IT Governance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Tensions rose throughout February as the Russian military amassed across the Ukrainian border. Although Vladimir Putin and his sympathisers assured the world that they were simply conducting military exercises, the inevitable occurred on 24 February, when troops mobilised and war was declared.

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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

drone attack that killed Iranian military commander Qassem Suleimani. Immediately following Iran’s counterstrike against American military posts in Iraq, a tweet circulated claiming that more than 20 American soldiers had been killed. Cyberwar could be a life disrupter as well as a business killer. Prepare for a Snowstorm.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Hello and welcome to the final IT Governance podcast of 2018. As is now traditional, I’ve installed myself in the porter’s chair next to the fire in the library, ready to recap some of the year’s more newsworthy information security events. For more information on each story, simply follow the links in the transcript on our blog.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 18, 2019

The disclosure that malicious intruders hacked the computer systems of the South Korean government agency that oversees weapons and munitions acquisitions for the country’s military forces is not much of a surprise. war plans, including strategies to be implemented in event of collapsing diplomatic relations.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

After Merck filed its $700 million claim, the pharmaceutical giant’s insurers argued that they were not required to cover the malware’s damage because the cyberattack was widely attributed to the Russian government and therefore was excluded from standard property and casualty insurance coverage as a “hostile or warlike act.”

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

On May 13, the HSE’s antivirus security provider emailed the HSE’s security operations team, highlighting unhandled threat events dating back to May 7 on at least 16 systems. The HSE ultimately enlisted members of the Irish military to bring in laptops and PCs to help restore computer systems by hand.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

Virtual private networks (VPNs): Secure remote user or branch office access to network resources through encrypted connections to firewalls or server applications. Apply encryption protocols and other security measures to connections between computers. Communication protocols (TCP, HTTPS, etc.):

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

The Military Chinese General and Philosopher Sun Tzu (544 BC – 496 BC) wrote these tactics over two thousand years ago, and it is as applicable today as it ever was. This specific event is where GitLab is running its pipeline through a separate system outside GitLab. government agencies and institutions). Conclusion.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 26, 2021

While ransomware attacks have become a ubiquitous event these days, what makes this attack distinctive is the ransom demand itself. . approach in that the attackers copy and exfiltrate a company’s data just prior to encrypting it. The Biggest Ransomware Demand in History. REvil uses the Ransomware 2.0 According to their data, the U.S.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

For example, here’s Jerry Lewis in a scene from a 1950s film, where he’s trying to break into a Nazi German military base. Moffatt: I think tokens are typically what I guess happens once somebody has authenticated so once the authentication event is taking place, and you've identified it, yeah, this is some Simon coming back.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

Vamosi: With the Colonial Pipeline criminal attack, we’ve seen that ransomware is an urgent national security risk that threatens schools, hospitals, businesses, and governments across the globe. Failure to pay, and your data is encrypted forever. Usually a certain amount of Bitcoin. Vamosi: So let's keep some context here.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

Vamosi: With the Colonial Pipeline criminal attack, we’ve seen that ransomware is an urgent national security risk that threatens schools, hospitals, businesses, and governments across the globe. Failure to pay, and your data is encrypted forever. Usually a certain amount of Bitcoin. Vamosi: So let's keep some context here.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 6, 2022

That event did more damage than any computer virus or worm at the time. I think event leaves open yet another possibility, that perhaps we’ve had many little digital pearl harbors already, such as the massive denial of service attack against Estonia, but we didn’t realize it at the time. This is just on a larger level.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

Vamosi: Whenever there's a data breach, a ransomware attack, large security event in general, I would like to learn something about how it happened. I worked at NSA both as a contractor and in the military for about 15 years, building those implants, building these exploits to do some of these attacks that we are currently talking about.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 10, 2018

Earlier this month, the Pentagon stopped selling phones made by the Chinese companies ZTE and Huawei on military bases because they might be used to spy on their users. All of our computerized systems are deeply international, and we have no choice but to trust the companies and governments that touch those systems.

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