Krebs on Security

MARCH 25, 2020

government Web sites now carry a message prominently at the top of their home pages meant to help visitors better distinguish between official U.S. government properties and phishing pages. Census Bureau website [link] carries a message that reads, “An official Web site of the United States government.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2023

New Report Identifies ‘Risky’ Unauthorized Apps That Pose National Security Risks The Department of Homeland Security inspector general found U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Sponsored by Bytes Software Services; in partnership with CyberArk Government agencies are adopting zero trust architectures, both to meet regulatory

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APRIL 20, 2023

Cisco's Peter Romness on Defending the Expanded Attack Surface Post-digital transformation, in a world of hybrid work and multi-cloud environments, government agencies in particular sometimes struggle to detect and respond to threats across the expanded attack surface.

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JULY 10, 2023

Francisco Partners plans to split Forcepoint's government and commercial security practices, selling the former to TPG for $2.45 Deal Comes 30 Months After PE Arm Francisco Bought All of Forcepoint for Just $1.1B billion.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2024

A series of “intense” cyberattacks hit multiple French government agencies, revealed the prime minister’s office. “Several “intense” cyberattacks targeted multiple French government agencies since Sunday night, as disclosed by the prime minister’s office.” ” reported the French newspaper Le Monde.

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JULY 26, 2023

Flaw in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile Rated 10 on CVSS Scale A mobile security vendor patched a critically rated zero-day vulnerability in its endpoint management platform that had been used by unknown hackers to attack the Norwegian government. Multiple governments use the platform - the Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile.

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MARCH 14, 2024

Senator Urges Government to Tell Public About Little-Known Manufacturer Reset Codes Experts told ISMG that Chinese-made locks and commercial safes could pose national security risks when used by major U.S.

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MARCH 7, 2024

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency hopes to expand voluntary information sharing between the federal government and open-source software operators with a series of actions the agency announced following a two-day open-source security summit held at its Virginia headquarters.

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JULY 12, 2023

26 Countries Hit by Espionage Group Storm-0558 Through Microsoft Outlook Flaw Security experts say China-based hackers are "leading their peers in the deployment of zero-days" in the wake of another wide-ranging attack that abused a flaw in Microsoft Outlook and used forged authentication tokens to access email accounts of governments in the United (..)

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MAY 20, 2022

Deal Will Help Clients Secure Users and Data Across SAP and Oracle's ERP Apps Pathlock has merged with Appsian to form a 500-person vendor that secures users and data across SAP and Oracle's ERP apps.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 23, 2024

On January 23, 2024, the UK government announced that it published a draft Code of Practice on cybersecurity governance (the “Code”). While it is acknowledged that “there is no one size fits all approach to governing. cyber risk”, there are certain “common fundamental actions” that may be taken.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Co-Founder & CEO Discusses Why the Company Is Seeking FedRAMP Authorization Security firms must increasingly follow U.S. government security requirements even if they don't serve federal agencies themselves, says Avi Shua, Orca Security co-founder and CEO. government.

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JANUARY 2, 2024

Forrester's Sandy Carielli Shares Highlights From API Security Report Forrester analyst Sandy Carielli highlights key API security aspects in Forrester's report titled The Eight Components of API Security," which covers governance, discovery, testing, authentication and protection from API breaches as many organizations are grappling with the maturity (..)

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AUGUST 9, 2022

CSO on How OneTrust's Platform Brings Privacy, Compliance and Governance Together OneTrust has put nearly $1 billion in investment to good use, helping companies address data governance, security assurance, third-party risk and more, Chief Strategy Officer Blake Brannon says.

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OCTOBER 22, 2021

Co-Sponsor of Bipartisan Proposal Calls Bill 'Common-Sense Legislation' Two Senate leaders on Thursday introduced legislation that would form a working group charged with monitoring the security of AI data obtained by federal contractors.

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DECEMBER 4, 2018

Longtime CISO Vito Sardanopoli on Building an Effective Security Program A formal security program that spells out precise governance components is critical to protecting sensitive data, says Vito Sardanopoli, who served on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Healthcare Industry Cybersecurity Task Force.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 23, 2023

June 22, 2023 — Dasera , the premier automated data security and governance platform for top-tier finance, healthcare, and technology enterprises, is thrilled to unveil “Ski Lift,” a complimentary platform exclusively designed for Snowflake users. Mountain View, Calif.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Identity Security Expert Jeremy Grant on AI and Digital Identity Risks In the latest weekly update, Jeremy Grant of Venable joins three ISMG editors to discuss why the U.S. government is taking a back seat on digital identity issues, the risks of artificial intelligence, and takeaways from the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Backdoor Is Associated With Stealth Falcon APT Group Security researchers discovered a novel backdoor targeting a governmental agency in the Middle East for espionage purposes. Deadglyph is unique because it's made up of different parts written in different programming languages: native x64 binary and a.NET assembly.

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JANUARY 28, 2020

government is taking the first steps toward creating new security requirements for manufacturers to strengthen password protections and improve how vulnerabilities are reported.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil Dings Cybersecurity Law as 'Bloody Useless' The Australian government says it will centralize its approach to securing federal agencies by appointing a coordinator to head the new National Office for Cyber Security within the Department of Home Affairs.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

CISA revealed that threat actors breached an unnamed state government organization via an administrator account belonging to a former employee. The government experts conducted an incident response assessment of the state government organization after its documents were posted on the dark web.

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MARCH 5, 2021

FireEye, Other Security Firms Detect Activity Hackers have targeted units of local government by attempting to exploit unpatched vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange email servers, according to a new report by the security firm FireEye. Meanwhile, CISA has updated its alert.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 23, 2024

He believes it also needs to publicly scrutinize Microsoft and make sure everyone knows when it messes up. “At the end of the day, Microsoft, any company, is going to respond most directly to market incentives,” Grotto told us. ” Breaking up the tech monopolies is one of the best things we can do for cybersecurity.

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Data Matters

MARCH 6, 2024

On 20 February 2024, the UK Government and the Australian Federal Government co-signed a historic Online Safety and Security Memorandum of Understanding ( MoU ) signifying the bilateral cooperation between the two countries to help boost their respective online safety regimes.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 3, 2022

government agencies have issued a warning to organizations in the country against paying ransom to the Karakurt data extortion group. The threat actor's promises to delete stolen data and not disclose the security incident to the public if its demands are met are false, the agencies say.

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MARCH 14, 2023

UK Security Minister Confirms Agency Is Examining App for Chinese Government Ties Britain's National Cyber Security Agency is examining TikTok to help the government finalize its decision to ban the Chinese video sharing app from federal networks, the country’s security minister Tom Tugendhat revealed.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 12, 2024

Over the last 6 years, we've been very happy to welcome dozens of national governments to have unhindered access to their domains in Have I Been Pwned , free from cost and manual verification barriers.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

This week, we discuss allegations of data security failures at Twitter, a €405 million fine for Instagram, a cyber attack on InterContinental Hotels Group, and why Cloud security is so important. The post IT Governance Podcast Episode 8: Twitter, Instagram, InterContinental and Cloud security appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog.

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

On 23 January 2024, the UK government published its draft Cyber Governance Code of Practice (the “ Code ”) to help directors and other senior leadership boost their organizations’ cyber resilience. The UK government is seeking views from organizations on the draft Code by 19 March 2024.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

federal networks after a government watchdog caught the government's main acquisition arm purchasing unauthorized, Chinese-manufactured video conference cameras. Experts Warn Against Increasing Federal Reliance on Chinese Technology Experts are raising fresh concerns about the "significant risk" for Chinese espionage against U.S.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Hackers Uses Same FTP Server as Earlier OneNote Phishing Campaign A campaign targeting government entities in the Asia-Pacific and North America regions with an info stealer hosted on a Discord server shares infrastructure with a campaign that used Microsoft OneNote to deliver malware.

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JUNE 30, 2023

The 2003 Cyberattack Has Been Linked to a State-Sponsored Cyberespionage Campaign The United Kingdom's national cybersecurity agency on Friday marked the 20th anniversary of its response to the first-ever cyberattack against the government by disclosing how government agencies responded.

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AUGUST 21, 2023

Part of Agency's Campaign to Align Design, Development With Security From the Start The U.S federal government is advocating for artificial intelligence developers to embrace security as a core requirement, warning that machine learning code is particularly difficult and expensive to fix after deployment.

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MARCH 6, 2020

Expanse CTO Matt Kraning on Meeting New Demands for Cloud Security The good news is: Organizations are embracing the cloud, and that's a boon to velocity and digital transformation. The bad news: Visibility and governance take a huge hit.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is warning about a recent spike in Emotet botnet attacks - designed to spread other malware - that are targeting state and local government agencies. Botnet Called 'One of the Most Prevalent Ongoing Threats' The U.S.

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