Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Microsoft sued a North Korea-linked cyber espionage group tracked as Thallium for hacking into its customers’ accounts and networks via spear-phishing attacks. The Thallium APT group aimed at stealing sensitive accounts from Microsoft accounts. 27 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

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IT Governance

MAY 2, 2024

The number of records breached this month was high – particularly compared to March – largely due to two outlier events: Spy.pet, a data scraping website, offering 4,186,879,104 Discord messages for sale. This blog provides further analysis of the data we’ve collected. Data breached: 4,186,879,104 messages.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

In 2020, the United States brought charges against four men accused of building a bulletproof hosting empire that once dominated the Russian cybercrime industry and supported multiple organized cybercrime groups. All four pleaded guilty to conspiracy and racketeering charges. The Spamdot admins went by the nicknames Icamis (a.k.a.

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Data Protector

AUGUST 17, 2020

One of the Government's core objectives throughout the Brexit negotiations has been to respect data protection rights, slash Brussels' red tape and allow the United Kingdom to be a competitive safe haven for businesses all over the world. This is a process that would never end.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Data breaches. If you find yourself facing a cyber security disaster, IT Governance is here to help. In the meantime, you can find the full list of security incidents below, with those affecting UK organisations listed in bold. Cyber attacks. Ransomware. Financial information. Malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents.

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IT Governance

JULY 1, 2021

It’s simply the case that in the majority of cases, the breached organisation didn’t reveal how much data was compromised, either because it didn’t know or wasn’t obliged to reveal it publicly. Data breaches. But don’t be fooled by that number – it comes from 106 incidents, which is roughly average for the year. Cyber attacks.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The Government Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine CERT-UA is investigating multiple attacks against organizations in Ukraine that involved a new piece of ransomware called Somnia. Then the threat actors abused the victim’s Telegram account to steal VPN configuration data (authentication and certificates).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

Security researcher Marco Ramilli presents a comparative analysis of attacks techniques adopted by the Iran-Linked OilRig APT group. I would define this group of references as reports. Those reports have been divided into 4 timing groups in order to simplify the evaluation process. and more personal thoughts.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2020

Mitsubishi Electric disclosed a security breach that might have exposed personal and confidential corporate data. Mitsubishi Electric had also already notified members of the Japanese government and Ministry of Defense. According to the company, attackers did not obtain sensitive information about defense contracts.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Parson said he would seek to prosecute and investigate the reporter and the region’s largest newspaper for “unlawfully” accessing teacher data. “It is unlawful to access encoded data and systems in order to examine other peoples’ personal information. Thankfully, these failures were discovered.”

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IT Governance

JANUARY 4, 2021

We’ll have a separate post looking at the year’s data breaches and cyber attacks in more detail, but in the meantime, you can find the full list of December’s incidents below. Data breaches. That brings the total for 2020 to more than 20 billion. As usual, incidents affecting UK organisations are in bold. Cyber attacks. Ransomware.

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2021

FSB National Coordination Center for Computer Incidents (NKTsKI) revealed that foreign hackers have breached networks of Russian federal agencies. Attackers gained access to mail servers, electronic document management servers, file servers, and workstations of various levels to steal data of interest.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 23, 2022

Related: Leveraging PKI to advance electronic signatures. It used to be that trusting the connection between a workstation and a mainframe computer was the main concern. And automation already is being leveraged to assure that an object hasn’t been tampered with, as well as ensure the encryption of data in transit – at scale.

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IT Governance

JULY 12, 2019

Digital Guardian recently asked a group of cyber security experts what the most important step is following a data breach. So how should you approach a data breach investigation? This might be, for example,the victim’s computer, a web page or a physical space in which documents were compromised. The crime scene.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

“The County of Delaware recently discovered a disruption to portions of its computer network. We commenced an immediate investigation that included taking certain systems offline and working with computer forensic specialists to determine the nature and scope of the event. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2018

The US Department of Justice charged two Chinese hackers for hacking numerous companies and government agencies in a dozen countries, US Indicts Two Chinese Government Hackers Over Global Hacking Campaign. The APT10 Group stole hundreds of gigabytes of sensitive data and information from the victims’ computer systems.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2020

. “According to the SBI, the ransomware, named Ryuk, was started by a Russian hacker group and finds its way into a network once someone opens a malicious email attachment. Once it’s inside, Ryuk can spread across network servers through file shares to individual computers,” reads a post published by SBI.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 26, 2020

At the height of his cybercriminal career, the hacker known as “ Hieupc ” was earning $125,000 a month running a bustling identity theft service that siphoned consumer dossiers from some of the world’s top data brokers. That is, until his greed and ambition played straight into an elaborate snare set by the U.S. BEGINNINGS.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The company is not aware of data loss caused by the ransomware attack. Bleeping Computer, citing a source in the cybersecurity industry, confirmed that Steelcase suffered a Ryuk ransomware attack. “At this time, the Company is not aware of any data loss from its systems or any other loss of assets as a result of this attack.

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AIIM

APRIL 14, 2020

In one such approach, a multidisciplinary group of computer scientists, mathematicians, and epidemiologists at the Big Data Institute at Oxford University have developed a mathematical model instantiated in a mobile application that traces contact. National Electronic Health Records Database. Big Data Analytics.

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CGI

MAY 13, 2018

To get the most from blockchain in government, a sharing mindset is needed. When I was at university earning my Masters in Computer Science, I devoted a lot of my coursework to distributed computing. Once a piece of data or transaction is written to a blockchain, it cannot be erased or modified. federal government.

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Information Governance Perspectives

JANUARY 29, 2024

Health Information Technology (HIT) is the application of information processing involving computer hardware and software that deals with storing, retrieving, sharing, and using healthcare information, data, and knowledge for communication and decision-making. We’re interested in accessing as much data as feasible.” In the L.A.

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Computer and Electronics Big data Education Risk 52

Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2020

The group has been operating since 2018, on multiple cyber criminal forums they were offering to convert cryptocurrency resulting from cybercriminal activities into fiat. Police conducted searches of the suspects’ residences and offices and seized more than $ 200,000 worth of computer equipment, weapons, ammunition and cash.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

And this positive upswing could be reinforced by stricter adherence to, not just the letter, but the spirit of data security laws already on the books in several nations. There is, in fact, deep consensus about how to protect sensitive data and ensure the overall security of corporate networks. states, for instance.

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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. Transferring files electronically is what encryption is for.

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Computer and Electronics Encryption Government Privacy 124

Security Affairs

JULY 18, 2019

First of all you need an exceptional computational power (RAM mostly) for letting multiple runners grab web-pages, extracting new links and re-run the scraping-code against the just extracted links. Plus a queue manager system to manage scrapers conflicts and a database to store scraped data need to be consistent.

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Computer and Electronics Cybersecurity Security Communications 74

Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Tony Sager (TS): The federal government has been worrying about this kind of problem for decades. In the 70s and 80s, the government was more dominant in the technology industry and didn’t have this massive internationalization of the technology supply chain. TS: Like a lot of things in security, the economics always win.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2023

billion rubles. billion rubles.

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ARMA International

JUNE 11, 2019

Edge computing is increasingly associated with at least two “trending” terms in the IT and information arenas: Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI). Broadly speaking, the term refers to computing that’s done at or near the source of the data. back to the enterprise.”.

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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

MARCH 31, 2019

Harold Thomas Martin III, a 54-year-old Navy veteran from Glen Burnie and former NSA Contractor pleads guilty to 20-Year-Long theft of classified data. The former National Security Agency contractor stole a huge quantity of sensitive data from the agency and then stored it at his home and car for over two decades. During an F.B.I.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2019

The group behind Emotet malware is getting smarter and smarter in the way the y deliver such a Malware. While the infection schema looks alike from years; the way the group tries to infect victims improves from day to day. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. Introduction. MITRE ATT&CK.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 30, 2021

The project now boasts 16 associate partners, including Emsisoft, Trend Micro, Bitdefender, Avast, Bleeping Computer, Cisco, Check Point, Tesorion, McAfee, ESET, CERT_PL, Eleven Paths, KISA, the French Police, and F-Secure. “The threat group has been very active since the release of Grief in the middle of May 2021,” they write.

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Ransomware Computer and Electronics Archiving Encryption 109

eDiscovery Daily

MARCH 20, 2019

noted IoT devices may have multiple data repositories, which creates more data for attorneys to review. noted IoT devices may have multiple data repositories, which creates more data for attorneys to review. Dana Conneally, managing partner at QDiscovery and Evidox Corp., What are the types of evidence out there?

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AIIM

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Wider and more profitable opportunities exist for organizations to bridge the gap between paper and digital media, especially in traditionally paper-intensive fields such as financial services, healthcare, or government. What are the costs of scanning and capturing paper electronically? What are the common issues with Scanning?

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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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Info Source

JULY 13, 2023

As with the Brother device, the clean design lines and neutral colours of the product perhaps bear more of a resemblance to consumer electronics as opposed to a device designed for the ‘office’. Infosource data shows that there was a consistent growth of WI-FI enabled devices over the period to 2021.

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