Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2021

Norse imploded rather suddenly in 2016 following a series of managerial missteps and funding debacles. In 2016, financial reality once again would catch up with the company’s leadership when Norse abruptly ceased operations and was forced to lay off most of its staff. Remember Norse Corp. , Grey’s profile at RedTorch.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

From accessing your business-critical resources and sensitive information to halting business operations and services, a malware infection can quickly become an organization’s worst nightmare come true. Unfortunately, this could be your computer trying to give away the presence of malware. Warning signs.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Several strong themes emerged from 2022’s crop of breaches, including the targeting or impersonating of employees to gain access to internal company tools; multiple intrusions at the same victim company; and less-than-forthcoming statements from victim firms about what actually transpired. com, which was fed by pig butchering scams.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2018

The Luminosity RAT was first spotted in 2015 but it became very popular in 2016. In September 2016, the UK law enforcement arrested Colton Grubbs, the man admitted to designing, marketing, and selling LuminosityLink. to more than 6,000 customers, he also helped them to hack computers worldwide.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

An advertising on the ExoStresser website (exostress.in) said that the booter service alone had launched 1,367,610 DDoS attacks, and caused targeted victim computer systems to suffer 109,186.4 The man was sentenced on one count of conspiracy to cause damage to internet-connected computers for launching millions of DDoS attacks.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 14, 2023

Self-proclaimed “ free speech absolutist ” Elon Musk bought Twitter in order to censor political speech , retaliate against journalists, and ease access to the platform for Russian and Chinese propagandists. Tech companies can already access our daily whereabouts and search queries.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2018

If ever there were a technology giant that deserved to be named and shamed for polluting the Web, it is Xiongmai — a Chinese maker of electronic parts that power a huge percentage of cheap digital video recorders (DVRs) and Internet-connected security cameras. A rendering of Xiongmai’s center in Hangzhou, China. BLANK TO BANK.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2019

The crooks infected more than 4,000 victim computers globally with GozNym banking Trojan between 2015 and 2016, most of the victims were in the United States and Europe. We will continue to relentlessly pursue these cyber criminals who think they can conduct illicit activity from behind the perceived anonymity of a computer.”

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JANUARY 15, 2019

On 6 December 2018, the Australian Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018 (Cth) (the Act ) was rushed through both houses of Federal Parliament without amendment and received royal assent on 8 December 2018. Lessons from the UK?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2020

“On June 28, last year, a suspicious behavior was detected and investigated on a terminal in our company, and as a result of unauthorized access by a third party, data was transmitted to the outside,” reads a data breach notification published by the company. ” reported the Asahi Shimbun. ” reported the Asahi Shimbun.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

I fly a lot—a quarter of a million miles per year—and being put on a TSA list, or being detained at the US border and having my electronics confiscated, would be a major problem. So would the FBI breaking into my home and seizing my personal electronics. Transferring files electronically is what encryption is for.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

Quantum computing attacks already present a real threat to existing standards, making the continued development of encryption pivotal for years to come. Encryption is the act of translating data into secret code ( ciphertext ) and back again ( plaintext ) for secure access between multiple parties.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JANUARY 26, 2022

With the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), adopted in 2016, the EU has created a solid framework for the protection of personal data in line with the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. Data is at the heart of the EU’s digital and green transformation, which are the two priorities of the European Commission.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2018

aka Baobeilong, aka Zhang Jianguo, aka Atreexp, both nationals of the People’s Republic of China (China), with conspiracy to commit computer intrusions, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft was announced today. , aka Afwar, aka CVNX, aka Alayos, aka Godkiller; and Zhang Shilong (???),

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Data Matters

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The decision now under review held that electronic communications that are stored exclusively on foreign servers cannot be reached by U.S. provider that can access the foreign-stored information, and deliver it to U.S. provider that can access the foreign-stored information, and deliver it to U.S. July 14, 2016) (Docket No.

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The Texas Record

AUGUST 18, 2020

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016). The Rebels engaged in social engineering tactics—using ways of fooling the user into providing data or access to information—to steal the schematic plans for the Death Star. K-2SO was then able to login to the computer system in the Scarif base. Viewer discretion is advised. Scarif base).

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Attackers were able to download malicious files to the employee’s computer and gain access to other Anthem systems that contained individuals’ names, Social Security numbers, medical identification numbers, addresses, dates of birth, email addresses and employment information. prevent unauthorized access to ePHI.

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Cases that address direct-access requests under Rule 34(a)(1) are instructive on how privacy should factor into proportionality analysis. 36 Computers are tangible things, after all, and many litigants over the years have sought to test, sample, or obtain copies of an opposing party’s computer or entire computer system.

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eDiscovery Daily

MARCH 27, 2019

Needham pleaded not guilty to two charges of the Computer Misuse Act – one count of unauthorized access to computer material and one count of unauthorized modification of computer material – but was convicted in January 2019.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

Microleaves , a ten-year-old proxy service that lets customers route their web traffic through millions of Microsoft Windows computers, recently fixed a vulnerability in their website that exposed their entire user database. By November 2013, Acidut was advertising the sale of “26 million SOCKS residential proxies.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The emails were disguised to look as if they come from the Central Bank of Russia and FinCERT, the Financial Sector Computer Emergency Response Team. The hackers most likely had access to samples of legitimate emails. In March 2016, for example, cybercriminals sent phishing emails from info@fincert.net.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

On November 22, 2016, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) announced a $650,000 settlement with University of Massachusetts Amherst (“UMass”), resulting from alleged violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) Privacy and Security Rules. . ”

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

The key terms are defined as follows: Cyber Event : An attempt to compromise or gain unauthorized electronic access to electronic systems, services, resources or information.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

This means imagining the “art of the possible” for a new future using a cloud computer model to deliver transformative change. In 2016 the term “content services” entered management’s vernacular when Gartner redefined ECM to focus on CS applications, platforms, and components (Shegda, et al. Customer Experience Risks. 2020, p 6).

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 4, 2019

Later in that decade, Frederick Terman returned to Stanford from Harvard as dean of the engineering school and encouraged the development of electronics in local businesses. Kleiner was the founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Perkins was an early Hewlett-Packard computer division manager.) According to the U.S.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

This means imaging the “art of the possible” for a new future using a cloud computing model to deliver transformative change. 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.”

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 28, 2016

On June 17, 2016, the National Privacy Commission (the “Commission”) of the Philippines released draft guidelines entitled, Implementing Rules and Regulations of the Data Privacy Act of 2012 (“IRR”), for public consultation. Consent of the data subject has to be evidenced by written, electronic or recorded means.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

This means imagining the “art of the possible” for a new future using a cloud computing model to deliver transformative change. Implied herein is a cloud computing model that ARMA (2016) defines as “A model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g.,

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 22, 2016

On March 16, 2016, and March 17, 2016, respectively, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) announced resolution agreements with North Memorial Health Care of Minnesota (“North Memorial”) and The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research (“Feinstein Institute”) over potential violations of the HIPAA Privacy Rule.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 30, 2021

” No More Ransom was founded in 2016 by the Dutch National Police, Europol, Intel Security and Kaspersky Lab. The project now boasts 16 associate partners, including Emsisoft, Trend Micro, Bitdefender, Avast, Bleeping Computer, Cisco, Check Point, Tesorion, McAfee, ESET, CERT_PL, Eleven Paths, KISA, the French Police, and F-Secure.

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eDiscovery Daily

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

As reported on Bloomberg ( Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57 Million People , written by Eric Newcomer) last week, compromised data from the October 2016 attack included names, email addresses and phone numbers of 50 million Uber riders around the world. driver’s license numbers.

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 16, 2018

Because more than 90 percent of documents today are generated in electronic format, ESI is becoming more and more prominent in criminal matters, especially white collar criminal cases. This exception is generally allowed for protection of law enforcement officers and may not give them the right to seize a computer unless it poses a threat.

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The Texas Record

AUGUST 23, 2018

Whether it’s creating and securing electronic records or establishing a process to capture records from social media sites, records managers often find themselves working closely with their Information Technology (IT) Departments. MW : “ Currently, we have regular meetings in conjunction with the SharePoint 2016 migration.

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eDiscovery Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

But he told me that they no longer had access to a lot of the maps, because they had recently upgraded their computers, and the new machines couldn’t read the old files. ” As computing has shifted more to mobile-based platforms, the issue of legacy document accessibility comes along with that shift. .”

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

I am a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, AccessNow, and the Tor Project; and an advisory board member of Electronic Privacy Information Center and VerifiedVoting.org. The attackers got access to full names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses, and driver's license numbers. Equifax reported that 145.5

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 10, 2021

The point here is that we aren't used to thinking about our cars as computing devices, and yet they are if common thieves are using laptops and mobile devices to gain access to them. Vamosi: In 2016 I took a two day car hacking training session at BlackHat USA in Las Vegas. Leale: That's correct: electronic control unit.

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 9, 2018

Is a 30+ year old law sufficient to regulate access of personal data in 2017? Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit’s ruling in the Microsoft Ireland warrant case, where Microsoft was not ordered to provide access to emails in that ruling. Wilkinson, Jr. SUBPOENA OF CLOUD PROVIDER DATA. You decide. WAIVER OF PRIVILEGE.

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