ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

For example, in 2009, the Obama administration provided financial incentives to utilities in the United States. And again, smart meters were positioned squarely as making the environment more friendly by knowing how and when energy is being used by individual customers. The train keeps going. That they're only using smartphones?

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IT Governance

MARCH 5, 2024

Only 5 definitely haven’t had data breached. According to 404 Media , the company is planning to sell content to OpenAI and Midjourney to train their AI models, although it’s not clear what types of user data will be shared. 110 of them are known to have had data exfiltrated, exposed or otherwise breached.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 30, 2024

Compromised data includes victims’ names, addresses, phone numbers and Aadhaar numbers (a 12-digit government identification number). It remains unclear how the data breach occurred, but the attackers apparently suggested it was the result of “exploiting vulnerabilities within government databases of telecommunication systems”.

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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. Kim Zetter’s book, Countdown to Zero Day, is perhaps the definitive book on the subject. You know, it isn't the blackout scenario.

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