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Nation-State-Sponsored Attacks: Not Your Grandfather’s Cyber Attacks

Data Matters

Attorney General described a recent takedown of a Russian government-sponsored botnet called Cyclops Blink before it was weaponized and caused damage. and foreign government agencies. government reported a significant rise in hacks perpetrated against private companies by nation-state-sponsored threat actors. Agency (Feb.

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UK Government Announces Emergency Data Retention Law

Hunton Privacy

On July 10, 2014, the UK government announced plans to introduce emergency data retention rules, publishing the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill (the “Bill”) along with explanatory notes and draft regulations. The Bill allows the Secretary of State to issue regulations governing the retention of communications data.

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SEC Chair: Sweeping New Cybersecurity Rules Are Coming Soon

Data Matters

On Monday, January 24, 2022, in a speech at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law annual Securities Regulation Institute conference, Gary Gensler, Chair of the U.S. He also signaled the SEC’s continued focus on enforcement and cooperation with other law enforcement agencies. Public Companies and Service Providers.

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Hackers Target Oil Producers During COVID-19 Slump

Security Affairs

Real-Life Examples of Spear-Phishing Attacks in the Energy Production Sector. Bitdefender’s research team also uncovered a more geographically specific spear-phishing attempt to target the gas sector on April 12. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Is Emotet gang targeting companies with external SOC?

Security Affairs

The group behind Emotet malware is getting smarter and smarter in the way the y deliver such a Malware. While the infection schema looks alike from years; the way the group tries to infect victims improves from day to day. SOC report 10 12 2019.doc I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background.

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Identity-based Cryptography

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

For example, a standard SSL certificate is 2~4 KB and the typical depth of the chains of certificates is around 3~4. Indeed, many direct IBS instantiations [5,6] can save on signature size, achieving constant size signature which only has 2~3 group elements. This type of scheme (e.g., [8,9]) Revocable IBE.

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Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part I

Krebs on Security

For several years beginning around 2010, a lone teenager in Vietnam named Hieu Minh Ngo ran one of the Internet’s most profitable and popular services for selling “ fullz ,” stolen identity records that included a consumer’s name, date of birth, Social Security number and email and physical address.