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Qbot uses a new email collector module in the latest campaign

Security Affairs

Most of the infections were observed in organizations in the US and Europe, the most targeted industries were in the government, military, and manufacturing sectors. . Check Point’s experts have analyzed examples of targeted, hijacked email threads with subjects related to Covid-19, tax payment reminders, and job recruitment content.

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MY TAKE: Iran’s cyber retaliation for Soleimani assassination continues to ramp up

The Last Watchdog

Touhill “Adversaries should remember that our military doctrine identifies cyber as one of our combined arms capabilities,” says Greg Touhill, president of AppGate Federal Group , a Florida-based supplier of software perimeter security systems.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking the Art of Invisibility

ForAllSecure

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. A lot of the examples will be from drug lords if only because they represent the extreme -- they need to operate in the shadows. Well guess what?

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MY TAKE: Massive Marriott breach continues seemingly endless run of successful hacks

The Last Watchdog

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. A single neglected server that was not protected by a dual password scheme was the last line of defense standing between the hacker and the exposed data.

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Supply Chain Security is the Whole Enchilada, But Who’s Willing to Pay for It?

Krebs on Security

The chips were alleged to have spied on users of the devices and sent unspecified data back to the Chinese military. Supermicro has assembly facilities in California, the Netherlands, and Taiwan, but its motherboards—its core product—are nearly all manufactured by contractors in China. But the U.S. based firms.

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #10 [Eye Opener] BusinessWeek: The Satellite Hack Everyone Is Finally Talking About

KnowBe4

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. One-Time Passwords (OTPs), passwords, or credit card numbers). What they refer to is the Viasat hack. government.

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Q&A: NIST’s new ‘Enterprise Risk Management’ guidelines push cyber risks to board level

The Last Watchdog

We disassociated cyber risk, like using weak passwords and visiting sketchy websites, from the harm of that risk. What’s an example of how they might come into play? Clinton: Take for example, restrictions many companies have on the websites employees are permitted to access from their office computers.

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