Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Experts observed a 400% increase in the number of attacks, compared with October, that hit government organizations. PYSA ransomware operators focus on large or high-value finance, government and healthcare organisations. locked to the filename of the encrypted files. locked to the filename of the encrypted files.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2021

In March 2020, CERT France cyber-security agency warned about a new wave of ransomware attack that was targeting the networks of local government authorities. According to the experts, the first infections were observed in late 2019, victims reported their files were encrypted by a strain of malware. ” continues the alert.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The Operation CuckooBees had been operating under the radar since at least 2019, threat actors conducted multiple attacks to steal intellectual property and other sensitive data from victims. Symantec pointed out that the attacks against government organizations in Hong Kong remained undetected for a year in some cases.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The Danish Agency for Development and Simplification has discovered the data leak that involved the TastSelv Borger service, which is managed by the US company DXC Technology. Data, including CPR numbers, have been exposed for almost five years before the data leak was discovered. ” states the Government Agency.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2022

Y2k22 bug in Microsoft Exchange causes failure in email delivery Security Affairs most-read cyber stories of 2021 PulseTV discloses potential credit card breach The Have I Been Pwned service now includes 441K accounts stolen by RedLine malware Multiple flaws in Netgear Nighthawk R6700v3 router are still unpatched How to implant a malware in hidden (..)

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The Budworm cyber espionage group (aka APT27 , Bronze Union , Emissary Panda , Lucky Mouse , TG-3390 , and Red Phoenix) is behind a series attacks conducted over the past six months against a number of high-profile targets, including the government of a Middle Eastern country, a multinational electronics manufacturer, and a U.S.

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AIIM

JULY 24, 2018

Data Privacy and Open Data: Secondary Uses under GDPR. Mitigate Data Privacy and Security Risks with Machine Learning. GDPR and Cross Border Data Flows between the EU and the US: Current State of the Law. GDPR Compliance Starts with Data Discovery. Three Critical Steps for GDPR Compliance.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

These are the three components of the CIA triad, an information security model designed to protect sensitive information from data breaches. The goal is to prevent unauthorised personnel from accessing the data – whether that’s cyber criminals or employees who don’t have a legitimate reason to access the files.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Encryption scrambles data to make it unreadable to those without decryption keys. Proper use of encryption preserves secrecy and radically lowers the potential damage of a successful cybersecurity attack. Encryption algorithm types will provide an overview of the mathematical algorithms used to encrypt data (AES, RSA, etc.),

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2019

At least 23 Texas local governments targeted by coordinated ransomware attacks. Malware Analysis Sandboxes could expose sensitive data of your organization. A backdoor mechanism found in tens of Ruby libraries. million to allow towns to access encrypted data. Once again thank you! Texas attackers demand $2.5

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IT Governance

JANUARY 10, 2022

The cyber security landscape offered similarly familiar topics: there were huge data breaches at Facebook and LinkedIn, while the threat of ransomware reached catastrophic levels. 2021 got off to an inauspicious start when cyber security researchers reported a huge leak of Brazilian residents’ data.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Sites like British Airways and Ticketmaster have to comply with the PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) , just like the rest of our clients. the same web server), but it’s also common practice to download them from a third-party library. appeared first on IT Governance Blog.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Guido Vranken returns to The Hacker Mind to discuss his CryptoFuzz tool on GitHub, as well as his experience fuzzing and finding vulnerabilities in cryptographic libraries and also within cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum. But here’s the thing, after 16 guesses the data on the wallet would automatically erase.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The experts exploited the vulnerability to reconstruct encryption keys and developed a decryptor that allows victims of the Rhysida ransomware to recover their encrypted data for free. Rhysida ransomware employed a secure random number generator to generate the encryption key and subsequently encrypt the data.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 7, 2023

The agent gathers information and connects with a central server, which manages and analyzes vulnerability data. In general, agents collect data in real time and transmit it to a central management system. These agents gather data on the host’s operating system, installed software, settings, and other pertinent information.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2018

Turla is the name of a Russian cyber espionage APT group (also known as Waterbug, Venomous Bear and KRYPTON) that has been active since at least 2007 targeting government organizations and private businesses. Data exfiltration itself also takes place via PDF files.” ” reads the analysis published by ESET.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The money is kept by the government and in return, a “non-permanent” profit officially titled as “interest” is given back to the officers at the end of each year. The two dll are legit windows library and are used in support of the malicious behaviour. The Fund is financial planning for defense personnel. The SilentCMD Module.

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Cyber Info Veritas

JULY 11, 2018

We live in an interconnected world, a world where, in an instance, someone at the other end of the world can access your private information such as location (from your IP), browsing history, and even browsing data all at the click of a button. Using a VPN is one of the most effective ways to protect your data.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 2, 2021

It really didn’t concern commercial organizations until the late 1990s, until the widespread use of the World Wide Web made it possible for organizations to suffer data breaches or denial of service attacks. What would be valuable from their perspective to encrypt and then ask for the ransom.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Hello and welcome to the final IT Governance podcast of 2018. 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. Dixons Carphone admitted suffering a major data breach in July 2017, involving 5.9

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 19, 2018

Many of the analysts spoke about the ever-increasing value of data. An example they shared was timely, “the Inclusion of malware in organization code via malware injection in code library”. This leaves data that isn’t protected with encryption and strong access controls as vulnerable as sitting ducks.

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Data Protector

OCTOBER 11, 2017

What follows below is an edited version of the debate in the House of Lords of the Second Reading of the Data Protection Bill, held on 10 October. Data is not just a resource for better marketing, better service and delivery. Data is used to build products themselves. It has become a cliché that data is the new oil.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2021

China-linked APT group Cycldek is behind an advanced cyberespionage campaign targeting entities in the government and military sector in Vietnam. China-linked APT group LuckyMouse (aka Cycldek, Goblin Panda , Hellsing, APT 27, and Conimes) is targeting government and military organizations in Vietnam with spear-phishing.

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IT Governance

JULY 31, 2019

Croatian government targeted by mysterious hackers (unknown). Department of Health Services email hacked exposing patient data (14,591). Pennsylvania-based software firm and healthcare provider accuse each other of data theft (unknown). TX-based Wise Health reports data breach caused by phishing attack (35,899).

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 8, 2022

Certainly no one uses 40 bit encryption anymore. The other you're actively being a man in the middle and you're relaying the data from one person to another. And it's an application on the phone that is making use of the Bluetooth Low Energy stack in order to send crypt encrypted and not encrypted messages to the car interface.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Personal and Corporate data is now regularly targeted and traded by unscrupulous actors, protect it with a proactive Cyber Defense solution. Personal and Corporate data is now regularly targeted and traded by unscrupulous actors who use it to undermine Governments, destabilise markets, intimidate or threaten companies and individuals.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

A March 2020 software update of the SolarWinds Orion management platform gave malicious actors unhindered access to key government and enterprise networks. With access to DSInternals, the malware could query the AD servers and steal data, passwords, and keys. ” Notably, in late January U.S. Cases showed malware added X.509

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

API security protects data and back-end systems while preserving fluid communication between software components through strict protocols and access controls. Fundamentals of API Security API security includes a range of tactics such as strict authentication and authorization methods, data encryption technologies, and strong access controls.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2023

The researchers discovered that most of the medical infusion pumps that were purchased from secondary market services such as eBay were found to still contain wireless authentication data from the original medical organization that had deployed the devices. ” reads the analysis published by Rapid7. ” continues the analysis.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Tape vendors have been promoting themselves as a solution to the ransomware problem because of their ability to provide air-gapped data backup, but trying to recover terabytes of data from a tape drive can be a little like, well, running into red tape. Since all the system data is encrypted, the hackers have admin/root privileges.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2022

Unlimited cloud accounts and users, and monthly down to hourly cloud scans Data retention options between 30 days and 18 months Business hours support and compliance reports for GDPR , PCI, HIPAA, and more Container scanning with CI/CD and registry integrations Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) security scanning for Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Rather than stealing data, adware is more of an irritant forcing users to see unwanted ads. Experts say the best defense is a multi-pronged network security strategy that includes a firewall, anti-malware software, network monitoring, intrusion detection and prevention (IDPS), and data protection. Examples of Backdoor Malware Attacks.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

How better key management can close cloud security gaps troubling US government madhav Thu, 02/29/2024 - 05:38 In my first blog on this topic I noted a Treasury Department report released last year listed six cloud security challenges financial sector firms face. The first step is to know what sensitive data you have and where it is.

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Preservica

MAY 1, 2018

Suite of new GDPR enhancements simplify classification, search and reporting for long-term personal data. Reporting : Dashboard or on-demand reports show the types of pre-classified personal data held within Preservica, further addressing records of processing requirements (Article 30).

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ForAllSecure

JULY 28, 2021

I've met people that have library skills, and you would wonder well how is that going to apply to hacking and then they get a job in an InfoSec role, you know, keeping all of the compliance documentation together whatever right, wherever your skills are you can probably apply them here.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

For everything from minor network infractions to devastating cyberattacks and data privacy troubles , digital forensics software can help clean up the mess and get to the root of what happened. The Sleuth Kit enables administrators to analyze file system data via a library of command-line tools for investing disk images.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2020

Governments are doing their best to mitigate such a virus while people are stuck home working remotely using their own equipment. The following VBScript is run through cscript.exe, It’s an obfuscated and xor-encrypted payload. It hijacks method on an old office 2007 component (Office Data Provider for – MSOSTYLE.exe).

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