Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. The 911 service as it exists today.

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

government released a “White Paper” addressing how U.S. law and practice relating to government access to data for national security purposes,” especially as that information bears on “issues that appear to have concerned the ECJ in Schrems II ” and as it “may bear on many companies’ analyses” of how their reliance on SCCs conforms to EU law.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2024

The hackers told TechCrunch that they stole the database from a Singapore-based company that has access to the sensitive database, however, they did not name the victim organization. In June 2016, security researcher Chris Vickery found a copy of the World-Check database dated 2014 that was accidentally exposed online.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2019

Russian APT groups are targeting European governments for cyber-espionage purposes ahead of the upcoming European elections. The APT28 group has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2024

In January 2019, law enforcement agencies in the US and Europe announced the seizure of the popular xDedic marketplace , an underground market offering for sale access to compromised systems and personally identifiable information. The black marketplace has been active since 2014, it was first analyzed by experts at Kaspersky Lab in 2016.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MARCH 7, 2020

million Australians being re-identifiable online due to a government bungle. In 2016, Vanessa Teague, a cryptographer from the University of Melbourne, and two of her colleagues reported on a dataset , published on an open government data website by the federal government, of 2.5m

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ARMA International

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

iv] Further, “the practices of government [and other public and private institutions] become formal or official to the extent that they are documented.” [v] This article aims to consider what a documentary focus can offer to the practices and understandings of information governance. A Documentary Approach.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 23, 2019

electric utilities and government agencies have been hacked, according to a recent report by the Wall Street Journal. government has linked the hackers to a Russian state-sponsored group, sometimes called Dragonfly or Energetic Bear. Hundreds of contractors and subcontractors with connections to U.S.

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Collibra

JANUARY 14, 2022

When GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) came into effect in 2016, organizations took time to understand and plan their compliance efforts. They focus on processing customer requests to access and update their data in a given timeframe. How is it possible to access health records compliantly?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2024

The man was arrested at the end of August 2021 at the Seoul International Airport, he has remained stuck in the Asian country since February 2020 due to the COVID-19 lockdown imposed by the local government and the cancelation of international travel. ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2024

Most affected organizations are educational institutions such as schools and universities, healthcare facilities including clinics and doctors’ practices, nursing services, legal and tax advisory firms, local governments, and a multitude of medium-sized enterprises. ” reads the alert published by the BSI.

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IT Governance

JULY 1, 2019

Earlier this year, the Japanese government launched a campaign in which it hacked into citizens’ IoT (Internet of Things) devices to see how secure the technology is. Once the test is complete, the government will tell the IoT providers about their vulnerabilities and instruct them to address the issues.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Network data collected by the NetBlocks internet observatory confirm that Turkey has blocked access to social media as Idlib military crisis escalates. The access was first blocked via national provider Turk Telecom (AS9121), but later other service providers applied the government restrictions. local time (8:30 p.m.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2021

Big companies have long been worried about the very real threat of disgruntled employees creating identities on darknet sites and then offering to trash their employer’s network for a fee (for more on that, see my 2016 story, Rise of the Darknet Stokes Fear of the Insider ). – Government entities. – Canada.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election. In recent attacks spotted by Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence, the nation-state actors primarily targeted government, energy, transportation, and non-governmental organizations in the US, Europe, and the Middle East.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Pushwoosh’s software also was found in apps for “a wide array of international companies, influential nonprofits and government agencies from global consumer goods company Unilever and the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) to the politically powerful U.S. Pushwoosh was incorporated in Novosibirsk, Russia in 2016.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2024

Microsoft has observed APT28 using GooseEgg in post-compromise activities against various targets, including government, non-governmental, education, and transportation sector organizations in Ukraine, Western Europe, and North America. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2019

The unsecured storage server was discovered by security expert Greg Pollock from UpGuard, it contained 3 terabytes of data including millions of sensitive Government files and years worth of sensitive FBI investigations. The server also included email backups from 1999 to 2016, the largest and most recent reaching 16GB in size.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

A ransomware attack disrupted IT operations in the territory of Nunavut (Canada), all government services requiring access to electronic data were impacted. A ransomware attack disrupted IT operations in the remote Canadian territory of Nunavut, all government services requiring access to electronic information were impacted.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 7, 2022

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says it has disrupted a giant botnet built and operated by a Russian government intelligence unit known for launching destructive cyberattacks against energy infrastructure in the United States and Ukraine. Separately, law enforcement agencies in the U.S. energy facilities. . ” HYDRA.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 27, 2021

The ethical hackers at WizCase recently disclosed another stunning example of sensitive consumer data left out in the open in the public cloud — for one and all to access. There was no need for a password or login credentials to access this information, and the data was not encrypted.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

New government rules coupled with industry standards meant to give formal shape to the Internet of Things (IoT) are rapidly quickening around the globe. After all, government mandates combined with industry standards are the twin towers of public safety. Related: The need for supply chain security This is to be expected.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Prompted by assurances that the government would one day afford Liberty Reserve users a chance to reclaim any funds seized as part of the takedown, KrebsOnSecurity filed a claim shortly thereafter to see if and when this process might take place. Attorney for the Southern District of New York — went unanswered.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2020

Group-IB published a detailed report on Fxmsp – a heavyweight of the Russian-speaking cyber underground who made a name for himself selling access to corporate networks. Despite the fact that Fxmsp has ceased all public activity, it’s not unlikely that he continues to attack corporate networks and sell access to them.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 13, 2024

.” Jayalalithaa died in 2016. Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) workers like Shakti Singh Rathore have been frequenting AI startups to send personalized videos to specific voters about the government benefits they received and asking for their vote over WhatsApp.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2021

” The indictment also says Witte provided code to the Trickbot Group for a web panel used to access victim data stored in a database. The following conversation, on or about June 1, 2016, concerned a potential new Trickbot hire who successfully completed a test task that involved altering a Firefox Web browser. Image: DOJ.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Over the past 20 months, the group targeted at least 30 organizations within 14 nations that are probably of strategic intelligence significance to the Russian government and its military. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

In July 2016, KrebsOnSecurity published a story identifying a Toronto man as the author of the Orcus RAT , a software product that’s been marketed on underground forums and used in countless malware attacks since its creation in 2015. government said was used to infect more than a half million computers worldwide. In 2014, the U.S.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

governments sanctioned 11 more individuals who were alleged members of the Russia-based TrickBot cybercrime gang. Government and U.S. TrickBot initially partnered with Ryuk ransomware which used it for initial access in the network compromised by the botnet. Government and U.S. The sanctions were provided by the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

Recently, Faceless has shown ambitions beyond just selling access to poorly-secured IoT devices. And in March 2023, Faceless started marketing a service for looking up Social Security Numbers (SSNs) that claims to provide access to “the largest SSN database on the market with a very high hit rate.” In 2013, U.S.

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Preservica

JULY 18, 2019

Colorado and Alaska State Archives are the latest government agencies to join the growing community of public sector organizations using Preservica’s cloud-hosted (SaaS) active digital preservation platform to meet state mandates and public records laws to preserve and provide greater access to permanent and historical government records.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 27, 2019

-based cloud solution provider, allowed hackers to access email and file sharing systems for some of the company’s clients, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. based PCM [ NASDAQ:PCMI ] is a provider of technology products, services and solutions to businesses as well as state and federal governments. El Segundo, Calif.

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Data Protection Report

MAY 24, 2024

Accountability and governance. The CMA will continue to monitor for potential competition and consumer protection concerns, applying its six principles to identify any such concerns: access, diversity, choice, fair dealing, transparency, and accountability. These principles (the Principles) are: Safety, security and robustness.

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Preservica

AUGUST 19, 2016

A look back at Archives*Records 2016 and an insightful week in digital preservation. With so many of our users in town, it was the perfect opportunity to host the Preservica 2016 North American User Group. A key and consistent theme to come up in conversation throughout the conference was the requirement for access.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2023

A remote attacker can trigger the flaw to obtain administrative privileges and eventually gain access to camera video feeds. According to the company, they have over 600,000 Cameras and 50,000 Recorders installed all over the world in multiple sectors such as Banking, Retail, Government, etc. in MVPower CCTV DVR models.

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ARMA International

APRIL 18, 2022

The purpose of this article is to remove the fear and intimidation of domestic and global data protection laws and show how these laws and requirements are consistent with the existing objectives of your records retention schedule and information governance policy. 2016/679 (EU, April 27). Accessed March 13, 2022. 2 DLA Piper.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

Related: What local government can do to repel ransomware Ransomware came into existence in 1989 as a primitive program dubbed the AIDS Trojan that was spreading via 5.25-inch The infamous Locky ransomware was first spotted in the wild in February 2016. The first viable Mac ransomware called KeRanger was spotted in the spring of 2016.

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