Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2021

military and government employees and giving it to an Islamic State hacker group in 2015 has been charged once again with fraud and identity theft. The release was granted in part due to Ferizi’s 2018 diagnosis if asthma, as well as a COVID outbreak at the facility where he was housed in 2020.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

On May 10, one of the hospitals detected malicious activity on its Microsoft Windows Domain Controller, a critical “keys to the kingdom” component of any Windows enterprise network that manages user authentication and network access. Still, the work to restore infected systems would take months.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

For example, here’s Jerry Lewis in a scene from a 1950s film, where he’s trying to break into a Nazi German military base. But this method of authentication is flawed; either hashed or hashed and salted, usernames and passwords can still be stolen and reused. Fact is, we’ve long had passwords as a credential.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

“In the early part of 2021, PHOSPHORUS actors scanned millions of IPs on the internet for Fortinet FortiOS SSL VPN that were vulnerable to CVE-2018-13379. Microsoft added that password spray attacks on Office 365 accounts with multifactor authentication (MFA) enabled failed. ” reads the post published by Microsoft.

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Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

* This article first appeared in In-House Defense Quarterly on April 3, 2018. Increasingly, thought leaders, professional organizations, and government agencies are beginning to provide answers. Creating an enterprise-wide governance structure. Aligning cyber risk with corporate strategy.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Vamosi: Bowen’s public inquiry revealed findings of multiple buffer overflows, software updates without authentication, and inadequate randomization of the ballots so that valid secrecy can be compromised -- among other vulnerabilities. Vamosi: It turns out, Georgia wasn’t alone. Unfortunately, there’s still a lot of gaps.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Vamosi: Bowen’s public inquiry revealed findings of multiple buffer overflows, software updates without authentication, and inadequate randomization of the ballots so that valid secrecy can be compromised -- among other vulnerabilities. Vamosi: It turns out, Georgia wasn’t alone. Unfortunately, there’s still a lot of gaps.

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CGI

MARCH 20, 2017

Promoting easy authentication without compromising the customer’s perception of security and protecting the enterprise risk should always be the ultimate objective. on military and intelligence. As we look across our engagements in different industry and government sectors, there are a number of crosscutting themes that are evident.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Vamosi: Bowen’s public inquiry revealed findings of multiple buffer overflows, software updates without authentication, and inadequate randomization of the ballots so that valid secrecy can be compromised -- among other vulnerabilities. Vamosi: It turns out, Georgia wasn’t alone. Unfortunately, there’s still a lot of gaps.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The Verizon 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report advises organizations to deploy multifactor authentication throughout all systems and discourage password reuse. billion records exposed, and a more than 54% increase in the number of reported breaches vs. the first half of 2018. authentication technologies.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2021

This very high-profile caper is part of an extended surge of ransomware attacks, which quintupled globally between the first quarter of 2018 and the fourth quarter of 2020, and is expected to rise 20 percent to 40 percent this year, according to insurance giant Aon. government. Bryson Bort , CEO, SCYTHE.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

Vamosi: With the Colonial Pipeline criminal attack, we’ve seen that ransomware is an urgent national security risk that threatens schools, hospitals, businesses, and governments across the globe. It's tasked with protecting these 17 critical infrastructure areas from span everything from health care to electricity to dams and military.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

Vamosi: With the Colonial Pipeline criminal attack, we’ve seen that ransomware is an urgent national security risk that threatens schools, hospitals, businesses, and governments across the globe. It's tasked with protecting these 17 critical infrastructure areas from span everything from health care to electricity to dams and military.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Should law enforcement and military officials have access to a digital backdoor enabling them to bypass any and all types of encryption that exist today? The disturbing thing is that in North America and Europe more and more arguments are being raised in support of creating and maintaining encryption backdoors for government use.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 28, 2018

However, evidence that the ‘golden age’ of cyber espionage is upon us continues to accumulate as the first half of 2018 comes to a close. Military operatives and intelligence units today routinely hack to knock down critical infrastructure, interfere with elections, and even to exact revenge on Hollywood studios.

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Adam Levin

MAY 13, 2019

Email addresses are still the main way we authenticate ourselves to do business online, and because of that email as a category represents an extremely weak link in our collective cybersecurity. Domain names were initially intended as a means of identifying remote academic, military, and government locations.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2018

Microsoft has spotted a new hacking campaign targeting 2018 midterm elections, the experts attributed the attacks to Russia-linked APT28 group. Microsoft has spotted a new hacking campaign targeting 2018 midterm elections. Securi ty Affairs – APT28, 2018 midterm elections). Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 25, 2019

That May 10th air strike by the Israel Defense Force marked the first use of military force in direct retaliation for cyber spying. This comes as no surprise to anyone in the military or intelligence communities. Here are a few things everyone should know about the current state of government-backed cyber ops.

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