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China-linked APT Sharp Panda targets government entities in Southeast Asia

Security Affairs

China-linked APT group Sharp Panda targets high-profile government entities in Southeast Asia with the Soul modular framework. CheckPoint researchers observed in late 2022, a campaign attributed to the China-linked APT group Sharp Panda that is targeting a high-profile government entity in the Southeast Asia.

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Purple Lambert, a new malware of CIA-linked Lambert APT group

Security Affairs

These malware strains did not present any similarities with malware associated with other APT groups. In April 2017, Symantec security experts who analyzed the alleged CIA hacking tools included in the Vault 7 dump that were involved in attacks aimed at least 40 governments and private organizations across 16 countries.

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Historic Charges: First Enforcement Action Filed by New York Department of Financial Services Under Cybersecurity Regulation

Data Matters

2 Because First American’s violations included the exposure of millions of documents containing nonpublic information (NPI), the total penalty potentially could be substantial. Public access to these documents was caused by an application software vulnerability that was initially introduced in May 2014. e) and 500.01(g),

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Weekly podcast: Exactis, BetVictor, Ticketmaster, and GDPR complaints

IT Governance

Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 29 June 2018. According to Wired.com , the security researcher Vinny Troia discovered the database earlier this month via Shodan – the search engine that indexes Internet-connected devices such as servers and routers. Here are this week’s stories.

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Ransomware Protection in 2021

eSecurity Planet

The internet is fraught with peril these days, but nothing strikes more fear into users and IT security pros than the threat of ransomware. Raising awareness about ransomware is a baseline security measure. As training sessions have little influence over staff for every potential attack, it makes added security more imperative.

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2019 end-of-year review part 1: January to June

IT Governance

IT Governance is closing out the year by rounding up 2019’s biggest information security stories. Victims of Equifax’s 2017 data breach were given the go-ahead to launch a class-action lawsuit. Countless office workers were forced to get back to their jobs after Reddit suspended a host of accounts in light of security concerns.

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GDPR – The Year in Review

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

Italy’s Garante issued its first fine (4.4.2019) for the lack of implementation of privacy security measures following a data breach on the Rousseau internet platform. EU-Japan Adequacy Decision (23.1.2019) – This created the largest area of safe data transfers and marked the end of a negotiation process which began in January 2017.

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