Troy Hunt

APRIL 10, 2022

In my ongoing bid to make more useful information on data breaches available to impacted national governments , today I'm very happy to welcome the 32nd national CERT to Have I Been Pwned, the Republic of North Macedonia!

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 31, 2023

A used government surveillance van is for sale in Chicago: So how was this van turned into a mobile spying center? Well, let’s start with how it has more LCD monitors than a Counterstrike LAN party. They can be used to monitor any of six different video inputs including a videoscope camera.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 18, 2022

Rolling Stone is reporting that the UK government has hired the M&C Saatchi advertising agency to launch an anti-encryption advertising campaign. Presumably they’ll lean heavily on the “think of the children!” ” rhetoric we’re seeing in this current wave of the crypto wars.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 12, 2024

Over the last 6 years, we've been very happy to welcome dozens of national governments to have unhindered access to their domains in Have I Been Pwned , free from cost and manual verification barriers.

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Lohrman on Security

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

While the federal government deadline has arrived on implementing a zero-trust cybersecurity model, many state and local governments have committed to zero-trust architecture as well.

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Lohrman on Security

JULY 18, 2021

Global leaders want to carve out specific areas of critical infrastructure to be protected under international agreements from cyber attacks. But where does that leave others?

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Joseph Steinberg

JULY 17, 2023

Among the leaked data were briefings on domestic US terrorism marked “For Official Use Only,” a global counter-terrorism assessment document with the words “Not Releasable to the Public or Foreign Governments” on its cover, crew lists for ships, and maps and photos of military bases. Now that the government of Mali is administering the.ML

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Lohrman on Security

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

ISC2 just released their 2024 cyber workforce report, and the key findings are eye-opening for public-sector employees. Here’s what you need to know.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

This story seems straightforward. A city is the victim of a ransomware attack. They repeatedly lie to the media about the severity of the breach. A security researcher repeatedly proves their statements to be lies. The city gets mad and sues the researcher.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Mexico’s president announced the government is investigating an alleged ransomware hack that targeted the administration’s legal affairs office. The authorities launched an investigation after the ransomware gang Ransomhub claimed the attack and published samples of personal information from a database of government.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

government officials. telecoms, compromising networks to steal call records and access private communications, mainly of government and political figures. A cyberattack tied to the Chinese government penetrated the networks of a swath of U.S. broadband providers is still ongoing, government experts are assessing its scope.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

government officials. telecoms, compromising networks to steal call records and access private communications, mainly of government and political figures. A cyberattack tied to the Chinese government penetrated the networks of a swath of U.S. broadband providers is still ongoing, government experts are assessing its scope.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Which means that those companies can spy on them—either for their own reasons or in response to government demands. “In this case, the federal government prohibited us from sharing any information,” the company said in a statement.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is urging police departments and governments worldwide to beef up security around their email systems, citing a recent increase in cybercriminal services that use hacked police email accounts to send unauthorized subpoenas and customer data requests to U.S.-based based technology companies.

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Lohrman on Security

DECEMBER 1, 2024

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is launching CISA Learning, a new learning management platform to help with cybersecurity training and much more.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 2, 2024

Conclusion: Substantial Differences in Hashtag Ratios Raise Concerns about TikTok’s Impartiality Given the research above, we assess a strong possibility that content on TikTok is either amplified or suppressed based on its alignment with the interests of the Chinese Government.

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Joseph Steinberg

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

He frequently serves as a cybersecurity expert witness , advises businesses and governments on information security matters, and has amassed millions of readers as a regular columnist for Forbes and Inc. His opinions are also frequently cited in books, law journals, security publications, and general interest periodicals.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 29, 2024

” The arrest coincided with the seizure of the 911 S5 website and supporting infrastructure, which the government says turned computers running various “free VPN” products into Internet traffic relays that facilitated billions of dollars in online fraud and cybercrime. government.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 2, 2021

Still, seems like a juicy target for other governments. The satellite can detect and characterise any rogue emissions, enabling it to respond dynamically to accidental interference or intentional jamming. We can assume strong encryption, and good key management.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 20, 2022

Beanstalk Farms is a decentralized finance project that has a majority stake governance system: basically people have proportiona votes based on the amount of currency they own.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 17, 2022

government employees and contractors have been issued a secure smart ID card that enables physical access to buildings and controlled spaces, and provides access to government computer networks and systems at the cardholder’s appropriate security level. government smart cards. government smart cards.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 1, 2024

It also has a new focus on governance, which encompasses how organizations make and carry out informed decisions on cybersecurity strategy. ’s newly added Govern function. ’s newly added Govern function. NIST has released version 2.0 of the Cybersecurity Framework: The CSF 2.0,

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Chinese hackers (Salt Typhoon) penetrated the networks of US broadband providers, and might have accessed the backdoors that the federal government uses to execute court-authorized wiretap requests. Those backdoors have been mandated by law—CALEA—since 1994. It’s a weird story.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Experts say the leak illustrates how Chinese government agencies increasingly are contracting out foreign espionage campaigns to the nation’s burgeoning and highly competitive cybersecurity industry. In 2021, the Sichuan provincial government named i-SOON as one of “the top 30 information security companies.”

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 21, 2022

The app also includes a censorship keyword list, which, while presently inactive, targets a variety of political topics including domestic issues such as Xinjiang and Tibet as well as references to Chinese government agencies. The US government has already advised athletes to leave their personal phones and laptops home and bring burners.

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Lohrman on Security

JULY 21, 2024

Several recently released cyber industry reports show steady or growing ransomware numbers in 2024 so far, and impacts on business and government have never been greater.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In 2018, Australia passed the Assistance and Access Act, which—among other things—gave the government the power to force companies to break their own encryption. The Assistance and Access Act includes key components that outline investigatory powers between government and industry.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 25, 2021

In the hands of some governments, that could be dangerous. Crucially, this data can be used for, among other things, tracking traffic through virtual private networks, which are used to mask where someone is connecting to a server from, and by extension, their approximate physical location.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

has a business unit called Securence , which specializes in providing filtered, secure email services to businesses, educational institutions and government agencies worldwide. and cityoffrederickmd.gov , the website for the government of Frederick, Md. The Minnesota-based Internet provider U.S. Internet Corp. ” U.S.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 11, 2022

Georgetown has a new report on the highly secretive bulk surveillance activities of ICE in the US: When you think about government surveillance in the United States, you likely think of the National Security Agency or the FBI. You might even think of a powerful police agency, such as the New York Police Department.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 28, 2022

A German activist is trying to track down a secret government intelligence agency. It recounts how following her original discovery in December 2021, subsequent government press conferences have denied that there is such a federal telecommunications service at all. Here’s the original Medium post , in German.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 23, 2024

He believes it also needs to publicly scrutinize Microsoft and make sure everyone knows when it messes up. “At the end of the day, Microsoft, any company, is going to respond most directly to market incentives,” Grotto told us. ” Breaking up the tech monopolies is one of the best things we can do for cybersecurity.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 2, 2022

The Markup has identified 37 companies that are part of the rapidly growing connected vehicle data industry that seeks to monetize such data in an environment with few regulations governing its sale or use.

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