The Last Watchdog

MARCH 25, 2024

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has updated their widely used Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) — a free respected landmark guidance document for reducing cybersecurity risk. It seeks to establish and monitor your company’s cybersecurity risk management strategy, expectations, and policy. The CSF 2.0

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 31, 2024

Getting the health sector to vastly improve its state of cybersecurity will take much more than the recent issuance of new federal guidance outlining cyber performance goals for entities. It will also require new government incentives and mandates, said Steve Cagle, CEO of consultancy Clearwater.

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Data Breach Today

MARCH 14, 2024

healthcare sector needs to closely watch government regulatory and legislative developments involving artificial intelligence, including the European Union AI Act, said Lee Kim, senior principal of cybersecurity and privacy at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Federal Civilian Agencies 'Are Likely to Resist This Dramatic Change,' Report Says A study of federal government cybersecurity suggests the Department of Homeland Security could play a more prominent role in securing civilian networks, in a report that touts a "more centralized defensive strategy."

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Data Breach Today

JULY 17, 2023

Monitor Logs to Spot Zero-Day Attack, US Cybersecurity Officials Advise Suspected Chinese hackers gained access to senior U.S. government says logging was key to spotting it. officials' emails by exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft's cloud environment.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 11, 2019

government shutdown is impacting agencies integral to the nation's cybersecurity readiness, and experts fear its long-term impact on the country's cyberattack response capabilities, as well as the risk that it will drive away desperately needed new cybersecurity talent from entering public service.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 5, 2023

On June 28, 2023, the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) published an updated proposed Second Amendment (“Amendment”) to its Cybersecurity Regulation, 23 NYCRR Part 500. As described below, senior governing bodies would have new oversight responsibilities under the amendments.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 1, 2024

of the Cybersecurity Framework: The CSF 2.0, which supports implementation of the National Cybersecurity Strategy , has an expanded scope that goes beyond protecting critical infrastructure, such as hospitals and power plants, to all organizations in any sector. ’s newly added Govern function.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2022

Italy announced its National Cybersecurity Strategy for 2022/26, a crucial document to address cyber threats and increase the resilience of the country. The threat landscape rapidly changes and urges the government to review its strategy and propose a series of objectives to achieve in the next four years. ” reads the strategy.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

UK Crime and Cybersecurity Agencies Urge 'Holistic' View of Ransomware Ecosystem Stopping the ransomware epidemic is less about tackling individual crypto-locking malware variants and more about combating the entire ecosystem of bad actors underpinning digital extortion, the British government said Monday.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

CISA revealed that threat actors breached an unnamed state government organization via an administrator account belonging to a former employee. The government experts conducted an incident response assessment of the state government organization after its documents were posted on the dark web.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 6, 2024

Back in 2018, we started making Have I Been Pwned domain searches freely available to national government cybersecurity agencies responsible for protecting their nations' online infrastructure. This access now provides them with complete access to the exposure of their government domains in data breaches.

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 2, 2022

UK Government Presses Ahead With Proposal to Charge for Regulation The Conservative U.K. government said it will propose updates to the country's main cybersecurity regulation, including a requirement for the private sector to reimburse the public sector for enforcement activities.

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 23, 2022

President Joe Biden signed into law the Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act, designed "to encourage the migration of federal government IT systems to quantum-resistant cryptography" by ensuring they prepare strategies now for implementing forthcoming cryptography standards.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 30, 2023

The 2003 Cyberattack Has Been Linked to a State-Sponsored Cyberespionage Campaign The United Kingdom's national cybersecurity agency on Friday marked the 20th anniversary of its response to the first-ever cyberattack against the government by disclosing how government agencies responded.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 11, 2022

Company Accused of Misrepresenting Its Defenses to Federal Government A federal contractor that makes rocket propulsion systems will pay $9 million to settle allegations from a former executive that it misled the U.S. government over the state of its cybersecurity defenses even after it suffered nation-state hacks.

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Dark Reading

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

CISA announces it will furlough more than 80% of staff indefinitely if Congress can't reach an agreement to fund the federal government.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 1, 2021

government's cyber defenses and address IT modernization challenges, according to the interagency board of the Technology Modernization Fund, a federal funding source, which made the announcement Thursday.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 28, 2023

Online Safety Bill Also Criticized by Leading Cybersecurity Experts and Academics Technology giant Apple has joined the chorus of voices calling on the British government to rethink its proposed Online Safety Bill legislation intended to increase public safety by monitoring people's private communications via client-side scanning.

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Data Protection Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Between 2019 and 2020, SolarWinds experienced a two-year long cybersecurity incident where the threat actor inserted malicious code into the Orion products, which were then sold to more than 18,000 customers globally. These statements were allegedly starkly different from the known vulnerabilities to cybersecurity incidents.

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WIRED Threat Level

APRIL 15, 2024

Microsoft has stumbled through a series of major cybersecurity failures over the past few years. Experts say the US government’s reliance on its systems means the company continues to get a free pass.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

If you’re a small business looking for the secret sauce to cybersecurity, the secret is out: start with a cybersecurity policy and make the commitment to security a business-wide priority. The average cost of a cybersecurity breach was $4.45 The average cost of a cybersecurity breach was $4.45

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Stormshield Is a Major Supplier of Security Products to the French Government French security vendor Stormshield has launched an investigation after an internal review found that hackers accessed the source code of the company's network security product. The company is a supplier of cybersecurity technology to the French government.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Here’s the final installment of leading technologists sharing their observations about cybersecurity developments in the year that’s coming to a close — and the year to come. For now, AI is the copilot and humans remain irreplaceable in the cybersecurity equation. But business logic abuse may get worse.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2021

Italy announced the creation of the national cybersecurity agency, a move aimed at increase the level of cyber security of its infrastructure. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybersecurity agency). The post Italy announced its Cybersecurity Agency appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 13, 2021

Order Emphasizes Partnerships, IT Modernization and Supply Chain Security President Joe Biden signed an extensive executive order Wednesday, detailing the government's plan to increase cybersecurity protection across the public and private sectors, as well as securing the nation's infrastructure against the type of attack that targeted SolarWinds and (..)

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IT Governance

APRIL 20, 2023

This week, we discuss the apparent sale of exfiltrated Capita data by the Black Basta ransomware group, a zero-day Google Chrome vulnerability and the development of a new LockBit ransomware variant targeting macOS, and Alan Calder analyses the new US National Cybersecurity Strategy and explains what all organisations should learn from it.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 29, 2021

GAO Offers Recommendations to Improve Space Agency's Cyber Protections A government watchdog is urging NASA to make multiple improvements to its cybersecurity and risk management policies to counter threats to the space agency's network, infrastructure and data.

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IT Governance

JUNE 29, 2023

Plus, Alan Calder discusses the current cybersecurity and regulatory landscape, and how they affect organisations. The post IT Governance Podcast 30.6.23: ChatGPT, LetMeSpy and MS Teams, plus Alan Calder on cyber security appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 30, 2022

It’s no secret that cybersecurity roles are in high demand. Today there are more than 500,000 open cybersecurity roles in the U.S., These individuals have many transferable skills that would make cybersecurity a prosperous civilian career. This experience can also be helpful when training cybersecurity talent.

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IG Guru

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Most companies ignore the importance of information governance in ensuring good cybersecurity. Advancing technology, such as cloud computing, increasing compliance mandates, and increasing amounts of data to be secured have made it essential to improve your cybersecurity strategies. Besides, the strategies should […].

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 13, 2020

But Cybersecurity Adviser Dismisses Plans as Misplaced 'Do-Something-Itis' The U.K. government says it's prepping a contact-tracing app in an attempt to help contain COVID-19.

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Data Protection Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

On November 1, 2023, the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) finalized the second amendment to its cybersecurity regulations, which are available here. NYDFS retained the broader term “cybersecurity event” that it uses in several sections of the regulation, but, with respect to notifications to NYDFS (§ 500.17(a)),

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Dark Reading

JUNE 15, 2021

The federal government is emphasizing cybersecurity regulation, education, and defense strategies this year.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 1, 2020

Related: What we’ve learned from the massive breach of Capitol At RSA 2020 , I learned about how one of the routine daily chores all large organizations perform — data governance — has started to emerge as something of a cybersecurity multiplier. One reason for this is storage is dirt cheap.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 29, 2023

Nikita Kislitsin , formerly the head of network security for one of Russia’s top cybersecurity firms, was arrested last week in Kazakhstan in response to 10-year-old hacking charges from the U.S. Burkov was arrested in 2015 by Israeli authorities, and the Russian government fought Burkov’s extradition to the U.S.

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 5, 2022

Witnesses at Hearing Also Discuss Role of Government in Security Incident Response A water trade association, at a congressional hearing Tuesday, urged the federal government to institute minimum cybersecurity standards for water systems.

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