Security Affairs

MARCH 5, 2019

A cyber-espionage group, tracked as APT40, apparently linked to the Chinese government is focused on targeting countries important to the country’s Belt and Road Initiative. Jumper , and Leviathan ), apparently linked to the Chinese government, is focused on targeting countries important to the country’s Belt and Road Initiative (i.e.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The post List of data breaches and cyber attacks in November 2020 – 586 million records breached appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. million) Phil i ppines COVID-19 track and trace app leaks citizens’ data (unknown) Contractor mistakenly removed data from Hong Kong’s Queen Mary Hospital (442) Cloud Clusters Inc.

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KnowBe4

MAY 16, 2023

The Snake peer-to-peer botnet had infected computers of some NATO member governments. Learn about the real risks of weak passwords, why password management is key to building a strong security culture, and our best advice on how to protect your users and your organization. Grimes , Data-Driven Defense Evangelist.

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IT Governance

APRIL 3, 2023

It’s confident that more sensitive data, such as payment card numbers, Social Security numbers and passwords, have not been affected. Million Records Breached appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. The telecoms giant said that the breached records include people’s names, wireless account numbers, phone numbers and email addresses.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 8, 2021

The ManageEngine IT security portfolio spans everything from privileged access management (PAM) to network configuration to password management. There are also many specific use cases for education, healthcare, manufacturing, government and financial services. It provides controls for managing security from all angles.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Often, a scammer will simply target the people in a company and fool them into giving up their personal details, account passwords, and other sensitive information and gain access that way. According to the 2021 IBM Threat Force Intelligence Index , Manufacturing was the industry most likely to be attacked last year, comprising 23.2%

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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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KnowBe4

MARCH 7, 2023

The most critical affected Ukraine: Several thousand satellite systems that President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's government depended on were all down, making it much tougher for the military and intelligence services to coordinate troop and drone movements in the hours after the invasion." government. Ukrainians paid the price.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

However, if you have a British Library login and your password is used elsewhere, we recommend changing it as a precautionary measure.” The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors.

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Reltio

MARCH 31, 2019

To ensure no wall between data, governance, and insight, she shares her mantras: invest intelligently, source strategically, and collaborate. If you missed this event, check out the video presentations here to get the latest buzz in the data management industry (Login: dd19@reltio.com | Password: berightfaster).

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Data Protection Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Slightly over one year ago, several major distributed denial-of-service (“DDoS”) attacks took place, including a major event affecting the domain name service provider Dyn , which caused outages and slowness for a number of popular sites, including Amazon, Netflix, Reddit, SoundCloud, Spotify, and Twitter. DDoS Mitigation.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Broadcom also offers a location hub microcontroller and System-on-a-Chip (SoC) systems for embedded IoT security for organizations handling product manufacturing. Security administrators gain needed context into IoT and OT security events to leverage existing policies. Broadcom Features. Cisco Features. Trustwave Features.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2022

You're really looking at a government agency from some some country who's politically motivated and who can afford to put the money and the time into building a threat like this and who has the insider information from a uranium enrichment facility that would facilitate building a threat? Van Norman: Right right.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Most device or software manufacturers place backdoors in their products intentionally and for a good reason. Organizations can help prevent their computers from becoming part of a botnet by installing anti-malware software, using firewalls , keeping software up-to-date, and forcing users to use strong passwords. Backdoors.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 23, 2022

For example, the BlackTech cyber-espionage ATP group, suspected to be backed by the Chinese government, sent emails containing Excel files with malicious macros to Japanese and Taiwanese corporations in the defense technology, media, and communications sectors. Manufactured BackDoor Vulnerabilities. Use strong passwords.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 8, 2023

Make the event organizers know your position on this. And, at the same time, the larger established companies may have more governance processes and procedures, which will allow them to do more things that are in the DNI space. Oil and gas, manufacturing plants and healthcare system. So that to take a stand. Potentially, right.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

It's operating in an era of increasingly large repositories of personal data held by both private companies and governments alike. Precedents like Stuxnet , created by the US and Israeli governments to damage the Iranian nuclear program by targeting air-gapped centrifuges via 4 previously unknown "zero-day" flaws.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

A lot of times we depend on usernames and passwords, but those really aren’t enough. If you just use username and passwords-- well that’s easily imitated. So, secure facilities like data centers or you get into government facilities that are controlling do DoD type facilities. Vamosi: Good point.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Compromised Credentials Compromised identities from phishing, info stealers, keyloggers, and bad password habits provide the entry point for most ransomware attacks and data breaches. 583% increase in Kerberoasting [password hash cracking] attacks. 64% of managers and higher admit to poor password practices.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 19, 2023

MAC address information includes manufacturers, which can be very useful to identify printers, routers, or even video game consoles connected to the network. However, for endpoints and servers, the MAC address will usually only return the manufacturer of the network card, and other commands will need to be used to obtain more information.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

And that's when we had this kind of great freeze event in Texas where they lost power and all this stuff. And I remember asking questions, who were the manufacturers? There's been a few different ones that have been on eBay for different manufacturers and I bought a few of them. Turns out they weren't. It's pretty cool stuff.

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Energy and Utilities Computer and Electronics IT Communications 52

The Last Watchdog

JUNE 1, 2020

We disassociated cyber risk, like using weak passwords and visiting sketchy websites, from the harm of that risk. The key here is that the costs of such events are fairly easily identifiable and thus costs and probabilities can be reasonably assessed — and rates can be charged competitively.

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