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The US Military Buys Commercial Location Data

Schneier on Security

Vice has a long article about how the US military buys commercial location data worldwide. military is buying the granular movement data of people around the world, harvested from innocuous-seeming apps, Motherboard has learned. This isn’t new, this isn’t just data of non-US citizens, and this isn’t the US military.

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SHARED INTEL Q&A: Bi-partisan report calls a for a self-sacrificing approach to cybersecurity

The Last Watchdog

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. Similar bills, including many data privacy bills, follow California’s lead.

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Calendar Meeting Links Used to Spread Mac Malware

Krebs on Security

” SlowMist said the malware downloaded by the malicious link in their case comes from a North Korean hacking group dubbed “ BlueNoroff , which Kaspersky Labs says is a subgroup of the Lazarus hacking group. The North Korean regime is known to use stolen cryptocurrencies to fund its military and other state projects.

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NATO Group Catfished Soldiers to Prove a Point About Privacy

WIRED Threat Level

With $60 and a few fake Facebook accounts, researchers were able to identify service members in a military exercise, track their movement, and even persuade them to disobey orders.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 1 – 7 April 2024

IT Governance

million patients’ data via unsecured database According to DataBreaches.net, EyeCare Services Partners – a group of eye care providers based in Dallas, Texas – left 50 TB of data exposed via an unsecured blob. Data breached: at least 456,000 records. EyeCare Services Partners exposes more 3.5 The biggest database in the blob contained 3.1

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Pentagon’s Warning on DNA Testing is Applicable to all Consumers

ARMA International

On December 23, Yahoo News [1] reported on a Department of Defense memo [2] warning military personnel that using direct-to-consumer (DTC) DNA testing could pose “personal and operational risks.” In other words, the Pentagon is concerned about hostile entities using such biometric data to better surveil and track the military.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 March 2024

IT Governance

ISO/IEC 27006-1:2024 Information security, cybersecurity and privacy protection – Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of information security management systems complements ISO/IEC 17021-1 and requires ISO 27001-certified organisations to show evidence that they are maintaining their compliance with the Standard.