Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 21, 2017

My sense is that data leaks appear to be growing exponentially due to the increasing rate of data being stored in the cloud. And of course, we can’t forget about Uber, who was in the news twice for major data breaches. On both occasions Uber left its encryption keys on GitHub, which in part led to the breach.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A new data leak that appears to have come from one of China’s top private cybersecurity firms provides a rare glimpse into the commercial side of China’s many state-sponsored hacking groups. In 2021, the Sichuan provincial government named i-SOON as one of “the top 30 information security companies.”

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Internal Revenue Service website for months: Anyone seeking to create an account to view their tax records online would soon be required to provide biometric data to a private company in Virginia — ID.me. Super Bowl Sunday watchers are treated to no fewer than a half-dozen commercials for cryptocurrency investing.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

A network monitoring company for the federal government and other large companies, Solar Winds, had been breached. And then the tools are used by government entities and accruals are used by big industries and it's one of the more popular and robust packages out there. Now, our government.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

A network monitoring company for the federal government and other large companies, Solar Winds, had been breached. And then the tools are used by government entities and accruals are used by big industries and it's one of the more popular and robust packages out there. Now, our government.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 18, 2018

This week, we discuss data breaches at the US Department of Defense and the UK’s Ministry of Defence, and the cost of WannaCry to the NHS. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 19 October. Cyber security is a concern for all governments. Here are this week’s stories.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

But perhaps in response to the public outcry over the HSE disruption, Conti reversed course and gave the HSE the decryption keys without requiring payment. The HSE ultimately enlisted members of the Irish military to bring in laptops and PCs to help restore computer systems by hand.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

You might not think of it as a major aspect of security and yet, stolen credentials are really the key to data breaches today. For example, here’s Jerry Lewis in a scene from a 1950s film, where he’s trying to break into a Nazi German military base. Fact is, we’ve long had passwords as a credential.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

Vamosi: Whenever there's a data breach, a ransomware attack, large security event in general, I would like to learn something about how it happened. Kyle was doing this for the government, doing this for the good of a nation. Often someone from the government has a great idea for a commercial product. So interesting.

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KnowBe4

MAY 2, 2023

In 2018, the UK government stated that they believed the Kremlin was responsible for a hoax call made to the Foreign Secretary at the time, Boris Johnson. We Are Always Adding New Breaches) Your users are your largest attack surface. Data breaches are getting larger and more frequent. It's often an eye-opening discovery.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Experts often say that it only takes one negligent employee to cause a data breach. It’s often not enough to rely on employees memorising the guidance from staff awareness training courses. Of course, the introduction of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) has helped change their tune. million (about £1.8

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