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Cyber Attack fear for abandoned US Vehicles and Aircrafts in Afghanistan

CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 5, 2021

On September 11th, 2001 Taliban linked terrorist group launched a flight attack on the twin towers of United States that from then-on put a major dent in the US governance on an international note. The post Cyber Attack fear for abandoned US Vehicles and Aircrafts in Afghanistan appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Ransomware attack on New York Law Department

CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 8, 2021

A state-funded cyber attack has led to the New York Law Department hack disrupting legal proceedings from Saturday last week. Although the website remained unaffected by the cyber attack, most of the lawyers were unable to access data related to cases and hearings.

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Pharmaceutical giant Cencora discloses a data breach

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Pharmaceutical giant Cencora suffered a cyber attack and threat actors stole data from its infrastructure. formerly known as AmerisourceBergen, is an American drug wholesale company and a contract research organization that was formed by the merger of Bergen Brunswig and AmeriSource in 2001. Cencora, Inc. Cencora, Inc.

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

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

The Estonian electronic ID cards have been manufactured by the Swiss company Trub AG and its successor Gemalto AG since 2001. 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

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OWASP Penetration Testing: Your Ultimate Guide!

Security Boulevard

MAY 2, 2023

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is an online community that was established on September 9, 2001, by Mark Curphey, a cybersecurity expert, with the objective of mitigating cyber attacks. OWASP has developed a list of the top 10 […] The post OWASP Penetration Testing: Your Ultimate Guide!

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MY TAKE: A path for SMBs to achieve security maturity: start small controlling privileged accounts

The Last Watchdog

JUNE 23, 2021

water supply are stark reminders of the unceasing activity of cyber criminals seeking financial gain or who are driven by ideological or political imperatives. What hasn’t gained as much public attention is a secondary level of cyber attacks that surges every time the hacking community uncovers a fresh vulnerability.

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Mandating End-to-End Verifiable Voting Systems in U.S. Elections

SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 8, 2024

These vulnerabilities include risk to tampering, fraud, and cyber attacks, which can emphasize the integrity of elections and affect public trust. In Proceedings of the 2001 ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (pp. Draft version 0.5. Voting machine security: Where we stand a decade after HAVA implementation.

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

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2019

“Windows XP, released in 2001, was the last Microsoft operating system given the green light for use on official Russian government computers, the Open Media website reported, citing defence ministry documents.” Microsoft Windows 10 is only allowed only for government systems that don’t manage secret information.

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Top VC Firms in Cybersecurity of 2022

eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

AllegisCyber Capital was founded in 1996 to serve the growing cyber business ecosystem. Named after the infamous string of nation-state cyber attacks during the late 2000s, NightDragon was established in 2016 by former McAfee CEO Dave DeWalt. AllegisCyber Capital. Greylock Partners. NightDragon. Paladin Capital Group.

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It’s not ‘See you later.’ It’s ‘Goodbye’: Moving on from Tokenization in the age of Ransomware

CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 25, 2022

Tokenization was invented a little over twenty years ago in 2001 to address the risk of losing cardholder data from eCommerce platforms. In recent years, cyber attackers began to go after a wide variety of data beyond just payment cards. Encryption-in-use, a.k.a.

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Cyber CEO: The History Of Cybercrime, From 1834 To Present

Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

Investigators determined that two hackers, known as Datastream Cowboy and Kuji, are behind the attack. government websites in 1998 and is sentenced to 18 months in prison in 2001. After being released in 2003, he uses WiFi to commit attacks, program malware and steal credit card information. The time for change is now. .

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Cyber Security Roundup for March 2021

Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

The sudo vulnerability aka CVE-2001-3156 , seemed to go under the radar after it was announced and patches were released on 26th January 2021. UK media didn't report UK gym chain Total Fitness had been hit by a ransomware attack.

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A Cyber Insurance Backstop

Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The 9/11 attacks cost insurers and reinsurers $47 billion. In his discussion of a potential backstop, Chertoff specifically references the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) as a model.

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The History of Computer Viruses & Malware

eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Going Mobile and Going Global: 2001-2010. In July 2001, the Code Red Worm attempted to subject the entire Internet to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. In fact, China itself would fall prey to the second iteration of Code Red in August 2001. Read More: Top Secure Email Gateway Solutions for 2022.

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Director of National Intelligence warns of devastating cyber threat to US infrastructure

Security Affairs

JULY 16, 2018

Coats warned of threat a “crippling cyber attack on our critical infrastructure” by a nation state actor is growing. government has not yet detected the kinds of cyber attacks and intrusions that officials say Russia launched against state election boards and voter data bases before the 2016 election.”

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Cyber Attack fear for abandoned US Vehicles and Aircrafts in Afghanistan

Ransomware attack on New York Law Department

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Pharmaceutical giant Cencora discloses a data breach

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

OWASP Penetration Testing: Your Ultimate Guide!

MY TAKE: A path for SMBs to achieve security maturity: start small controlling privileged accounts

Mandating End-to-End Verifiable Voting Systems in U.S. Elections

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

Top VC Firms in Cybersecurity of 2022

It’s not ‘See you later.’ It’s ‘Goodbye’: Moving on from Tokenization in the age of Ransomware

Cyber CEO: The History Of Cybercrime, From 1834 To Present

Cyber Security Roundup for March 2021

A Cyber Insurance Backstop

The History of Computer Viruses & Malware

Director of National Intelligence warns of devastating cyber threat to US infrastructure

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