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State-sponsored hackers are using COVID-19 lures, Google warns

Security Affairs

Google is warning that nation-state actors are exploiting the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic to target health care organizations and entities involved in the fight against the pandemic. “We’ve also seen attackers try to trick people into downloading malware by impersonating health organizations.”

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GUEST ESSAY: The privacy implications of facial recognition systems rising to the fore

The Last Watchdog

Assuming privacy concerns get addressed, much wider consumer uses are envisioned in areas such as marketing, retailing and health services. Many of these photos are tagged with the identity of the people in them. This wider application of the technology also means that we are losing any expectation of privacy while in public.

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GUEST ESSAY: The drivers behind persistent ransomware — and defense tactics to deploy

The Last Watchdog

Healthcare and public health, financial services, and IT organizations are frequent targets, although businesses of all sizes can fall victim to these schemes. The price tag of the ransom is just one of the many costs of these attacks, and remediation can often exceed this fee many times over. Prevalence.

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Clop ransomware is victimizing GoAnywhere MFT customers

Malwarebytes

At the time it was impossible to confirm this claim, but after two earlier victims, Community Health Systems (CHS) and Hatch Bank disclosed that data was stolen in the GoAnywhere MFT attacks, the Clop leak site now shows seven new companies. At least two of them reportedly have been breached using the GoAnywhere MFT vulnerability.

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7 Step Data Loss Prevention Checklist for 2021

CyberSecurity Insiders

For companies worldwide, it has become essential to safeguard sensitive information such as Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Protected Health Information (PHI), and customer financial information. Applying persistent classification tags to data is essential and allows your organizations to track their use.

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Cloudastructure: 2021 – Year to Date Review

CyberSecurity Insiders

Object Tagging. Object tagging. Vehicle Detection. Vehicle Counting. License Plate Recognition. Color of Vehicle. AI/Analytics. AI/ML Algorithms. Facial recognition. Mask/no mask. License plate recognition. Gender/age detection. Alerts and notifications. Bad actor alert. Elastic Search. Facial clusters. Alerts and Notifications.

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The UK and Australian Governments Are Now Monitoring Their Gov Domains on Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

There's a verification process where control of the domain needs to be demonstrated (email to a WHOIS address, DNS entry or a file or meta tag on the site), after which all aliases on the domain and the breaches they've appeared in is returned. At the time of writing, over 110k domain searches have been performed and verified.