The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 28, 2019

Related: Long run damage of 35-day government shutdown. The end game for this particular hacking ring is to install crypto currency mining routines on compromised Linux servers. Worldwide spending on information security products and services rose to $114 billion in 2018, up from $102 billion in 2017, an increase of 12.4

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AIIM

JUNE 30, 2020

Since this article was published in 2017, the Information Management industry exploded with new questions, like, Is ECM really dead? AIIM believes that Information Management and Information Governance should NOT be done just for the sake of doing them. My recommendation comes from a personal mantra of mine – 1% better every day.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

According to statistics from the FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report , complaints to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) have been rising since 2017. In 2020 alone, 79 ransomware attacks were conducted against government entities in the U.S., Cybercrime is a growth industry like no other. billion in reported losses.

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Information is Currency

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Companies Still Struggle With Information Governance, Survey Finds. Despite years of talking about information governance and compliance, less than half of companies surveyed have a compliance culture — and many companies apparently have no governance strategy at all. The Need for Information Governance Has Never Been Greater.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The surveillance regime the UK government has built seriously undermines our freedom,” Megan Golding, a lawyer speaking for privacy advocates, stated. It’s now commonplace for high-resolution video cams to feed endless streams of image data into increasingly intelligent data mining software.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

This week, we discuss new reports from Cisco, McAfee and the CSIS, and Big Brother Watch, and hear more about malicious Monero mining. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 23 February 2018. I neglected to reveal the sum the criminals managed to mine in the few hours before they were detected.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

What if companies stopped treating consumers as wellsprings of behavioral data – data to be voraciously mined and then sold to the highest bidder? These are ponderings that have been debated by captains of industry, government regulators, and consumer advocates in Europe and North America for the past decade and a half.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Source: Truesec According to Telekom Security , DarkGate Loader’s developer, who goes by the name RastaFarEye, has been developing the malware since 2017 and has been advertising it as a malware-as-a-service model since 16 June 2023.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Hello and welcome to the final IT Governance podcast of 2018. Even government and public bodies’ websites – including, ironically, the ICO – were found to be running cryptomining software after a third-party plug-in was compromised, but it transpired. Dixons Carphone admitted suffering a major data breach in July 2017, involving 5.9

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IT Governance

APRIL 16, 2018

Cryptojacking is when cryptocurrency miners are delivered through malware, using a computer’s processing power to illicitly mine cryptocurrency. The successful use of worms in the WannaCry attack in 2017 has likely encouraged criminal hackers to use them as an automated and faster way to spread malware. Cryptojacking.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 7, 2023

Customers for the privately-held customer include Fortune 100 organizations and government agencies. This article was originally written by Drew Robb on July 7, 2017 , and updated by Chad Kime on April 7, 2023. Forescout Platform The Forescout platform replaces the legacy CounterACT product to provide broader security capabilities.

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CILIP

JUNE 29, 2021

In 2017, when the UK amended its law and extended Public Lending Right (PLR) payments to authors for eLending? It took action when the Dutch government drafted a law for the creation of a digital library lending platform ? At that time EU law prevented the UK government from intervening. t have enforced it.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 10, 2019

The Measures, which, when finalized, will be legally binding, supplement the Cybersecurity Law of China (the “Cybersecurity Law”) that took force on June 1, 2017, with detailed and practical requirements for network operators who collect, store, transmit, process and use data within Chinese territory.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 24, 2018

Of those organizations, 57 percent have been breached in the last year – a number that is three times the rate of just two years ago (in our 2016 report, 18 percent reported a breach within the last year, and in our 2017 report, 34 percent reported a breach within the last year). This bears out in the stats: Nearly half (45 percent) of U.S.

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Information Matters

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

I recently sat down with Gus Tugendhat, founder of UK-based government tenders and contracts data provider, Tussell. UK public procurement was worth about £220bn in 2017 – equivalent to more than 10% of UK GDP. We want to make it as easy as possible for companies to do business with the government – in the UK and around the world.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 10, 2019

And there are the governments around the world using it to protect their departments , the law enforcement agencies leveraging it for their investigations and all sorts of other use cases I never, ever saw coming (my legitimisation of HIBP post from last year has a heap of other examples). WilliamCaraher) October 10, 2017.

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eDiscovery Daily

MARCH 29, 2018

Jason is a member of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP ’s Information Governance and eDiscovery practice and co-chair of the Information Governance Initiative. The practice that I joined a few years ago at Drinker Biddle is an Information Governance and eDiscovery group. Today’s thought leader is Jason R.

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CILIP

OCTOBER 8, 2019

A total of 30 speakers will be taking part, including Max Gabriel, Chief Data Officer at Taylor & Francis; Felisia Loukou, Government Digital Service Data Scientist; Phil Gooch, CEO of Scholarcy; and Harriet Bell, Marketing Director at Emerald Publishing. Relating change to users.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Cryptocurrency is a digital currency designed to work as a medium of monetary exchange through transactions on a computer network and is not reliant on any central authority, such as a government or bank, to uphold or maintain it. Nor am I going to wade into the debate about the ecological consequences of mining cryptocurrencies.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

ARMA (2017) describes RIM practices as the “knowledge and skills required to systematically manage information assets from creation or receipt through processing, distributing, sharing, using, accessing, organizing, storing and retrieving, and disposing of them. Information Governance (IG). What are traditional RIM practices?

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

A network monitoring company for the federal government and other large companies, Solar Winds, had been breached. And then the tools are used by government entities and accruals are used by big industries and it's one of the more popular and robust packages out there. Now, our government.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

A network monitoring company for the federal government and other large companies, Solar Winds, had been breached. And then the tools are used by government entities and accruals are used by big industries and it's one of the more popular and robust packages out there. Now, our government.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2024

Companies and Government Agencies ArcaneDoor – New espionage-focused campaign found targeting perimeter network devices Israel Tried to Keep Sensitive Spy Tech Under Wraps.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 4, 2017

— Nadine Dorries (@NadineDorries) December 2, 2017. link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) December 2, 2017. — Nick Boles MP (@NickBoles) December 3, 2017. Seems slightly unfair to vilify @NadineDorries for what is common practice — JamesClayton (@JamesClayton5) December 3, 2017. No one else has access.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

And in this hacker mine episode, I'm going to be giving some practical insight around the world of bug bounties through the eyes of various hackers I have previously interviewed on the show. Here's the crazy thing: prior to 2017 Prior to attending DEF CON 25 Stoke never tried his hand at bug bounty. I'm Robert Vamosi.

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Adam Levin

MAY 13, 2019

Email is the preferred tool hackers use to access their targets’ networks: 83% of organizations reported phishing attacks in 2018, up from 76% in 2017. Domain names were initially intended as a means of identifying remote academic, military, and government locations. “Just Because” Isn’t a Good Answer.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2019

The New York Times, citing current and former government officials, revealed that the United States planted a potentially destructive malware in Russia’s electric power grid. ” The hacking operations aimed at warning the Russian Government about the cyber capabilities of the U.S. ” concludes the NYT.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 20, 2020

Imagine a government using this sort of attack against another government, coordinating a series of fake tweets from hundreds of politicians and other public figures the day before a major election, to affect the outcome. Yet they are run by for-profit companies with little government oversight. Your guess is as good as mine.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Retailers have realized they’re sitting on a gold mine of purchase data, but buyers of that data don’t want to work with dozens of different vendors. is a strange bird, but the health industry is due a shakeup, and it seems like it’s coming, regardless of whether the Senate confirms an anti-vaxxer for the top government job.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Cast yourself back to late 2017 when Bitcoin was pushing $20,000 and the entire tech sector was obsessed with blockchain everything. I don’t usually make political predictions, but by 2017, Trump was the story, bigger than politics, and bigger than tech. Predictions 2017. 2017: How I Did. Score: 10/10. Score: 8/10.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 27, 2025

President Trump last week issued a flurry of executive orders that upended a number of government initiatives focused on improving the nation’s cybersecurity posture. Pekoske was appointed by Trump in 2017 and had his 5-year tenure renewed in 2022 by former President Joe Biden. Image: Shutterstock. Greg Meland.

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