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GUEST ESSAY – Notable events in hacking history that helped transform cybersecurity assessment

The Last Watchdog

Here are five notable historical events that influenced cybersecurity assessment and transformed it into what it is today: The Battle of Midway (1942). military officials hired data analysts to crack the Japanese secret code known as JN-25. After the devastating blow of Pearl Harbor, U.S. The ILOVEYOU Worm (2000).

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How to Ensure Your Digital Security During the Rugby World Cup

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Sports fans aren’t the only ones who are looking forward to this event. It’s not like bad actors haven’t taken an interest in major sporting events before. That’s why it announced it would pursue two measures designed to strengthen its national digital security posture ahead of these sporting events.

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Snowden Ten Years Later

Schneier on Security

Chatting with Snowden on an encrypted IM connection, I joked that the NSA cafeteria menu probably has code names for menu items. You read so much classified information about the world’s geopolitical events that you start seeing the world differently. Transferring files electronically is what encryption is for. Probably not.

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2020 Predictions – Quantum knows what you did last summer

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Quantum computers can launch attacks that break asymmetric cryptography, rendering the entire PKI-based encryption method obsolete. For countries that extensively rely on encryption to secure military operations, diplomatic correspondence or other sensitive data, this could be a watershed event.

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List of Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in October 2022 – 9.9 Million Records Breached

IT Governance

Million Records Breached appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. Meanwhile, be sure to subscribe to our Weekly Round-up to receive the latest cyber security news and advice delivered straight to your inbox. Cyber attacks. The post List of Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in October 2022 – 9.9

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2022 Cyber Security Review of the Year

IT Governance

It’s been a year full of predictable and unpredictable incidents alike, and in this blog, we’ve compiled the most memorable stories of 2022. Tensions rose throughout February as the Russian military amassed across the Ukrainian border. However, thanks to the event organisers’ effective planning, the contest was largely unaffected.

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Federal Agency Data is Under Siege

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Originally Featured in Global Military Communications Magazine’s June/July Issue. Over two-thirds (72 percent) of respondents expressed concerns about increased vulnerabilities from shared infrastructures, followed by custodianship of encryption keys (62 percent) and security breaches in the cloud (68 percent).