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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

This week, in our last podcast of the year, we revisit some of the biggest information security stories from the past 12 months. in which the travel records of military and civilian personnel – which included their personal information and credit card data – were compromised.

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GUEST ESSAY: Supply chain vulnerabilities play out in latest Pentagon personnel records breach

The Last Watchdog

12, the Pentagon disclosed that intruders breached Defense Department travel records and compromised the personal information and credit card data of U.S. military and civilian personnel. Third-party risk. The OPM breach put most federal workers since the year 2000 are at risk. government strategic systems.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: A Hacker From Hollywood

ForAllSecure

At the age of 12, he entered and won a beauty contest in Vienna. He told her he really wanted to create faster planes so that he could sell them to the US military. Bluetooth mitigates the risk of collisions through its use of spread spectrum technologies. Lamarr: People have the idea that I’m sort of a stupid thing.

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Ukrainian Websites Struck by Cyber Attacks as Russia Launches Invasion

IT Governance

The Ukrainian military was also affected, although a researcher told BBC News that it has “seen a more rapid recovery after today’s cyber-attack, likely due to preparedness and increased capacity to implement mitigations. In 2015, the Ukrainian power grid was shut down in a cyber attack that was reportedly conducted by Russian forces.

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A Flurry of Recent Cybersecurity Activity from the Trump Administration

Data Matters

Subsequent joint public-private efforts targeted a botnet known as “ Beebone ” in 2015 and the more recent “ Mirai ” and “ Reaper ” attacks. The final Report on this assessment found that 12 agencies of the 96 agencies had “high risk” programs, meaning that their cybersecurity tools were not implemented or sufficiently deployed.

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US Army banned the popular TikTok app over China security concerns

Security Affairs

16 Defense Department Cyber Awareness Message identifying “TikTok as having potential security risks associated with its use,” according to the message.” Strangely China was absent, top information requests came from India (107 requests) the United States (79), Japan (35), Germany (12) and France (8).