Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. ” DomainTools.com finds Ivan V.

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IT Governance

APRIL 9, 2024

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight US Environmental Protection Agency allegedly breached: nearly 8.5 Data breached: 8,460,182 accounts.

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IT Governance

MARCH 11, 2024

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breached: 36 million records. Data breached: 6,935,412 individuals’ data. Data breached: 6.9 Only 3 definitely haven’t had data breached.

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Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 2, 2021

On June 16, 2021, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed HB 5310, An Act Concerning Data Privacy Breaches. In passing the law, Connecticut joins a number of other states in expanding the definition of “personal information” in its data breach notification statute. Cybersecurity Safe Harbor (HB 6607).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

ransomware builder used by multiple threat actors Cisco fixes 3 high-severity DoS flaws in NX-OS and FXOS software Cybercrime Unpacking the MOVEit Breach: Statistics and Analysis Cl0p Ups The Ante With Massive MOVEit Transfer Supply-Chain Exploit FBI, Partners Dismantle Qakbot Infrastructure in Multinational Cyber Takedown U.S.

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Data Matters

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Department of Commerce (Commerce) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (Proposed Rule) implementing Executive Order 14034 on Protecting Americans’ Sensitive Data from Foreign Adversaries (EO 14034). First, the Proposed Rule would add “connected software applications” to the definition of ICTS. On November 26, 2021, the U.S.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 23, 2024

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. The data set is a collection of 1 billion credentials sourced from stealer logs and hosted on the illicit.services website. Data breached: 70,840,771 email addresses.

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IT Governance

APRIL 22, 2024

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. million records from World-Check, a screening database used to screen potential customers for links to illegal activity and government sanctions. Data breached: 5,300,000 records.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Financial information, medical data, health reimbursements, postal addresses, telephone numbers and emails are not thought to have been compromised.

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Data Protection Report

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Talks had previously stalled over how to regulate AI trained on large amounts of data and able to perform a wide range of functions, referred to as ‘foundation models’ or ‘general purpose AI’. Definitions and scope The final text will define AI with reference to the OECD definition. million or 1.5%

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 10, 2012

Training about personal data protection by world and European experts. The Commissioner organized this US expert’s visit in cooperation and with the assistance of the USAID with the aim of providing much needed, continuous and quality education of our staff about many ongoing data protection issues. Monday, July 09, 2012 09:18.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

It definitely had an effect on me. Neither were any of the algorithm names I knew, not even algorithms I knew that the US government used. I’m sure that a bunch of major governments have a complete copy of everything Greenwald has. Definitely. Those were all things I want the NSA to be doing. Answer: your name.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 21, 2020

In the inaugural episode, The Hacker Mind looks at why the West Point Military Academy, and other organizations within the DoD, is training its young cadets to hack. Or maybe, just maybe back in 2014, West Point and other military service academies, are on to something really important. The military has these massive computer networks.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 21, 2020

In the inaugural episode, The Hacker Mind looks at why the West Point Military Academy, and other organizations within the DoD, is training its young cadets to hack. Or maybe, just maybe back in 2014, West Point and other military service academies, are on to something really important. The military has these massive computer networks.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 21, 2020

In the inaugural episode, The Hacker Mind looks at why the West Point Military Academy, and other organizations within the DoD, is training its young cadets to hack. Or maybe, just maybe back in 2014, West Point and other military service academies, are on to something really important. The military has these massive computer networks.

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Data Protection Report

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In particular, the CJEU found that: US surveillance laws [2] do not limit access to data for surveillance purposes to what is “necessary and proportionate”; and. EU data subjects are not granted actionable redress in the courts against US authorities, meaning that EU data subjects therefore have no rights to effective remedy.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 24, 2019

It was developed over the 20th century to enable the successful realization of more complex engineering projects; from telephony to military, space and automotive domains. The post Engineering Secure Systems appeared first on Data Security Blog | Thales eSecurity. MBSE ensures the specialist and generalist views remain consistent.

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Lenny Zeltser

JUNE 2, 2018

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

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Reltio

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Carl Smith is the global head of master data management for PZ Cussons. He is an experienced data leader / strategist, having worked across large enterprise organisations including Philips, Metro AG and Office Depot. What was your route into IT and data management? Kate Tickner, Reltio. I like to understand and fix problems.

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Reltio

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Carl Smith is the global head of master data management for PZ Cussons. He is an experienced data leader/strategist, having worked across large enterprise organisations including Philips, Metro AG and Office Depot. What was your route into IT and data management? I’m not part of and have never worked in IT – I’m a data person.

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AIIM

MARCH 13, 2018

So here's a quick definition of terms for those mystified by the title of this post. In 1995, if I was going to find this Civil War fellow, it meant a personal trip to the National Archives through the microfilmed military records. Lastly, enter big data technologies to help link all of this together. Ancestry.co.uk

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 14, 2022

Steve Luczynski and Matt Mayes join The Hacker Mind to talk about the importance of getting hackers, vendors, and the government to get together and work through problems. So I'd say it's definitely possible. So I definitely think it's possible. And the fact that hackers are thinking about this now is a very good thing.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

After Merck filed its $700 million claim, the pharmaceutical giant’s insurers argued that they were not required to cover the malware’s damage because the cyberattack was widely attributed to the Russian government and therefore was excluded from standard property and casualty insurance coverage as a “hostile or warlike act.”

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

That's where even if they're still doing it themselves, they are definitely looking for partners who can help them cover in the areas where, you know, their capability may not be quite as hard and fast as it should be. It’s not like data breaches are going away, they’re shifting. Double extortion is going to continue.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

You might not think of it as a major aspect of security and yet, stolen credentials are really the key to data breaches today. For example, here’s Jerry Lewis in a scene from a 1950s film, where he’s trying to break into a Nazi German military base. That's quite a narrow definition. Lewis: Good. Other: Wait.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Vamosi: So, finding registration files and election systems exposed online, this, this after a decade of warnings from security experts, from hackers and state governments warning -- where does that leave us today? That secures the integrity of the system -- that the data isn’t altered. Vamosi: Right. What about confidentiality?

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Vamosi: So, finding registration files and election systems exposed online, this, this after a decade of warnings from security experts, from hackers and state governments warning -- where does that leave us today? That secures the integrity of the system -- that the data isn’t altered. Vamosi: Right. What about confidentiality?

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Collibra

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) came into effect four years after the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was adopted. Despite coming at the heels of the GDPR, the recent California privacy law promptly established and defined its own concepts around consumer-related data. . Geolocation data.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Vamosi: So, finding registration files and election systems exposed online, this, this after a decade of warnings from security experts, from hackers and state governments warning -- where does that leave us today? That secures the integrity of the system -- that the data isn’t altered. Vamosi: Right. What about confidentiality?

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

What if you discovered a flaw in a ransomware payment system that unlocked the data without paying the ransom? Vamosi: With the Colonial Pipeline criminal attack, we’ve seen that ransomware is an urgent national security risk that threatens schools, hospitals, businesses, and governments across the globe. Would you use it?

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

What if you discovered a flaw in a ransomware payment system that unlocked the data without paying the ransom? Vamosi: With the Colonial Pipeline criminal attack, we’ve seen that ransomware is an urgent national security risk that threatens schools, hospitals, businesses, and governments across the globe. Would you use it?

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KnowBe4

JUNE 6, 2023

of all email-based attacks according to Barracuda's data but are responsible for 66% of all breaches." Within that definition, spear phishing can be accomplished in thousands of different ways, ranging from basic attacks to more advanced, longer-range attacks. Everyone needs to know about this fact and react accordingly.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 6, 2022

Hypponen: And that's why we now see these groups which run their own data centers or their own IT support have their own HR department, hire lawyers and hire business analysts. BBC: Well as Ukrainian military battles Russian troops on the ground there's another battle taking place. So this trend actually started in the early 2000s.

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 3, 2020

s data breach notification law (the “Bill”). Among other requirements, the Bill requires the provision of identity theft prevention services in certain data breaches, establishes a new regulatory reporting requirement in the event of a cognizable data breach affecting 50 or more residents of D.C., Harm Threshold.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 12, 2022

The more opportunities for the bad guys to steal your information and your data and your money. We recruit military veterans, women, and minorities. Maybe they're working on a lab and they're putting in the command line and not getting the output data. This was a military veteran I spoke to a couple of years ago.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

Vamosi: Whenever there's a data breach, a ransomware attack, large security event in general, I would like to learn something about how it happened. This is the practice of concealing messages or information in non secret texts or data, such as an image. Kyle was doing this for the government, doing this for the good of a nation.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 5, 2020

Is America’s working definition of “national security” too narrow for the digital age? Related: The golden age of cyber espionage The United States, at present, operates with a “nebulous” definition of what constitutes a cyber attack that rises to the level of threatening national security, asserts Rogers, who was commander, U.S.

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