Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2020

COVID-19 themed attacks October 1 – December 5, 2020 Drug dealers are selling Pfizer COVID vaccines on the darkweb LockBit Ransomware operators hit Swiss helicopter maker Kopter Police arrest two people over stealing sensitive data from defense giant A ransomware attack hit the Greater Baltimore Medical Center Cisco fixes exploitable RCEs in Cisco (..)

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

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 groups encourage both professionals and consumers to ask suppliers to provide more secure hardware. MITRE Takes on Hardware Vulnerabilities.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2018

to more than 6,000 customers, he also helped them to hack computers worldwide. LuminosityLink, that Grubbs knew would be used by some customers to remotely access and control their victims’ computers without the victims’ knowledge or consent. Our modern society is dependent on computers, mobile devices, and the use of the internet.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

The Shamoon “wiper” virus , for instance, devastated Saudi oil company Aramaco, destroying the hard drives of more than 30,000 Aramaco computers and forcing a weeklong shutdown of the company’s internal network. A few months later the UAE stood up its National Electronic Security Authority (NESA) which proceeded to do much the same thing.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 30, 2021

The project now boasts 16 associate partners, including Emsisoft, Trend Micro, Bitdefender, Avast, Bleeping Computer, Cisco, Check Point, Tesorion, McAfee, ESET, CERT_PL, Eleven Paths, KISA, the French Police, and F-Secure. “The threat group has been very active since the release of Grief in the middle of May 2021,” they write.

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Data Protection Report

AUGUST 9, 2018

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) held public briefings about an attempt by a state-sponsored Russian hacking group to target control systems for U.S. DHS’ webinar explained that the hackers obtained access to vendors providing computer services to electric utilities companies. electrical grids and power plants.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 4, 2021

aw (unknown). Ransomware.

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 6, 2020

As always for the cases we did cover, we grouped them into common subject themes and will review them over the next few posts. PASSWORDS AND FIFTH AMENDMENT PROTECTION. Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules that Forcing Provision of Computer Password Violates the Fifth Amendment : In Commonwealth v.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 27, 2019

The site’s security team suspected that users were being targeted in a credential-stuffing attack; this is where cyber criminals use a list of stolen usernames and passwords en masse to break into an account. Worse, they changed the email address associated with the account, preventing them from resetting their password.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. Penchukov was arrested after leaving Ukraine to meet up with his wife in Switzerland.

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 10, 2019

The lawsuit alleges that Fort Wayne-based Medical Informatics Engineering and its subsidiary NoMoreClipboard “failed to take adequate and reasonable measures to ensure their computer systems were protected,” resulting in a 2015 breach that gave hackers access to the personal healthcare information of 3.9 million US citizens.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 22, 2022

KrebsOnSecurity recently reviewed a copy of the private chat messages between members of the LAPSUS$ cybercrime group in the week leading up to the arrest of its most active members last month. But LAPSUS$ also used private Telegram channels that were restricted to the core seven members of the group.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2022

So had their passwords and account PIN and secret questions. Both had used password managers to pick and store complex, unique passwords for their accounts. The experiment was done from a different computer and Internet address than the one that created the original account years ago.

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 9, 2018

We grouped those cases into common subject themes and will review them over the next few posts. Today, let’s take a look back at cases related to possession, custody and control, subpoena of cloud provider data, waiver of privilege and the first part of the cases relating to sanctions and spoliation. Perhaps you missed some of these?

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

Quantum computing attacks already present a real threat to existing standards, making the continued development of encryption pivotal for years to come. Cryptology is the overarching field of study related to writing and solving codes, whereas encryption and decryption are the central processes driving the computer science discipline.

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IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2020

Outsourcing group Interserve is recovering after hackers steal employee data (100,000). Discord client hit by Trojan that grabs passwords and user tokens (unknown). Arbonne MLM data breach exposes users’ passwords (3,527). Attackers leak data from global logistics company Toll Group after ransomware infection (unknown).

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

retail giant Target was battling a wide-ranging computer intrusion that compromised more than 40 million customer payment cards over the previous month. When ChronoPay’s internal emails were leaked in 2010, the username and password for its MegaPlan subscription were still working and valid.

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IT Governance

MARCH 5, 2024

Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Millions of Pure Incubation Ventures records listed on hacking forum 183,754,481 records apparently belonging to the venture capital and private equity group Pure Incubation Ventures have been listed for sale on a hacking forum. The claim is yet to be verified.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

Contest: 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. The icap.py

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Anyone who has used a computer for any significant length of time has probably at least heard of malware. This can include programs with which the hacker can disable security software, install keyloggers, or steal sensitive information like passwords or credit card details. Need More Intel on Rootkits?

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

Starting our list of the top database security vendors is the multinational cloud computing company, Alibaba Cloud. Born from e-commerce giant Alibaba Group in Hangzhou, China, the cloud services provider offers content delivery networks (CDN), data storage, and relational database management in a scalable infrastructure.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 10, 2021

That’s perhaps because of a dedicated group of hackers who are working to improve automotive security. The point here is that we aren't used to thinking about our cars as computing devices, and yet they are if common thieves are using laptops and mobile devices to gain access to them. And in a moment you'll hear from one.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

In particular, I think if technology, one Office group, not one of this group is, I believe survivors and I think that's a responsibility to totally understand the impact of our technology. Who else has access to something that's, that's not uncommon, interviewed that, for example, someone still had someone share Facebook passwords.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

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. It was all this discovery on the internet that brought me to it. You need to physically obtain a smart meter.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Cerf has chaired, formed, and participated in countless working groups, governing bodies, and scientific, technological, and academic organizations. Is there a moment in the history of computing that is as significant as the one we’re in now? And that has been the workhorse of the design of computer chips for years and years.

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