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Taiwan Government websites suffered DDoS attacks during the Nancy Pelosi visit

Security Affairs

Taiwan government websites were temporarily forced offline by cyber attacks during the visit to Taipei of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Major Taiwan government websites were temporarily forced offline by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks attacks during the visit to Taipei of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

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Russian Cybersecurity Executive Arrested for Alleged Role in 2012 Megahacks

Krebs on Security

Nikita Kislitsin , formerly the head of network security for one of Russia’s top cybersecurity firms, was arrested last week in Kazakhstan in response to 10-year-old hacking charges from the U.S. Nikita Kislitsin, at a security conference in Russia. Department of Justice. “The company is monitoring developments.”

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China-linked APT10 Target Taiwan’s financial trading industry

Security Affairs

The campaign was launched by the APT10 group started in November 2021, but it hit a peak between 10 and 13 2022, Taiwanese cybersecurity firm CyCraft reported. The attack was uncovered amid the presentation of draft amendments to the National Security Act by Taiwan’s Parliament. ” reported Nikkei Asia. Pierluigi Paganini.

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US and UK sanctioned seven Russian members of Trickbot gang

Security Affairs

” This is the first time the UK government has imposed such kind of sanctions, its authorities collaborated with the U.S. government and U.S. based financial institutions that occurred in 2009 and 2010, predating his involvement in Dyre or the Trickbot Group. and the U.K.” ” continues the press release.

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‘Spam Nation’ Villain Vrublevsky Charged With Fraud

Krebs on Security

But according to information obtained by KrebsOnSecurity, it is equally likely Vrublevsky was arrested thanks to his propensity for carefully documenting the links between Russia’s state security services and the cybercriminal underground. The latest document in the hacked archive is dated April 2021.

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Homomorphic Encryption Makes Real-World Gains, Pushed by Google, IBM, Microsoft

eSecurity Planet

To counter this, some major IT vendors are pushing forward with a decades-old encryption idea that was first talked about in the late 1970s but not successfully demonstrated for the first time until 2009. Further reading : Best Encryption Software & Tools for 2021. Putting a Focus on FHE. It’s available on GitHub.

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Part 1: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about understanding the business drivers?

ARMA International

Gartner (2021) has two related definitions: Digital Transformation: “can refer to anything from IT modernization (for example, cloud computing), to digital optimization, to the invention of new digital business models.” Srivastav 2014) See Figure 1 (HistoryComputer 2021). So, at the outset, a good question to ask is What is DT ?