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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 26 February – 3 March 2024

IT Governance

The claim is yet to be verified. Data breached: 183,754,481 records. EasyPark data breach: 21.1 million records offered for sale Europe’s largest parking app operator, EasyPark, announced last December that it had suffered a cyber attack that resulted in customer data being compromised.

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STEPS FORWARD: Math geniuses strive to make a pivotal advance — by obfuscating software code

The Last Watchdog

Here are a few key takeaways: The security bottleneck The next great leap forward in digital technologies will give us driverless ground transportation, green cities that continually optimize energy usage and self-improving medical treatments. Everything from science and engineering to poetry and music rely on numeric calculations.

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China-linked hackers target government agencies by exploiting flaws in Citrix, Pulse, and F5 systems, and MS Exchange

Security Affairs

Department of Justice indictment, MSS-affiliated actors have targeted various industries across the United States and other countries—including high-tech manufacturing; medical device, civil, and industrial engineering; business, educational, and gaming software; solar energy; pharmaceuticals; and defense—in a campaign that lasted over ten years.[

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

ForAllSecure

Can criminal hackers shut down a city’s electrical grid? Well, nothing’s impossible. But how might it actually happen? And how might we defend ourselves? Here’s the CBS evening news : CBS: Nearly a quarter of a million people lost power in this small Ukrainian city when it was targeted by a suspected Russian attack last December.

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The Weeks in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 18 – 31 December 2023

IT Governance

Known records breached Real Estate Wealth Network Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Real estate USA Unknown 1,523,776,691 TuneFab Source (New) Software Hong Kong Unknown >151,000,000 Dori Media Group Source (New) Media Israel Yes >100 TB Rosvodokanal Source (New) Utilities Russia Yes 50 TB breached; 1.5

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in May 2021 – 116 million records breached

IT Governance

unknown) Criminal hackers attack Ehrmann, demand millions in ransom (unknown) Criminal hackers attack Energy Hamburg Radio (unknown) Chemical distribution company Brenntag paid a $4.4 For the second month in a row, ransomware has dominated our list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Spargo & Associates Inc. Spargo & Associates Inc.