Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Several strong themes emerged from 2022’s crop of breaches, including the targeting or impersonating of employees to gain access to internal company tools; multiple intrusions at the same victim company; and less-than-forthcoming statements from victim firms about what actually transpired.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

Spamit), an invite-only community for Russian-speaking people in the businesses of sending spam and building botnets of infected computers to relay said spam. Penchukov) — fled his mandatory military service orders and was arrested in Geneva, Switzerland. The Spamdot admins went by the nicknames Icamis (a.k.a. w s, icamis[.]ru

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IT Governance

JULY 1, 2021

discloses ransomware incident (unknown). discloses ransomware incident (unknown).

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

Quantum computing attacks already present a real threat to existing standards, making the continued development of encryption pivotal for years to come. Encryption is the act of translating data into secret code ( ciphertext ) and back again ( plaintext ) for secure access between multiple parties. The Move to HTTPS.

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AIIM

OCTOBER 22, 2019

To a greater or lesser degree, most significant information management initiatives will involve a scanning capability to capture hard copy paper documents as electronic images. First, once a document is captured electronically, it can be made accessible through the IT infrastructure to others at remote locations.

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eDiscovery Daily

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Immergut denied the defendant’s motion to suppress emails and evidence derived from a warrantless search of Defendant’s workplace email account, finding “any expectation of privacy in Defendant’s work email was objectively unreasonable under the military’s computer-use policies in effect at his workplace.”.

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The Texas Record

AUGUST 18, 2020

Near the end of the movie the Rebel Alliance infiltrates the Imperial Center of Military Research on the planet Scarif (i.e., The Rebels engaged in social engineering tactics—using ways of fooling the user into providing data or access to information—to steal the schematic plans for the Death Star. Scarif base).

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Intelligent computing systems have been insinuating themselves into our homes and public gathering places for a while now. Driverless autos, trucks and military transport vehicles are on a fast track for wide deployment in the next five years. military and intelligence agencies. Get ready for smart ground transportation.

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IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2020

Hackers exploit vulnerability to access email accounts of Estonian dignitaries (unknown). GoDaddy notifies users after hacker accesses its servers (unknown). Russian military accessed Chancellor Angela Merkel’s emails in 2015 hack (unknown). Advanced Computer Software Group exposed data of 190 law firms (10,000).

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Lenny Zeltser

JUNE 2, 2018

Computer security, perhaps? This might be because the industry continues to embrace the lexicon used in government and military circles, where cyber reigns supreme. If you’re in the business of safeguarding data and the systems that process it, what do you call your profession? Are you in cybersecurity? Information security?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2023

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

I fly a lot—a quarter of a million miles per year—and being put on a TSA list, or being detained at the US border and having my electronics confiscated, would be a major problem. So would the FBI breaking into my home and seizing my personal electronics. Transferring files electronically is what encryption is for.

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IT Governance

MAY 4, 2021

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John Battelle's Searchblog

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Another wonderful example is the Global Positioning System (GPS), once the realm only of the United States military, but now the driver of countless commercial opportunities around the globe (again thanks to decisions made during the Clinton administration). Anyone can access civilian GPS data – it’s open and free to all.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 27, 2021

Electronic Things. As I got older, I started to play around with computers. By then there were computer games, and at that time it wasn’t the single shooter games. I mean, what curious kid hasn’t taken apart something electronic to try and figure it out on their own? Really bored. Mechanical things.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 27, 2021

Electronic Things. As I got older, I started to play around with computers. By then there were computer games, and at that time it wasn’t the single shooter games. I mean, what curious kid hasn’t taken apart something electronic to try and figure it out on their own? Really bored. Mechanical things.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 14, 2022

CBS: A computer security researcher was kept off a plane for suggesting on social media that he could hack into the planes control system. Honestly I disagree with that and so while I was actually on a plane I was very blunt having paid for my wireless access. One of the biggest risks is physical access to an airplane.

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KnowBe4

JULY 5, 2023

Under the guise of diplomats, "hearers" from the GRU and graduates of narrow profile universities related to rocket science, computer technology and exact mathematics are secretly transferred to the island. For instance, many examples of malware have been uncovered that expressly don't function unless they are accessed by a mobile device.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 4, 2022

While they were romantically together, Hughes gave the bar complete access to his team of scientists. He told her he really wanted to create faster planes so that he could sell them to the US military. We have moved on to other RF technologies such as orthogonal frequency division multiple access. I decided that's not right.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Hollywood Studios spent a decade creating a robust hardware certification process that includes military grade encryption with a complicated set of keys, all to protect the latest blockbuster releases. Vamosi: In this day and age, piracy of digital motion pictures is not supposed to happen.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 21, 2024

At issue is the way that Apple collects and publicly shares information about the precise location of all Wi-Fi access points seen by its devices. Both record the Media Access Control (MAC) address that a Wi-FI access point uses, known as a Basic Service Set Identifier or BSSID. UMD Associate Professor David Levin and Ph.D

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 5, 2018

-based tech firm to secretly embed tiny computer chips into electronic devices purchased and used by almost 30 different companies. The chips were alleged to have spied on users of the devices and sent unspecified data back to the Chinese military. In a nutshell, the Bloomberg story claims that San Jose, Calif.

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