Schneier on Security

AUGUST 28, 2019

They affect national security. Barr repeated a common fallacy about a difference between military-grade encryption and consumer encryption: "After all, we are not talking about protecting the nation's nuclear launch codes. The thing is, that distinction between military and consumer products largely doesn't exist.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Security experts at vpnMentor’s discovered a breach in a database belonging to Autoclerk, a reservations management system owned by Best Western Hotels and Resorts Group. The list of affected users includes the US government, military, and Department of Homeland Security (DHS). . ” . . ” continues vpnMento r.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 1, 2023

1, 2023 – Devo Technology , the cloud-native security analytics company, today announced its financial support for Cybermindz, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving the mental health and well-being of cybersecurity professionals. Cambridge, Mass. – Founded in Australia just over one year ago, Cybermindz entered the U.S.

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Threatpost

JULY 2, 2021

The ongoing attacks are targeting cloud services such as Office 365 to steal passwords and password-spray a vast range of targets, including in U.S. and European governments and military.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 13, 2020

Chief Information Security Officers were already on the hot seat well before the COVID-19 global pandemic hit, and they are even more so today. They must rally the troops to proactively engage, day-to-day, in the intricate and absolutely vital mission of preserving the security of IT assets, without stifling innovation.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2022

Preliminary investigations suggested that the incident resulted from the overpressure and rupture of a segment of an LNG transfer line, leading to the rapid flashing of LNG and the release and ignition of the natural gas vapor cloud. ” reported the American Military News website. Pierluigi Paganini. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2021

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 9, 2023

Related: Centralizing control of digital certificates I had the chance to sit down with Deepika Chauhan , DigiCert’s Chief Product Officer, and Mike Cavanagh , Oracle’s Group Vice President, ISV Cloud for North America. They divided the planet into 55 “ public cloud regions ” spread across 22 nations on five continents.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2019

Cloud Atlas threat actors used a new piece of polymorphic malware in recent attacks against government organizations. The Cloud Atlas cyberespionage group, aka Inception, continues to carry out attacks against government organizations and was observed using a new piece of polymorphic malware dubbed VBShower.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2023

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 2, 2022

Protecting the Crown Jewels: The evolution of security strategies and asset protection. The intent of this tradition was to ensure trusted access to and physical security of the Tower, the most secure castle in the land, so that intruders would not be able to gain access. Security Practices and the Queen’s Jubilee.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

I had the chance to discuss this with Christopher Budd , director of Sophos X-Ops , the company’s cross-operational task force of security defenders. Budd explained how Sophos X-Ops is designed to dismantle security silos internally, while also facilitating external sharing, for the greater good. Here are my takeaways.

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Security Affairs

JULY 18, 2023

The file included data associated with employees of the US secret service NSA, the US Cyber ​​Command, and German intelligence services registered with the Google-owned security platform. Der Spiegel points out that the leaked data reveals who deals with IT security and malware in the impacted companies and government organizations.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The exposed data includes information on the Army's Distributed Common Ground System and its cloud component, Red Disk.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 16, 2018

When I first wrote about Cloud Access Security Brokers in 2015, so-called CASBs were attracting venture capital by the truckloads — and winning stunning customer testimonials. CASBs (pronounced caz-bees) originally sought to resolve a fast rising security nightmare: Shadow IT.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2022

Pro-Ukraine hackers, likely linked to Ukraine IT Army , are using Docker images to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against a dozen websites belonging to government, military, and media. “Container and cloud-based resources are being abused to deploy disruptive tools. ” reported Crowdstrike.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 30, 2018

DataLocker honed its patented approach to manufacturing encrypted portable drives and landed some key military and government clients early on; the company has continued branching out ever since. Park: The trend nowadays is to move everything to the cloud. But in certain cases the cloud is not readily accessible.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Cyber attacks conducted by the APT37 group mainly targeted government, defense, military, and media organizations in South Korea. Dolphin abuses Google Drive cloud storage for Command & Control communication. Kaspersky first documented the operations of the group in 2016. ” reads the post published by ESET.

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Threatpost

MARCH 27, 2018

Researchers identify a new malware family called GoScanSSH that avoids servers linked to government and military IP addresses. .

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Russia-linked Nobelium APT group has breached at least 14 managed service providers (MSPs) and cloud service providers since May 2021. NOBELIUM focuses on government organizations, non-government organizations (NGOs), think tanks, military, IT service providers, health technology and research, and telecommunications providers.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 21, 2017

The nonprofit GDI Foundation has tracked close to 175,000 examples of misconfigured software and services on the cloud this year. As more and more organizations are moving to the cloud, the number of leaky servers is increasing. Compounding the problem, configuring Identity and Access Management (IAM) in the cloud can be difficult.

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Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2021

US and UK cybersecurity agencies said today that a Russian military cyber unit has been behind a series of brute-force attacks that have targeted the cloud IT resources of government and private sector companies across the world. ” reads the advisory published by the NSA. Experts speculate the activity is still ongoing.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. A new piece of Ryuk Stealer targets government, military and finance sectors. Check Point detailed two flaws in Microsoft Azure that could have allowed taking over cloud servers. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 249 appeared first on Security Affairs.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 28, 2023

As enterprise IT environments have expanded to include mobile and IoT devices and cloud and edge technology, new types of tests have emerged to address new risks, but the same general principles and techniques apply. Network tests Some organizations differentiate internal from external network security tests.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 7, 2022

A SaaS security company says a spike in cyber attacks from Russia and China in recent weeks suggests the two countries may be coordinating their cyber efforts. reported that hackers – some linked to Russian GRU military intelligence – breached computers at nearly two dozen U.S. SaaS Apps Under Attack.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2020

The Council of the European Union announced sanctions imposed on a Russia-linked military espionage unit, as well as companies operating for Chinese and North Korean threat actors that launched cyber-attacks against the EU and its member states. “The sanctions imposed include a travel ban and an asset freeze.

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Threatpost

JUNE 11, 2021

"We hereby keep a right (sic) to forward all of the relevant documentation and data to military agencies of our choise (sic)" REvil reportedly wrote.

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The Security Ledger

JANUARY 23, 2024

In this episode of The Security Ledger Podcast (#255) host Paul Roberts interviews Niels Provos of Lacework about his mission to use EDM to teach people about cybersecurity. The post Episode 255: EDM, Meet CDM – Cyber Dance Music with Niels Provos appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Click the icon below to listen.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

GoDaddy discloses a security breach, threat actors have stolen source code and installed malware on its servers in a long-runing attack. The security breach was discovered in December 2022 after customer reported that their sites were being used to redirect to random domains. ” concludes the company.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2021

Chinese military unit PLA Unit 61419 is suspected to be involved in cyber-espionage campaigns against multiple antivirus companies. Experts speculate the cyberspies have purchased the security software to study them and find zero-day vulnerabilities that could be exploited in an attack or to test the detection of new malware.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2020

According to security researchers from Trend Micro, the Russia-linked APT28 cyberespionage group has been scanning vulnerable email servers for more than a year. The cyberespionage group continues to target members of defense companies, embassies, governments, and the military. ” reads the report published by Trend Micro.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2019

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Autoclerk travel reservations platform data leak also impacts US Government and military. NordVPN, TorGuard, and VikingVPN VPN providers disclose security breaches. Adobe Creative Cloud Users. A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! Winnti APT group uses skip-2.0

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

“From at least January 2020, through February 2022, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), National Security Agency (NSA), and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have observed regular targeting of U.S. cleared defense contractors (CDCs) by Russian state-sponsored cyber actors.” Air Force, U.S.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Just a couple of months after that, World Rugby itself announced that one of its training websites had suffered a security breach that exposed subscribers’ account information. 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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 15, 2022

It’s no secret that passwords have become one of the weakest links in enterprise security. Zero Trust approaches are crucial in helping modern organisations achieve better security outcomes. Zero Trust Security. It has recently become a hot buzzword, but what is Zero Trust Security? Nothing can be trusted.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 29, 2021

The Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) designation is a benchmark of excellence in information security. ISC) 2 is one of the world’s largest IT security training organizations, currently more than 140,000 members strong, and growing. (ISC) Data security. Tue, 06/29/2021 - 16:56. Data Firewall.

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