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Delaware County, Pennsylvania, opted to pay 500K ransom to DoppelPaymer gang

Security Affairs

. “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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Global Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in April 2024 – 5,336,840,757 Records Breached

IT Governance

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. We discuss both events in more detail below. Critical vulnerabilities in 9 pinyin keyboard apps, affecting up to 1 billion users.

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Snowden Ten Years Later

Schneier on Security

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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Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part I

Krebs on Security

Now, after more than seven years in prison Hieupc is back in his home country and hoping to convince other would-be cybercrooks to use their computer skills for good. O’Neill now heads the agency’s Global Investigative Operations Center , which supports investigations into transnational organized criminal groups.

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How should you investigate a data breach?

IT Governance

Digital Guardian recently asked a group of cyber security experts what the most important step is following a data breach. This might be, for example,the victim’s computer, a web page or a physical space in which documents were compromised. Fortunately, IT Governance is here to help. appeared first on IT Governance Blog.

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Ex-NSA contractor Harold Thomas Martin pleads guilty to federal charge of willful retention of national defense information

Security Affairs

The man was arrested by the FBI in August 2016 , the US DoJ charged Harold Thomas Martin with theft of secret documents and highly classified government material. According to a court complaint , the stolen data include source codes developed by the NSA to its hacking campaigns against foreign governments. A first message sent on Aug.

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Supply Chain Security 101: An Expert’s View

Krebs on Security

The event Sager and I spoke at was prior to the publication of Bloomberg Businessweek ‘s controversial story alleging that Supermicro had duped almost 30 companies into buying backdoored hardware. Tony Sager (TS): The federal government has been worrying about this kind of problem for decades.

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