The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 24, 2023

In an ideal world, cybersecurity analysts would get legitimate daily reports on improving a company’s security. Scammers now routinely spray out fake bug reports designed to take advantage of the naiveite and/or lack of vigilance of security analysts in the field. Security analysts should be on high alert.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) has arrested a hacker who controlled a DDoS botnet composed of 100,000 devices that was available for rent. He found customers on closed forums and in Telegram chats, and made payments to “customers” through electronic payment systems banned in Ukraine. Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Application security is the practice of securing software and data from hackers, whether that application comes from a third party or was developed in house, regardless of where it resides or how it’s accessed. How Does Application Security Work? What Are the Types of Application Security?

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 7, 2021

Nicholas Weaver , a lecturer at the computer science department at University of California, Berkeley, said the court document system doesn’t hold documents that are classified for national security reasons. “Due to the nature of the attacks, the review of this matter and its impact is ongoing.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2023

If the attack will be confirmed the disclosure of confidential information pose a serious risk to organizations involved in the contracts. HENSOLDT is a company specializing in military and defense electronics. The group claims to have stolen Military contracts, internal call signs and personal data, for a total of 1.6 TB of data.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 26, 2021

The Future of Payments Security. Even when banking organizations are upgrading security posture to safeguard sensitive financial information, hackers can steal the data intelligently by tying known vulnerabilities together, and making it turn out to be a potential attack. Securing digital transactions. Tue, 01/26/2021 - 09:17.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 31, 2023

The European Commission enacted the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), while in Singapore, the Monetary Authority published an advisory for addressing technology and cyber risks. The circular outlines nine principles and requirements for REs to consider when adopting cloud computing.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Abstract: Voters are understandably concerned about election security. Finally, we suggest questions for critically assessing security risks of new voting system proposals. You may have heard of Voatz, which uses blockchain for voting.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 5, 2024

Many industries rely on high-performance computing (HPC) to achieve this goal. For example, HPC offers high levels of computational power and scalability, crucial for running performance-intensive workloads. In the era of gen AI and hybrid cloud, IBM Cloud® HPC brings the computing power organizations need to thrive.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

State Auto Property and Casualty Insurance Company , finding coverage for a cyber attack under a non-cyber insurance policy after the insured’s server and networked computer system were damaged as a result of a ransomware attack. In response, National Ink hired a security company to replace its software and to install protective software.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The European Union is poised to place more demands on manufacturers to design greater security into their wireless and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. has made some strides on IoT security at the federal level; it remains to be seen if the EU initiative will spur the U.S. Common EU Security Standards. IoT Security Neglected.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2022

men with computer crimes related to their alleged ownership of the popular DDoS-for-hire services. Miller was charged this week with conspiracy and violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). The DOJ also charged six U.S. The booter service OrphicSecurityTeam[.]com com and royalstresser[.]com Defendant Angel Manuel Colon Jr.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 29, 2022

Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) released guidance to help covered entities understand how they can use remote communication technologies for audio-only telehealth in compliance with the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules (the “Guidance”).

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Department of Homeland Security hastily assembled a conference call with healthcare industry executives warning about an “imminent cybercrime threat to U.S. ” The warning came less than 24 hours after this author received a tip from Alex Holden , founder of Milwaukee-based cyber intelligence firm Hold Security.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 31, 2021

Use cases of secure IoT deployment. In our previous blog post , we discussed the challenges for securing IoT deployments, and how businesses and consumers benefit from authenticating and validating IoT software and firmware updates. Tue, 06/01/2021 - 06:55. Use case 1: Fortune 500 Healthcare Company.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

We introduced IBM Cloud for Financial Services , which includes an ecosystem of partner banks including BNP Paribas and CaixaBank, to help clients as they work to mitigate risk, address regulations, navigate their compliance and accelerate cloud adoption. In just a few years, we have helped some of the world’s leading banks transform.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2018

alongside Tony Sager , senior vice president and chief evangelist at the Center for Internet Security and a former bug hunter at the U.S. National Security Agency. Tony Sager, senior vice president and chief evangelist at the Center for Internet Security. TS: Like a lot of things in security, the economics always win.

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Data Matters

OCTOBER 29, 2018

FERC also used the rule to direct NERC to expand scope of the Reliability Standards so that they covered Electronic Access Control and Monitoring Systems (“EACMS”) associated with medium and high impact bulk electric system (“BES”) Cyber Systems. Procedural History.

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Armstrong Archives

AUGUST 25, 2023

Some of the data that it covers are: Electronic health records Billing details Health insurance information The Importance of Compliance There are severe consequences to not abiding by the HIPAA rules. For example, if a hospital’s computer system isn’t regularly updated, it can be more vulnerable to security and cyber attacks.

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 1, 2023

We are bringing the power of foundation models with the availability of a GPU as a service on IBM Cloud offering to help organizations tap into artificial intelligence (AI) in a secured environment while aiming to mitigate third- and fourth-party risk.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 9, 2018

You often see people use the terms ‘ cyber security ’ and ‘ information security ’ interchangeably. Information security. You’re most likely to access data on your work computer or via paper records, but information can also be found on removable disks, laptops, servers, personal devices and a host of other places.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The case arose from a data breach in which criminals accessed UPMC’s computer systems and stole the personal and financial information of 62,000 current and former UPMC employees. In other words, the duty was presumed due to UPMC’s alleged risk-causing conduct. The court explained that it was not creating a new, affirmative duty.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Related: How Multi Party Computation is disrupting encrypti on An accomplished violinist, Einstein, no doubt, appreciated the symmetry of his metaphor. Simply put, iO must be achieved in order to preserve privacy and security while tapping into the next generation of IT infrastructure.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Expert opinion on US surveillance laws highlights FISA risk for data transfers to the US. Vladeck, a professor at the University of Texas School of Law and expert in US national security law, states in the opinion that the scope of companies to which Section 702 potentially applies is broader than commonly thought.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JANUARY 26, 2023

NIS2 replaces the Directive on Security of Network and Information Systems (“ NIS Directive ”) and introduces a number of changes, including bringing more sectors and services under the scope of the NIS rules and introducing an updated (and more stringent) regime of security obligations and incident notice requirements.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Earlier this month, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights issued guidance (the “Guidance”) for HIPAA-covered entities that use cloud computing services involving electronic protected health information (“ePHI”). should consider the risks associated with the country where the cloud server is located.

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

On December 3, 2018, twelve attorneys general (“AGs”) jointly filed a data breach lawsuit against Medical Informatics Engineering and its subsidiary, NoMoreClipboard LLC (collectively “the Company”), an electronic health records company, in federal district court in Indiana. See Indiana v. Informatics Eng’g, Inc. , 3:18-cv-00969 (N.D.

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The Security Ledger

MARCH 26, 2021

In this week’s Security Ledger Podcast, sponsored by Trusted Computing Group, we’re talking about securing the hardware supply chain. We’re joined by Michael Mattioli, a Vice President at Goldman Sachs who heads up that organization’s hardware supply chain security program. Read the whole entry. »

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Intelligent computing systems have been insinuating themselves into our homes and public gathering places for a while now. The good news is that there is some very deep, behind-the-scenes research and development work being done to make driverless vehicles safe and secure enough for public acceptance. Deep testing.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In the early afternoon of Friday 12 May 2017, the media broke the news of a global computer security attack carried out through a malicious code capable of encrypting data residing in information systems and demanding a ransom in cryptocurrency to restore them, the Wannacry ransomware. What should we learn from this?

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Data Protection Report

JUNE 28, 2023

This briefing looks at the Regulator’s draft General Code and its recent statement in response to a highly publicised pensions data breach and sets out some actions trustees should consider taking to protect their schemes from this increasing risk. Cybersecurity – why is it essential? The introduction of a virus or malware.

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AIIM

MARCH 4, 2021

Whether paper or electronic, records are often created and related to other records - for example, all personnel files. The bottom line is that by capturing a document, it allows the organization to manage the digital asset much more effectively than if it is simply retained on a file share or on users’ computers. Capturing Value.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JANUARY 11, 2021

On 16 December 2020, the European Commission adopted a proposal for a Directive on measures for a high common level of cybersecurity across the Union (“NIS II Directive”) that revises the current Directive on Security of Network and Information Systems (“NIS Directive”). see also our previous blogpost on the NIS Directive).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

This is done through deep learning methodologies such as the Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) i.e., a group of neural network models for machine learning, deputed to teach computers how to process information by emulating the human brain. He is also the author of the book “La Gestione della Cyber Security nella Pubblica Amministrazione”.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. The 911 service as it exists today.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

It’s been an active week for security vulnerabilities, with MITRE and the U.S. 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 full MITRE-CWE list.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 4, 2022

Yet even as technology has changed, sending and receiving data remains a major vulnerability, ensuring encryption’s place as a foundational security practice. This adds a vital extra layer of security. The advent of quantum computing has given them far more juice to crack traditional encryption methods.

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