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GUEST ESSAY: Preparing for the dire cybersecurity consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

The Last Watchdog

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. Educate your employees on threats and risks such as phishing and malware. businesses called #ShieldsUp.

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Biden AI Order Enables Agencies to Address Key Risks

Hunton Privacy

It marks the Biden Administration’s most comprehensive action on artificial intelligence policy, building upon the Administration’s Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights (issued in October 2022) and its announcement (in July 2023) of securing voluntary commitments from 15 leading AI companies to manage AI risks. New standards.

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CISA adds Zimbra bug exploited in attacks against NATO countries to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Security Affairs

Proofpoint researchers recently reported that a Russian hacking group, tracked as Winter Vivern (aka TA473), has been actively exploiting vulnerabilities ( CVE-2022-27926 ) in unpatched Zimbra instances to gain access to the emails of NATO officials, governments, military personnel, and diplomats.

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China Issues Draft Data Security Law

Hunton Privacy

The Draft includes seven sections and 55 articles in total, covering data security and industrial development, the data security regulatory system, data security protection obligations and government data security and access. The Central Military Commission will develop the measures regulating military Data Activities.

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Kevin Mitnick, Hacker Turned Cybersecurity Leader, Dies at 59

eSecurity Planet

military systems and launch nuclear missiles through mere whistling. Mitnik claimed that the government was less worried about the accuracy of the charges and more worried about making an example of Mitnik to discourage other hackers. Instead of trying to address risks, it was easier to try to punish the person exposing them.

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UK Foreign Office targeted by ‘serious’ cyber attack

IT Governance

When governments are targeted by cyber attacks, the blame almost immediately falls on nation states. Russia and China have both recently been linked to cyber espionage and sabotage aimed at government agencies – with Russia accused last month of a widespread attack on the Ukrainian government website.

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US Agencies and FireEye were hacked with a supply chain attack on SolarWinds Software

Security Affairs

The cyber espionage group has tampered with updates released by IT company SolarWinds, which provides its products to government agencies, military, and intelligence offices, two people familiar with the matter told the Reuters agency. . Threat actors carried out a highly-sophisticated supply chain attack.

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