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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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

In 2020, the United States brought charges against four men accused of building a bulletproof hosting empire that once dominated the Russian cybercrime industry and supported multiple organized cybercrime groups. Penchukov) — fled his mandatory military service orders and was arrested in Geneva, Switzerland. 9, 2024).

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Lenny Zeltser

JUNE 2, 2018

Computer security, perhaps? If we examine the factors that influence our desire to use one security title over the other, we’ll better understand the nature of the industry and its driving forces. Are you in cybersecurity? Information security? Yet, the term cybersecurity is growing in popularity.

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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. Cryptology is the overarching field of study related to writing and solving codes, whereas encryption and decryption are the central processes driving the computer science discipline.

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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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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. ” The employees who kept things running for RSOCKS, circa 2016.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2019

APT28 is a well known Russian cyber espionage group attributed, with a medium level of confidence, to Russian military intelligence agency GRU (by CrowdStrike). I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. I do have a MD in computer engineering and a PhD on computer security from University of Bologna.

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The Security Ledger

JULY 10, 2018

» Related Stories Episode 100: Estonia’s Former CIO talks about engineering a secure electronic vote Fitness apps: Good for your health, not so much for military security Episode 101: The Dystopian IoT looks a lot like the Printer Ink Aisle and City of Atlanta Employees phished on Rogue Wi-Fi. Read the whole entry. »

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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). Comcast has no say in the matter ( so far ).

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KnowBe4

JULY 5, 2023

June 2023 Phish-prone Benchmark By Industry lets you compare your percentage with your peers NEW! 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.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 14, 2022

” The event, which was captured on video and also reported in Wired magazine, sent a message to the automotive industry. But I think we also need to understand that the transportation industry, especially the aviation industry, is world class in setting up their systems for redundancy for security. I'm Robert Vamosi.

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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. So I would take things apart.

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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. So I would take things apart.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 12, 2020

As a young professor, I spent 4 weeks every summer visiting these sites as part of the (unremarkably named) Computer Science Study Group , a research program run by DARPA and the Institute for Defense Analysis. Did I also mention that they let me take MILAIR (Military Aircraft Transportation)? The B2 bomber. Special operations command.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 12, 2020

As a young professor, I spent 4 weeks every summer visiting these sites as part of the (unremarkably named) Computer Science Study Group , a research program run by DARPA and the Institute for Defense Analysis. Did I also mention that they let me take MILAIR (Military Aircraft Transportation)? The B2 bomber. Special operations command.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 12, 2020

As a young professor, I spent 4 weeks every summer visiting these sites as part of the (unremarkably named) Computer Science Study Group , a research program run by DARPA and the Institute for Defense Analysis. Did I also mention that they let me take MILAIR (Military Aircraft Transportation)? The B2 bomber. Special operations command.

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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. That was pretty scary for the film industry. Vamosi: In this day and age, piracy of digital motion pictures is not supposed to happen.

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IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2020

Spear phishing campaign compromises executives in finance industry (150). Russian military accessed Chancellor Angela Merkel’s emails in 2015 hack (unknown). Advanced Computer Software Group exposed data of 190 law firms (10,000). Tesla has been getting rid of computers without wiping the hard drives (unknown).

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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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Data Matters

MAY 29, 2018

In response, the Cybersecurity Coordinator would provide central coordination for cybersecurity strategy across various federal agencies and help “collaborate with industry to find technology solutions that ensure our security and promote prosperity.” Bolton concluded that nations that engage in cyberattacks against the U.S.

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