IT Governance

JULY 14, 2022

Organisations that fall within Levels 2–4 of the PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) can attest to compliance with an SAQ (self-assessment questionnaire). Organisations that are subject to the PCI DSS must demonstrate that they have taken appropriate steps to secure the payment card data that they hold.

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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

The reasons vary greatly; including accessibility, affordability, security and more. In this blog, we’ll share the top five things people assume about document scanning, and explain why those assumptions are incorrect. High-speed scanners are used to scan your documents. I Can’t Afford To Scan Every Document.

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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

JUNE 11, 2021

million computers. These included logins for social media, online games, online marketplaces, job-search sites, consumer electronics, financial services, email services, and more. Experts found over 650,000 Word documents and.pdf files in the archive. ” reads the report published by NordLocker. million files.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Yoroi security firm uncovered a targeted attack against one of the most important companies in the Italian Naval Industry leveraging MartyMcFly Malware. The victim was one of the most important leaders in the field of security and defensive military grade Naval ecosystem in Italy. Stage1: Encrypted Content. 1 and OleObj.2.

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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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Krebs on Security

APRIL 26, 2019

A peer-to-peer (P2P) communications technology built into millions of security cameras and other consumer electronics includes several critical security flaws that expose the devices to eavesdropping, credential theft and remote compromise, new research has found. Marrapese documented his findings in more detail here.

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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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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2019

The SilentTrinity malware can take control over an infected computer, it allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands. The attack was discovered by researchers at Positive Technologies while hunting for new and cyber threats, the attackers used excel weaponized documents. ” reads one of the alerts. Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 31, 2023

A pentest report should also outline the vulnerability scans and simulated cybersecurity attacks the pentester used to probe for weaknesses in an organization’s overall security stack or specific systems, such as websites, applications, networks, and cloud infrastructure. To be truly useful, the report must be more than a simple list.

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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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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). ensuring information security to prevent unauthorized access, tampering or destruction of records.

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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. About the author: Marco Ramilli, Founder of Yoroi.

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Cyber Info Veritas

AUGUST 9, 2018

Before we outline the safety hacks, let us briefly discuss why you need to protect yourself from hackers: How Safe Is Your Data: Why You Need To Protect Yourself From Hackers As the internet, computers, and connected devices (smart homes, smart appliances, etc.) become a central part of our lives, so does cybercrime and cyber insecurity.

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Armstrong Archives

DECEMBER 7, 2018

The problem often occurs after the employee’s termination or resignation: Inadvertent theft: The employee may have access to cloud storage, information stored on a personal computer, mobile apps, and other forms of “shadow IT.” Missing documents from an employee’s computer or company drive. Managing personal electronic use.

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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. ” No More Ransom was founded in 2016 by the Dutch National Police, Europol, Intel Security and Kaspersky Lab. A recent Keeper Security survey of 2,000 U.S.

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 22, 2016

The OCR’s investigation of Feinstein Institute, a biomedical research institute based in New York, began after the institute filed a breach report indicating that in September 2012, an unencrypted, password-protected laptop computer containing the ePHI of approximately 13,000 patients and research participants was stolen from an employee’s car.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2022

All communication is end-to-end encrypted, and the app is open source. ” Recently media shared an FBI training document that reveals the surveillance capabilities of the US law enforcement detailing which data can be extracted from encrypted messaging apps. Source Property of the People. ” states the U.S.

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 18, 2018

There is no time frame established for this review since it may take a substantial amount of time, especially with encrypted drives. Email will most often be produced in native format (more on that below) and other documents tend to be rendered in PDF. The first is forensic images of computers and cell phones.

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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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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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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. You might not know any real hackers.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 27, 2019

IT Governance is closing out the year by rounding up 2019’s biggest information security stories. Countless office workers were forced to get back to their jobs after Reddit suspended a host of accounts in light of security concerns. Facebook said that the breach was discovered in January 2019 as part of an internal security review.

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

4 The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure have begun — since their inception — with a guiding command for courts to seek “to secure the just, speedy, and inexpensive determination of every action and proceeding.”5 social security and credit card numbers, employee and patient health data, and customer financial records).”43

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 22, 2022

But the leaked chats indicate this mercenary activity was of little interest to the tyrannical teenage leader of LAPSUS$, whose obsession with stealing and leaking proprietary computer source code from the world’s largest tech companies ultimately led to the group’s undoing. ” CONSIDER THE SOURCE.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Often the tiny flashing light on the dashboard also alerts would-be criminals that the car is protected by the latest form of anti theft security. A sophisticated set of encryption and electronics is at work inside the vehicle. Just because it has all the bells and whistles doesn’t necessarily mean it’s secure.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Experts at Yoroi’s Cyber Security Defence Center along with Fincantieri’s security team investigated the recently discovered Martymcfly malware attacks. Malicious PDF document. Background. On October 17th we disclosed the ‘MartyMcFly’ Threat ( Rif. Malicious Email. anchors-chain.com. Conclusion.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2020

Security researcher Marco Ramilli analyzed a new Coronavirus (COVID-19)-themed attack gathering evidence of the alleged involvement of an APT group. XSL StyleSheet Document MiZl5xsDRylf0W.tmp. The following VBScript is run through cscript.exe, It’s an obfuscated and xor-encrypted payload. 3UDBUTNY7YstRc.tmp. 9sOXN6Ltf0afe7.js

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eDiscovery Daily

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Secured cloud environments allowed for a more efficient and effective workflow to collect, process, host, review and produce critical data. . How Secure is Remote eDiscovery? Simply put, eDiscovery cloud computing provides a secured digital environment that protects the integrity of your data. Computer Activity.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

Security expert Marco Ramilli published the findings of a quick analysis of the webmask project standing behind the DNS attacks implemented by APT34 (aka OilRig and HelixKitten ). script = ';$(document).ready(function(){$('<img I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 19, 2021

There is of course a lot of security around these digital releases, for example, there's watermarks, digital certificates, and even keys at the code, the encrypted copies of the films in specific theaters for specific periods of time. Just so that their American films can be secured or released in the lucrative Chinese market.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 3, 2020

Over that same period, the company has been exposed for having both lousy privacy and lousy security. In general, Zoom's problems fall into three broad buckets: (1) bad privacy practices, (2) bad security practices, and (3) bad user configurations. Now security: Zoom's security is at best sloppy, and malicious at worst.

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Data Protector

OCTOBER 11, 2017

When we do the weekly supermarket shop online, we should be able to move our shopping list electronically. Where the Information Commissioner gives notices to data controllers, she can now secure compliance, with the power to issue substantial administrative penalties of up to 4% of global turnover.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 5, 2018

From time to time, there emerge cybersecurity stories of such potential impact that they have the effect of making all other security concerns seem minuscule and trifling by comparison. based tech firm to secretly embed tiny computer chips into electronic devices purchased and used by almost 30 different companies.

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