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Researchers Quietly Cracked Zeppelin Ransomware Keys

Krebs on Security

Peter is an IT manager for a technology manufacturer that got hit with a Russian ransomware strain called “ Zeppelin ” in May 2020. He’d been on the job less than six months, and because of the way his predecessor architected things, the company’s data backups also were encrypted by Zeppelin.

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The IoT Cybersecurity Act of 2020: Implications for Devices

eSecurity Planet

In 2019, there were an estimated 9.9 While SP 800-213 applies to federal agencies, the latter three are specific to IoT manufacturers. Guidance for Manufacturers. A universe of devices and technology has fallen into our laps at a speed that organizations struggle to manage effectively. billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

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Lazarus APT uses DTrack backdoor in attacks against LATAM and European orgs

Security Affairs

DTrack is a modular backdoor used by the Lazarus group since 2019 , it was employed in attacks against a wide variety of targets, from financial environments to a nuclear power plan. Despite this, Lazarus has not changed the backdoor much since 2019, when it was initially discovered.” ” concludes the report.

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SEC Sanctions Public Company for Misleading Disclosures About Data Breach

Hunton Privacy

The SEC’s order alleges that on March 21, 2019, Pearson learned of a 2018 cyber intrusion that affected data stored on the server for one of its web-based software products. On March 21, 2019, Pearson received a copy of the stolen data showing that all school district personnel usernames and passwords and 11.5

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Operation Cronos: law enforcement disrupted the LockBit operation

Security Affairs

pic.twitter.com/SvpbeslrCd — vx-underground (@vxunderground) February 19, 2024 LockBit is a prominent ransomware operation that first emerged in September 2019. Lockbit ransomware group administrative staff has confirmed with us their websites have been seized. on January 5, 2020.

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BEST PRACTICES: Mock phishing attacks prep employees to avoid being socially engineered

The Last Watchdog

In 2015, penetration tester Oliver Münchow was asked by a Swiss bank to come up with a better way to test and educate bank employees so that passwords never left the network perimeter. I had the chance at RSA 2019 to sit down with Lucy CEO Colin Bastable, to discuss the wider context. It is headquartered in Zurich, with a U.S

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MY TAKE: Apple users show strong support for Tim Cook’s privacy war against Mark Zuckerberger

The Last Watchdog

Harvard business professor Dr. Shoshana Zuboff lays out how and why control of online privacy has become a linchpin to the current state of wealth distribution in her 2019 New York Times Book of the Year, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for A Human Future At the New Frontier of Power. But it’s not just me putting this out there.

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