has been one year since the White House set forth its zero-trust strategy.

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The UK and Australian Governments Are Now Monitoring Their Gov Domains on Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

And this is precisely why I'm writing this piece - to talk about how I'm assisting the UK and Australian governments with access to data about their own domains. Amongst those verified domain searches are government departments and they too are enormously varied; local councils, legal and health services, telecoms and infrastructure etc.