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Four of the Biggest Financial Data Breaches of 2019

Galido

What caused the security failure is not yet known, but the exposed documents were viewable to anyone without the need for authentication. The hacker was able to breach Capital One’s servers through a misconfigured web application firewall. The Desjardins Group Breach. First American Financial Corp. The Westpac/PayID Breach.

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DDoS Attacks Causing Microsoft Outages Match Russia's MO

SecureWorld News

The tech giant blamed the ongoing DDoS activity on a threat actor it tracks as Storm-1359, believed to be the responsibility of—though not confirmed—a group known as Anonymous Sudan. The group is responsible for DDoS attacks against Swedish, Dutch, Australian, and German organizations since early 2023.

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Troubleshooting TLS Certificates

Scott Lowe

I was recently working on a blog post involving the use of TLS certificates for encryption and authentication, and was running into errors. This time the connection succeeded, and the output of the curl command showed that TLS encryption and authentication were in place and successful. key /path/to/client/certificate/key.

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Advisory: Malicious North Korean Cyber Activity

SecureWorld News

Here's what Blindingcan has accomplished so far: "A threat group with a nexus to North Korea targeted government contractors early this year to gather intelligence surrounding key military and energy technologies. If these services are required, use strong passwords or Active Directory authentication.

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A COE for Zero Trust

SecureWorld News

That is, our primary security controls of firewalls, intrusion prevention, network segmentation, and wired network security are no longer the primary method to manage technology in a COE. Dynamic authentication and authorization are strictly enforced before granting access to any resource.

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Governance and Fighting the Curse of Complexity

CIO Business Intelligence

Authentication. Plain and simple, all IT purchases should be approved by an IT governance group. Moreover, new sources of ever expanding data produced by generative AI and the unfettered growth of unstructured data introduce even more challenges. There’s the complexity of security in the organization. Password strategies. Encryption.

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China's 'Volt Typhoon' Targeting U.S. Infrastructure, Microsoft Warns

SecureWorld News

According to the Microsoft Threat Intelligence announcement , Volt Typhoon gains initial access to targeted organizations through internet-facing security devices, specifically Fortinet FortiGuard firewalls. Notably, China-backed APT groups demonstrate advanced capabilities, leveraging custom malware and tools to evade detection.