Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The DHS has launched a new bug bounty program dubbed ‘Hack DHS’ to discover security vulnerabilities in external DHS systems. As the federal government’s cybersecurity quarterback, DHS must lead by example and constantly seek to strengthen the security of our own systems,” said Secretary Alejandro N. “As

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Although there have still been a few surprises, with the death of Queen Elizabeth II and blazing heatwaves across the UK to name but two, it was a familiar year in the cyber security landscape. Google , Clearview AI , and Meta all receives hefty penalties in 2022, demonstrating the continued important of effective information security.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Today’s enterprises face a broad range of threats to their security, assets and critical business processes. While different—mainly due to the causes of the events they help mitigate—cyber recovery and DR are often complementary, with many enterprises wisely choosing to deploy both. What is cyber recovery?

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JUNE 6, 2023

And this was no fly-by-night startup – the company’s founders, team, and investors are all deeply experienced in AI, Internet security, scaled engineering, product design, marketing, and much more. You can think of the same example in many contexts – food/dieting, fitness, other entertainment apps, medical apps, etc.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

I didn’t know either of them, but I have been writing about cryptography, security, and privacy for decades. You read so much classified information about the world’s geopolitical events that you start seeing the world differently. I tried to talk to Greenwald about his own operational security. It made sense.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2022

MalwareHunterTeam noticed the instructions left by Onyx for their victims are “mostly a copy-paste of Conti’s note,” sharing the following example: The hackers offer to decrypt “two random files completely free of charge” to prove they “really can get the data back.” Otherwise, you might wind up with additional problems.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 30, 2022

I’m Robert Vamosi and in this episode I’m talking about cyber ranges-- simulations that can both teach and improve the security of your networks. Or when we do these larger assessments for say, large banks, we have our red team going live against the security teams. Vamosi: That’s Lee Rossi, CTO and co founder.of

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Security experts from ESET have spotted the first UEFI rootkit of ever, the code tracked as LoJax was used in attacks in the wild. Security experts have debated for a long about UEFI rootkits that are very dangerous malware hard to detect and that could resist to the operating system reinstallation and even to the hard disk replacement.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Private cloud combines many benefits of cloud computing with the security and control of on-premises IT infrastructure. This creates the flexibility, security and availability needed for employees to gain secure access to corporate resources and share tools like work management platforms to collaborate inside and outside the organization.

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The Texas Record

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Also research the impact of the information’s proximity to potential man-made hazards, for example the airport, military bases, plants or factories that handle hazardous or flammable material. For e.g. Information on paper is secure based on papers longevity. What records require critical security measures?

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 14, 2023

Here’s the exchange, edited for clarity and length: LW: Should we be more concerned about cyber exposures than classic military threats? Romanoff: Classic military threats will always merit significant concern due to their direct impact on life. The EU is moving much faster to regulate digital security.

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KnowBe4

MARCH 7, 2023

This is an excellent article that exposes the vulnerabilities when communications systems are not secure by design. They started out with: "As Putin began his invasion of Ukraine, a network used throughout Europe—and by the Ukrainian military—faced an unprecedented cyberattack that doubled as an industrywide wake-up call. government.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 14, 2022

” The event, which was captured on video and also reported in Wired magazine, sent a message to the automotive industry. In fact, I remember starting a new job by flying to Auburn Hills, Michigan for the very first meeting of the Featherstone Group, a collection of automotive OEM executive and security professionals.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The internet is fraught with peril these days, but nothing strikes more fear into users and IT security pros than the threat of ransomware. Screenshot example. Expanding on what a ransomware attack looks like, here is an example of how Locky would appear on your desktop. Also Read: Best Encryption Tools & Software for 2021.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

Network security architecture is a strategy that provides formal processes to design robust and secure networks. Effective implementation improves data throughput, system reliability, and overall security for any organization. Network Elements Networks connect physical and virtual assets and control the data flow between them.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The risks are real, and the impact of cybersecurity events continues to grow. A cyber catastrophe may seem inevitable, but there are basic practices and actionable steps any healthcare organization can take to begin reducing the clear and present risk of being impacted by a cybersecurity event. Educate employees.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 21, 2020

In the inaugural episode, The Hacker Mind looks at why the West Point Military Academy, and other organizations within the DoD, is training its young cadets to hack. Or maybe, just maybe back in 2014, West Point and other military service academies, are on to something really important. The military has these massive computer networks.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 21, 2020

In the inaugural episode, The Hacker Mind looks at why the West Point Military Academy, and other organizations within the DoD, is training its young cadets to hack. Or maybe, just maybe back in 2014, West Point and other military service academies, are on to something really important. The military has these massive computer networks.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 21, 2020

In the inaugural episode, The Hacker Mind looks at why the West Point Military Academy, and other organizations within the DoD, is training its young cadets to hack. Or maybe, just maybe back in 2014, West Point and other military service academies, are on to something really important. The military has these massive computer networks.

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Data Matters

JUNE 25, 2018

For example, in 2013, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) partnered with Microsoft to disrupt more than 1,400 Citadel botnets. Products should be secured during all stages of the lifecycle ,” as it is too easy to assemble botnets when devices lack the ability for effective patching or “remain in service after vendor support ends.”.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

On 10 May 2021, security auditors first identified evidence of the attacker compromising systems within Hospital C and Hospital L. 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.

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Unwritten Record

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Upon graduation everyone was assigned a Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) and sent off to train for it. So I went to Vietnam in December of 1966 as an infantryman and through a mistake in my orders was assigned to the 1 st Marine Division Security Platoon instead of directly to a line company. Photo by Cpl. Earl Gerheim.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Security experts who reviewed the leaked data say they believe the information is legitimate, and that i-SOON works closely with China’s Ministry of State Security and the military. In 2021, the Sichuan provincial government named i-SOON as one of “the top 30 information security companies.”

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

For example, in March of 2016, two researchers, Mike Ahmadi and Billy Rios independently reported an astounding fourteen hundred vulnerabilities to CareFusion's Pyxis SupplyStation, an automated, networked, supply cabinet used to store and dispense supplies. Especially in the world of security standards. He’s well known.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

For example, in March of 2016, two researchers, Mike Ahmadi and Billy Rios independently reported an astounding fourteen hundred vulnerabilities to CareFusion's Pyxis SupplyStation, an automated, networked, supply cabinet used to store and dispense supplies. Especially in the world of security standards. He’s well known.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 14, 2021

It was also designed under President Eisenhower to move military troops and vehicles from point A to point B, but that's another story. How do we continue to accommodate those diverse voices that don’t often get heard or even included in the large corporate events? Vamosi: And those upcoming events that Jack and I talked about?

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

One possible solution, touted by former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on a recent podcast , would be for the federal government to step in and help pay for these sorts of attacks by providing a cyber insurance backstop. Future attacks are not likely to receive the same determination.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for them. 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. If they are in superior strength, evade them. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 1, 2022

SO I only mention Ross Ulbricht in talks because I use him as an example of an Operation Security, or OpSec failure. Operational Security is typically a military process. Welcome to the hacker mind that original podcast from for all secure it's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 3, 2018

I have a Yahoo email account, I’ve shopped at Home Depot and Target , my father was in the military and had a security clearance, which included a dossier on his family, archived at the U.S. All organizations should assume that the next threat is already inside their networks and won’t be caught by conventional perimeter security.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2022

For example, we detected and disrupted recidivist CIB activity linked to the Belarusian KGB who suddenly began posting in Polish and English about Ukrainian troops surrendering without a fight and the nation’s leaders fleeing the country on February 24, the day Russia began the war. . We disabled the account and event that same day.”

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The PDPL also imposes new obligations upon businesses to ensure that the personal data they collect is kept secure. The decision may require specific activities by applying special security requirements when processing personal data. The PDPL will set up a new authority, known as the Personal Data Protection Authority (Authority).

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

Is there something more secure? Simon Moffatt from CyberHut joins The Hacker Mind to discuss how identity and access management (IAM) is fundamental to everything we do online today, and why even multi-factor access, while an improvement, needs to yield to more effortless and more secure passwordless technology that’s coming soon.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Hacking has an event that’s similar. These computers capture the flag events which are loosely based on the children’s game. Vamosi: So, not everyone is in a military academy. So perhaps a better example is Zarata, who we met in EPISODE TWO. They’re called Capture the Flag competitions. So, I apologize.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 15, 2020

Continuing the discussions started at our successful FuzzCon event held earlier this year, ForAllSecure is hosting a series of follow-up sessions online called FuzzCon TV (formerly A Fuzzing Affair). And I think what we're seeing is a shift, primarily in the military and the DoD, today there's actually further extensive in-use cases.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 15, 2020

Continuing the discussions started at our successful FuzzCon event held earlier this year, ForAllSecure is hosting a series of follow-up sessions online called FuzzCon TV (formerly A Fuzzing Affair). And I think what we're seeing is a shift, primarily in the military and the DoD, today there's actually further extensive in-use cases.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 15, 2020

Continuing the discussions started at our successful FuzzCon event held earlier this year, ForAllSecure is hosting a series of follow-up sessions online called FuzzCon TV (formerly A Fuzzing Affair). And I think what we're seeing is a shift, primarily in the military and the DoD, today there's actually further extensive in-use cases.

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