The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Employee security awareness is the most important defense against data breaches. It involves regularly changing passwords and inventorying sensitive data. There are several ways you can protect your business from data breaches. Inventory your sensitive data. Related: Leveraging security standards to protect your company.

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Hot for Security

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The message sent to faculty members and students doesn’t say how the threat actors managed to infiltrate the information systems of the university: “Lakehead University’s Technology Services Centre (TSC) team is currently managing a cyber attack that is affecting our campuses’ servers.

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Jane Frankland

OCTOBER 10, 2023

It’s a hard balancing act between protecting valuable data, increasing productivity, controlling costs – especially when technology often seems to be outpacing security measures. Now ITDMs can enable the storing and accessing of data and applications remotely, allowing for increased agility and flexibility in their organisation’s operations.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 28, 2022

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), NSA and FBI joined their “Five Eyes” counterparts in issuing the alert: the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS), the New Zealand National Cyber Security Centre (NZ NCSC), and the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC UK).

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Security Boulevard

JULY 28, 2021

Accelerate Open Banking Innovation with These 7 Data Capabilities. The inability to automate data impedes time to market with open APIs and banking features at over half of Europe’s banks, according to new research. The data stockpiled in banking institutions is a lot like rocket fuel. Wed, 07/28/2021 - 12:34. Kobi Korsah.

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IT Security Guru

AUGUST 31, 2023

This article provides resources and guidance for gamers across the pond and beyond, aiming to bolster security skills and defend the virtual realms they cherish. Why Gamers are Targeted Gamers can sometimes underestimate the value of the data they hold.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Carding Action 2020 targeted crooks selling/purchasing compromised card data on sites selling stolen cred itcard data and darkweb marketplaces. The three-month anti-cybercrime effort targeted traders of compromised card details and prevented approximately €40 million in losses. .

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

GITEX GLOBAL features every major technology vendor, trend, and vertical covering sectors including smart cities, cybersecurity, the data economy, mobility, healthcare, and telecoms. We have two meeting rooms, and our focus is on protecting and securing access to your data through modern and strong authentication solutions.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Instead of jewelry or money, cybercriminals opt for credentials, customer data, and digital wallets. More than 4,000 small business websites were compromised by hackers to steal credit card and other payment details, according to new research by the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued an alert about a surge in ransomware attacks targeting education institutions. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), has issued an alert about a surge in ransomware attacks against education institutions. ” reads the advisory. PowerShell) to easily deploy tooling or ransomware.

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BH Consulting

JUNE 9, 2021

Almost a year after last summer’s CJEU decision to invalidate the Privacy Shield EU-US data transfer agreement, now SCCs have been called into question as a valid safeguard for transfers to certain third countries. This blog looks at the latest developments, and evaluates what options remain open to EU businesses for data transfers.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a joint statement with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), and United Kingdom's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) in regards to bringing attention to malicious hacking activity. Iran-backed malicious hacking activity.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

stolen data, malware, and fake documents). million were seized in both cash and virtual currencies, alongside some 500 kilograms of drugs, including fentanyl, oxycodone, hydrocodone, methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, MDMA, and medicine containing addictive substances; and 64 firearms.”

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 6, 2019

s Cybersecurity Centre, ICANN, and other notable security experts. In the enterprise environment, domain names, DNS, and certificates are the lifeline to any internet-based application including websites, email, apps, virtual private networks (VPNs), voice over IP (VoIP) and more. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, U.K.’s

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2019

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warns of attacks exploiting recently disclosed VPN vulnerabilities in Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks and Pulse Secure. vBulletin, data breach). This week the NCSC issued an alert to warn organizations using the vulnerable products. ” reads the alert issued by the NCSC.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

The research was conducted via a four-month partnership between doctorate students at University College of London’s Centre for Doctoral Training in Data Intensive Science and U.S. While more advanced analyses can pull in other data to compensate, this too winds up being too data and resource intensive for many organizations.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2020

“The virtual private network (VPN) Safe-Inet used by the world’s foremost cybercriminals has been taken down yesterday in a coordinated law enforcement action led by the German Reutlingen Police Headquarters together with Europol and law enforcement agencies from around the world.” ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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BH Consulting

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The ruling makes it challenging to transfer data to countries where equivalent data protection is not possible, leaving companies with the difficult task to find a defensible position for such transfers. Anne Marie Moore – Data Protection Consultant. Tom Knierim – Data Protection Consultant.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Imagine walking into a virtual masquerade ball; the mask you choose—whether the suave residential or the discrete datacenter—determines how you interact with other guests (websites) and how hosts (servers) perceive you. Instead, they’re housed in data centres around the globe, providing you with a non-residential IP address.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 8, 2022

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) providing details on the top malware strains of 2021. Agent Tesla Agent Tesla can steal data from mail clients, web browsers, and File Transfer Protocol (FTP) servers.

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BH Consulting

OCTOBER 15, 2023

It found the most common intrusion tactics are phishing emails containing malware, Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) brute forcing, and exploiting Virtual Private Network (VPN) vulnerabilities. Stealing sensitive data could become the central goal of cyber-attacks, feeding the growing criminal market for personal information, Europol said.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 11, 2021

Both the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have issued warnings about an ongoing cybercrime campaign that is using Avaddon ransomware. Finally, a copy of the victim’s data is exfiltrated before the victim’s systems are encrypted. Not afraid of law enforcement.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 23, 2019

But the energy sector also underpins our emergency and response systems, our hospitals and healthcare, our schools, our businesses, and virtually everything we do as a society. To get an idea of how serious this problem might be, a 2015 report by the University of Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies estimated a major grid attack in the U.S.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 1, 2021

While data protection is rapidly becoming a top priority for organisations, there is still much to be done. For example, the head of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre recently confirmed that ransomware has become the biggest threat to online security for both businesses and individuals. Fri, 10/01/2021 - 11:02. Sep 28, 2021.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 13, 2021

Yet, despite the fact that many of the announcements from the top telecommunications companies were received virtually, the spirit of the show did not falter this year and there were still plenty of exciting launches and news to come from the event. You can read his thoughts on this year’s show here.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Here is a transcript of what the email reads: "Our intelligence monitoring indicates exfiltration of several of your virtualized clusters in a sophisticated chain attack. No actor was able to access or compromise any data or PII on the FBI’s network. November 13, 2021. According to U.S. Your CISO and leadership team aren't online.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Dr. Dennis-Kenji Kipker (the University of Bremen; European Academy for Freedom of Information and Data Protection (EAID)), Arthur Laudrain (The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies), Stefan Soesanto (The Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich) for their scientific and profound contribution. Also, we’d like to thank Prof.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2022

Once installed a web shell, threat actors can use it to carry out a broad range of malicious activities, such as deploying data exfiltration or deployment of ransomware. Recently the Dutch National Cybersecurity Centre (NCSC) warned organizations to remain vigilant on possible attacks exploiting the Log4J vulnerability.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 19, 2022

VPNLab.net was a virtual private network provider that mostly advertised its services on the criminal side of the Dark Web, and provided services for various cybercriminals, including ransomware gangs. The double encrypted data goes to a second server where it is decrypted. What was VPNLab.net?

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BH Consulting

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) publishes the annual report, drawing on input from EU member states, law enforcement agencies, experts and private sector contributors. The 2022 edition will be a combined in-person and virtual event. The FBI confirmed the breach but stressed no data was compromised. Sign up here.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 13, 2022

Users have to deal with the outcomes of an attack, such as ransoms or data theft, and may also face legal ramifications, financial losses, and damage to their professional reputation. Base and temporal scores are usually generated by the software manufacturer, which will have used detailed data to identify any vulnerabilities during testing.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 21, 2021

A visitor looks at an IoT & 5G motherboard at the booth of STMicroelectronics during Electronica China 2021 at Shanghai New International Expo Centre on April 14, 2021 in Shanghai, China. Virtually all businesses are either providing or consuming cloud services. Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images). Artificial intelligence.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

And now, with many schools going virtual, the get out of school tactics are moving into the cybercrime realm. Letters are being delivered via email and typically contain victim-specific data such as Autonomous System Numbers (ASN) or IP addresses of servers or services they will target if their demands are not fulfilled.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

It could very well be both, as respondents’ sentiments likely vary depending on what they personally have at stake, how important they view the security of their data, how hypothetical the attack scenario is, and what kind of organization is affected. So which is it?

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McAfee

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In layman’s terms, ransomware is malware that employs encryption to lock users out of their devices or block access to critical data or files. Some effects of ransomware include downtime, data loss, possible intellectual property theft, major financial consequences and more.

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BH Consulting

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The Gardaí and the Irish National Cyber Crime Centre recently alerted small and medium businesses of an increased threat of ransomware attacks. . The Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report tells us that 82 per cent of security incidents have a human component. . spyware, ransomware).”.

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IT Security Guru

JULY 23, 2021

UK-specific recommendations can be seen outlined by the National Cyber Security Centre and promote much of the same standard password policies as NIST. However, the problem with this recommendation is that it assumes you can confidently detect when an account on your network has become compromised when industry data shows that is not reality.

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