The Last Watchdog

JULY 27, 2021

This latest high-profile example of security sloppiness was uncovered by a team of white hat hackers led by Ata Hakçil. WizCase reached out to PeopleGIS and the S3 buckets in question have since been secured. We’ve seen some of the buckets were accessible and got archived as back as 2016. based PeopleGIS.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Security researchers revealed in a recent paper that over the past years, China Telecom used BGP hijacking to misdirect Internet traffic through China. Security researchers Chris C. The incident also affected US government (‘‘.gov’’) If the erroneous announcement was maliciously arranged, then a BGP hijack has occurred.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

According to an internal report drown up after the 2016 data breach that led to the ‘ Vault 7 ‘ data leak, a specialized CIA unit involved in the development of hacking tools and cyber weapons failed in protecting its operations and was able to respond after the leak of its secrets. ” reported The Washington Post. .

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Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2023

government this week put a $10 million bounty on the head of a Russian man who for the past 18 years operated Try2Check , one of the cybercrime underground’s most trusted services for checking the validity of stolen credit card data. In 2017, U.S. According to cybersecurity firm Constella Intelligence , the address polkas@bk.ru

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2020

Matthew Keys is a former Reuters journalist who was convicted in October 2015 of supporting the Anonymous collective and that was sentenced to 24 months in prison for computer hacking charges in April 2016. The post Journalist Matthew Keys is now charged with an attack on a magazine appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2020

” reads the report published by the security firm Intezer. ” Back in 2013, the security researchers at FireEye spotted a group of China-Linked hackers that conducted an espionage campaign on foreign affairs ministries in Europe. “We believe the operation was conducted very recently.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

” 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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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

A statement of facts filed by the government indicates Petr Pacas was at one point director of operations at Company A (Adconion). The government alleges the men sent forged letters to an Internet hosting firm claiming they had been authorized by the registrants of the inactive IP addresses to use that space for their own purposes.

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2019

Security researchers at ESET reported that China-linked threat actor APT15 (aka Ke3chang , Mirage , Vixen Panda , Royal APT and Playful Dragon) has been using a previously undocumented backdoor for more than two years. “In late 2016, we identified a previously unknown backdoor that we named Okrum. ” continues the report.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Department of Homeland Security issued a bulletin calling out Iran’s “robust cyber program,” and cautioning everyone to be prepared for Iran to “conduct operations in the United States.” cyber ops capability is Stuxnet , the self-spreading Windows worm found insinuating itself through Iranian nuclear plants in 2010.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Apple continues to be haunted by spyware developed by an Israeli security firm that hostile governments used to hack into Apple devices to spy on journalists, activists and world leaders (see Apple Security Under Scrutiny Amid Fallout from NSO Spyware Scandal ). and iPadOS 14.8 Spyware Vulnerability. Fast Fixes by Apple.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2019

In 2010, security vendor FireEye identified the Pirpi Remote Access Trojan (RAT) which exploited a then 0-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer versions 6, 7 and 8. Since then, APT3 has been actively penetrating corporations and governments in the US, UK and most recently Hong Kong. ” concludes Symantec.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

According to his LinkedIn profile , Schulte worked for the NSA for five months in 2010 as a systems engineer, after this experience, he joined the CIA as a software engineer and he left the CIA in November 2016. Security Affairs – Radisson Hotel Group, data breach). ” continues the AP. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

That breach has a lot in common with this one, with T-Mobile saying at the time that the criminal hackers accessed customers’ names, contact information, account numbers and account types, but didn’t get hold of financial information or Social Security numbers.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2019

“This warning is specifically targeted to small and medium-sized businesses and government agencies that take credit card payments online. ” E-skimming attacks were initially observed in the wild in 2016, their number rapidly increased since then. . ” reads the alert published by the FBI. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Security firm revealed that China-linked APT group Turbine Panda conducted cyber-espionage operations aimed at various aerospace firms for years. Security researchers at Crowdstrike conducted long-running cyber-espionage operations aimed at various aerospace firms. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) breach. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2020

The US-based School management software provider Active Network disclosed a severe security breach last week. Active Network provides web-based school management software for K-12 schools and districts, last week it announced to have suffered a major security breach.

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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. NeroWolfe seems to have abandoned all of his forum accounts sometime in 2016.

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

JUNE 17, 2019

Hong Kong’s past reforms to the PDPO have been “event driven”, the best example being the Octopus Rewards case in 2010, which led to extensive reforms to Hong Kong’s direct marketing controls. The earliest known date at which personal data was actually compromised was 7 September, 2016. The Incident.

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

MARCH 14, 2019

The proposed changes to the Safeguards Rule add a number of more detailed security requirements, whereas the proposed changes to the Privacy Rule are more focused on technical changes to align the Rule with changes in law over the past decade. It includes general, high level elements of a security program, but lacks detailed security steps.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

It's operating in an era of increasingly large repositories of personal data held by both private companies and governments alike. It's not the only such claim either; earlier last year in the wake of another security controversy, another similarly spectacular claim was made : In public, UIDAI claimed Aadhaar was completely secure.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 16, 2016

My advisor in graduate school was Dawn Song , one of the top scholars in computer security. She would go on to win a MacArthur "Genius" Award in 2010. DeepRed is from Raytheon SI, one of the go-to government contractors for cybersecurity solutions. She's a hard act to follow. And, of course, Dawn Song , my advisor, and mentor.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 16, 2016

My advisor in graduate school was Dawn Song , one of the top scholars in computer security. She would go on to win a MacArthur "Genius" Award in 2010. DeepRed is from Raytheon SI, one of the go-to government contractors for cybersecurity solutions. She's a hard act to follow. And, of course, Dawn Song , my advisor, and mentor.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 16, 2016

My advisor in graduate school was Dawn Song , one of the top scholars in computer security. She would go on to win a MacArthur "Genius" Award in 2010. DeepRed is from Raytheon SI, one of the go-to government contractors for cybersecurity solutions. She's a hard act to follow. And, of course, Dawn Song , my advisor, and mentor.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2020

Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 revealed that the US CIA has hacked Chinese organizations in various sectors for the last 11 years. Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 is accusing that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of having hacked Chinese organizations for the last 11 years.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 16, 2019

Those include a large number of cybercrime forums and stolen credit card shops, ransomware download sites, Magecart-related infrastructure , and a metric boatload of phishing Web sites mimicking dozens of retailers, banks and various government Web site portals. KrebsOnSecurity uncovered strong evidence to support a similar conclusion.

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

4 The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure have begun — since their inception — with a guiding command for courts to seek “to secure the just, speedy, and inexpensive determination of every action and proceeding.”5 19 No longer are the proportionality considerations described as separate “limitations” on an inquiry governed solely by relevance.20

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 5, 2023

The healthcare industry’s heavy reliance on legacy systems, regulatory and security challenges are significant hurdles for its journey toward digital transformation. HR digital transformation In 2010, SingHealth needed to consolidate the disparate HR systems across its hospitals, specialty centres and polyclinics.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

While digital voting systems are more secure today, what about the larger ecosystem, starting from the moment you register until your vote is counted? Who’s keeping those systems secure? In 2010, she was interviewed by O'Reilly Media. One of the premiere security researchers that Bowen invited to California was J.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

While digital voting systems are more secure today, what about the larger ecosystem, starting from the moment you register until your vote is counted? Who’s keeping those systems secure? In 2010, she was interviewed by O'Reilly Media. One of the premiere security researchers that Bowen invited to California was J.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 20, 2020

While digital voting systems are more secure today, what about the larger ecosystem, starting from the moment you register until your vote is counted? Who’s keeping those systems secure? In 2010, she was interviewed by O'Reilly Media. One of the premiere security researchers that Bowen invited to California was J.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Take the example of the pandemic: only some governments engaged pandemic experts to develop actions plans. Commissioned by organizers to predict worst-case scenarios for the Munich games, [Georg] Sieber came up with a range of possibilities, from explosions to plane crashes, for which security teams should be prepared.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The solution is to prioritize security and defense over espionage and attack. We don’t know how, but last year the company’s update server was protected by the password “solarwinds123” — something that speaks to a lack of security culture.) The SVR probably has the same kinds of tools.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 21, 2023

Early Computer Hacking: 1950s & 1960s Hacking is a term that has been used to describe unauthorized access to computer systems or networks for various purposes, including stealing data, causing damage, or demonstrating security vulnerabilities. Computer security was in its infancy in the 60s.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The men — a former Russian cyber intelligence official and an executive at Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab — were reportedly prosecuted for their part in an investigation into Pavel Vrublevsky , a convicted cybercriminal who ran one of the world’s biggest spam networks and was a major focus of my 2014 book, Spam Nation.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 4, 2024

February 26, 2024 FCKeditor Used for SEO Poisoning on Government, University Sites Type of vulnerability: Malicious URL redirect. All sites incorporated the archaic FCKeditor plug-in, which stopped receiving support in 2010. All sites incorporated the archaic FCKeditor plug-in, which stopped receiving support in 2010.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Named after a character from “Scooby-Doo,” the Creeper was originally intended as a security test for the U.S. As a security test, the Creeper’s effects on infected machines were minimal. Read More: Top Secure Email Gateway Solutions for 2022. Going Mobile and Going Global: 2001-2010.

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