John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Examples include identity (from driver’s licenses and SSNs to Visa, MasterCard, Amex, and Facebook), delivery of important information and items (from the Post Office to Telcos, Internet, and FedEx and UPS), and protection (outsourcing both prisons and military jobs to private companies). Very interesting.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

In 2020, the United States brought charges against four men accused of building a bulletproof hosting empire that once dominated the Russian cybercrime industry and supported multiple organized cybercrime groups. All four pleaded guilty to conspiracy and racketeering charges. info — using the email address icamis@4host.info.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 20, 2023

He is truly a luminary in the development of the cybersecurity industry, but mostly, Kevin was just a wonderful human being and he will be dearly missed.” military systems and launch nuclear missiles through mere whistling. government to track down offenders or impose punishments. Mitnick’s Legacy The U.S.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

( image ) As I begin to dig into the work of my next book, I’ve found myself thinking about politics and government far more than I anticipated. For initial thoughts and stats, see Government By Numbers: Some Interesting Insights ). There, our identity is not managed by the government. Some do ask for our SSN, of course.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2020

The researchers also analyzed the distribution of the vulnerable hosts by industry and discovered that the flaw affects hosts in: According to BadPacket, 677 out of the 913 unique IP addresses found in the list were detected by Bad Packets CTI scans to be vulnerable to CVE-2019-11510 immediately after the exploit was made public in 2019.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Driverless autos, trucks and military transport vehicles are on a fast track for wide deployment in the next five years. military and intelligence agencies. These ubiquitous building blocks are shared across a lot of different industries,” Demuth says. “So Get ready for smart ground transportation. Deep testing.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 21, 2021

There are, of course, many nuances to the discussion. Thirdly and finally, it's up to organisations to self-govern. Now, keep in mind that Ashley Madison's mission statement back then was the same as it still is today: "Life is short.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JUNE 6, 2023

He has a deep background in consumer and enterprise products used by hundreds of millions of people, as well as exposure to government policy, across technology areas including security, identity, privacy, and e-commerce.” We’ll get into all of that, but first, the product. Sure, it’s cool to have a copy on my own device, in my control.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Experts say the leak illustrates how Chinese government agencies increasingly are contracting out foreign espionage campaigns to the nation’s burgeoning and highly competitive cybersecurity industry. In 2021, the Sichuan provincial government named i-SOON as one of “the top 30 information security companies.”

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AIIM

MARCH 13, 2018

Of course, this was all back around 1995 -- about the time I joined AIIM -- and family research was a far different kettle of fish than it is now. In 1995, if I was going to find this Civil War fellow, it meant a personal trip to the National Archives through the microfilmed military records. Give our new course a look.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Fortinet brushes off DDoS claims Despite going viral, a story that 3 million electric toothbrushes were hacked and used as a botnet to conduct DDoS (distributed-denial-of-service) attacks is, of course, untrue. of the PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) is being retired on 31 March, to be replaced by version 4.0

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 14, 2022

Steve Luczynski and Matt Mayes join The Hacker Mind to talk about the importance of getting hackers, vendors, and the government to get together and work through problems. ” The event, which was captured on video and also reported in Wired magazine, sent a message to the automotive industry. I'm Robert Vamosi.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 30, 2022

The governments of the world wanted the quick and agile minds of children who could think three dimensional -- and without all that moralizing about killing, you know, space aliens. And it could be somebody like a target, it could be a bank, it could be a municipality, like the city of New York, or it could be the US military.

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KnowBe4

MARCH 28, 2023

In a statement by Xavier Chango, the National Head of Forensic Science, "It's a military-type explosive, but very small capsules." Per the Ecuadorian government, these attacks were fueled by attempts to intimidate the media. That, of course, is the opposite of what will happen." This is where social engineering starts.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

And it's known for having the stalwarts of the Internet industry represented as well - leaders from Google, Twitter, Yahoo, AOL, Newscorp, and Microsoft will also be there. Those images are, of course, digital. Of course it is. Far and away, he said, the company's largest customer is the US Government. Is it possible?

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

After Merck filed its $700 million claim, the pharmaceutical giant’s insurers argued that they were not required to cover the malware’s damage because the cyberattack was widely attributed to the Russian government and therefore was excluded from standard property and casualty insurance coverage as a “hostile or warlike act.”

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

This was a few months after the Jeep Cherokee hack and that event had the entire industry’s attention. A network monitoring company for the federal government and other large companies, Solar Winds, had been breached. And of course they've had to deal with issues that have arisen through that. “Hi, Rob.”

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

This was a few months after the Jeep Cherokee hack and that event had the entire industry’s attention. A network monitoring company for the federal government and other large companies, Solar Winds, had been breached. And of course they've had to deal with issues that have arisen through that. “Hi, Rob.”

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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

APRIL 12, 2022

As a journalist, I, of course, had experienced all of the relevant domains, but my knowledge in each was only so deep. In a moment I’ll talk with someone who is trying to make a dent in that shortage of infosec professionals, and how he’s encouraging everyone in the industry to start looking outside the industry for new talent.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Facing a backlash from lawmakers and the public, the IRS soon reverses course , saying video selfies will be optional and that any biometric data collected will be destroyed after verification. The records also reveal how Conti dealt with its own internal breaches and attacks from private security firms and foreign governments.

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Info Source

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The sanctions weaken Russia’s ability to finance the war and specifically target the political, military and economic elite responsible for the invasion. Pressure is growing on the Russian economy as imports increase faster than exports and military spending grows. The restrictive measures do not target Russian society primarily.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

State-of-the-art telepresence gear, supplied by Merit Network , funnels everything from capture-the-flag exercises to full course work and certification testing to earn 42 different professional designations. Today Merit supplies IT infrastructure to schools, universities, government and other entities across the state.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 24, 2012

This shift affects everything from the strategy that guides it to the individuals who oversee it (civilian political appointees) and the lawyers who advise them (civilians rather than military officers). This is virtual reality as a new way of knowledge: a new and terrible kind of transcendent military power. Why not purple dragons? (Ed:

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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. It is totally controlled by the government by the censors.

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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

Vamosi: With the Colonial Pipeline criminal attack, we’ve seen that ransomware is an urgent national security risk that threatens schools, hospitals, businesses, and governments across the globe. 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.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

Vamosi: With the Colonial Pipeline criminal attack, we’ve seen that ransomware is an urgent national security risk that threatens schools, hospitals, businesses, and governments across the globe. 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.

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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. Kyle was doing this for the government, doing this for the good of a nation. Hanslovan: Yeah, so my background was in offensive cyber operations.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2021

In response, President Biden last week issued an executive order requiring more rigorous cybersecurity practices for federal agencies and contractors that develop software for the federal government. Last Watchdog asked a roundtable of cybersecurity industry experts for their reaction. government.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

This plan marks the 14th edition of their socioeconomic, political, and long-range objectives, and has set the tone for a Chinese-dominated supply chain that will be accomplished using antitrust, intellectual property, and standards tools to promote industrial policies. Their plan poses a grave threat to the US.

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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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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 26, 2019

Iran pushes back This, of course, has pushed Iran into a corner, and forced Iran to push back. cybersecurity vendors CrowdStrike and FireEye point to Iran-backed hacking collectives targeting US government agencies, as well as finance and energy companies with spear-phishing emails. Some context is in order. Reports from U.S.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

While I produced this episode, a 21 year old Massachusetts National Guard airman is alleged to have photographed and distributed copies of classified US Military material on Discord, a social media site. He’s been around the hacking scene since the late 1990s, he knows a few people, and he has contributed a lot to the industry.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 7, 2021

But the tale, stripped to its ribs, is about the seductive power of the wounded male ego, how naturally a ship steered by men might tack to its vengeful course.” “Anything that happens that disconfirms Q being an official in the military industrial complex is going to help fuel their persecution complex.”

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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!”. But now a contingent of technology industry leaders has begun pushing back.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2023

There is no shortage of researchers and industry titans willing to warn us about the potential destructive power of artificial intelligence. But the roboticist Rodney Brooks has pointed out that we will see the existential risks coming—the dangers will not be sudden and we will have time to change course.

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