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Snatch gang claims the hack of the Department of Defence South Africa

Security Affairs

Snatch gang claims the hack of the Department of Defence South Africa and added the military organization to its leak site. The Snatch ransomware group added the Department of Defence South Africa to its data leak site. The group claims to have stolen Military contracts, internal call signs and personal data, for a total of 1.6

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MY TAKE: Why security innovations paving the way for driverless cars will make IoT much safer

The Last Watchdog

Intelligent computing systems have been insinuating themselves into our homes and public gathering places for a while now. Driverless autos, trucks and military transport vehicles are on a fast track for wide deployment in the next five years. military and intelligence agencies. Lifecycle risks. aka the MEDC.

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Snowden Ten Years Later

Schneier on Security

This was before David Miranda, Greenwald’s partner, was detained at Heathrow airport by the UK authorities; but even without that, I knew there was a risk. So would the FBI breaking into my home and seizing my personal electronics. Transferring files electronically is what encryption is for. Very probably. Definitely.

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On Open Platforms, Wifi, Home Automation, and Kitty Litter

John Battelle's Searchblog

Another wonderful example is the Global Positioning System (GPS), once the realm only of the United States military, but now the driver of countless commercial opportunities around the globe (again thanks to decisions made during the Clinton administration). Comcast has no say in the matter ( so far ). They were right.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Aerospace

ForAllSecure

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. Steve Grobman, CTO with Intel’s security group had this to say: CNBC: Yeah, so I think that nothing is ever impossible.

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

IT Governance

Outsourcing group Interserve is recovering after hackers steal employee data (100,000). Russian military accessed Chancellor Angela Merkel’s emails in 2015 hack (unknown). Students and children at risk after Mathway credentials stolen (25 million). Advanced Computer Software Group exposed data of 190 law firms (10,000).

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Mayhem Moves To Production With The Department Of Defense

ForAllSecure

As a young professor, I spent 4 weeks every summer visiting these sites as part of the (unremarkably named) Computer Science Study Group , a research program run by DARPA and the Institute for Defense Analysis. Did I also mention that they let me take MILAIR (Military Aircraft Transportation)? Special operations command.