The Security Ledger

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

In this episode of the podcast, #119: Electronic Frontier Foundation General Counsel Kurt Opsahl joins us to talk about the Coders’ Rights Project. Also: we speak with Senthil Ramakrishnan, a lead member of AT&T’s IoT Security group about that company’s plans to work with Ericsson to certify the security of IoT devices.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

It’s been an active week for security vulnerabilities, with MITRE and the U.S. Meanwhile, MITRE and the Hardware CWE Special Interest Group (SIG) published a list of dangerous hardware weaknesses, with the goal of raising awareness and preventing major security issues. The full MITRE-CWE list.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 26, 2020

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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Security Affairs

JULY 18, 2019

Cyber security expert Marco Ramilli explains the difficulties for scraping the ‘TOR networks’ and how to enumerate hidden-services with s crapers. For example bots pushing “interesting links” back online even after months of inactivity. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2020

.” Alex Holden , founder and CTO of Hold Security , agreed. For example, reshipping scams have over the years become easier for both reshipping mule operators and the mules themselves. “Reshipping is way up right now, but there are some complications,” he said.

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AIIM

OCTOBER 22, 2019

To a greater or lesser degree, most significant information management initiatives will involve a scanning capability to capture hard copy paper documents as electronic images. For example, the top right corner of a form may be a consistently structured customer address block. printed documents. Partial conversion. This is more cost?

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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. Conclusion.

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CILIP

DECEMBER 11, 2023

He gives an example from his early days at the Department for the Environment: “I remember in April 1986, I was on the library enquiry desk. David says that about half of the 55 government departments don’t have ministers, HMRC or OFGEN for example. But regulatory load quite often comes with other problems, like deadlines.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

I didn’t know either of them, but I have been writing about cryptography, security, and privacy for decades. 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. It made sense. Probably not.

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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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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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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. Wide-Scale Testing.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Group-IB security experts are warning about the increasing scammers’ activity during the Black Friday and Cyber Monday Sales. Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyber attacks, warns about the increasing scammers’ activity during the Black Friday and Cyber Monday Sales. Long Beach press conference.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

Related: How the Middle East has advanced mobile security regulations Over the past couple of decades, meaningful initiatives to improve online privacy and security, for both companies and consumers, incrementally gained traction in the tech sector and among key regulatory agencies across Europe, the Middle East and North America.

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Data Protector

AUGUST 17, 2020

Removing the UK from the decision-making structures of the EU should also result in the UK Government feeling able to update other privacy legislation, such as the outdated Privacy & Electronic Communications Regulations, without having to delay for years and years until EU countries managed to reach a political consensus on the way ahead.

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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. This might be, for example,the victim’s computer, a web page or a physical space in which documents were compromised. Several answered with some variation of ‘find out how it happened’.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 27, 2020

based cyber intelligence firm Hold Security has been monitoring the communications between and among a businesses ID theft gang apparently operating in Georgia and Florida but targeting businesses throughout the United States. For the past several months, Milwaukee, Wisc. ” PHANTOM OFFICES. ” RECYCLING VICTIMS.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

For example the theseus function is obfuscated with “divine terms”, one of my favorite was actually the following conditional branch: If pastorale / quetzalcoatl < 57 Then …, which actually was always true ! The infrastructure used in the attacks suggests the involvement of the cybercrime group TA505.

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Info Source

JULY 13, 2023

I have taken the example of the Brother ADS-4900W (shown below) as being fairly representative of the new emerging design of DMS scanners that are coming to market. Hardwired connections are seen as more secure! The key features of TWAIN DIRECT include: Secure, driverless scanning, multi-platform support.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

This means imaging the “art of the possible” for a new future using a cloud computing model to deliver transformative change. Gartner (2021) has two related definitions: Digital Transformation: “can refer to anything from IT modernization (for example, cloud computing), to digital optimization, to the invention of new digital business models.”

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

This means imagining the “art of the possible” for a new future using a cloud computing model to deliver transformative change. For example, once a health record has met the regulatory requirements, the record can be anonymized and kept for years for such purposes as medical research and predictive analytics.

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The Texas Record

AUGUST 23, 2018

Whether it’s creating and securing electronic records or establishing a process to capture records from social media sites, records managers often find themselves working closely with their Information Technology (IT) Departments. One example was, archives to records management are records of enduring value.

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 18, 2018

To see an example of how Early Data Assessment is conducted using our CloudNine platform, click here (requires BrightTalk account, which is free). On board computer systems in automobiles, Exif data in digital photos, GPS coordinates in Google maps are all examples of this type of data which has been used as evidence for years.

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Data Protection Report

DECEMBER 7, 2018

UPMC was filed by a group of employees of the University of Pittsburg Medical Center (“UPMC”), alleging a failure in data security resulted in a data breach and the theft of the personal and financial information of UPMC’s 62,000 employees.

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eDiscovery Daily

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Join us to hear examples of failures by a major medical center, a major financial institution, a large federal government agency, and a noted presidential advisor. Find out: How they really feel about security? Mobile Data Best Practices: Legal, Business, and Security Considerations. What innovation means to them?

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ForAllSecure

JULY 28, 2021

It is also known as the unlikely epicenter of a small but growing group of hackers. Welcome to the hacker mind in original podcast from for all secure, it's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. Today Jinja is known for its tourism. its whitewater rafting, kayaking, and quad biking.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 14, 2022

That’s why the Aerospace Village at DEF CON exists, to expose various groups of people to each other, and to collectively start to work on solving these problems before they negatively impact our lives. Could we hack into an airplane, for example. Or a satellite in space?

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Knudsen: My name is Jonathan Knutson, and I am a security researcher at synopsis. Give it, stuff that's hard to deal with, and then if it breaks, you can fix it, and it's more robust and more secure by the time you actually release it. In software security, a broker is something that gathers and reports information.

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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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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

Naturally, database vendors are leading providers of database security tools, and a growing number of cloud-based database providers are moving deeper into the data security space. Security is paramount. Starting our list of the top database security vendors is the multinational cloud computing company, Alibaba Cloud.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

For example, a simple system that has only an on off switch. 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. Lacking any formal computer training.

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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. Quantum computing attacks already present a real threat to existing standards, making the continued development of encryption pivotal for years to come. What is Encryption?

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

To pick just two recent examples of the latter, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation1 (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act2 (CCPA) both impose sweeping requirements on businesses with the aim of increasing consumers’ privacy and control over how their personal data is used. For example, in John B.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2019

Context: 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. Source: MISP Project ).

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2020

A simple example. This observation perfectly fits the public mainstream information which sees many security magazines and many vendors observing such an increment as well. Mostly spread over COVID#19 malspam for example: SecurityAffairs , BankInfoSecurity , ThreatPOST , FortiNet. Let’s assume we want to investigate LokiBot.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Analyzing how tactics , techniques and procedures of the Russia-linked APT28 cyberespionage group evolve over the time. APT28 is a well known Russian cyber espionage group attributed, with a medium level of confidence, to Russian military intelligence agency GRU (by CrowdStrike). As many groups are, APT28 is evolving over time.

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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. or “ AsAc Group ”. Background. On October 17th we disclosed the ‘MartyMcFly’ Threat ( Rif. Malicious Email. anchors-chain.com. Malicious email message. Attachment.

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