Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

“Sources told Action News, the cybercriminals gained control of the network on Saturday encrypting files, including police reports, payroll, purchasing, and other databases. “The County of Delaware recently discovered a disruption to portions of its computer network. Prosecution evidence, however, has not been affected.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2020

A cyber attack was detected on the Sopra Steria computer network on the evening of October 20. “The Group’s teams are fully mobilized to ensure a return to normal as quickly as possible and everything is done to ensure business continuity. . And part of the information system would have been encrypted.”

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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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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

The Shamoon “wiper” virus , for instance, devastated Saudi oil company Aramaco, destroying the hard drives of more than 30,000 Aramaco computers and forcing a weeklong shutdown of the company’s internal network. A few months later the UAE stood up its National Electronic Security Authority (NESA) which proceeded to do much the same thing.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2023

billion rubles. billion rubles.

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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

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. AV and plenty static traffic signatures confirm we are facing a new encrypted version of Emotet trojan.

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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. “The threat group has been very active since the release of Grief in the middle of May 2021,” they write. The site also provides guidance on preventing ransomware attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

Encryption and the development of cryptography have been a cornerstone of IT security for decades and remain critical for data protection against evolving threats. While cryptology is thousands of years old, modern cryptography took off in the 1970s with the help of the Diffie-Hellman-Merkle and RSA encryption algorithms.

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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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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 18, 2018

The government will usually get its ESI by consent or warrant. Typically, when the federal government seeks data in criminal cases (and most states have a similar procedure), it requests a search and seizure warrant by filing an application or affidavit sworn before a judge. The first is forensic images of computers and cell phones.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. Penchukov was arrested after leaving Ukraine to meet up with his wife in Switzerland.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 22, 2022

KrebsOnSecurity recently reviewed a copy of the private chat messages between members of the LAPSUS$ cybercrime group in the week leading up to the arrest of its most active members last month. T-Mobile says no customer or government information was stolen in the intrusion.

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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. This meant they weren’t encrypted, making them freely accessible to as many as 20,000 employees, most of whom had no legitimate reason to access the information. IT Governance released its final Weekly Podcast.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 28, 2021

It is also known as the unlikely epicenter of a small but growing group of hackers. If the problem is that there's a government that's holding us back, we'll figure out a way around it. Such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation or EFF. Today Jinja is known for its tourism. its whitewater rafting, kayaking, and quad biking.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

Starting our list of the top database security vendors is the multinational cloud computing company, Alibaba Cloud. Born from e-commerce giant Alibaba Group in Hangzhou, China, the cloud services provider offers content delivery networks (CDN), data storage, and relational database management in a scalable infrastructure.

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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. Governments are doing their best to mitigate such a virus while people are stuck home working remotely using their own equipment. The first stage is a fake PDF file.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

or “ AsAc Group ”. The real domain of the group spells almost the same: “ anchor-chain.com ”, the letter “ s ” is the only difference between the name registered by the attacker and the legit one. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. Malicious email message. Attachment.

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

19 No longer are the proportionality considerations described as separate “limitations” on an inquiry governed solely by relevance.20 36 Computers are tangible things, after all, and many litigants over the years have sought to test, sample, or obtain copies of an opposing party’s computer or entire computer system.

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IT Governance

MARCH 5, 2024

Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Millions of Pure Incubation Ventures records listed on hacking forum 183,754,481 records apparently belonging to the venture capital and private equity group Pure Incubation Ventures have been listed for sale on a hacking forum. The claim is yet to be verified.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

Contest: Since at least 2014, an Iranian threat group tracked by FireEye as APT34 has conducted reconnaissance aligned with the strategic interests of Iran. The group conducts operations primarily in the Middle East, targeting financial, government, energy, chemical, telecommunications and other industries. DNS Server scripts.

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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. Perhaps the Government could respond on that point. When a consumer wants to move to a new energy supplier, they should be able to take their usage history with them rather than guess and pay over the odds.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2018

I will not disclose the found Malware code nor the Malware Command and Control code nor details on attacker’s group since I won’t put on future attackers new Malware source code ready to be used. Now I was able to see encrypted URLs coming from infected hosts. Command and Control Source Code (snip).

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

And now it was like how can I contribute back to Tibet and put material out and help other people maybe join in the same way I did by not traditional means like, it wasn't really college or anything that got me into electronics. It was all this discovery on the internet that brought me to it. You need to physically obtain a smart meter.

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The Texas Record

MAY 7, 2018

We are happy to welcome guest writers from the Texas Department of Information Resources, Daniel Hankins, Shared Services Security Manager and Andy Bennett, Director Information Security Governance. Ransomware Hits CDOT Computers. million dollars in recovery efforts to date. [1] million dollars in recovery efforts to date. [1]

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 2, 2022

Gosh, there must be 20 or more villages at DEFCON if you want to learn radio if you want to learn tampering with seals if you want to learn encryption, if you want to learn you name it. And people gladly take your computer and run it and you have to question that but there's they're so eager to learn it and to do it. Schuyler left.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 19, 2023

I'm also a senior advisor to the Boston Consulting Group BCG. companies like Verizon, Google, Microsoft, State Street Bank, mutual, BNP Paribas, some oil companies, and and then through our work at MIT Sloan, we also get very much involved with the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory which is CSAIL.

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IT Governance

APRIL 29, 2024

Honor, Huawei, iFlytek, OPPO, Samsung Electronics, Tencent, Vivo and Xiaomi Technology. The company has fixed the issue, blaming it on a vulnerability in the app’s groups feature. The vulnerabilities could be exploited to reveal users’ keystrokes and “up to one billion users are affected”. Data breached: <1 billion people’s data.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Cerf has chaired, formed, and participated in countless working groups, governing bodies, and scientific, technological, and academic organizations. Is there a moment in the history of computing that is as significant as the one we’re in now? Others have said, it’s as significant as the iPhone.

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