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Locked Shields 2019 – Chapeau, France wins Cyber Defence Exercise

Security Affairs

Locked Shields 2019 – France wins, the world’s biggest and most advanced international cyber drills organized by NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Center of Excellence (CCDCOE). . “This year the exercise evolved around 4000 virtualised systems that had to take more than 2500 attacks. .”

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White hat hackers showed how to take over a European Space Agency satellite

Security Affairs

Credit: ESA – European Space Agency The offensive cybersecurity team at Thales demonstrated how to take control of the ESA satellite, the is considered the world’s first ethical satellite hacking exercise. The exercise aims at assessing the resilience of satellites to cyber attacks. According to classified U.S.

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How to Ensure Your Digital Security During the Rugby World Cup

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Now that it’s September, the excitement is beginning to build in earnest for the 2019 Rugby World Cup. Just a couple of months after that, World Rugby itself announced that one of its training websites had suffered a security breach that exposed subscribers’ account information.

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Russia-linked Gamaredon APT targeted a western government entity in Ukraine

Security Affairs

Drawing a delineation between the two then becomes an exercise in tracking the most recent infrastructure.” According to the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) Cyber Security Department, the group carried out over 5,000 cyberattacks against public authorities and critical infrastructure of Ukraine. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Vladimir Putin ‘s computers still run Windows XP, Media reports

Security Affairs

The news is curious and it probably has little real if not the fact that Vladimir Putin is not a super cyber security expert, although he knows its importance very well. Nowadays it is a suicide to use a computer running Windows XP because the OS doesn’t receive security updates and it is quite easy to find working exploits online.

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Middle East: Kingdom of Bahrain publishes Personal Data Protection Law

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

The PDPL will enter into force on 1 August 2019, giving businesses just under one year from the date of this article to prepare for the new regime. The PDPL also imposes new obligations upon businesses to ensure that the personal data they collect is kept secure. On 12 July 2018, the Kingdom of Bahrain (Bahrain) issued Law No.

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

This week, in our last podcast of the year, we revisit some of the biggest information security stories from the past 12 months. As is now traditional, I’ve installed myself in the porter’s chair next to the fire in the library, ready to recap some of the year’s more newsworthy information security events. caused problems of their own.