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Australian Defense Department will replace surveillance cameras from Chinese firms Hikvision and Dahua

Security Affairs

An internal audit of surveillance equipment in Australian government and agency offices revealed the presence of more than 900 built systems manufactured by Chinese companies Hikvision and Dahua. The presence of cameras poses an unacceptable risk to national security. There is an issue here and we’re going to deal with it.”

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New HiatusRAT campaign targets Taiwan and U.S. military procurement system

Security Affairs

Then they analyzed the connections made to this server to identify potential targets and discovered that over 91% of the inbound connections were from Taiwan, and there appeared to be a preference for Ruckus-manufactured edge devices. military procurement system appeared first on Security Affairs. .” 57 155.138.213[.]169

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Vladimir Putin ‘s computers still run Windows XP, Media reports

Security Affairs

The news is curious and it probably has little real if not the fact that Vladimir Putin is not a super cyber security expert, although he knows its importance very well. Nowadays it is a suicide to use a computer running Windows XP because the OS doesn’t receive security updates and it is quite easy to find working exploits online.

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Username (and password) free login with security keys

Imperial Violet

Most readers of this blog will be familiar with the traditional security key user experience: you register a token with a site then, when logging in, you enter a username and password as normal but are also required to press a security key in order for it to sign a challenge from the website. But those Yubikeys certainly do.

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Vulnerabilities in Weapons Systems

Schneier on Security

Increasing our offensive capabilities without being able to secure them is like having all the best guns in the world, and then storing them in an unlocked, unguarded armory. Military software is unlikely to be any more secure than commercial software. A 2018 GAO report expressed concern regarding the lack of secure and patchable U.S.

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Weekly podcast: TSB, hotel locks and NATO exercise

IT Governance

This week, we discuss TSB’s chaotic system upgrade, a security flaw in electronic hotel locks and a major NATO cyber security exercise. Security researchers have discovered that millions of electronic door locks used in hotel rooms around the world are vulnerable to hacking. Here are this week’s stories.

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California Governor Signs into Law Bills Updating the CPRA and Bills Addressing the Privacy and Security of Genetic and Medical Data, Among Others

Hunton Privacy

During the week of October 4, 2021, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law bills amending the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (“CPRA”), California’s data breach notification law and California’s data security law. Genetic Data: California Data Breach Notification and Data Security Law Amendment Bill.

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