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Compal, the Taiwanese giant laptop manufacturer hit by ransomware

Security Affairs

The Taiwanese electronics manufacture Compal suffered a ransomware attack over the weekend, media blames the DoppelPaymer ransomware gang. It is the second-largest contract laptop manufacturer in the world behind Quanta Computer. “According to the Internet PTT, 30% of the computers have been hit. .

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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. There are plenty of cases where the extent of a breach isn’t known until the information resurfaces years later (as you might recall from Yahoo’s security meltdown ).

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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. Puerto Rico and the U.S. Finally, the proposal also seeks to address privacy protection issues.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: DEF CON Villages

ForAllSecure

Anyone who has anyone in the information security community is usually melting under the hot Nevada sun. 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. We're breathing, the mid afternoon monsoons, and from one year there even grasshoppers.