IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

And, of course, on 25 May the GDPR came into effect. This was the maximum penalty available under the DPA 1998 and was the largest fine the ICO had issued to date – although it had, of course, announced its intention to fine Facebook the same amount following the Cambridge Analytica scandal. million customers worldwide.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

Virtual private networks (VPNs): Secure remote user or branch office access to network resources through encrypted connections to firewalls or server applications. Apply encryption protocols and other security measures to connections between computers. Communication protocols (TCP, HTTPS, etc.):

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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

MAY 30, 2023

” Over the next few weeks, chats from encrypted Telegram, and other communications were leaked. And so, a lot of times once the encryption occurs, that's really the final stage. They found what they believed to be sensitive data and then they perform the encryption. Of the of the incident. What's the first step?

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Observers do, however, have a pretty good idea who was behind the NotPetya attack because several governments, including the United States and the United Kingdom, issued coordinated statements blaming the Russian military. There are a number of ways this data could be collected.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 19, 2021

There is of course a lot of security around these digital releases, for example, there's watermarks, digital certificates, and even keys at the code, the encrypted copies of the films in specific theaters for specific periods of time. Yet, somewhere in China. When digital production servers slipped through the cracks.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

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. Of course, there were some guesses and backward steps there too, as well. There's a caveat to this of course because they essentially elongate the use of passwords still. Lewis: Good.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

Failure to pay, and your data is encrypted forever. Of course I was nine, I knew nothing about how it worked, I would just watch him do it, and really want to get more into it. So then when I was the same age as he was so I called her so I started doing this, Stanford course as well just all the lectures were up on YouTube.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

Failure to pay, and your data is encrypted forever. Of course I was nine, I knew nothing about how it worked, I would just watch him do it, and really want to get more into it. So then when I was the same age as he was so I called her so I started doing this, Stanford course as well just all the lectures were up on YouTube.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 27, 2021

Included with that question was an encrypted text file which John downloaded then wrote a simple python script to decrypt it. When he did that, the encrypted text resolved as a nonsense clear text phrase about “Leon is a programmer who aspires to create programs that help people do less.” So, that’s the military.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 27, 2021

Included with that question was an encrypted text file which John downloaded then wrote a simple python script to decrypt it. When he did that, the encrypted text resolved as a nonsense clear text phrase about “Leon is a programmer who aspires to create programs that help people do less.” So, that’s the military.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 6, 2022

Mikko Hypponen joins The Hacker Mind to discuss cybercrime unicorns, the fog of cyber war that surrounds the Ukrainian war with its much larger neighbor, and of course Mikko’s new book, If it’s Smart, it’s Vulnerable. BBC: Well as Ukrainian military battles Russian troops on the ground there's another battle taking place.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

I worked at NSA both as a contractor and in the military for about 15 years, building those implants, building these exploits to do some of these attacks that we are currently talking about. And of course, hackers use that to do nefarious things, but by default, in most situations, macros are disabled. Vamosi: So it's interesting.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Should law enforcement and military officials have access to a digital backdoor enabling them to bypass any and all types of encryption that exist today? We know how Vladmir Putin, Xi Jinping and Kim Jung-un would answer: “Of course!”. LW: What is ‘encryption key escrow’ and how does it fit into this debate?

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 16, 2021

Bitskrieg gives substance to, and connects the dots between, a couple of assertions that have become axiomatic: •Military might no longer has primacy. It used to be the biggest, loudest weapons prevailed and prosperous nations waged military campaigns to achieve physically measurable gains. There is no easy answer, of course.

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