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Estonian National charged with helping Russia acquire U.S. hacking tools and electronics

Security Affairs

made electronics on behalf of the Russian government and military. The Estonian man is accused of having helped the Russian government and military to purchase US-made electronics and hacking tools. manufacturers on behalf of Russian end-users, including defense contractors and other Russian government agencies.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: A Hacker From Hollywood

ForAllSecure

This is the story of a film star who connected the simple concept behind a player piano to complex communication technology in use in our devices today. A lot of modern communications, for example, have their origins in the 19th century, such as the telegraph, which required wires to be strung around the world.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 March 2024

IT Governance

million OpenSea records for sale on hacking forum A cyber criminal known as ‘bossmoves90004’ claims to have exfiltrated 6.9 million data records from the NFT (non-fungible token) marketplace OpenSea, which they have offered for sale on a hacking forum. Data breached: 6,935,412 individuals’ data. TB Paysign, Inc.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Tales From A Ransomware Negotiator

ForAllSecure

” Over the next few weeks, chats from encrypted Telegram, and other communications were leaked. We know that you know, manufacturing is an area that we've seen a lot of targets over the last quarter. Again, because if you bring down manufacturing operations, there's a high impact to the business and necessity to recover quickly.

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Supply Chain Security is the Whole Enchilada, But Who’s Willing to Pay for It?

Krebs on Security

The chips were alleged to have spied on users of the devices and sent unspecified data back to the Chinese military. Supermicro has assembly facilities in California, the Netherlands, and Taiwan, but its motherboards—its core product—are nearly all manufactured by contractors in China. But the U.S. based firms. Even if the U.S.

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #10 [Eye Opener] BusinessWeek: The Satellite Hack Everyone Is Finally Talking About

KnowBe4

This is an excellent article that exposes the vulnerabilities when communications systems are not secure by design. They started out with: "As Putin began his invasion of Ukraine, a network used throughout Europe—and by the Ukrainian military—faced an unprecedented cyberattack that doubled as an industrywide wake-up call. government.

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White House Issues Executive Order on Protecting Americans’ Sensitive Data from Foreign Adversaries

Hunton Privacy

information and communications technology, critical infrastructure, digital economy or national security. The EO directs the Secretary of Commerce to continually evaluate transactions involving connected software applications that pose an undue risk of sabotage or subversion of U.S. Notably, the EO states that the U.S.

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