Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) warned of a new cyber espionage campaign carried out by the Russia-linked group APT28 (aka “ Forest Blizzard ”, “ Fancybear ” or “ Strontium ”). CERT-UA discovered multiple phishing attacks aimed at government organizations between December 15 and December 25.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Cyber attacks hit the Assembly of the Republic of Albania and telecom company One Albania, a government agency reported. Albania’s National Authority for Electronic Certification and Cyber Security (AKCESK) revealed that cyber attacks hit the Assembly of the Republic of Albania and telecom company One Albania.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In September 2022, Albania blamed Iran for another cyberattack that hit computer systems used by the state police. The cyberattack hit the servers of the National Agency for Information Society (AKSHI), which handles many government services. The United States government issued a statement condemning Iran for attacking Albania.

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AIIM

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

GDPR and the Data Governance Imperative. The Changing Nature of Personally Identifiable Information. Compliance with the accountability principle implies having better visibility to the data, how it is collected and processed and the steps taken to minimize the amount of personal information collected. Want more information?

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2022

e-Estonia refers to a movement by the government of Estonia to facilitate citizen interactions with the state through the use of electronic solutions. The head of Estonia’s computer emergency response team, Tonu Tammer, told AFP the attacks hit the websites of local authorities, including the police and the government.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Electronics retail giant MediaMarkt was hit by a ransomware attack that disrupted store operations in the Netherlands and Germany. Media Markt is a German multinational chain of stores selling consumer electronics with over 1000 stores in Europe. ” reported the local outlet RTLNieuws.

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Security Affairs

JULY 5, 2022

The police searched the home of the suspects and seized computer equipment, mobile phones, bank cards, and money obtained through the illicit activities. The post Cyber Police of Ukraine arrested 9 men behind phishing attacks on Ukrainians attempting to capitalize on the ongoing conflict appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2021

The Ministry of Labor and Social Economy has been affected by a computer attack. “The computer attack that the Ministry of Labor and Social Economy has suffered has NOT affected the operation of the State Public Employment Service,” SEPE said. pic.twitter.com/ZlpRvCV6iB — SEPE (@empleo_SEPE) June 9, 2021.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2022

North Korean nation-state actors used Maui ransomware to encrypt servers providing healthcare services, including electronic health records services, diagnostics services, imaging services, and intranet services. The authorities will also pay for information about past hacking campaigns. At the time, the U.S. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. Russian threat actors employed a new ransomware family called Somnia in attacks against multiple organizations in Ukraine.

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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. ” Once compromised the networks of the targeted agencies, hackers gathered sensitive information from internal systems. “Mail-O is a downloader program that accesses the Mail.ru

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Lenny Zeltser

JUNE 2, 2018

Information security? Computer security, perhaps? If we examine the factors that influence our desire to use one security title over the other, we’ll better understand the nature of the industry and its driving forces. Are you in cybersecurity? Yet, the term cybersecurity is growing in popularity.

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

A face recognition search will typically result in one or more most likely candidates—or candidate images—ranked by computer-evaluated similarity or will return a negative result.”.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The news is quite curious, the US military will no longer use 8-inch floppy disks in an antiquated computer (SACCS) to manage nuclear weapons arsenal. The use of 8-inch floppy disks was also confirmed by a report published by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO). “Any electronic repair is going to take a lot of work.

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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.

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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. I tried to talk to Greenwald about his own operational security.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2020

On January 28th, Indonesia’s Ministry of Communication and Information Technology announced that the final draft for the Personal Data Protection Act has been submitted to the president of Indonesia. The PDP Draft Law is now sitting with the House of Representatives and other concerned government officials. General personal data v.

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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. Security measures have been taken to limit the risk of propagation.” ” reads the press release published by the company. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

An advertising on the ExoStresser website (exostress.in) said that the booter service alone had launched 1,367,610 DDoS attacks, and caused targeted victim computer systems to suffer 109,186.4 The man was sentenced on one count of conspiracy to cause damage to internet-connected computers for launching millions of DDoS attacks.

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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. No longer might UK privacy pros feel obliged to wait for the publication of weirdly worded EDPB opinions.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 22, 2010

Microsoft is urging Congress and the information technology industry to act now to ensure that cloud computing is guided by an international commitment to privacy, security and transparency for consumers, businesses and government.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2020

Once it’s inside, Ryuk can spread across network servers through file shares to individual computers,” reads a post published by SBI. . “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.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 8 December 2017. The chief executive of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre, Ciaran Martin, has warned senior civil servants about using Russian antivirus (AV) software in government departments. Here are this week’s stories. Including interns on exchange programmes.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Bleeping Computer, citing a source in the cybersecurity industry, confirmed that Steelcase suffered a Ryuk ransomware attack. The company immediately started the incident response procedure in an attempt to restore the affected systems and return to normal operations as soon as possible.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 30, 2019

The governments of Germany and The Netherlands agreed to build the first-ever joint military Internet, so-called TEN (Tactical Edge Networking). Government officials from Germany and the Netherlands signed an agreement for the building of the first-ever joint military Internet, so-called TEN (Tactical Edge Networking).

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 4, 2019

Within these government labs and agencies, taking place is a groundswell of innovation in deep technology cyber disciplines to the tune of billions of dollars annually over the past three decades. Kleiner was the founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Perkins was an early Hewlett-Packard computer division manager.)

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The group is charges of violations of the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act and Electronic Communications Privacy Act; federal trademark infringement, dilution, and false designation of origin; cyber squatting; com mon law trespass to chattels; unjust enrichment; conversion; intentional interference with contracts. 27 in the U.S.

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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. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. I do have a MD in computer engineering and a PhD on computer security from University of Bologna.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2020

Police conducted searches of the suspects’ residences and offices and seized more than $ 200,000 worth of computer equipment, weapons, ammunition and cash. The cyber agents found digital evidence of criminal activity of the suspects on the seized equipment. “According to this fact, a criminal case under Part 2 of Art.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2020

Mitsubishi Electric had also already notified members of the Japanese government and Ministry of Defense. “An internal survey found that computers and servers at headquarters and major sites were subject to numerous unauthorized accesses.” ” reported the Asahi Shimbun. ” reported the Asahi Shimbun.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 21, 2015

On October 8, 2015, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (“CalECPA”). The government also must obtain a warrant before requiring a business to produce an individual’s electronic information.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”) has issued draft Guidelines on Security and Privacy in Public Cloud Computing (SP 800-144) (the “Guidelines”) for public comment. Ensure that the client-side computing environment meets organizational security and privacy requirements for cloud computing.

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IT Governance

MAY 3, 2018

Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 4 May 2018. Bleeping Computer reports that “Voits used email spear-phishing and telephone social-engineering to trick Washtenaw County Jail employees into downloading and running malware on their computers.”. Fourth of may be with you. Or something like that.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2019

I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. I do have a MD in computer engineering and a PhD on computer security from University of Bologna. I do have experience on security testing since I have been performing penetration testing on several US electronic voting systems.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

The group has targeted a variety of industries, including financial, government, energy, chemical, and telecommunications, and has largely focused its operations within the Middle East. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. About the author: Marco Ramilli, Founder of Yoroi.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2019

I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. I do have a MD in computer engineering and a PhD on computer security from University of Bologna. I do have experience on security testing since I have been performing penetration testing on several US electronic voting systems.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2023

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