Hunton Privacy

JUNE 29, 2022

Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) released guidance to help covered entities understand how they can use remote communication technologies for audio-only telehealth in compliance with the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules (the “Guidance”). On June 13, 2022, the U.S.

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Security Affairs

JULY 5, 2022

The police searched the home of the suspects and seized computer equipment, mobile phones, bank cards, and money obtained through the illicit activities. “Criminal proceedings have been opened under Part 3 of Art. 190 (Fraud), Part 5 of Art.

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Phishing Computer and Electronics Communications Government 98

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Following up on the electronic letter, the alleged widow begins a copious correspondence in which she says she was left completely alone after the death of her husband and children and without a home or money and hosted in a border refugee camp, where she feeds herself. during the Russian invasion of Ukraine that began in 2022.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2023

” The Snatch ransomware was first spotted at the end of 2019, Sophos researchers discovered a piece of the Snatch ransomware that reboots computers it infects into Safe Mode to bypass resident security solutions. HENSOLDT is a company specializing in military and defense electronics. ” reads the alert.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Arthur Pereira Sabbat (five-year mandate), currently Director of the Information Security department of the Brazilian Presidency. Joacil Basilio Rael (four-year mandate), computer engineer who graduated from the Military Engineering Institute.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Taiwanese electronics technology giant Acer discloses a security breach suffered by its after-sales service systems in India after an isolated attack. Bad news for the Taiwanese electronics technology giant Acer, it disclosed a second security breach this year. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cyber security).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2021

The Ministry of Labor and Social Economy has been affected by a computer attack. The website of the ministry’s website was still up despite the attack, but the communications office and the multimedia room were not available. “The Electronic Office, the website and the set of services continue to be provided normally.”

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Lenny Zeltser

JUNE 2, 2018

Information security? Computer security, perhaps? If we examine the factors that influence our desire to use one security title over the other, we’ll better understand the nature of the industry and its driving forces. Are you in cybersecurity? Yet, the term cybersecurity is growing in popularity.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

INSTAT will continue its statistical activity and will use alternative means of communication such as the email address instat.albania@gmail.com and the official social media channels, Instagram and Facebook.” In September 2022, Albania blamed Iran for another cyberattack that hit computer systems used by the state police.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In the early afternoon of Friday 12 May 2017, the media broke the news of a global computer security attack carried out through a malicious code capable of encrypting data residing in information systems and demanding a ransom in cryptocurrency to restore them, the Wannacry ransomware.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2021

The existence of a secret SAS mobile hacker squad, named MAB5 and under the control of the Computer Network Operations (CNO) Exploitation, was revealed by a job ad published by the UK’s Ministry of Defence on an external website, reported Alan Turnbull of Secret Bases. ” states Secret Bases.

Military 102

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2020

Once it’s inside, Ryuk can spread across network servers through file shares to individual computers,” reads a post published by SBI. “IT officials are working to get the communication systems back online.” 911 calls, though, are being answered.”

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Ransomware IT Computer and Electronics Mining 124

Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2023

“In December 2021, in coordination with foreign law enforcement partners in Germany and Finland, the computer server hosting Monopoly was seized and taken offline.” Desnica was located and arrested in Austria in November 2022, the police conducted a search of his residence and vehicle, seizing electronics and cash.

Marketing 93

Marketing Computer and Electronics Sales Communications 93

Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2021

FSB National Coordination Center for Computer Incidents (NKTsKI) revealed that foreign hackers have breached networks of Russian federal agencies. ” Once compromised the networks of the targeted agencies, hackers gathered sensitive information from internal systems. “Mail-O is a downloader program that accesses the Mail.ru

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2021

Taiwanese multinational hardware and electronics corporation Acer was victim of a REvil ransomware attack, the gang demanded a $50,000,000 ransom. Taiwanese computer giant Acer was victim of the REvil ransomware attack, the gang is demanding the payment of a $50,000,000 ransom, the largest one to date. billion in revenue.

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Ransomware Computer and Electronics Sales Encryption 143

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2020

COVID-19 themed attacks October 1 – December 5, 2020 Drug dealers are selling Pfizer COVID vaccines on the darkweb LockBit Ransomware operators hit Swiss helicopter maker Kopter Police arrest two people over stealing sensitive data from defense giant A ransomware attack hit the Greater Baltimore Medical Center Cisco fixes exploitable RCEs in Cisco (..)

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Security Computer and Electronics Ransomware Education 96

Security Affairs

JUNE 30, 2019

In the first phase of the project, TEN will unify communications between the German army’s (Bundeswehr) land-based operations (D-LBO) and the Dutch Ministry of Defence’s ‘FOXTROT’ tactical communications program. Computers, radios, tablets, and telephones). . ” reported the Handelsblatt.

Military 94

Military Computer and Electronics Communications Government 94

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

A team of researchers from the Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography (COSIC) group at the KU Leuven University in Belgium has demonstrated how to steal a Tesla Model X in minutes by exploiting vulnerabilities in the car’s keyless entry system.

Computer and Electronics 123

Computer and Electronics Communications Security Access 123

Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

A face recognition search will typically result in one or more most likely candidates—or candidate images—ranked by computer-evaluated similarity or will return a negative result.”.

Computer and Electronics 110

Computer and Electronics Government Communications Access 110

Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2019

Last week the US agency has received several reports from taxpayers that received spam messages with “Automatic Income Tax Reminder” or “Electronic Tax Return Reminder” subjects. gov -like website with details pretending to be about the taxpayer’s refund, electronic return or tax account. .”

Computer and Electronics 80

Computer and Electronics Passwords Phishing Communications 80

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The news is quite curious, the US military will no longer use 8-inch floppy disks in an antiquated computer (SACCS) to manage nuclear weapons arsenal. Jason Rossi, commander of the Air Force’s 595th Strategic Communications Squadron.” “Any electronic repair is going to take a lot of work. ” states the report.

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Computer and Electronics Military Government Communications 66

Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2021

The DoJ announced this week that Till Kottmann was indicted for computer intrusion and identity and data theft activities spanning 2019 to the present. . ” “Stealing credentials and data, and publishing source code and proprietary and sensitive information on the web is not protected speech–it is theft and fraud,” said Acting U.S. .

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Computer and Electronics Access Communications Cybersecurity 82

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2020

The prosecutors state that Leonardo’s security systems did not detect the malware that was allegedly used by the unfaithful employee. The CNAIPIC of the Central Service of the Postal and Communications Police and the local police have arrested a former employee and a manager of the aforementioned company.

Military 109

Military Computer and Electronics Communications Personal data 109

IT Governance

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Security in the Digital World defines three methods that cyber criminals use to attack: Social engineering: The attacker tries to manipulate you into giving them either your information, or access to your computer so that they can get the information themselves. Protect yourself from cyber crime.

Computer and Electronics 68

Computer and Electronics Phishing Ransomware Communications 68

Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 22, 2010

Microsoft is urging Congress and the information technology industry to act now to ensure that cloud computing is guided by an international commitment to privacy, security and transparency for consumers, businesses and government.

Computer and Electronics 40

Computer and Electronics Cloud Privacy Communications 40

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The group is charges of violations of the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act and Electronic Communications Privacy Act; federal trademark infringement, dilution, and false designation of origin; cyber squatting; com mon law trespass to chattels; unjust enrichment; conversion; intentional interference with contracts. 27 in the U.S.

Computer and Electronics 73

Computer and Electronics Phishing Communications Privacy 73

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2020

On January 28th, Indonesia’s Ministry of Communication and Information Technology announced that the final draft for the Personal Data Protection Act has been submitted to the president of Indonesia. The information he claimed to have available included names, addresses, phone numbers, ages, and nationalities.

Data Privacy 104

Data Privacy Privacy Personal data Computer and Electronics 104

Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2019

The SilentTrinity malware can take control over an infected computer, it allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands. The attack against Croatia was also spotted by experts at Information Systems Security Bureau (ZSIS) that issued two alerts about the attacks-. ” reads one of the alerts.

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Government Computer and Electronics Archiving Phishing 89

Security Affairs

JULY 18, 2019

Cyber security expert Marco Ramilli explains the difficulties for scraping the ‘TOR networks’ and how to enumerate hidden-services with s crapers. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. I do have a MD in computer engineering and a PhD on computer security from University of Bologna.

Computer and Electronics 78

Computer and Electronics Cybersecurity Security Communications 78

Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 21, 2015

On October 8, 2015, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (“CalECPA”). The government also must obtain a warrant before requiring a business to produce an individual’s electronic information.

Computer and Electronics 40

Computer and Electronics Privacy Communications Cloud 40

Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

I fly a lot—a quarter of a million miles per year—and being put on a TSA list, or being detained at the US border and having my electronics confiscated, would be a major problem. So would the FBI breaking into my home and seizing my personal electronics. I tried to talk to Greenwald about his own operational security.

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Computer and Electronics Encryption Government Privacy 121

Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

Command: t he main question to try to answer on the Command section would be: “How does OilRig evolve in Command and Control communications over time ?”. They begun development by introducing crafted communication protocol over DNS and later they added, to such a layer, encoding and encryption self build protocols.

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e-Delivery Computer and Electronics Phishing Communications 83

Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

A computer user’s failure to secure his wireless network contributed to the defeat of his claim that a neighbor’s unwelcome access to his files violated the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (“ECPA”). The ECPA places restrictions on unauthorized interception of, and access to, electronic communications.

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Computer and Electronics Communications Security Libraries 40

Data Protector

AUGUST 17, 2020

Removing the UK from the decision-making structures of the EU should also result in the UK Government feeling able to update other privacy legislation, such as the outdated Privacy & Electronic Communications Regulations, without having to delay for years and years until EU countries managed to reach a political consensus on the way ahead.

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Privacy GDPR Personal data Computer and Electronics 156

Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Because UMass did not designate the Center as a covered health care component, UMass failed to implement policies and procedures at the Center to ensure compliance with the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rule. UMass did not have firewalls in place to guard against unauthorized access to ePHI transmitted over an electronic communications network.

Computer and Electronics 40

Computer and Electronics Insurance Privacy Risk 40

IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2018

This week, we discuss the sentencing of one of the perpetrators of the 2013 Yahoo breach, a new type of denial-of-service attack that can crash computers just using sound and how not to email your customers. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 1 June 2018. Here are this week’s stories.

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GDPR Compliance Computer and Electronics Data breaches 67

AIIM

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The bill also prohibits communication with consumers “with the intent to mislead…about [the bot’s] artificial identity for the purpose of knowingly deceiving the person about the content of the communication” in order to incentivize a purchase or influence a vote.”. Some argue that its provisions infringe on the First Amendment.

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