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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 5 – 11 February 2024

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GB Western Municipal Construction Source New Construction and real estate USA Yes 101 GB Tennessee Farmers Insurance Source New Insurance USA Yes 71,000 CNO ACE Source 1 ; source 2 New Healthcare USA Yes 65,195 Verizon Communications Inc. The previous record figure – $983 million – was set in 2021. GB Signature Performance, Inc.

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Anatomy of a Quantum Attack

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

A quantum computer will be able to do it in 10 seconds! For most commercial businesses, countermeasures against cyberattacks are about preserving data privacy, integrity, and security. Either exploited by military groups or criminal gangs, attacks on satellites, their systems, and base stations on Earth are seeing a steady uptick.

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Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

One of those is Mark Sokolovsky , a 26-year-old Ukrainian man who operated the popular “ Raccoon ” malware-as-a-service offering; Sokolovsky was busted in March after fleeing Ukraine’s mandatory military service orders. The data is published after Medibank reportedly declines to pay a US$10 million ransom demand.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Fog of Cyber War

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” What Schmidt was referring to was an incident when a common backhoe severed a strategic Sprint communications line in the United States. Hypponen: We had a bright moment in malware history, starting from October 2021. They will get immunity for prosecution and they will get $10 million. So it pays off. Here's the BBC.