The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Phishing scams, malware, ransomware and data breaches are just some of the examples of cyberthreats that can devastate business operations and the protection of consumer information. military officials hired data analysts to crack the Japanese secret code known as JN-25. After the devastating blow of Pearl Harbor, U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 5, 2022

The top reason, chosen from a proved list of ten, was ‘increased cyber security risks’, followed by the related concern, ‘new and/or increased data privacy regulations’. The Ukraine-Russia war is a grim example of geopolitical risk intersecting with cyber security risk. Cyber in a silo?

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IT Governance

MARCH 8, 2022

The Ukrainian government and its military were targeted by DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks, while a pro-Ukrainian group attacked the Belarusian railway system with ransomware after discovering that it was being used by Russia to transport tanks and weapons. Get started.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 9, 2023

Cavanagh As a latecomer to the hyperscale data center market , Oracle focused on its heritage of helping large enterprise customers securely and efficiently run their mission critical systems and applications, Cavanagh told me. This is yet another terrific example of “ stronger together.” Oracle launched OCI in October 2016.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 13, 2022

These Russian cyber actors are government organizations and include other parties who take their orders from the Russian military or intelligence organizations – while not technically under government control. Additionally, there are also Russian cybercrime organizations that are not state-sponsored but are allowed to operate.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 17, 2022

Here’s one example. ” The card reader Mark bought was sold by a company called Saicoo , whose sponsored Amazon listing advertises a “DOD Military USB Common Access Card (CAC) Reader” and has more than 11,700 mostly positive ratings. What could go wrong? A sample Common Access Card (CAC). Image: Cac.mil.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , BlueDelta, and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. APT28 used the compromised email accounts to send malicious emails and compromised routers to recover exfiltrated data.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2024

The Blackjack group is believed to be affiliated with Ukrainian intelligence services that carried out other attacks against Russian targets, including an internet provider and a military infrastructure. The attack brought all 87,000 sensors offline, threat actors also wiped databases, backups, and email servers, a total of 30TB of data.

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Information Management Resources

AUGUST 1, 2019

Careful steps to protect data are an example of how the DoD and VA are cooperating and engaging in joint decision-making.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 28, 2019

Barr repeated a common fallacy about a difference between military-grade encryption and consumer encryption: "After all, we are not talking about protecting the nation's nuclear launch codes. We are talking about consumer products and services such as messaging, smart phones, e-mail, and voice and data applications.".

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2020

“This attack was done solely for fun” The group claims to have hacked numerous organizations and government agencies over the years, including US military, European Union, Washington DC, Israeli Defense Forces, the Indian Government, and some central banks. .” Ghost Squad Hackers’s member s1ege told me.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 21, 2021

When the Ashley Madison data breach occurred in 2015, it made headline news around the world. But there's also a lot of consistency, for example, here's a piece on whether it's legal to access an employee's email account in Australia : The short answer is yes.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2023

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. SNMP v2 doesn’t support encryption and so all data, including community strings, is sent unencrypted.” through 12.4

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Adam Levin

OCTOBER 31, 2018

and international companies to steal aerospace technology and data. The indictment , revealed earlier this week accuses agents working for the Jiangsu Province Ministry of State Security (JSSD) of conspiring “to steal sensitive commercial technological, aviation, and aerospace data by hacking into computers in the United States and abroad.”.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 20, 2023

In a 2003 interview Mitnick claimed he never used stolen information or destroyed data during his hacks. For example, Mitnik received eight months in solitary confinement because a federal judge was convinced that Mitnick could hack into U.S. military systems and launch nuclear missiles through mere whistling.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2020

QBot Trojan operators are using new tactics in their campaign to hijack legitimate email conversations to steal sensitive data from the victims. QBot, aka Qakbot and Pinkslipbot , has been active since 2008, it is used by malware for collecting browsing data and banking credentials and other financial information from the victims.

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IT Governance

MARCH 18, 2021

For example, it is authorised to interfere with mobile phones to stop terrorists communicating with their contacts, and can implement defences to protect military aircraft from weapons systems. This suggests that the NCF focuses on techniques to prevent adversaries from operating rather than attacking them or breaching their systems.

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The Security Ledger

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

and other militaries have always been at the top of the target list for so-called “advanced persistent threat” cyber adversaries. Air Force personnel way back in 2005 as a way to talk about the kinds of enduring cyber attacks and attempts at data exfiltration they were observing. ” And its a big problem.

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Data Matters

AUGUST 28, 2020

Instead, BIS is seeking industry assistance in identifying the kinds of technology that should be captured by additional controls, particularly examples of “any enabling technologies, including tooling, testing, and certification equipment, that should be included within the scope of a foundational technology.” national security.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2022

” Most threat actors have been focused on locking data, sometimes with innovative techniques to evade detection tools. The idea is to force the victims to pay the ransom in return for the stolen data. The rest of the files are overwritten with random trashed data, so there’s no way to decrypt them after.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2020

ZDNet has obtained a copy of the list with the help of threat intelligence firm KELA and verified confirmed the authenticity of the data. military, federal, state, and local government agencies Public universities and schools Hospitals and health care providers Electric utilities Major financial institutions Numerous Fortune 500 companies.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2021

Cellebrite develops forensics tools for law enforcement and intelligence agencies that allow automating physically extracting and indexing data from mobile devices. In December December announced that its Physical Analyzer is able to decrypt messages and data from the Signal’s messaging app. ” reads the post published by Moxie.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 2, 2022

These men and women are obviously highly trained in security matters, as it’s reported that they need to have 22 years of military service to even. Take for example, highly-connected cyber-physical systems that are connected to and managed from the cloud, and that ensure the integrity of critical infrastructure across all sectors.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Cybersecurity and cyber recovery are types of disaster recovery (DR) practices that focus on attempts to steal, expose, alter, disable or destroy critical data. Disaster recovery (DR) is a combination of IT technologies and best practices designed to prevent data loss and minimize business disruption caused by an unexpected event.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

Collectively in control over millions of spam-spewing zombies, those botmasters also continuously harvested passwords and other data from infected machines. Penchukov) — fled his mandatory military service orders and was arrested in Geneva, Switzerland. And there were many good reasons to support this conclusion. 9, 2024).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The attacks against entities in Afghanistan took place prior to the Taliban’s recent takeover of the government in the country and the withdrawal of all military forces of the United States and its allies. “Talos has monitored many noisy Turla operations, for example. The threat actors are using the backdoorsince at least 2020.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2020

In typical SSRF examples, the attacker might cause the server to make a connection back to itself, or to other web-based services within the organization’s infrastructure, or to external third-party systems. The team appears to be focused primarily on operations against governmental agencies.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

It led to worrying signs that the tensions would play out as an online proxy war, with UK and other countries that opposed Russia’s military action coming under attack. Even if sensitive data wasn’t compromised, the turmoil of a breach and the embarrassment caused is often enough to warrant this sort of incident as a win for the attacker. .

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CGI

MAY 2, 2018

Everyday objects are becoming smart assets, seamlessly integrated across a global network and capable of generating and exchanging valuable data without human intervention. One example: By using sensor technology with cloud computing, IoT transforms existing, disparate IT systems into a connected enterprise of applications.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2022

However, his experiment is a perfect example of how poor cyber hygiene can leave organizations vulnerable to cyber attacks. However, evidence suggests that the rogue superstate’s cyber capabilities are as weak as its military stance in Ukraine, especially when met with resistance. Hacker snoops around the key Russian ministry.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 7, 2022

“The vast volumes of data analyzed suggests these countries may even be coordinating attack efforts. reported that hackers – some linked to Russian GRU military intelligence – breached computers at nearly two dozen U.S. Ragnar Locker, for example, terminates when it encounters a machine in former USSR countries.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Barely a day goes by where we don’t hear of a data breach. Affecting big companies and small in virtually every vertical and hitting government institutions at the local, state and federal level, sensitive data is routinely exfiltrated, stolen and leveraged with shocking regularity. For example, are they encrypting their data?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 12, 2022

His approach uses the philosophy that is used in the military, whereby an untrained individual is placed into positions based on aptitude. At Thales, for example, we seek people with broad technology, as well as communication skills as part of the hiring criteria. On this point, I agree with Thom.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Cyber criminals continued to wreak havoc, with the likes of Twitter , Uber and Neopets all reporting mammoth data breaches. In total, we have so far reported more than 1,000 data breaches in 2022, with almost half a billion breached records. Meanwhile, GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) enforcement continues apace.

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Data Protection Report

JUNE 27, 2019

In the absence of federal action, states have been actively passing new and expanded requirements for privacy and cybersecurity (see some examples here and here ). Maine’s new Act to Protect the Privacy of Online Consumer Information prohibits ISPs from using, selling, or distributing consumer data without their consent.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2019

The STRONTIUM APT group (aka APT28 , Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , and Sednit ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election. ” continues Microsoft.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 15, 2022

A surprising number of organisations have not yet implemented an MFA requirement to access systems and data, yet this is the first step to a true Zero Trust journey. It has become easier than ever for nefarious actors to access valuable company data. Data Security. The Role of Passwordless Authentication.

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