The Last Watchdog

MAY 31, 2022

Related: Log4J’s long-run risks. Nucleus launched in 2018 and has grown to over 50 employees. It supplies a unified vulnerability and risk management solution that automates vulnerability management processes and workflows. This kind of thing can be rectified by adopting risk-assessment principles alongside CD/CI.

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Adam Levin

MAY 19, 2021

An undergraduate student at Rochester Institute of Technology named Bill Demirkapi discovered the most recent security failure. In 2018, Experian settled a class-action lawsuit for $22 million. . The post Credit Reporting Companies Put Customer Data at Risk appeared first on Adam Levin. Takeaways .

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 27, 2025

Assistive technologies such as screen readers, magnifiers, and voice assistants are terrific, but these tools are cold comfort when a website's design doesn't support them. In that case, users run the risk of misinterpreting key information, making wrong choices, or unwittingly exposing personally identifiable data.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 8, 2021

This is just one of many risks to our normal civilian computer supply chains. And since military software is vulnerable to the same cyberattacks as commercial software, military supply chains have many of the same risks. A 2018 GAO report expressed concern regarding the lack of secure and patchable U.S. This is not speculative.

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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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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2021

The ISAC found when it comes to IT systems tied to “operational technology” (OT) — systems responsible for monitoring and controlling the industrial operation of these utilities and their safety features — just 30.5 percent of utilities have identified all IT-networked assets, with an additional 21.7

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In one recent engagement, a client of Nick’s said they’d reached out to an investor from Switzerland — The Private Office of John Bernard — whose name was included on a list of angel investors focused on technology startups. ” Mr. Bernard’s investment firm did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 2, 2023

By Jayakumar (Jay) Kurup, Global Sales Engineering Director at Morphisec Securing operational technology (OT) creates unique challenges. Sometimes this is due to cultural reasons (management’s fear of even the slightest chance of disruption); other times, it is technological.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 21, 2023

Many things have changed since 2018, such as the names of the companies in the Fortune 100 list. This is actually down from five of the Fortune 100 in 2018, the last time KrebsOnSecurity performed this analysis. “But that critical separation is violated every day with the CISO or CSO reporting to the heads of technology.”

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Daniel Miessler

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

They were in 2018—and they still are—but pointing this out always raised the same challenge: Fine, but we have to do something. is the transition from external security checks to internal risk analysis. Let’s add more detail to what we are proposing with Vendor Risk 2.0. Perform Risk Assessment Analysis.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 31, 2018

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I'm giving a book talk on Click Here to Kill Everybody at the Ford Foundation in New York City, on September 5, 2018. The Aspen Institute's Cybersecurity & Technology Program is holding a book launch for Click Here to Kill Everybody on September 10, 2018 in Washington, DC.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2019

Related: Atrium Health breach highlights third-party risks. Third-party cyber risks are likely to persist at the current scale for a while longer. According to a recent Ponemon Institute study , some 59% of companies experienced a third-party data breach in 2018, yet only 16% believe they are effectively mitigating third-party risk.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 10, 2020

A 2018 Cisco Cybersecurity Special Report found that 54 % of all cyber attacks cost the target company more than $0.5 We hide the complexity of all these providers and all of these technologies,” Côté told me. million — damages that would crush most SMBs. Customers love the product so much, they spread the word. I’ll keep watch.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 31, 2021

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that the London-based educational publishing company Pearson agreed to pay $1 million to settle charges that it misled investors about a 2018 data breach. The post The Need to Simplify Compliance Risk Control Implementation appeared first on Security Boulevard. Want to learn more?

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 2, 2019

Small and midsize businesses — so-called SMBs — face an acute risk of sustaining a crippling cyberattack. This appears to be even more true today than it was when I began writing about business cyber risks at USA TODAY more than a decade ago. I had the chance at RSA 2019 to discuss the SMB security landscape at length with Gill.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2021

Fitch Ratings is warning that cyberattacks could pose a risk to water and sewer utilities potentially impacting their ability to repay debt. Fitch Ratings published an alert last week to warn of the “material risk” to water and sewer utilities caused by cyber attacks that could also impact their ability to repay debt.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 9, 2024

Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) technologies provide intriguing opportunities for immersive and interactive experiences in cybersecurity training. Related: GenAI’ impact on DevSecOps Here’s how these technologies can bridge learning gaps in cybersecurity awareness and enhance the overall training experience.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Businesses that had never even considered letting their teams work from home were suddenly thrust into a sink or swim environment where they simply had to make it work or risk stalling their operations. The post How to manage the security risk of remote working appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Qualys this week launched a new Ransomware Risk Assessment Service that’s designed to help enterprises understand their potential exposure to ransomware and automate the process of patching any associated vulnerabilities or misconfigurations. CVE-2018-12808. August 2018. Qualys Ransomware Risk Assessment dashboard.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 3, 2018

banks issue credit cards to their account holders, said a Web site misconfiguration exposed the names, addresses, dates of birth and Social Security numbers of thousands of people who applied for cards between early March 2017 and mid-July 2018. TCM said it learned of the issue on July 16, 2018, and had the problem fixed by the following day.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 23, 2021

As of 2018, more than 2 million people were working abroad for U.S. International workforces can be an excellent way to find top talent, but they can introduce unique security risks. While most governments won’t likely do anything nefarious with this information, it does heighten the risk of a data breach.

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Internet Internet Government Risk 223

Schneier on Security

JANUARY 5, 2018

My next book is still on track for a September 2018 publication. Risks are Becoming Catastrophic. Conclusion: Technology and Policy, Together. Norton is still the publisher. The title is now Click Here to Kill Everybody: Peril and Promise on a Hyperconnected Planet , which I generally refer to as CH2KE. Part 2: The Solutions 7.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 12, 2018

For years, potential creditors have judged the relative risk of extending credit to consumers based in part on the applicant’s credit score — the most widely used being the score developed by FICO , previously known as Fair Isaac Corporation. Data accidentally released by FICO about the Cyber Risk Score for ExxonMobil.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

broadband providers, including Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen Technologies, potentially accessing systems for lawful wiretapping and other data. The security breach poses a major national security risk. In 2018, data breach exposed personal information of up to 2 million customers.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

In July 2018, email users around the world began complaining of receiving spam which began with a password the recipient used at some point in the past and threatened to release embarrassing videos of the recipient unless a bitcoin ransom was paid. 13, 2018 bomb threat hoax. domaincontrol.com, and ns18.domaincontrol.com.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 4, 2022

The same types of security risks impact businesses, whatever their size. They are often unaware of the risks they take on, which can include hacking, fraud, phishing, and more. However, in recent years, we can see that SMBs are increasingly using cloud-based services to manage many areas of their information technology.

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 15, 2019

Senator Ron Wyden expressed skepticism about AT&T and T-Mobile’s commitment to end the practice, citing a similar announcement made in June 2018 by multiple carriers, including AT&T, to cut off contracts for location data sharing. “I’ll Several U.S. I’ll believe it when I see it,” Wyden said in an email to Gizmodo.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 25, 2021

European Commission (EC) is planning to devise a new framework that regularized the usage of AI based Facial Recognition technology that all technology based providers need to comply with. More details are awaited!

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The headlines immediately attempted to lay the blame, in large part, on the fact that Equifax’s chief information security officer was a music major and did not have a background in technology. The technologies existing in 2018 will undoubtedly differ from those that exist in 2020. Equifax was not special in this regard.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 12, 2025

A 2022 PwC study found that 59% of directors admitted their board is not very effective in understanding the drivers and impacts of cyber risks for their organization, emphasizing the critical role of board members in these moments. For example, consider whether the risk committee or an ad hoc task force is best suited to manage the incident.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Proximus declared it made its choice “on the basis of technological, operational, financial and environmental criteria,”but the decision, according to sources cited by the Reuters, is the result of political pressure. The two operators, which share their mobile network, had faced political pressure to replace the Huawei equipment.

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Cisco Security

JANUARY 18, 2023

standard in RFC 8446 in August 2018, plenty of tools and utilities were already supporting it (even as early as the year prior, some web browsers had implemented it as their default standard, only having to roll it back due to compatibility issues. Toward the end of 2018, EMA conducted a survey of customers regarding their TLS 1.3

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Adam Levin

JULY 24, 2020

In 2018, security researchers discovered a perfect copy of Reddit.com, one of the five most-visited sites online, under the domain name Reddit.co (.co The risk posed by this sort of hack on a business’s reputation is also worth noting. As in virtually every cyber risk, one path to risk mitigation here is education and training.

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2022

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) hosted its first workshop yesterday on the Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0, released in 2018, which was itself an update to the original CSF released in 2014. an update to the CSF 1.1

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 19, 2018

Oh, and here's how the teen did it: pic.twitter.com/FQ2qXJoP89 — Brett Ruskin (@Brett_CBC) April 13, 2018. link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) April 18, 2018. His "crime" was simply to use the technology as it was designed to work. — Viesturs Kavacs (@VKMKD) April 18, 2018. You've proven the risk.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 1, 2023

Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance is a protocol that was first proposed in January 2012 and widely adopted in 2018 by the U.S. DMARC builds upon the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and the DomainKeys Identified Message (DKIM) technologies to add security and instructions for a specific domain.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 17, 2018

The technology that corrals malicious software circulating through desktop PCs, laptops and mobile devices has evolved into a multi-layered security technology referred to as ‘endpoint security.’. In this fast-evolving, digitally-transformed, business environment, enterprises in 2018 will spend a record $3.8 keep intensifying.

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