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How To Help Your Family Protect Their Online Data

Whether you’re standing around the water cooler at work, waiting for your kids at the school gate or sitting around the dinner table, data breaches are without doubt the hot topic of conversation. In late September, we were all shaken when news of the biggest Australian data breach to date broke – a record 10 […]

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  • December 2, 2022

Security Announcements at AWS re:Invent 2022

Some thoughts on security announcements to date at AWS re:Invent More posts on AWS Security Watching Werner Vogel’s Keynote In this post I’m just compiling some of the security announcements at AWS re:Invent. I’ll have to go back and take a look at them more in detail later as, unfortunately and fortunately, someone hired me to teach […]

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Industry Coalition Urges Congress to Hold off on SBOMs Requirements for Defense Contractors

The coalition outlined the need to refine SBOM requirements before making it an obligation for defense contractors

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LastPass Security Breach

The company was hacked, and customer information accessed. No passwords were compromised.

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NATO Launches Massive Cyber-Defense Exercise

Annual Cyber Coalition effort helps nations develop and share best practice

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Cuba Ransomware Actors Pocket $60m

Number of US victims has doubled over the past year

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Trojan Steals Facebook Details from Over 300K Victims

“Schoolyard Bully” has been active since 2018

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Cuba Ransomware Extorted Over $60 Million in Ransom Fees from More than 100 Entities

The threat actors behind Cuba (aka COLDDRAW) ransomware have received more than $60 million in ransom payments and compromised over 100 entities across the world as of August 2022. In a new advisory shared by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of…

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  • December 2, 2022

LastPass admits to customer data breach caused by previous breach

Seems that the developer account that the crooks breached last time gave indirect access to customer data this time round.

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