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DIRNSA Fired

Schneier on Security

In “ Secrets and Lies ” (2000), I wrote: It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state. But the wrong technology infrastructure could allow such a future government to watch every move anyone makes to oppose it. This is simply a matter of good civic hygiene.

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News alert: Zluri raises $20M funding round for SaaS management as identity features take off

The Last Watchdog

Having launched and scaled our discovery engine in 2020 to help companies understand their SaaS stacks better, we have since launched an identity governance tool to manage access and now are launching the Zluri co-pilot to help enable faster workflows.” For more information please visit [link]. About Lightspeed.

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GUEST ESSAY: Supply chain vulnerabilities play out in latest Pentagon personnel records breach

The Last Watchdog

government strategic systems. The OPM breach put most federal workers since the year 2000 are at risk. It’s not as if big government agencies and most enterprises aren’t making an effort to stop breaches. It is disheartening, but not at all surprising, that hackers continue to pull off successful breaches of well-defended U.S.

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RansomBoggs Ransomware hit several Ukrainian entities, experts attribute it to Russia

Security Affairs

Sandworm (aka BlackEnergy and TeleBots ) has been active since 2000, it operates under the control of Unit 74455 of the Russian GRU’s Main Center for Special Technologies (GTsST). While the malware written in.NET is new, its deployment is similar to previous attacks attributed to #Sandworm.

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SHARED INTEL Q&A: My thoughts and opinions about cyber threats — as discussed with OneRep

The Last Watchdog

Byron: I was initially drawn to cybersecurity as a USA TODAY technology reporter assigned to cover Microsoft. I held this position from 2000 through 2014, during which time Windows emerged as a prime target for both precocious script kiddies and emerging criminal hacking rings. What drew you to this field?

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Russian Sandworm disrupts power in Ukraine with a new OT attack

Security Affairs

Mandiant researchers reported that Russia-linked APT group Sandworm employed new operational technology (OT) attacks that caused power outages while the Russian army was conducting mass missile strikes on critical infrastructure in Ukraine in October.

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Hindsight is 2020. Looking back so we can move forward

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Some of our first customers were in financial services and government agencies, where our technologies were used to create a “need to know” in a system that obeys a strict privilege hierarchy and where “root” owns all things. However, technology and governance have. Technology. Governance. New frontiers.