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Data officers raid two properties over Matt Hancock CCTV footage leak

The Guardian Data Protection

Computer equipment and electronic devices seized in connection with images of minister kissing aide Two residential properties in the south of England have been raided by data protection officers, as part of their investigation into who leaked CCTV footage of Matt Hancock kissing an aide in his office. Continue reading.

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Cybersecurity, why a hotline number could be important?

Security Affairs

The most recent of these pilot projects originated at the University of Texas at Austin (UT – Austin, [link] ) from a CISA (Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency) initiative on the idea of creating a nationwide 311 computer system for small and medium-sized businesses.

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“Beyond the border scam”, pay attention to the instance of the new Nigerian fraud

Security Affairs

Following up on the electronic letter, the alleged widow begins a copious correspondence in which she says she was left completely alone after the death of her husband and children and without a home or money and hosted in a border refugee camp, where she feeds herself. during the Russian invasion of Ukraine that began in 2022.

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Wannacry, the hybrid malware that brought the world to its knees

Security Affairs

In the early afternoon of Friday 12 May 2017, the media broke the news of a global computer security attack carried out through a malicious code capable of encrypting data residing in information systems and demanding a ransom in cryptocurrency to restore them, the Wannacry ransomware. About the author: Salvatore Lombardo.

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Social engineering, deception becomes increasingly sophisticated

Security Affairs

This is done through deep learning methodologies such as the Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) i.e., a group of neural network models for machine learning, deputed to teach computers how to process information by emulating the human brain.

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Cyber Threats Observatory Gets Improvements

Security Affairs

This observation perfectly fits the public mainstream information which sees many security magazines and many vendors observing such an increment as well. 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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Mayhem Wins DARPA CGC

ForAllSecure

Mayhem is a fully autonomous system for finding and fixing computer security vulnerabilities.On Thursday, August 4, 2016, Mayhem competed in the historical DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge against other computers in a fully automatic hacking contest.and won. CNET: Rise of the hacking machines By Laura Hautala [link].