eSecurity Planet

APRIL 14, 2022

Critical infrastructure , industrial control (ICS) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems are under increasing threat of cyber attacks, according to a number of recent warnings from government agencies and private security researchers. Industroyer1 was specifically made to attack electric grids.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

That’s Gartner’s estimate of global spending on cybersecurity in 2017 and 2018. Turns out it was possible for a threat actor to flood GLIBC with data , take control of it, and then use it as a launch point for stealing passwords, spying on users and attempting to usurp control of other computers. Fast forward to 2017.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Hello and welcome to the final IT Governance podcast of 2018. Even government and public bodies’ websites – including, ironically, the ICO – were found to be running cryptomining software after a third-party plug-in was compromised, but it transpired. The Russian foreign ministry denied rumours of Muscovite involvement.

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IT Governance

MAY 3, 2018

Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 4 May 2018. The Department of Health and Social Care has signed a deal with Microsoft to upgrade the NHS’s extensive IT estate to Windows 10 in an attempt to bolster its cyber resilience in the wake of last year’s WannaCry ransomware outbreak. Fourth of may be with you.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Thousands of drivers have sensitive data exposed to hackers in major IT breach Date of breach: Unclear, but breached documents date back to 2017. Breached organisation: 1Password, a password manager provider based in Canada. Breached organisation: 1Password, a password manager provider based in Canada. Records breached: 0.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

According to statistics from the FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report , complaints to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) have been rising since 2017. 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.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 3, 2018

This week, we discuss the 10 million affected by Dixons Carphone’s 2017 data breach, the exposure of hundreds of thousands of clothes shoppers’ details, Yale University’s ten-year old data breach, and a return to typewriters for government workers in Matanuska-Susitna Borough in Anchorage.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

How Microsoft Excel is able to decrypt such a content if no password is requested to the end user? That object was crafted on 2018-10-09 but it was seen only on 2018-10-12. It’s not hard to see what the payload does (CVE-2017-11882 ), but if you run it on a dynamic engine you would probably have more chances to prove it.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 1 December 2017. million users’ email addresses and passwords were compromised in a data breach in 2014. million users’ email addresses and passwords were compromised in a data breach in 2014. This week, we discuss a data breach affecting 1.7

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

In July 2018, email users around the world began complaining of receiving spam which began with a password the recipient used at some point in the past and threatened to release embarrassing videos of the recipient unless a bitcoin ransom was paid. ” SAY WHAT? domaincontrol.com, and ns18.domaincontrol.com. domaincontrol.com.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Additionally, multi-factor authentication (MFA) can further reduce the risk of malicious actors gaining access to sensitive information, even if they manage to steal usernames and passwords. What is cloud security? But in the public cloud, things are much more complicated. For PaaS models, Microsoft and its customers share the responsibility.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

The government alleges Khoroshev created, sold and used the LockBit ransomware strain to personally extort more than $100 million from hundreds of victim organizations, and that LockBit as a group extorted roughly half a billion dollars over four years. used the password 225948. That’s what the government believes.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Gamaredon Group is a Cyber Espionage persistent operation attributed to Russians FSB ( Federal Security Service ) in a long-term military and geo-political confrontation against the Ukrainian government and more in general against the Ukrainian military power. . Overview of the document. URL used by document to download the second stage.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Equifax agreed to pay up to $700 million (£561 million) as part of a settlement with the FTC over its 2017 data breach. The Chinese smart home vendor Orvibo leaked more than two billion user logs containing sensitive personal data such as names, email addresses, passwords and locations. Each company is appealing its respective fine.

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Data Matters

AUGUST 19, 2020

The NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation became effective in March 2017 and, beginning on February 15, 2019, required all NYDFS-regulated entities (Covered Entities), including First American, to annually certify compliance with the Regulation. e) and 500.01(g), g), respectively. Background to the NYDFS’s First American Statement of Charges.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Ransomware frequently contains extraction capabilities that can steal critical information like usernames and passwords, so stopping ransomware is serious business. The internet is fraught with peril these days, but nothing strikes more fear into users and IT security pros than the threat of ransomware. Jump to: What is ransomware?

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Positively RIM

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Today’s Blog is sponsored by MER 2017, Cohasset Associates’ 25 th annual educational conference on electronic records management, in Chicago, May 8-10. Does each structured data system have an active administrator who knows how to produce data and maintains the passwords/encryption keys? No records are really 100 percent secure.

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KnowBe4

MAY 9, 2023

Date/Time: TOMORROW, Wednesday, May 10, @ 2:00 PM (ET) Can't attend live? The payload is a cryptojacking Monero miner. A cryptojacker is bad enough since it will drain power and degrade device performance. This campaign may be more effective for its routine, innocent look. Blog post with links: [link] A Master Class on IT Security: Roger A.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Cryptocurrency is a digital currency designed to work as a medium of monetary exchange through transactions on a computer network and is not reliant on any central authority, such as a government or bank, to uphold or maintain it. So what if you accidentally forget the password? For some people, crypto means cryptography.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In the first week of January, the pharmaceutical giant Merck quietly settled its years-long lawsuit over whether or not its property and casualty insurers would cover a $700 million claim filed after the devastating NotPetya cyberattack in 2017. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The 9/11 attacks cost insurers and reinsurers $47 billion.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

A March 2020 software update of the SolarWinds Orion management platform gave malicious actors unhindered access to key government and enterprise networks. With access to DSInternals, the malware could query the AD servers and steal data, passwords, and keys. ” Notably, in late January U.S. Sunspot, Sunburst-Enabler. The SAML 2.0

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 3, 2023

A decade ago to the day, I published a tweet launching what would surely become yet another pet project that scratched an itch, was kinda useful to a few people but other than that, would shortly fade away into the same obscurity as all the other ones I'd launched over the previous couple of decades: It's alive! "Have

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

ICYMI, Equifax forced to pull offline a huge database of consumer data guarded only by credentials "admin/admin" [link] — briankrebs (@briankrebs) September 13, 2017. Normally account take overs are due to insecure passwords or recovery options, this is definitely something different. Bruce Schneier | @schneierblog.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 21, 2018

The Industry Cleaned Up a Lot in 2017. I very consciously avoided talking about it publicly at the time (largely because I didn't want to draw attention to it), but particularly around late 2016 and very early 2017, I was quite concerned with the broader genre that is data breach search services.

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Cyber Info Veritas

JUNE 25, 2018

In comparison, and to show the true threat that is cybercrimes and why we need to hire cybersecurity professionals, in 2017, this number rose to about $4 billion with hacks such as WannaCry Outbreak, a ransomware attack, affecting computers in more than 150 countries around the world. million attacks per year). million attacks per year).

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 3, 2019

I've also been travelling with family far more so whilst those 140 days equate to 38% of my year, there were 14 days in Hawaii, 10 days at the Aussie snow, 11 days in Texas and 17 days in Canada where I wasn't flying solo. SSW in Sydney: How safe is your #password ?! I love this post. I love the reaction it's had.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In 2017, more than 300,000 WordPress websites were affected by a malicious plugin that allowed an attacker to place embedded hidden links on victim websites. Always change the default passwords for any IoT devices you install before extended use. In 2008, the Kraken botnet with 495,000 bots infected 10% of the Fortune 500 companies.

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Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

Increasingly, thought leaders, professional organizations, and government agencies are beginning to provide answers. Creating an enterprise-wide governance structure. More and more, directors are viewing cyber-risk under the broader umbrella of corporate strategy and searching for ways to help mitigate that risk.

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IT Governance

JUNE 27, 2018

Video-sharing site AcFun urges users to change passwords after nearly 10 million users have data leaked. Government Webpages Provide Unsecured Access To Demographic Authentication. Data breaches in 2017. Gloucestershire Police fined for revealing identities of abuse victims in bcc email gaffe.

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IT Governance

APRIL 20, 2018

Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 20 April 2018. According to the NCSC , the targets are “primarily government and private-sector organisations, critical infrastructure providers, and the internet service providers (ISPs) supporting [them].”. Here are this week’s stories.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 21, 2018

million customers had been compromised, but is now known to have affected 10 million customers. The data included contact information, usernames and encrypted passwords. This short video breaks down the numbers relating to the UK-specific cyber attacks and data breaches of 2017. increase on the 2017 cost of $3.62

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Upgrade to Windows 10. In your Windows 10 or Windows 8.1 Use a safe and password-protected internet connection. Use a safe and password-protected internet connection. The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) warned customers of the DoppelPaymer ransomware and provided useful information on the threat.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

And Lamb later found evidence that the election-related files he found were all deleted from the server on March 2, 2017. There were PDFs of Election Day passwords that supervisors use to start in elections. Bee: Can you tell me what the password was? It also lead to even more testing of election system devices in other states.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

And Lamb later found evidence that the election-related files he found were all deleted from the server on March 2, 2017. There were PDFs of Election Day passwords that supervisors use to start in elections. Bee: Can you tell me what the password was? It also lead to even more testing of election system devices in other states.

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Data Matters

MAY 17, 2022

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. Not anymore.

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Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2019

Norton – this household name features time, web, search, social media, and location supervision, protection of personal information, access request, and support for up to 10 devices. Don’t share passwords. Young people have access to a nearly infinite pool of content thanks to websites like YouTube and Reddit.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 20, 2020

And Lamb later found evidence that the election-related files he found were all deleted from the server on March 2, 2017. There were PDFs of Election Day passwords that supervisors use to start in elections. Bee: Can you tell me what the password was? It also lead to even more testing of election system devices in other states.

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