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. As Gather marketing lead Niki Aggarwal pointed out, now that I had the data in my control, I could start to ask it questions.

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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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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

drone attack that killed Iranian military commander Qassem Suleimani. Despite assurances to the contrary, it’s a fair assumption there is more to come, according to national security experts. One model of cyberattack includes sowing confusion in financial markets. This immediately caused a mini panic. Update Everything.

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IT Governance

MARCH 28, 2019

Chinese hackers target universities in pursuit of maritime military secrets (unknown). Automation Anywhere app exposes event attendees’ information (unknown). Email marketing company leaves its mailing list on a publicly accessible database (809 million). All-in-one widget ShareThis discloses data theft (617 million).

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Data Matters

JUNE 25, 2018

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.”. These goals are: “Identify a clear pathway toward an adaptable, sustainable, and secure technology marketplace.”. Botnet Report.

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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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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. Raising awareness about ransomware is a baseline security measure. As training sessions have little influence over staff for every potential attack, it makes added security more imperative.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A marketing slide deck promoting i-SOON’s Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) capabilities. 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. Image: nattothoughts.substack.com.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Enhanced security institutions use devices to monitor drone movement, posing a privacy risk to its owner. Recently, the Cybernews research team stumbled upon an unprotected database with over 90 million drone-monitoring logs generated by DJI devices – the largest market player in the world that sells both drones and devices to surveil them.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 24, 2018

Originally Featured in Global Military Communications Magazine’s June/July Issue. With more than 65,000 employees in 56 countries, Thales is a global leader in technology solutions for the aerospace, transport, defence and security markets. Security spending decisions are also playing a sizable factor.

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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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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

This week, in our last podcast of the year, we revisit some of the biggest information security stories from the past 12 months. 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.

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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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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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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. Whether the data will be used for direct marketing. To object to direct marketing. The decision may require specific activities by applying special security requirements when processing personal data.

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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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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. I’m training and running the marathon to improve my health, to improve my own personal record. Cyber 600 and that was. So, I apologize.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Versa Unified SASE provides carrier-grade performance and a host of deployment options expected by experienced network engineers and security professionals. Founded in 2012, Versa Networks seeks to deploy a single software operating system, called VOS, to converge and integrate cloud and on-premises security, networking, and analytics.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 12, 2020

The national security agency. Did I also mention that they let me take MILAIR (Military Aircraft Transportation)? There is something very special about securing a physical object -- something you can point to and touch. It’s not commonplace to have the opportunity to secure something that flies at Mach 2!

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ForAllSecure

MAY 12, 2020

The national security agency. Did I also mention that they let me take MILAIR (Military Aircraft Transportation)? There is something very special about securing a physical object -- something you can point to and touch. It’s not commonplace to have the opportunity to secure something that flies at Mach 2!

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ForAllSecure

MAY 12, 2020

The national security agency. Did I also mention that they let me take MILAIR (Military Aircraft Transportation)? There is something very special about securing a physical object -- something you can point to and touch. It’s not commonplace to have the opportunity to secure something that flies at Mach 2!

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 27, 2021

Vamosi: Today, John has taken his juvenile curiosity in breaking things down to become a security researcher with Huntress Labs. Hammond: As a security researcher, I am hierarchically in their Threat OPs department. So, that’s the military. What if, like me, you’re not part of the military?

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 27, 2021

Vamosi: Today, John has taken his juvenile curiosity in breaking things down to become a security researcher with Huntress Labs. Hammond: As a security researcher, I am hierarchically in their Threat OPs department. So, that’s the military. What if, like me, you’re not part of the military?

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

Kyle Hanslovan CEO of Huntress Labs joins The Hacker Mind to discuss recent LoL attacks, specifically the Microsoft Follina attack and the Kaseya ransomware attack, and how important it is for small and medium sized businesses to start using enterprise grade security, given the evolving nature of these attacks. They'd be allowed, right?

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ForAllSecure

MAY 30, 2023

Mark Lance, the VP of DFIR and Threat intelligence for GuidePoint Security, provides The Hacker Mind with stories of ransomware cases he’s handled. One other thing: the Conti source code was also leaked, allowing security companies to create their own decryption services for anyone infected with the Conti ransomware.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

While I produced this episode, a 21 year old Massachusetts National Guard airman is alleged to have photographed and distributed copies of classified US Military material on Discord, a social media site. And so, myself and another individual named Rob Farrell, we were brought in to start a security team.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 1, 2020

The Internet Security Alliance ( ISA ) is a trade association and think tank whose members include prominent corporations in a wide cross section of industries. I think the whole digital age came upon us so quickly, so easily, so pleasantly and so profitably that we simply missed the security downside at first.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

This is a well-reasoned treatise collaboratively assembled by board members of the Internet Security Alliance ( ISA.) Alibaba controls the world’s largest money market fund and handles more payments than Mastercard. It also advocates a smarter, more concerted public-private partnership as the core solution.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Some are motivated by potential business revenue, others by national security concerns. One faction describes the dangers posed by AI through the framework of safety, another through ethics or integrity, yet another through security, and others through economics. Sexist labor systems that rate feminine-coded résumés lower.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2023

The Biden administration today issued its vision for beefing up the nation’s collective cybersecurity posture, including calls for legislation establishing liability for software products and services that are sold with little regard for security. ” Many of the U.S. ” Many of the U.S.

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