Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Of Course, KillNet and Its Ilk Don't Care - They're Likely Proxies for Moscow Hacktivists who hit healthcare or otherwise target civilians are violating international humanitarian law, warns the International Committee of the Red Cross.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Any organization engaged in B2B or B2B2X activity needs an IAM solution – it’s par for the course – to cover its compliance bases, prove its trustworthiness to stakeholders and partners, and maintain the trust of its clients.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2021

Poland ‘s government announced that it was targeted by an ‘Unprecedented’ series of cyber attacks, hackers hit against institutions and individuals. Mateusz Morawiecki had to provide details about the attacks presenting secret documents related to attacks, as anticipated by government spokesman Piotr Muller.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Two former Twitter employees have been charged with spying on thousands of Twitter user accounts on behalf of the Saudi Arabian government. Two former Twitter employees have been charged with spying on thousands of Twitter user accounts on behalf of the Saudi Arabian government.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

. “These crimes included vast spearphishing and similar credential harvesting campaigns against targets of intelligence interest to the Russian government, such as U.S. and foreign governments and military, security, and corporate organizations. The US government operation blocked access to the routers by Russian cyberspies.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The Canadian government ordered ByteDance to wind up TikTok Technology Canada, Inc. However, the government pointed out that Canadians can still access and use TikTok by choice, the use of a social media platform is a personal choice. ” reads the statement published by Canadian Government.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2021

A British court has rejected the request of the US government to extradite Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to the country. Of course, the U.S. government will likely appeal the decision. ” The case against Julian Assange is the most dangerous threat to US press freedom in decades.

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Gimmal

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Enter metadata—a powerful tool that can revolutionize your information governance strategy. Facilitate Compliance and Governance : Use metadata to automate records management processes, apply retention policies, and ensure regulatory compliance. The labeled can, of course. You come across two cans: A plain can with no label.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2021

The media reported that the politicians targeted by the hackers used their private Gmail accounts for communications, instead of using their secure government accounts. According to Muller, the attacks did not target only Dworczyk, hackers also targeted government members, the PiS party, and a large group of people. aw Gowin.”.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Stormshield is a major provider of network security products to the French government, some approved to be used on sensitive networks. At the time of this writing, it is not clear the impact of the security breach on government networks. ” reads the data breach notification published the vendor. ” continues Stormshield.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Our old Twitter account, which was suspended, had pretty much many attacks on government agencies, corporations, educational institutions, ministries, and many, many other things around the world (which we still do, just on a smaller scale). In the good sense of course. Of course, we do. We can get caught at any time.

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Collibra

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The biggest identified gaps are data governance and data quality, which could seriously affect the banking industry. The burning issue: Governance gaps The BIS report reveals that compliance among the 31 assessed Global Systemically Important Banks (G-SIBs) has made little progress over the past three years (2019–2022).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2021

The Defence Academy of the United Kingdom provides higher education for personnel in the British Armed Forces, Civil Service, other government departments and service personnel from other nations. The majority of training is postgraduate with many courses being accredited for the award of civilian qualifications.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Google sent 11,856 government-backed phishing warnings during Q1 2020, 11,023 in Q2 2020, and 10,136 in Q3 2020. government agencies have warned about different threat actors, and we’ve worked closely with those agencies and others in the tech industry to share leads and intelligence about what we’re seeing across the ecosystem.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2020

“According to our sources, the incident started to spread during the course of last night. .” The European IT firm has 46,000 employees operating in 25 countries worldwide. It provides a wide range of IT services, including software development and consulting. The Active Directory infrastructure would be affected.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 15, 2020

. “These are people who have no problems locking out little old ladies out of their computers for 800 bucks, and of course there are state-sponsored hackers who love any opportunity to sow discord and disrupt things.” But this goes against how governments operate in almost every way.” ” SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JUNE 6, 2023

He has a deep background in consumer and enterprise products used by hundreds of millions of people, as well as exposure to government policy, across technology areas including security, identity, privacy, and e-commerce.” We’ll get into all of that, but first, the product. Sure, it’s cool to have a copy on my own device, in my control.

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2019

The BOD 19-02 gives government organizations 15 days to address critical vulnerabilities, while high-severity flaws must be fixed within 30 days. Government systems exposed online undergo Cyber Hygiene vulnerability assessment to help agencies identify flaws. ” reads the BOD 19-02.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Monitoring of social media platforms is a crucial activity for intelligence agencies, almost any government is working to gather intelligence for these systems. “ The surveillance system have to allow government operators to spy on users by searching for targeted keywords, such as terror, resistance, nationality and religion.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2019

Security experts at Trustwave have shared their findings of a recent data breach suffered by a Pakistani government website. Most of the victims of the hack were, of course, Pakistani citizens, followed by Saudi Arabia, the United States, and China. SecurityAffairs – ScanBox, Pakistan government). ” concludes Trustwave.

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Collibra

AUGUST 28, 2024

Case in point — AI governance and AI model management. A major factor in the confusion lies in not understanding the three main different approaches to AI governance. This flavor of AI governance helps AI and data teams implement AI use-cases by preparing, developing, running and monitoring AI models.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2019

Ukraine reported a surge in cyber attacks aimed at disrupting the upcoming presidential election, the Government believes that Russian nation-state actors could be responsible for them. Of course, Russia has denied any involvement in hacking campaigns aimed at Ukraine’s elections. said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Experts say the leak illustrates how Chinese government agencies increasingly are contracting out foreign espionage campaigns to the nation’s burgeoning and highly competitive cybersecurity industry. In 2021, the Sichuan provincial government named i-SOON as one of “the top 30 information security companies.”

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

and Saudi Arabia have been steadily escalating for at least the past decade, with notable spikes in activity throughout the course of 2019. Buried in the Shamoon code was an image of a burning American flag, intended as an admonishment to the Saudi government for supporting American foreign policy in the Middle East.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

And of course we need to be able to make sure that our suppliers handle all data according to applicable law and within the framework agreed upon with them.” ” states the Government Agency. Data, including CPR numbers, have been exposed for almost five years before the data leak was discovered.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Operating Government 21. Watching the Government 33. Conclusion Everything is subject to change, of course. Negotiating Legislation Part III: The AI-Assisted Administration 17. Background: Exhibiting Values and Bias 18. Background: Augmenting Versus Replacing People 19. Serving People 20. Background: Being Fair 23.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

” The authorities are still investigating the attack, the government experts have no doubt about the fact that it was a targeted cyber-espionage attack against the Foreign Ministry. However, due to the dimension and the high complexity, it cannot yet be said beyond doubt who is behind the attack.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2020

military, federal, state, and local government agencies Public universities and schools Hospitals and health care providers Electric utilities Major financial institutions Numerous Fortune 500 companies. Companies on the list have to update their Pulse Secure servers and of course, change their passwords.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The report pointed out that despite the Russian reactions to Finland’s NATO accession process have been restrained for the time being, and Finland was not targeted by any extraordinary influencing in the course of policymaking, the government fears an escalation of the malicious activities.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2019

2316 ) – Two US Senators have introduced a bill to protect US government supply chain against foreign sabotage and cyber espionage. 2316) that aims at protecting US government supply chain against foreign sabotage and cyber espionage. . MICROCHIPS Act ( S. that could potentially harm and expose both consumer and U.S.

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AIIM

JUNE 4, 2020

In my first post, where we explored the principle of hearsay , we left off asking about the relationship between IIM policies and the "ordinary course of business." What's the Relationship Between IIM Policies and the "Ordinary Course of Business"? So, let's take a look. How Do Policies and Contracts differ?

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2019

The surveillance software developed by NSO Group was used by government organizations worldwide to spy on human rights groups , activists, journalists, lawyers, and dissidents. Of course, the NSO Group denied any support to government agencies that could have targeted the UK lawyer with its surveillance software.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

officials are blaming the Russian military for launching an October 2019 cyberattack on the country of Georgia that crippled at least 2,000 government, news media and court websites over the course of one day. Allies Say GRU Hackers Crippled and Defaced Thousands of Websites U.S.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2019

According to the cyber security community, NotPetya is a cyber weapon develped by Russia to hit the Ukrainian government. Of course, this situation will not have a simple resolution, even if Zurich has found a way to avoid paying the policy, it will be obliged to prove the attribution of the attack to Russia.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2023

“Based on the materials collected by the Military Counterintelligence Service and the material collected in the course of the investigation, it was established that they participated in the activities of the Russian military intelligence” said the Warsaw prosecutor’s office.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Since at least 2017, the prolific gang compromised at least 500,000 government and private sector companies in more than 150 countries. Group-IB has been tracking the gang since 2019 and established that around 500,000 government and private sector companies could have been compromised by TMT gang members. 1 Courtesy of INTERPOL.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Russia’s government announced that it has successfully concluded a series of tests for its RuNet intranet aimed at country disconnection from the Internet. The Russian Government has announced on Monday that it has successfully concluded the test on its RuNet intranet and the complete disconnection of the country from the Internet.

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