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Sky.com servers exposed via misconfiguration

Security Affairs

CyberNews researchers found an exposed configuration file hosted on a Sky.com subdomain containing production data. Sky, a subsidiary of Comcast, is Europe’s largest media company, boasting a 12% market share and a revenue of approximately £13.4 There’s no way to tell what data is being stored on the production server.

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Threat actors found a way to bypass mitigation F5 BIG-IP CVE-2020-5902 flaw

Security Affairs

This issue is not exposed on the data plane; only the control plane is affected.”. Our data shows this bypass was first publicly exploited at 12:39 on July 7, 2020 (6 hours before).” Many of the targeted systems belong to government agencies, healthcare providers, educational organizations, and financial institutions.

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GUEST ESSAY: The story behind how DataTribe is helping to seed ‘Cybersecurity Valley’ in Maryland

The Last Watchdog

It’s a cybersecurity and data science “foundry” that uniquely helps create, finance and intensely coach brand-new startups manned by former cybersecurity and data science veterans of select federal research centers and national laboratories. cybersecurity job openings – 350,000 to be exact – is up from 209,000 in 2015.

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The Evolution of Aggah: From Roma225 to the RG Campaign

Security Affairs

Few months ago we started observing a cyber operation aiming to attack private companies in various business sectors, from automotive to luxury, education, and media/marketing. Figure 12: Hagga campaign reference. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Introduction. Conclusion.

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President Obama Announces Initiatives on Data Security and Student Privacy

Hunton Privacy

On January 12, 2015, President Obama announced at the Federal Trade Commission several new initiatives on data security and consumer privacy as part of a weeklong focus on privacy and cybersecurity. The proposed law will permit research to improve educational outcomes and tools. Student privacy legislation.

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California Governor Approves New Privacy Legislation

Hunton Privacy

The newly-signed bills are aimed at protecting student privacy, increasing consumer protection in the wake of a data breach, and expanding the scope of California’s invasion of privacy and revenge porn laws. Unless otherwise noted, the laws will take effect on January 1, 2015. Updates to California’s Data Breach Law.

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A Flurry of Recent Cybersecurity Activity from the Trump Administration

Data Matters

As Data Matters had previously noted, the elimination of the White House Cybersecurity Coordinator appeared to mark a sharp departure from the policies of the prior Administration. Subsequent joint public-private efforts targeted a botnet known as “ Beebone ” in 2015 and the more recent “ Mirai ” and “ Reaper ” attacks. in isolation.”.