The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

Related: What local government can do to repel ransomware Ransomware came into existence in 1989 as a primitive program dubbed the AIDS Trojan that was spreading via 5.25-inch Although most people think of ransomware as a dodgy application that encrypts data and holds it for ransom, the concept is much more heterogeneous than that.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

Security researcher Marco Ramilli presents a comparative analysis of attacks techniques adopted by the Iran-Linked OilRig APT group. I would define this group of references as reports. Those reports have been divided into 4 timing groups in order to simplify the evaluation process. and more personal thoughts.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2021

Members of the Great Firewall Report group have analyzed the recent improvement implemented for China’s Great Firewall censorship system and revealed that it is possible to bypass it. Shadowsocks is a free and open-source encryption protocol project, widely used in China to circumvent Internet censorship.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2022

Microsoft spotted a new destructive malware operation targeting government, non-profit, and IT entities in Ukraine. Microsoft spotted a destructive attack that targeted government, non-profit, and IT entities in Ukraine with a wiper disguised as ransomware. Virtually all ransomware encrypts the contents of files on the filesystem.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Iran – Government blocks Internet access in response to the protests. Federal Communications Commission has cut off government funding for equipment from Chinese firms. Some Fortinet products used hardcoded keys and weak encryption for communications. Full(z) House Magecart group mix phishing and MiTM in its attacks.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 27, 2022

Each present a unique set of challenges and require equally powerful next-generation cyber security. A conventional computer would need 300 trillion years to break RSA encryption – considered the gold standard for Public Key Encryption (PKE). government. Anatomy of a Quantum Attack. Thu, 04/28/2022 - 06:15. NATO, the U.S.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Russia-linked cyberespionage group APT28 uses fake NATO training documents as bait in attacks aimed at government bodies. The Russia-linked cyberespionage group APT28 is behind a string of attacks that targeting government bodies with Zebrocy Delphi malware. ” reads the report published QuoIntelligence.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 11, 2024

Its founding team comprises leading AI researchers and security veterans who have created security products in broad use across enterprises today, and have 150+ patents across large language models, cloud computing, encryption, scalable architecture, transistors, and hardware design. billion by 2028. “AI-driven

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2022

SentinelOne documented a series of attacks aimed at government, education, and telecom entities in Southeast Asia and Australia carried out by a previously undocumented Chinese-speaking APT tracked as Aoqin Dragon. From 2018 to present, Aoqin Dragon has also been observed using a fake removable device as an initial infection vector.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

This included presentations by Ministers and Heads of Government, who shared information about innovation in their countries, YouthX, which brought together young innovators, and the leaders of more than 40 women-led startups. Customers were interested in all the portfolios of encryption, MFA, data protection, and access management.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 16, 2022

The emergence of ransomware groups targeting critical infrastructure such as healthcare facilities and energy organizations, as well as the rising trend of large-scale data breaches, is putting governments' capacity to defend citizens' lives, property, and well-being in jeopardy. Advance Trust with Awareness and Culture.

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Security Affairs

JULY 4, 2019

Now the threat is evolving, the Sodinokibi ransomware includes fresh code to elevate its privileges on a target machine by exploiting a vulnerability in the Win32k component present on Windows 7 through 10 and Server editions. Once encrypted the files, Sodinokibi will append a random extension that is different for each computer it infects.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 18, 2022

At the same time, the regulatory and legislative landscape is expanding, with governments and transnational organizations adopting a multitude of acts and laws to protect their critical infrastructures from being the next victim of a sophisticated attack. The keyword here is ‘together.’.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

I paged through weekly reports, presentation slides from status meetings, and general briefings to educate visitors. The meeting presenters try to spice things up. Presentations regularly include intelligence success stories. Neither were any of the algorithm names I knew, not even algorithms I knew that the US government used.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 12, 2023

The second advisory, ADV230002 , notes that Trend Micro released a patch in March for CVE-2023-28005 , a secure boot bypass vulnerability in Trend Micro Endpoint Encryption Full Disk Encryption. “This vulnerability not only presents a substantial security risk, but also a significant compliance issue,” Dali said by email.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Secret Service issued a detailed advisory on the BlackByte Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) group, which has attacked critical infrastructure industries in recent months, among them government, financial and food and agriculture targets. cybersecurity agencies, which highlighted the threats in a pair of warnings issued in recent days.

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Data Matters

OCTOBER 6, 2022

PETs are not defined in data protection law, but the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (“ ENISA ”) defines them as “systems encompassing technical processes, methods or knowledge to achieve specific privacy or data protection functionality or to protect against risks of privacy of an individual or a group of natural persons.”

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Read more: REvil Ransomware Group Resurfaces After Two Months Away. For ransomware attacks where network data gets encrypted , backups are the definitive method for restoring network infrastructure. Alongside these more sophisticated tactics , ransomware attacks now go beyond just encrypting network data. Data Exfiltration.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 30, 2023

It’s a relatively short SAQ, with only one more question than the shortest SAQ, P2PE [point-to-point encryption], and covering just 4 of the Standard’s 12 high-level requirements, so a good way of reducing the PCI DSS compliance burden for smaller merchants in particular. We’ll be back next week, chatting to another expert within the Group.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

According to BleepingComputer , the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group took responsibility for an attack on McLaren’s network on 4 October. Customer data, which was encrypted, was reported to be unaffected. The post The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 6 – 12 November 2023 appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 22, 2024

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a European Union (EU) law that governs how organizations collect and use personal data. Schools, hospitals and government agencies all fall under GDPR authority. A data controller is any organization, group or person that obtains personal data and determines how it is used.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

All of your files are encrypted with RSA-2048 and AES-128 ciphers.” ” Or you might see a readme.txt stating, “Your files have been replaced by these encrypted containers and aren’t accessible; you will lose your files on [enter date] unless you pay $2500 in Bitcoin.” IMPORTANT INFORMATION !!! Statistics.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

Encryption and the development of cryptography have been a cornerstone of IT security for decades and remain critical for data protection against evolving threats. While cryptology is thousands of years old, modern cryptography took off in the 1970s with the help of the Diffie-Hellman-Merkle and RSA encryption algorithms.

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Collibra

JANUARY 23, 2023

Zero trust, a government wide initiative Zero-trust was originally introduced as a network-based architecture mode, which centralized on identity and multi-factor authentication. In fact, the US federal government has made it a mandate; it has been one year since the White House set forth its zero-trust strategy.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

We noticed that the TTP of the group is almost the same leveraging a weaponized document with a fake certificate of request of an Indian public fund. The document presents itself as a request for a DSOP FUND (Defence Services Officers Provident Fund ). So, Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab team decided to dive deep into technical analysis. Conclusion.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Rapidly deploying applications to cloud requires not just development acceleration with continuous integration, deployment and testing (CI/CD/CT), It also requires supply chain lifecycle acceleration, which involves multiple other groups such as governance risk and compliance (GRC), change management, operations, resiliency and reliability.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Hello, and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Thursday, 21 February 2019. The oldest, CVE-1999-0017 , which, as its CVE number indicates, was first identified in 1999, was present in over 3,000 IT systems. Last October, the restaurant group agreed to pay $3.4 Here are this week’s stories. Well, that’ll do for this week.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 7, 2020

In our first review of 2020, we look at a new twist on a PayPal scam, and discuss data breaches at an IVF treatment facility and in the Singapore government. The symbol simply signifies that the site has an SSL certificate, which means the information shared between your computer and the website is encrypted.

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Adam Shostack

JULY 1, 2021

The US Government’s lead cybersecurity agencies (CISA, NSA, and ODNI) have released an interesting report, Potential Threat Vectors To 5G Infrastructure. They have three main groups of vectors (things which are vulnerable to threats): policy and standards, supply chain and systems architecture. What can go wrong?

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

A group of Ukrainian hackers took the Moscow Stock Exchange offline on Monday, while the hacking collective Anonymous, which has declared “cyber war” against Russia , said it had taken down RT News, the Russian state-controlled television network. Other attacks had more broadly political motives.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

APRIL 27, 2020

In this regard, the Toolbox categorises the Apps into two general groups: (i) decentralised processing of proximity data which remains only on the device (i.e., Such cybersecurity-related requirements include the use of encryption, communications security, secure development practices and user authentication.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 19, 2018

This year, there were over 3,000 attendees, 120 analyst sessions to choose from, and 200 vendors that were on the show floor and delivering presentations. Hackers are a group of people with a deep curiously of how things work, how they can be made better, and they have high levels of creativity. Until than—keep your data safe!

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 8, 2022

And at the time, while you couldn't necessarily start the car, you still needed the fob to present when you hit the start button. Even so, the car manufacturers carved out large groups of codes. Certainly no one uses 40 bit encryption anymore. So the car would start. It was a mere 40 bit key length.

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Data Protection Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The company would use the collected personal data (including geolocation data) to group customers into “audiences” for purposes of targeted advertising, including ads displayed through the SDK. According to paragraph 9 of the FTC complaint, Blackbaud did not encrypt database backup files.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The Kremlin breaks with all tradition and announces that — at the request of the United States — it has arrested 14 people suspected of working for REvil , one of the more ruthless and profitable Russian ransomware groups. Penchukov was arrested after leaving Ukraine to meet up with his wife in Switzerland.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2021

China-linked APT group Cycldek is behind an advanced cyberespionage campaign targeting entities in the government and military sector in Vietnam. China-linked APT group LuckyMouse (aka Cycldek, Goblin Panda , Hellsing, APT 27, and Conimes) is targeting government and military organizations in Vietnam with spear-phishing.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 27, 2019

IT Governance is closing out the year by rounding up 2019’s biggest information security stories. This meant they weren’t encrypted, making them freely accessible to as many as 20,000 employees, most of whom had no legitimate reason to access the information. IT Governance released its final Weekly Podcast.

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