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Weekly podcast: ICS attacks, Reddit and SIM swap arrests

IT Governance

This week, we discuss new research into attacks on industrial control systems, Reddit’s recent breach, and an apparent crackdown on SIM swap fraud. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 10 August. Here are this week’s stories. This asset was then, it seems, listed for sale on the xDedic black market.

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Catches of the Month: Phishing Scams for May 2023

IT Governance

This month, we look at another scam taking advantage of the public’s fascination with ChatGPT, another data breach at Booking.com, and another news story about blue checkmarks – but this time it’s not at the tech company you’re thinking of.

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34 Most Common Types of Network Security Protections

eSecurity Planet

It also helps organizations to organize and assess data for vulnerabilities and determine an appropriate response plan in the case of a data breach. In worst-case scenarios, these firms should cover your business if you’re impacted by a data breach that leaks sensitive information and leads to fines and legal fees.

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ID Theft Service Resold Access to USInfoSearch Data

Krebs on Security

These police credentials are mainly marketed to criminals seeking fraudulent “Emergency Data Requests, ” wherein crooks use compromised government and police department email accounts to rapidly obtain customer account data from mobile providers, ISPs and social media companies.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Incident Response in the Cloud

ForAllSecure

There’s been a major data breach, and you’re booked on the next night flight out, at 6am. CAMPBELL: One of the things I know the US government's been worried about lately, and they've been a bit more vocal, which is great, is that they've seen nation states using Cloud resources to perform an attack.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 492 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Security Affairs

CISA adds D-Link DIR-820 Router, DrayTek Multiple Vigor Router, Motion Spell GPAC, SAP Commerce Cloud bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog News agency AFP hit by cyberattack, client services impacted North Korea-linked APT Kimsuky targeted German defense firm Diehl Defence Patelco Credit Union data breach impacted over 1 million people (..)

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