IT Governance

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

9 million records breached through decade-long data leak A former temporary employee of a subsidiary of NTT West (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corp) illegally accessed about 9 million personal data records over the course of a decade (2013 to 2023). Among those affected was SAP SE. Breached records: more than 56 million.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

A hacker managed to identify a weak spot in a security camera model. Usually, the default settings are not focused on security. Simple or reused passwords are still a problem. Instead, people come up with passwords that are comfortable. Then, a hacker could intercept this exchange and retrieve passwords in plaintext form.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The Mozi botnet was spotted by security experts from 360 Netlab, at the time of its discovered it was actively targeting Netgear, D-Link, and Huawei routers by probing for weak Telnet passwords to compromise them. state researchers at Microsoft Security Threat Intelligence Center and Section 52 at Azure Defender for IoT. “By

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IT Governance

MARCH 1, 2023

IT Governance is dedicated to helping organisations tackle the threat of cyber crime and other information security weaknesses. We offer a variety of resources to help understand and mitigate threats, from training courses and consultancy services to free guides. You can find the full list of data breaches and cyber attacks below.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

And breaches will occur – because bad guys make a living by figuring out ways to circumvent security best practices. Prioritize Data Protection The downfall of many security strategies is that they become too general and too thinly spread. But it requires different levels of security.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

The Decipher Security podcast by Duo Security analyzes the news, explores the impact of the latest risks, and provides informative and educational material for readers intent on understanding how security affects our world. He posits that security, particularly secure software, is a value add to businesses.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

The Decipher Security podcast by Duo Security analyzes the news, explores the impact of the latest risks, and provides informative and educational material for readers intent on understanding how security affects our world. He posits that security, particularly secure software, is a value add to businesses.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

The Decipher Security podcast by Duo Security analyzes the news, explores the impact of the latest risks, and provides informative and educational material for readers intent on understanding how security affects our world. He posits that security, particularly secure software, is a value add to businesses.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2018

AVTech is one of the world’s leading CCTV manufacturers, it is the largest public-listed company in the Taiwan surveillance industry. The security expert Ankit Anubhav who discovered the Death botnet revealed that outdated firmware versions expose the passwords of the AVTech device in cleartext. Pierluigi Paganini.

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IT Governance

JUNE 26, 2018

It enables them to take steps to keep their data secure, or, at the very least, mitigate any damage. That’s why most cyber security regulations – including the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – require breaches to be disclosed promptly. Your password hasn’t been changed, and your data remains secure.

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Imperial Violet

AUGUST 9, 2019

Most readers of this blog will be familiar with the traditional security key user experience: you register a token with a site then, when logging in, you enter a username and password as normal but are also required to press a security key in order for it to sign a challenge from the website.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 14, 2018

Luckily, zebras don’t use mobile devices, or manufacturers would be hard at work on stripe recognition technology. So, like any security person and good friend, I send Alex a text and a voicemail asking if the message was from him. Lots of data, of course! Did you know that every zebra has its own unique stripe pattern?

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

This week, in our last podcast of the year, we revisit some of the biggest information security stories from the past 12 months. As is now traditional, I’ve installed myself in the porter’s chair next to the fire in the library, ready to recap some of the year’s more newsworthy information security events. caused problems of their own.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

million customers , most of them American, was compromised in the 2017 data breach – including their names, dates of birth, passwords, and driving licence and financial details. No flights were disrupted as a result of the incident, nor were safety or security systems put at risk. In total, the personal information of some 147.9

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Network security protects and monitors the links and the communications within the network using a combination of hardware, software, and enforced policies. Networks and network security comes in a wide range of complexity to fit the wide range of needs. For a more general overview consider reading: What is Network Security?

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Imperial Violet

MARCH 26, 2018

Predictions of, and calls for, the end of passwords have been ringing through the press for many years now. None the less, the experience of most people is that passwords remain a central, albeit frustrating, feature of their online lives. Lastly, many security guides advocate for the use of password managers.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 16, 2024

GB database includes names, email addresses, phone numbers and passwords. Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes 42 GB Auto-Motion Shade Inc. Drug Mart Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Healthcare USA Yes 36,749 Elliott Group Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes 31.5 Data breached: >7,000,000 records. Vauxhall Motors database with 5.5

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IT Governance

APRIL 25, 2023

Insider threats are one of the most difficult security challenges that organisations face. Preventing this from happening requires a nuanced approach to information security, and it’s one that organisations are increasingly struggling with. Within this dyad, insider threats can be further divided into three types.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

Both during this week and over previous years, there's been various headlines calling the security posture of Aadhaar into question and the Indian government has been vehemently refuting any suggestion that the system isn't top notch. Of course it can! Security /= George blocking — Vatsalya Goel (@vatsalyagoel) January 9, 2018.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 8, 2023

And I was really fortunate to land the security beat right away. I wrote two books, one on IoT Security and another with Kevin Mitnick, then jumped around a couple of different jobs. What if you are a woman in information security? WANG : it was the security security practice. By accident. So I learned.

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Imperial Violet

JULY 22, 2023

Introduction Over more than a decade, a handful of standards have developed into passkeys—a plausible replacement for passwords. It was a pair of standards, one for computers to talk to small removable devices called security keys, and the second a JavaScript API for websites to use them.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 10, 2021

That’s perhaps because of a dedicated group of hackers who are working to improve automotive security. You can do what's called a replay attack by capturing the codes and replaying them, or you can use a previously successful rollover sequence to calculate the key fob code of the next car from the same manufacturer.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Below is a summary of California’s new law and some takeaways for IoT device manufacturers as they move toward January 1, 2020 compliance. Core Security Obligation. The new law addresses the security obligations of “manufacturers” of connected devices. Code § 1798.91.05(c)) ” (Civ. . ” (Civ.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Below is a summary of California’s new law and some takeaways for IoT device manufacturers as they move toward January 1, 2020 compliance. Core Security Obligation. The new law addresses the security obligations of “manufacturers” of connected devices. Code § 1798.91.05(c)) ” (Civ. . ” (Civ.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Stories about computer security tend to go viral when they bridge the vast divide between geeks and luddites, and this week’s news about a hacker who tried to poison a Florida town’s water supply was understandably front-page material. Information sharing is broken.” ” AN INTERNATIONAL CHALLENGE. .

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 23, 2022

To prevent APTs requires a strong foundation of basic security techniques combined with effective security monitoring. However, some additional security techniques can improve the odds against APTs even more. See the Top Secure Email Gateway Solutions. Manufactured BackDoor Vulnerabilities. Use strong passwords.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Focaccia-Board Vs Fingbox (UART): Last year you may remember me disclosing this lovely bug in FingBox ( a super-duper IoT Security Appliance that is supposed to protect your LAN-connected devices from attackers): In this first use-case, I used Focaccia-Board (from now on a.k.a. Of course we can also use a SOP8 Clip to dump it.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

What role might the security industry have in identifying or even stopping it? Welcome to the hacker mind, in original podcast from for all security. I'm a principal on the security team at Cybereason, and I'm also a digital forensics instructor at the SANS Institute, Grooten: Martijn Grooten. So I hope you'll stick around.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 19, 2023

The open source security tool, Nmap, originally focused on port scanning, but a robust community continues to add features and capabilities to make Nmap a formidable penetration testing tool. Programmers can use Ncat to create secure connections between applications and devices. Of course, hackers also use Ncat.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2022

So there’s a need, a definite need, for information security professionals to have access to industrial control systems -- not virtual, but actual hands on systems -- so they can learn. In a moment I’ll introduce you to someone who is trying to do that--bring ICS equipment to security conferences. My name is Tom Van Norman.

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CGI

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Jeff Jarmoc, Head of Security for global business service at Salesforce, pointed out that internet infrastructure is supposed to be more robust, "In a relatively short time we've taken a system built to resist destruction by nuclear weapons and made it vulnerable to toasters," he tweeted. The list could go on!

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

A lot of times we depend on usernames and passwords, but those really aren’t enough. I’m just not convinced that a fingerprint or an image of my face is secure enough. If you just use username and passwords-- well that’s easily imitated. I'm a cyber security professional, I guess. That's biometrics.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Compromised Credentials Compromised identities from phishing, info stealers, keyloggers, and bad password habits provide the entry point for most ransomware attacks and data breaches. 583% increase in Kerberoasting [password hash cracking] attacks. 64% of managers and higher admit to poor password practices.

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Data Matters

MAY 17, 2022

Two months later, on July 19, 2021, the National Security Agency (NSA), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and FBI assessed that People’s Republic of China state-sponsored malicious cyber activity is a major threat to U.S. and Allied cyberspace assets. supply chain attacks). More recently, on Feb.

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KnowBe4

MAY 16, 2023

Building up your organization's human firewall by fostering a strong security culture is essential to outsmart bad actors. Learn about the real risks of weak passwords, why password management is key to building a strong security culture, and our best advice on how to protect your users and your organization.

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