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Delta Electronics, a tech giants’ contractor, hit by Conti ransomware

Security Affairs

Delta Electronics, a Taiwanese contractor for multiple tech giants such as Apple, Dell, HP and Tesla, was hit by Conti ransomware. Taiwanese electronics manufacturing company Delta Electronics was hit by the Conti ransomware that took place this week.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in June 2021 – 9.8 million records breached

IT Governance

If you find yourself facing a cyber security disaster, IT Governance is here to help. million records breached appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. We found a comparatively low 9,780,931 breached records from publicly disclosed security incidents in June 2021.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in December 2020 – 148 million records breached

IT Governance

The post List of data breaches and cyber attacks in December 2020 – 148 million records breached appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. What else would you expect from the final month of 2020 than the highest number of publicly disclosed incidents we’ve ever recorded?

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EVRAZ operations in North America disrupted by Ryuk ransomware

Security Affairs

Computer systems at EVRAZ, a multinational vertically integrated steel making and mining company, have been hit by Ryuk ransomware. In most of the plants, manufacturing operations were shut down at most plants.

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#ModernDataMasters: Henrik Liliendahl, Chairman & CTO, Product Data Lake

Reltio

I got good grades in mathematics at school but it was an evening class in secondary school that I took in what was then called EDP (Electronic Data Processing) that got me started. We didn’t even have a computer at that school so the whole class was about things drawn on the blackboard. Then one day we had a trip to a larger college that actually had computers and I was hooked! I was educated in computer engineering but my first job was on the business side.

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European Commission proposes reinforcement of EU Cybersecurity rules

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

A DSP is an information society service that is an online marketplace, an online search engine or a cloud computing service. It is also clarified that data centre services other than cloud computing services are as well covered by the Directive and provides for a definition of this concept.

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The City of Durham shut down its network after Ryuk Ransomware attack

Security Affairs

Once it’s inside, Ryuk can spread across network servers through file shares to individual computers,” reads a post published by SBI. The City of Durham, North Carolina, was the last victim in order of time of the infamous Ryuk ransomware that infected its systems.

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US DoJ indicts Chinese hackers over state-sponsored cyber espionage

Security Affairs

The US Department of Justice charged two Chinese hackers for hacking numerous companies and government agencies in a dozen countries, US Indicts Two Chinese Government Hackers Over Global Hacking Campaign. aka Baobeilong, aka Zhang Jianguo, aka Atreexp, both nationals of the People’s Republic of China (China), with conspiracy to commit computer intrusions, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft was announced today.

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93 Percent of Legal Professionals Surveyed by Consilio Think AI Will Be Helpful to Legal: eDiscovery Trends

eDiscovery Daily

When you travel to Dallas for the Masters Conference (which is today) and forget your laptop charger, then make a trip to Best Buy to get a replacement — only to get back to the hotel and find out that the one you bought doesn’t fit your laptop (even though it listed the laptop manufacturer on the package) you wind up typing your blog post on the hotel computer in the Business Center. Analysis Electronic DiscoveryThe things I do to get a blog post out.

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Sopra Steria hit by the Ryuk ransomware gang

Security Affairs

A cyber attack was detected on the Sopra Steria computer network on the evening of October 20. French IT outsourcer Sopra Steria hit by ‘cyberattack’, Ryuk ransomware suspected.

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Different types of cyber attacks

IT Governance

Malware is designed to disrupt and gain unauthorised access to a computer system. Social engineering deceives and manipulates individuals into divulging sensitive information by convincing them to click malicious links or grant access to a computer, building or system. This is done via electronic communication, most commonly by email, and can inflict enormous damage on organisations. It then monitors your computer activity and collects personal information.

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Supply Chain Security 101: An Expert’s View

Krebs on Security

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. But even then there were people who saw where this was all going, and there were some pretty big government programs to look into it. Earlier this month I spoke at a cybersecurity conference in Albany, N.Y.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in May 2020 – 8.8 billion records breached

IT Governance

Wright County, MN, government notifies those affected by cyber attack (12,320). ATM manufacturer Diebold Nixdorf hit by ransomware attack (unknown). Advanced Computer Software Group exposed data of 190 law firms (10,000).

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Cybersecurity Risks of 5G – And How to Control Them

eSecurity Planet

Service providers and 5G-enabled device manufacturers both have critical roles to play in the success and sustainability of this wireless network rollout. Edge computing is the relatively new focus on traffic as close as possible to the client device and user.

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Mitsubishi Electric discloses data breach, media blame China-linked APT

Security Affairs

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.”

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GUEST ESSAY: The story behind how DataTribe is helping to seed ‘Cybersecurity Valley’ in Maryland

The Last Watchdog

Related: Port Covington cyber hub project gets underway That’s because Maryland is home to more than 40 government agencies with extensive cyber programs, including the National Security Agency, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Defense Information Systems Agency, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, USCYBERCOM, NASA and the Department of Defense’s Cyber Crime Center. There’s oil in the state of Maryland – “cyber oil.”

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Supply Chain Security is the Whole Enchilada, But Who’s Willing to Pay for It?

Krebs on Security

based tech firm to secretly embed tiny computer chips into electronic devices purchased and used by almost 30 different companies. based tech giant Supermicro was somehow caught up in a plan to quietly insert a rice-sized computer chip on the circuit boards that get put into a variety of servers and electronic components purchased by major vendors, allegedly including Amazon and Apple. Government. government be made only with components made here in the U.S.A.

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Part 1: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about understanding the business drivers?

ARMA International

This means imaging the “art of the possible” for a new future using a cloud computing model to deliver transformative change. DRM is used by publishers, manufacturers and IP owners for digital content and device monitoring” (Techopedia 2021). Abstract.

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Regulation of AI-Based Applications: The Inevitable New Frontier

AIIM

The scope of the harmful impacts AI algorithms was documented by the AI Now Institute 2019 Report : “ Litigating Algorithms, New Challenges to Government Use of Algorithmic Decision Systems. ” Bill, the California government will be left to its own devices and resources, which are already thinly spread. According to the 2019 IDC study of spending on Artificial Intelligence (AI), it's estimated to reach $35.8 billion in 2019 and is expected to double by 2022 to $ 79.2

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2019 end-of-year review part 1: January to June

IT Governance

IT Governance is closing out the year by rounding up 2019’s biggest information security stories. Many commenters were disappointed by the car manufacturer’s lack of transparency, as it refused to provide further details of the incident, including whether it was a ransomware attack.

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#ModernDataMasters: Henrik Liliendahl, Chairman & CTO, Product Data Lake

Reltio

I got good grades in mathematics at school but it was an evening class in secondary school that I took in what was then called EDP (Electronic Data Processing) that got me started. We didn’t even have a computer at that school so the whole class was about things drawn on the blackboard. Then one day we had a trip to a larger college that actually had computers and I was hooked! I was educated in computer engineering but my first job was on the business side.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Aerospace

ForAllSecure

Steve Luczynski and Matt Mayes join The Hacker Mind to talk about the importance of getting hackers, vendors, and the government to get together and work through problems. There are plenty of government people, a tradition going back to the very first DEF CON. Can you hack an airplane?

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Hacking The Hacker. Stopping a big botnet targeting USA, Canada and Italy

Security Affairs

Finally the de-packed payload presented many interesting features; for example, it was weaponized with evasion techniques such as: timing delay (through sleep ), loop delay by calling 9979141 times GetSystemTimeAsFileTime API, BIOS versioning harvesting, system manufacturer information and system fingerprinting to check if it was running on the virtual or physical environment. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Reverse Engineering Smart Meters

ForAllSecure

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. And I remember asking questions, who were the manufacturers?

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: A Hacker From Hollywood

ForAllSecure

They immediately submitted it to the US Navy, which rejected the US government immediately classified the technology; however, the Navy thought the mechanism proposed was too bulky to be incorporated on the average torpedo.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: DEF CON Villages

ForAllSecure

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. You know, you know, manufacturers aren't just one person, like, like big companies aren't one person. You really have to intentionally do something to your car before it really, really stops working and and what's great about like if you mess up your computer or some software on your computer, what do you do?

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Surviving Stalkerware

ForAllSecure

What role does technology play in facilitating intimate partner abuse? What role might the security industry have in identifying or even stopping it? Lodrina Cherne and Martijn Grooten join the The Hacker Mind podcast to discuss their Black Hat USA 2021 presentation.

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White House Proposes Cybersecurity Legislation

Hunton Privacy

If enacted, this legislation will affect many government and private-sector owners and operators of cyber systems, including all critical infrastructure, such as energy, financial systems, manufacturing, communications and transportation. Companies that seek to share information with the government would need to make reasonable efforts to remove any identifying information unrelated to cyber threats.

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Broadcast or communicate? | ZDNet

Collaboration 2.0

Take a manufacturing firm operating on a just in time philosophy. Direct communication in the USA hasnt been a relationship killer in the USA Think Direct communication lends itself to electronic communication but not necessarily to email.