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Locked Shields 2019 – Chapeau, France wins Cyber Defence Exercise

Security Affairs

The international live-fire cyber defence exercise Locked Shields 2019 (LS19) took place on April 8-12 in Tallinn, Estonia, and the figures behind this important competition are important. “This year the exercise evolved around 4000 virtualised systems that had to take more than 2500 attacks. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Dept. of Energy announced the Liberty Eclipse exercise to test electrical grid against cyber attacks

Security Affairs

DoE announced the Liberty Eclipse exercise to test the electrical grid ‘s ability to recover from a blackout caused by cyberattacks. The “Liberty Eclipse” exercise aims at evaluating the response of the infrastructure to coordinated attacks against an electric, oil and natural gas infrastructure.

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The board of directors of OpenAI fired Sam Altman

Security Affairs

Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities. OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) organization that was established as a non-profit in 2015.

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US Cyber Command and Australian IWD to develop shared cyber training range

Security Affairs

“Cyber mission forces first identified the need for a shared, iterative virtual cyber range during exercise Cyber Flag 2015 and has since galvanized an expedited effort to define the requirement and find technical solutions. The agreement is valued at $215.19 ” reads the press release published by the US Cyber Command.

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UK Supreme Court Grants Google Permission to Appeal Class Action Claim in Lloyd vs Google LLC

Data Matters

The issue has already been the subject of litigation in the English courts in the matter of Vidal-Hall v Google in 2015 and regulatory action in the U.S., Whether the High Court judge was correct to exercise his discretion in ruling that the claim should not be permitted to proceed under CPR 19.6 to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

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FCC and FTC Enter Memorandum of Understanding to Coordinate Regulation of ISPs

Data Matters

In February 2015, the FCC adopted the “Open Internet Order,” which reclassified broadband internet service as a common carrier service regulated under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934. However, the FTC statute expressly precludes it from exercising jurisdiction over common carriers like telephone companies. Background.

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CISA’s advisory warns of notable increase in LokiBot malware

Security Affairs

The Lokibot malware has been active since 2015, it is an infostealer that was involved in many malspam campaigns aimed at harvest credentials from web browsers, email clients, admin tools and that was also used to target cryptocoin-wallet owners. Exercise caution when using removable media (e.g., Enforce a strong password policy.