Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2022

The group has been active since at least 2017, researchers believe it is linked with other China-linked APT groups, including APT41 (Winnti), Mustang Panda , and APT27. A previously unknown Chinese cyberespionage group, tracked as ‘Space Pirates’, targets enterprises in the Russian aerospace industry with spear-phishing attacks.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 24, 2019

That’s why Requirement 12 of the PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) instructs organisations to implement policies and procedures to help staff manage risks. It provides a detailed outline of information security responsibilities for all staff, contractors, partners and third parties that access the CDE.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The approach, which describes the ability to prepare for, respond to and recover from security incidents, is quickly becoming accepted by information security experts as the best way for organisations to address their cyber security needs. The report found that awareness levels increased from 47% in 2015 to 57% in 2017.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2021

In this blog, we’ll take a look at some of the re-used Mirai modules , their functionality, and the Uptycs EDR detection capabilities of Gafgyt. Gafgyt also uses some of the existing exploits (CVE-2017-17215, CVE-2018-10561) to download the next stage payloads, which we will discuss further on. Some of the recent Gafgyt variants (e.g.,

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IT Governance

APRIL 10, 2019

I 2017 of 29 June 2017) amending the Act on the Federal Office for Information Security, Atomic Energy Act, Energy Industry Act, Social Insurance Code V and the Telecommunications Act. Implementation status : Transposed, with Act 134 of 2017 and Government Decree 394/2017 (XII.

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IT Governance

JUNE 3, 2020

million) in 2017 to $13 million (£10.3 This represents a 12% increase year-on-year and a 73% increase over a five-year span, demonstrating how rapidly the cost of cyber crime is growing. Besides staff awareness training, you must rely on strict information security policies and hope that employees follow them.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2021

Though some of the functionalities were similar to the malware discussed by the security firm Intezer last year, the newer variants of this malware had a bunch of activities up its sleeve. In this blog, we will detail the usage of MSR to disable the hardware prefetcher in the cryptomining malwares. Figure 5: /etc/hosts modification.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Newspaper reports claim that the USB stick was found in London on 16 October 2017, and that the person who found the stick viewed the contents on a library computer before passing it to the Sunday Mirror. Take our quick quiz today to test your breach readiness and learn what you can do to improve information security in your organisation.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 4, 2019

Maryland was one of the very first states to recognize the importance of information security, not only as a critical issue for the nation, but also as a strategic industry for the state,” said Governor Larry Hogan. According to the U.S. This made it the nation’s eighth-largest technology hub. On average in the U.S,

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

This week, in our last podcast of the year, we revisit some of the biggest information security stories from the past 12 months. As is now traditional, I’ve installed myself in the porter’s chair next to the fire in the library, ready to recap some of the year’s more newsworthy information security events.

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IT Governance

JULY 19, 2018

The ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) has fined the IICSA (Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse) £200,000 for sending a bulk email that identified possible victims of historic sexual abuse – in breach of the Data Protection Act 1998. Until next time you can keep up with the latest information security news on our blog.

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IT Governance

MARCH 28, 2019

They often work with tight budgets and lack the resources to retain a dedicated information security team. What’s considered plain language to a 12-year-old will probably be a lot different than, say, a 5-year-old. Use our checklist to find out appeared first on IT Governance Blog. GDPR compliance in schools.

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IT Governance

JUNE 29, 2018

The security researcher Chris Hogben blogged this week about a vulnerability in the website of the bookmaker BetVictor that revealed confidential corporate data to anyone using its search function. Ticketmaster has set up a website to answer customers’ questions and has offered them 12 months’ free identity monitoring.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 12 October. By the way, please don’t be afraid to say hello, ask few questions, put me straight about any errors I’ve made, or whatever in the comments section of the blog. Here are this wee- actually, can we have a quick word about that theme tune?

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

This week, we discuss Uber’s cover-up of a 2016 breach that compromised 57 million drivers’ and customers’ personal information, the theft of almost $31 million worth of USDT and more than €100,000 worth of Bitcoin, and good news for victims of Western Union transfer scams. Here are this week’s stories.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2019

The third one is related to binary payloads abusing code signature tricks to evade traditional security controls. Sample information. As study case we chosen a Word document containing the CVE-2017-0199 exploit, which allows the document to download and execute arbitrary code at opening time. The Broken Doc.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 16, 2017

On May 12, 2017, a massive ransomware attack began affecting tens of thousands of computer systems in over 100 countries. In a November 2016 blog entry , the FTC noted that “a business’ failure to secure its networks from ransomware can cause significant harm to the consumers (and employees) whose personal data is hacked.

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Data Matters

OCTOBER 29, 2018

On September 26, 2017, NERC submitted for FERC approval proposed Reliability Standards CIP-013-1, CIP-005-6, and CIP-010-3 and their associated violation risk factors and severity levels, implementation plan, and effective date. Although the final rule generally tracks the proposed rulemaking, there is at least one change worth noting.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2020

According to ESET , “ Grandoreiro has been active at least since 2017 targeting Brazil and Peru, expanding to Mexico and Spain in 2019. “. In detail, the malware performs its tasks according to the OS installed on the infected device ( label 1 – Figure 12 ). Figure 12: Grandoreiro blocks of code executed during the infection process.

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Data Matters

AUGUST 19, 2020

The NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation became effective in March 2017 and, beginning on February 15, 2019, required all NYDFS-regulated entities (Covered Entities), including First American, to annually certify compliance with the Regulation. As a result, access controls were not applied to prevent exposure of the NPI. 23 NYCRR § 500.00(g).

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Here are the top Twitter accounts to follow for the latest commentary, research, and much-needed humor in the ever-evolving information security space. Krebs wrote for The Washington Post between 1995 and 2009 before launching his current blog KrebsOnSecurity.com. Read more: Top IT Asset Management Tools for Security.

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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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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The domain validtree.com is registered through namecheap.com on 2017-12-07T15:55:27Z but recently renewed on 2019-10-16T05:35:18Z. Additional information, including indicators of compromise (IoCs) are reported in the original post is available on Marco Ramilli’s blog: TA-505 Cybercrime on System Integrator Companies.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 3, 2019

On the other hand, it's 12 less cities and 1 less country and the main reason for that is I've been trying to cram less into trips. In fact, I'm sure that's why the next 3 blog posts are up there too because they're all from similar incidents (number 6 in that list was also from 2017). troyhunt ’s talk on security!

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2019

A survey of local media reports by Recorded Future tallied 38 ransomware attacks against cities in 2017, rising to 53 attacks in 2018. And fully 91% of poll takers said their clients had been hit by ransomware in the past 12 months, with 40% reporting more than six separate attacks during the past year. mayors attending the U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 15, 2018

12, the Pentagon disclosed that intruders breached Defense Department travel records and compromised the personal information and credit card data of U.S. In that caper, criminals got away with Social Security numbers, passwords, and in some cases, fingerprints. government strategic systems. On Friday, Oct. Cross-referencing.

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Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

Information security is not yet a science; outside of the handful of issues falling under the field of cryptography, there is no formalized system of classification. In PricewaterhouseCoopers’ 2017 Annual Corporate Directors Survey, seventy-two percent of directors expressed a desire to increase cybersecurity expertise on their boards.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Javali trojan is active since November 2017 and targets users of financial and banking organizations geolocated in Brazil and Mexico. Figure 12: Legitimate injector from Avira – digitally signed, authentic, and trusted during the injection process allowing to bypass security engines such as AV and EDR. 92/nave/index.php.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Revocable IBE [12] provides a scalable revocation method. To read more, on our Horizons blog. Horizons explores and prototypes new data security technologies and techniques, particularly in distributed cloud environments. IMACC 2017. This introduces extra overhead on the PKGs to generate and deliver new user private keys.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 10, 2019

It’s long been a habit of journalists and online commentators to open the year with predictions about the coming months, but I don’t think there’s much value in that from an information security point of view. As ever, you can find all the information you need about the GDPR on our website. 123456789.

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