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International Criminal Court hit with a cyber attack

Security Affairs

It was established by the Rome Statute, which entered into force on July 1, 2002. The ICC has not shared details about the cyber attack, it is unclear if the attackers have stolen information from the organization. The ICC is headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands.

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Estonia sues Gemalto for 152M euros over flaws in citizen ID cards issued by the company

Security Affairs

According to Estonia’s Police and Border Guard Board (PPA), Gemalto failed to protect private keys with card’s chip exposing the government IDs vulnerable to cyber attack. “It Estonia replaced Gemalto and its predecessor for the supply of ID cards since 2002, with the company Idemia. “continues the Reuters.

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Episode 229: BugCrowd’s Casey Ellis On What’s Hot In Bug Hunting

The Security Ledger

Programs like iDefense Labs Vulnerability Contributor Program (VCP) (launched in 2002) and TippingPoint’s Zero Day Initiative (2005) were accused -at the time- of incentivizing the work of criminals and bad actors. . Report: Critical Infrastructure Cyber Attacks A Global Crisis.

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Cyber Insurance: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

IT Security Guru

Recent research from Hiscox even found that a fifth of businesses across the US and Europe faced insolvency as a direct result of a cyber attack. Unfortunately, transferring traditional insurance models to the cyber-sphere isn’t an easy task. Astoundingly, the cyber insurance market shrank relative to the Internet economy.

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Architecture Matters When it Comes to SSE

CyberSecurity Insiders

As you read the news, cyber-attacks are still on the rise and now we’ve drifted into national security concerns with the leaks about the war in Ukraine by a junior-level, 21-year-old Massachutures National Guard airman. .” To paraphrase a well-known movie from 2002, “SSE, it’s all about the PoPs.” This is good.

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As market for cyber insurance booms, watchdog calls for better data

SC Magazine

Overall, insurance companies seem to be responding to increased demand from clients for cyber-specific insurance, and one survey found that the two things most likely to spur a purchase of cyber insurance are when a business experiences a cyber attack and when they hear about other companies being hit by a cyber attack.

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A Cyber Insurance Backstop

Schneier on Security

A cyber insurance backstop would provide a means for insurers to receive financial support from the federal government in the event that there was a catastrophic cyberattack that caused so much financial damage that the insurers could not afford to cover all of it. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.