Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. It’s a surreal experience, paging through hundreds of top-secret NSA documents. So would the FBI breaking into my home and seizing my personal electronics. And then I flew to Brazil.

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

On December 3, 2018, twelve attorneys general (“AGs”) jointly filed a data breach lawsuit against Medical Informatics Engineering and its subsidiary, NoMoreClipboard LLC (collectively “the Company”), an electronic health records company, in federal district court in Indiana. See Indiana v. Informatics Eng’g, Inc. , 3:18-cv-00969 (N.D.

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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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Archive Document Data Storage

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

In this blog, we’ll share the top five things people assume about document scanning, and explain why those assumptions are incorrect. Without a doubt, do-it-yourself document scanning is laborious and time consuming, but the opposite is true when you use a qualified scanning partner to do the work for you. Scanning Takes Too Long.

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Armstrong Archives

DECEMBER 7, 2018

A company’s data is extremely valuable. From client lists to sensitive financial records, employees handle this data during normal day-to-day operations. Employees can easily compromise this data unintentionally or with malicious motives. How Employees Can Compromise Data. How to Protect Your Data.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2019

While I was thinking about how to answer to such questions I received a MalSpam with a Microsoft Office document attached by sheer coincidence, so I decided to write a little bit on it. Attached to a nice crafted MalSpam email hitting my inbox a malicious Office Document having a pretty neat “autoopen()” Macro.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2019

First of all the attacker knew the target organization was protected by a SOC (Security Operation Center) so she sent a well crafted email claiming to deliver a Microsoft document wrapping out the weekly SOC report as a normal activity in order to induce the victim to open-it. SOC report 10 12 2019.doc Technical Analysis. Conclusion.

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Data Matters

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

identical electronic records at both its approved premises and the EDSP (whether located in Hong Kong or elsewhere). identical electronic records at both its approved premises and the EDSP (whether located in Hong Kong or elsewhere). Whom does this affect? The new requirements are relevant to firms that. How does it affect you? .

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2023

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Cyber Info Veritas

AUGUST 9, 2018

Their main aim is to exploit your “mistakes and vulnerabilities” to blackmail you into sending them money or they’ll leak your private data. As computers and smart devices creep into every crevice of our life, the need to protect yourself from hackers has never been greater. Yes, there are bad and good hackers.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 26, 2023

Cloud computing offers the potential to redefine and personalize customer relationships, transform and optimize operations, improve governance and transparency, and expand business agility and capability. In 2017, 94% of hospitals used electronic clinical data from their EHR.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The malware expert Marco Ramilli collected a small set of VBA Macros widely re-used to “weaponize” Maldoc (Malware Document) in cyber attacks. Nowadays one of the most frequent cybersecurity threat comes from Malicious (office) document shipped over eMail or Instant Messaging. compatible; MSIE 6.0; compatible; MSIE 6.0;

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Capture the technical details: Include notes, screenshots, and log files in the report, but to make documentation less disruptive, take video and narrate while conducting the pentest and take screenshots later. For electronic copies, the acronyms used elsewhere in the report could use internal document links directly to this appendix.

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eDiscovery Daily

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Much speculation centered around the name being based on a setting in the 1996 movie Rising Sun; however, it was believed the true authors were several cryptography and computer science experts of non-Japanese descent. Or think of it as a document in Google Docs that is being seen by multiple people simultaneously.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 30, 2021

” Users who click “Yes” are directed to Crypto Sheriff, a tool that matches available decryptors to the user’s encrypted files. Logos, icons and sample data of victims used by Avaddon appear on Haron’s server, and the last modified date of the files is the exact date (June 11) when Avaddon disappeared.

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 18, 2018

Tom also wrote a terrific four part informational overview on Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) titled eDiscovery and the GDPR: Ready or Not, Here it Comes. Anyway, this week’s eDiscovery Tech Tip of the Week is about Early Data Assessment. Issues Managing ESI Data in Criminal Cases. How Data is Acquired.

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 16, 2018

Tom also wrote a terrific four part informational overview on Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) titled eDiscovery and the GDPR: Ready or Not, Here it Comes. This exception is generally allowed for protection of law enforcement officers and may not give them the right to seize a computer unless it poses a threat.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2022

Threema is the instant messenger designed to generate as little user data as possible. All communication is end-to-end encrypted, and the app is open source. Threema does not require users to provide a phone number or email address upon registration, this means that it is impossible to link a user’s identity through this data.

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eDiscovery Daily

MARCH 25, 2018

A frequent court appointed special master in electronic evidence, Craig is a prolific contributor to continuing legal and professional education programs throughout the United States, having delivered over 2,000 presentations and papers. Unlike computer operating systems, Phone operating systems have largely succeeded in locking down data.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

A ransomware outbreak has besieged a Wisconsin based IT company that provides cloud data hosting, security and access management to more than 100 nursing homes across the United States. VCPI) provides IT consulting, Internet access, data storage and security services to some 110 nursing homes and acute-care facilities in 45 states.

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Most of that focus has centered on data collection, storage, sharing, and, in particular, third-party transactions in which customer information is harnessed for advertising purposes. Could a party, for instance, decline to produce, review, or even collect certain types of data due to privacy concerns? But what about other contexts?

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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. Among other news: B&Q breached the personal data of 70,000 people who had been caught stealing products from its stores.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 22, 2022

LAPSUS$ is known for stealing data and then demanding a ransom not to publish or sell it. In most cases, this involved social engineering employees at the targeted firm into adding one of their computers or mobiles to the list of devices allowed to authenticate with the company’s virtual private network (VPN).

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eDiscovery Daily

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

At Appellant’s apartment, after the agents discovered a single computer, an HP Envy 700 desktop, which was encrypted with TrueCrypt, Appellant informed the agents that he lived alone, that he was the sole user of the computer, and that only he knew the password to his computer.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

A sophisticated set of encryption and electronics is at work inside the vehicle. As more and more automotive manufacturers start incorporating computer technology into their expensive BMWs, Mercedes Ferraris and Porsches. Lacking any formal computer training. And for the most part, this is true. He told the Prague post.

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Data Protector

OCTOBER 11, 2017

What follows below is an edited version of the debate in the House of Lords of the Second Reading of the Data Protection Bill, held on 10 October. Data is not just a resource for better marketing, better service and delivery. Data is used to build products themselves. It has become a cliché that data is the new oil.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 28, 2021

This office had sort of crawled to a halt, because they were processing kids that had lost their parents and they were trying to find profiles and sponsors for them, sponsors that pay for their schooling and all that stuff, and their network, their computers were so screwed up that they had to like stop. Vamosi: Sometimes this is tricky.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

At first look the message appears suspicious due to inconsistent sender’s domain data inside the SMTP headers: From: alice.wu@anchors-chain.com. Whois data of “anchors-chain.com”. Malicious PDF document. usage of professional sounding emails containing reference and documents carefully aligned with impersonification context.

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eDiscovery Daily

DECEMBER 14, 2021

LSPs had already begun finding success operating in remote environments, using the cloud for eDiscovery data storage, processing, review, and analytics. . Secured cloud environments allowed for a more efficient and effective workflow to collect, process, host, review and produce critical data. . Data encryption must be used in transit.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2020

XSL StyleSheet Document MiZl5xsDRylf0W.tmp. The following VBScript is run through cscript.exe, It’s an obfuscated and xor-encrypted payload. It hijacks method on an old office 2007 component (Office Data Provider for – MSOSTYLE.exe). MSOSTYLE.EXE is an old Microsoft Office Data Provider for WBEM. 3UDBUTNY7YstRc.tmp.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

Whoever is leaking the toolset also has been dumping information about the victims OilRig has targeted, as well as data identifying some of the servers the group uses in its attacks. script = ';$(document).ready(function(){$('<img I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. Leaked Source code.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 3, 2020

The company collects a laundry list of data about you, including user name, physical address, email address, phone number, job information, Facebook profile information, computer or phone specs, IP address, and any other information you create or upload. And it uses all of this surveillance data for profit, against your interests.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 5, 2018

-based tech firm to secretly embed tiny computer chips into electronic devices purchased and used by almost 30 different companies. The chips were alleged to have spied on users of the devices and sent unspecified data back to the Chinese military. In a nutshell, the Bloomberg story claims that San Jose, Calif.

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