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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 1 – 7 January 2024

IT Governance

LockBit claims responsibility for Capital Health security incident The LockBit ransomware group has claimed responsibility for an attack on Capital Health , a healthcare provider in Pennington, New Jersey, last November. Only 1 definitely hasn’t had data breached. They accessed 41.5 Data breached: 41,500,000 records.

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Aussie Telcos are Failing at Some Fundamental Security Basics

Troy Hunt

Recently, I've witnessed a couple of incidents which have caused me to question some pretty fundamental security basics with our local Aussie telcos, specifically Telstra and Optus. Alarmingly, this is not unprecedented and I've been blocked before myself for reporting a security incident.

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The Life Cycle of a Breached Database

Krebs on Security

There, denizens with computer rigs that are built primarily for mining virtual currencies can set to work using those systems to crack passwords. But a decent crypto-mining rig can quickly crack a majority of password hashes generated with MD5 (one of the weaker and more commonly-used password hashing algorithms).

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 December 2023

IT Governance

Researchers from the German cyber security company Aplite discovered 3,806 servers from 111 countries accessible on the Internet. Only 3 definitely haven’t had data breached. Source (New) Retail USA Yes 2,469 Three GreatStar Industrial Co. 138 of them are known to have had data exfiltrated or exposed.

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MY TAKE: Can ‘Network Traffic Analysis’ cure the security ills of digital transformation?

The Last Watchdog

If digital transformation, or DX , is to reach its full potential, there must be a security breakthrough that goes beyond legacy defenses to address the myriad new ways threat actors can insinuate themselves into complex digital systems. A cottage industry of tech security vendors is fully behind NTA. Remember how Target got hacked?

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 29 January – 4 February 2024

IT Governance

Only 1 definitely hasn’t had data breached. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: full list This week, we found 38,846,799 records known to be compromised, and 140 organisations suffering a newly disclosed incident. 123 of them are known to have had data exfiltrated, exposed or otherwise breached.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Surviving Stalkerware

ForAllSecure

What role might the security industry have in identifying or even stopping it? Welcome to the hacker mind, in original podcast from for all security. I'm a principal on the security team at Cybereason, and I'm also a digital forensics instructor at the SANS Institute, Grooten: Martijn Grooten. So I hope you'll stick around.