Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. It’s a surreal experience, paging through hundreds of top-secret NSA documents. Both Greenwald and his employer, the Guardian , are careful about whom they show the documents to.

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IT Governance

APRIL 5, 2023

In this blog, we explain everything you need to know about it, including our top 8 tips for preventing malware attacks. It can do this in a number of ways, such as: Stealing, encrypting or deleting sensitive information; Hijacking or altering core system functions; Monitoring user activity; and Spamming the device with adverts.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2022

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) warns of phishing attacks aimed at organizations in the country using the topic “Azovstal” The phishing message use the subject “Azovstal” and a weaponized office document. Upon opening the attachment and enabling the macro, it will start the infection process.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 16, 2022

In a previous blog post, I discussed how The White House Executive Order issued on May 12, 2021 laid out new, rigorous government cyber security standards for federal agencies. The document requires agencies to achieve specific goals for embracing zero trust by the end of Fiscal Year (FY) 2024. Government.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

. “As early as 2022, APT28 actors had utilized compromised EdgeRouters to facilitate covert cyber operations against governments, militaries, and organizations around the world.” and foreign governments and military, security, and corporate organizations. ” reads the joint report. ” continues the report.

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IT Governance

JULY 14, 2022

There are several types of questionnaire, and in this blog we help you understand which one is right for you. Merchants that use a PCI-validated P2PE (point-to-point encryption) solution and have implemented it successfully are eligible for SAQ P2PE-HW. Identify the right SAQ with IT Governance. What is a PCI SAQ? Get started.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2022

SentinelOne documented a series of attacks aimed at government, education, and telecom entities in Southeast Asia and Australia carried out by a previously undocumented Chinese-speaking APT tracked as Aoqin Dragon. The APT primary focus on cyberespionage against targets in Australia, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Vietnam.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 13, 2021

IT leaders need to consider PKI-based solutions for managing their machine identities, so their IT teams can issue certificates to their machines, track what is on their network, and encrypt the communication between the devices. Enterprises should implement email and document signing with certificates to accomplish this. Verify email.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 24, 2024

The app heavily encrypts all user financial data. Deploying privacy protections: The app uses encryption to protect data from cybercriminals and other prying eyes. The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) Canada’s PIPEDA governs how private-sector businesses collect and use consumer data.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 12, 2023

” In a blog post , SophosLabs principal researcher Andrew Brandt reported that the advisory was published following a Sophos research discovery of more than 100 malicious drivers that had been digitally signed by Microsoft and others, dating as far back as April 2021. ” The campaign was first detected in June 2023. .

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 5, 2022

Typically, these have involved: Stricter user and administrator access controls, Improved configuration documentation and best practices, Better security monitoring and alerting, and. Prescribed use of cloud centric data encryption and key management. The data access and encryption policies, or. The data itself, 2.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 25, 2018

In this blog post, I’ll discuss: Our current perimeter defense; The need to shift to a data-centric security approach; and, The need to educate the public to strengthen our critical infrastructure security posture. It can secure unstructured data, including documents, spreadsheets, images, web pages and more.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 21, 2021

We explain everything you need to know about the PCI DSS in this blog, including who it applies to, the benefits of compliance and what happens if you fail to meet its requirements. As a QSA company, IT Governance provides services to support organisations at each stage of each organisation’s PCI DSS compliance project.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2023

billion rubles. Nominate here: [link] Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter newsletter) The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 414 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 22, 2020

New EU restrictions could force companies to change data transfer practices and adopt more advanced data encryption methods. Traditionally, privacy has taken the form of a policy document created, housed, and referenced by the offices of general counsel and compliance at most organizations. Tue, 12/22/2020 - 10:08. In the Dec.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 5, 2020

We’ve run through some of the essential steps in this blog, or download the full, free checklist from our website. The document should contain a thorough outline of each risk, the relevant control(s) and the organisation’s continual improvement strategy, including when and how they will review the effectiveness of the control.

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Data Protection Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Noticeably, covered entities are now subject to new requirements imposing heightened responsibilities on Chief Information Security Officers (“CISOs”) and more specific and prescriptive requirements in relation to governance, risk assessments, and notifications to the NYDFS.

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OneHub

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Knowing that your company documents are easily accessible yet safe from prying eyes is important, so the best way to share documents online is by using document sharing software. Security When it comes to choosing a document sharing service, security should always be one of the first criterion you check.

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IT Governance

APRIL 28, 2022

Meanwhile, Digital Shadows Senior Cyberthreat Intelligence Analyst Chris Morgan, added: “There are screenshots reportedly highlighting documents taken from Coca Cola’s network. It instead takes a shock-and-awe approach, crippling the victim’s system, encrypting sensitive data and making it obvious that an attack is underway.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 4, 2022

Typically, these have involved: Stricter user and administrator access controls, Improved configuration documentation and best practices, Better security monitoring and alerting, and. Prescribed use of cloud centric data encryption and key management. The data access and encryption policies, or. The data itself, 2.

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IT Governance

JULY 5, 2021

In this blog, we explain what Annex A.9 9 of ISO 27001 helps you govern who has access to your organisation’s sensitive information and under what scenarios. This should include a review of authorisation procedures that document who is allowed access information and when. 9 of Annex A, which contains 14 controls. 9 of ISO 27001?

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Other Iranian-based cyberattacks have included hackers targeting Albanian government systems and spear phishing scams. Smishing might impersonate the government, banks or other agencies to seem more legitimate. Encrypt all sensitive information and documentation. Steps to effective security.

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

within 72 hours) for a controller to notify a data breach to a government authority. Document readiness. The company shall take technical measures to protect personal data, for instance, data classification, encryption, and deidentification. Data breach notification. Unlike GDPR, PIPL does not set forth a specific timeline (e.g.,

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In a month that saw the former US president accused of misappropriating classified government documents, there were also a spate of malicious insiders compromising their employer’s systems. If you’re facing a cyber security disaster, IT Governance is here to help. d/b/a Watson Electrical announces ransomware attack (unknown).

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IT Governance

MARCH 17, 2022

The GDPR doesn’t contain mandate the use of specific measures, but it says that personal data should be encrypted or pseudonymised where appropriate. Rather, it was found to have inadequate documentation, which could have resulted in poorly implemented controls. Download now.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 22, 2024

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a European Union (EU) law that governs how organizations collect and use personal data. Schools, hospitals and government agencies all fall under GDPR authority. An organization must establish and document its legal basis before collecting any data.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Second, Japan announced that the government-backed National Institute of Information and Communications Technology would conduct a national scan of Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Exercise caution around suspicious documents : Malicious actors commonly use suspicious documents to prey upon sports fans.

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Data Matters

AUGUST 19, 2020

2 Because First American’s violations included the exposure of millions of documents containing nonpublic information (NPI), the total penalty potentially could be substantial. implement controls, including encryption, to protect NPI held or transmitted both in transit over external networks and at rest (23 NYCRR § 500.15).

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IT Governance

MARCH 1, 2023

IT Governance is dedicated to helping organisations tackle the threat of cyber crime and other information security weaknesses. Million Records Breached appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. Million Records Breached appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog.

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Data Protection Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The NOYB complaint was aimed at Netdokter.at (Netdokter), an Austrian health website operator that uses Google Analytics and relies on Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) to govern transfers of personal data to Google in the US. Ultimately, the Austrian DPA sided with NOYB over Netdokter and Google.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

At a first sight, the office document had an encrypted content available on OleObj.1 Those objects are real Encrypted Ole Objects where the Encrypted payload sits on “EncryptedPackage” section and information on how to decrypt it are available on “EncryptionInfo” xml descriptor. 1 and OleObj.2.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2023

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. The archive contained two files, a decoy document (i.e.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 15, 2022

The directive’s third section, entitled “Modernizing Federal Government Cybersecurity,” requires Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to begin moving to a zero trust architecture (ZTA). They do this by creating access policies based on their documented identities and their assigned attributes. Tue, 03/15/2022 - 10:01.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Records breached: Unknown ALPHV/BlackCat attacks MeridianLink then reports it to the SEC Date of breach: 7 November Breached organisation: MeridianLink Incident details: The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group has added the software company MeridianLink to its leak site, having exfiltrated data without encrypting company systems.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 16, 2022

South Staffordshire Water was reportedly infected with ransomware, which is a type of malware that encrypts the victim’s files and essentially locks them out of their systems. The criminal gang posted stolen documents on the dark web supposedly verifying the compromise. Defra and NCSC are liaising closely with the company. Get started.

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Everteam

JULY 11, 2019

Using advanced encryption methods, Everteam provides enhanced Cybersecurity on the websites and WebApps level. These smart tactics prevent any Cyber threat or attack and keep your data and system safe, in addition to other security features such as User Permission, authentication and encrypted passwords. Interested in similar blogs?

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In this blog, we look at those principles and explain the steps you can take to meet them. Additionally, you should consider encrypting data or using VPNs where possible. Encryption can greatly reduce the risk of data being compromised in transit, but it will also make sharing data more complex and will require significant resources.

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