Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In 2018, Australia passed the Assistance and Access Act, which—among other things—gave the government the power to force companies to break their own encryption. Examples include certain source code, encryption, cryptography, and electronic hardware.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 28, 2018

This year’s DefCon badges were electronic and contained a hidden game that could only be completed by connecting to the board over a serial interface and by interacting with other badge holders at the conference. The post Highlights from DefCon 2018 appeared first on Data Security Blog | Thales eSecurity. Are You a Good or Bad Hacker?

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The representative did a “visual review” of the buckets, as USPS’s internal policy is not to plug any USB sticks into a computer (not all bad practice, eh?), The law will apply to consumer electronics from 2020. There’s issue number two. but couldn’t see Weibrecht Law’s missing device.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The representative did a “visual review” of the buckets, as USPS’s internal policy is not to plug any USB sticks into a computer (not all bad practice, eh?), The law will apply to consumer electronics from 2020. There’s issue number two. but couldn’t see Weibrecht Law’s missing device.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

On November 21, 2018, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ruled that a putative class action filed against UPMC (d/b/a The University of Pittsburg Medical Center) should not have been dismissed. The court explained that it was not creating a new, affirmative duty.

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eDiscovery Daily

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

56 MAP 2018 (Pa. At Appellant’s apartment, after the agents discovered a single computer, an HP Envy 700 desktop, which was encrypted with TrueCrypt, Appellant informed the agents that he lived alone, that he was the sole user of the computer, and that only he knew the password to his computer. In Commonwealth v.

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eDiscovery Daily

JUNE 2, 2019

In this employment discrimination action filed by a former employee of the defendant who was terminated on July 5, 2018 for alleged performance issues, the plaintiff submitted an EEOC charge of discrimination on August 1, 2018 and issued a Right to Sue letter on August 15, 2018. Case Background.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Since it took effect in 2018, GDPR’s core guidelines have been copied by LGDP in Brazil , POPIA in South Africa , and the PDPB in India. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), soon to be superseded by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) on January 1, 2023, applies to both electronic and paper records.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2022

Cloud Act , which applies to all electronic communication service or remote computing service providers that operate in the U.S. . “The United States enacted the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act in March 2018 to speed access to electronic information held by U.S.-based ” states the U.S. .

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

pleaded guilty this week to one count of conspiracy to cause damage to Internet-connected computers and for his role in owning, administering and supporting illegal “booter” or “stresser” services designed to knock Web sites offline, including exostress[.]in Usatyuk of Orland Park, Ill. in , quezstresser[.]com

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2021

million Windows systems between 2018 and 2020. The software includes illegal Adobe Photoshop 2018, a Windows cracking tool, and several cracked games.” million computers. Researchers from NordLocker have discovered an unsecured database containing 1.2-terabyte terabyte of stolen data. The database includes 6.6

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 20, 2024

The central processing unit (CPU) is the computer’s brain. It handles the assignment and processing of tasks, in addition to functions that make a computer run. There’s no way to overstate the importance of the CPU to computing. Virtually all computer systems contain, at the least, some type of basic CPU.

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eDiscovery Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2018

This year’s Washington DC event includes nearly two days of educational sessions covers topics ranging from privacy to cybersecurity to social media to cloud computing. The post Today is the Day to “Master” Your Knowledge of eDiscovery in Washington DC for 2018: eDiscovery Trends appeared first on CloudNine.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

You’re most likely to access data on your work computer or via paper records, but information can be found in many places. The second sub-category of information security relates to the protection electronic information. Cyber security is a particular type of information security that focuses on the protection of electronic data.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

All told, VCPI is responsible for maintaining approximately 80,000 computers and servers that assist those facilities. “But right now all we’re dealing with is getting electronic medical records back up and life-threatening situations handled first.” At around 1:30 a.m. 20, Cape Girardeau, Mo.-based

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2020

GravityRAT is a malware strain known for checking the CPU temperature of Windows computers to avoid being executed in sandboxes and virtual machines. The applications analyzed by Kaspersky were developed in.NET, Python and Electron framework, they achieve persistence by adding a scheduled task.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2020

The three hackers were arrested in December in Jakarta and Yogyakarta and charged with data theft, fraud, and unauthorized access to computer systems. According to the authorities, the suspects used stolen credit cards to buy electronic goods and other luxury items, and then resell on local e-commerce websites in Indonesia.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The news is quite curious, the US military will no longer use 8-inch floppy disks in an antiquated computer (SACCS) to manage nuclear weapons arsenal. This system runs on an IBM Series/1 Computer—a 1970s computing system— and uses 8-inch floppy disks.” “Any electronic repair is going to take a lot of work.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

A team of researchers from the Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography (COSIC) group at the KU Leuven University in Belgium has demonstrated how to steal a Tesla Model X in minutes by exploiting vulnerabilities in the car’s keyless entry system. Then, they exploited the insecure update mechanism to deliver a tainted firmware to the fob.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 24, 2018

The email allowed the intruders to install malware on the victim’s PC and to compromise a second computer at the bank that had access to the STAR Network , a system run by financial industry giant First Data that the bank uses to handle debit card transactions for customers.

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Security Affairs

JULY 17, 2018

has analyzed the campaign of spear-phishing on 2 april 2018 targeting the service centers of Samsung Italy.” According to a technical report published by the experts, this attack and the one against Russian service centers offering maintenance and support for various electronic goods started in the same period, in March.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 7, 2018

On July 18, 2018, Pasco County authorities arrested Ricky Joseph Handschumacher , an employee of the city of Port Richey, Fla, charging him with grand theft and money laundering. ” A SIM card is the tiny, removable chip in a mobile device that allows it to connect to the provider’s network. GRAND PLANS.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 10, 2020

In July 2018, KrebsOnSecurity published the story Neo-Nazi Swatters Target Dozens of Journalists , which detailed the activities of a loose-knit group of individuals who had targeted hundreds of individuals for swatting attacks, including federal judges, corporate executives and almost three-dozen journalists (myself included).

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eDiscovery Daily

JUNE 20, 2019

In July 2018, approximately seven months after Schulton voluntarily left ScholarChip’s employment, Schulton sent an email both to the plaintiff and the CTO of ScholarChip, where he announced his intent to create a loan servicing system that would compete directly with the plaintiff. The next month, the plaintiff filed this lawsuit.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2020

The group has been operating since 2018, on multiple cyber criminal forums they were offering to convert cryptocurrency resulting from cybercriminal activities into fiat. Police conducted searches of the suspects’ residences and offices and seized more than $ 200,000 worth of computer equipment, weapons, ammunition and cash.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2019

However most of the new attacks, qualitative speaking, happened during the time frame between 2018 to 2019. For example from 2017 to early 2018 APT28 used specific techniques such as: T1251 , T1329 , T1336 and T1319. Finally from October 2018 to late march 2019 APT28 introduced a totally different weaponization technique: the T1345.

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ARMA International

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Another common name for the IoB is embodied computing , where the human body is used as a technology platform. Wearable technology began as any kind of electronic device designed to be worn on the user’s body. In the ingestibles category are Bluetooth electronic pills that monitor the inner workings of the human body.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2020

The crime gang was formed in 2018, it was involved in distributing stolen user credentials, developing and distributing malware and hacking tools, and fraud. . The agents seized electronic equipment, external hard drives and hardware cryptocurrency wallets, all worth around €100 000. ” concludes the Europol.

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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. io emerged as subsidiaries of Microleaves between 2017 and 2018. in 2018 , in which he explained how Online[.]io

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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.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 13, 2020

When it comes to securing mobile computing devices, the big challenge businesses have long grappled with is how to protect company assets while at the same time respecting an individual’s privacy. A few months later the United Arab Emirates stood up its National Electronic Security Authority (NESA) which proceeded to do much the same thing.

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eDiscovery Daily

MARCH 25, 2018

This is the fifth of the 2018 Legaltech New York (LTNY) Thought Leader Interview series. A frequent court appointed special master in electronic evidence, Craig is a prolific contributor to continuing legal and professional education programs throughout the United States, having delivered over 2,000 presentations and papers.

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

On December 3, 2018, twelve attorneys general (“AGs”) jointly filed a data breach lawsuit against Medical Informatics Engineering and its subsidiary, NoMoreClipboard LLC (collectively “the Company”), an electronic health records company, in federal district court in Indiana. 3, 2018). See Indiana v. Informatics Eng’g, Inc. ,

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 20, 2018

In a complaint unsealed today, the Justice Department said that although FBI agents identified at least 60 different booter services operating between June and December 2018, they discovered not all were fully operational and capable of launching attacks. ” DOWN THEM ALL.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

Google Android team found high severity flaw in Honeywell Android-based handheld computers. Evolution of threat landscape for IoT devices – H1 2018. Adobe issued a critical out-of-band patch to address CVE-2018-12848 Acrobat flaw. Magecart cybercrime group stole customers credit cards from Newegg electronics retailer.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Fincantieri who was not involved in the previous ‘MartyMcFly’ attack identified and blocked additional threats targeting their wide infrastructure intercepted on during the week of 20th August 2018, about a couple of months before the ‘MartyMcFly’ campaign. Whois data of “anchors-chain.com”.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

That object was crafted on 2018-10-09 but it was seen only on 2018-10-12. According to VirusTotal the software was “seen in the Wild” in 2010 but submitted only on 2018-10-12! I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. Stage2: OleOBj inclusion (click to expand it).

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