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Western Digital Hacked: ‘My Cloud’ Data Dead (Even Local Storage!)

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Déjà Vu: Hack of WD systems leads to My Cloud service outage. Owners unable to access files ...
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Brits Slap Wrists of DDoS Kids, via NCA’s Fake Booter Sites

| | booter , booter services , booters and stressers , crime , ddos , National Crime Agency , National Cyber Crime Unit , NCA , Operation Power Off , Operation PowerOFF , SB Blogwatch , U.K. National Crime Agency , uk
UK National Crime Agency nips it in the bud: Aims to scare straight naughty DDoS kiddies ...
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Scams Lost US $10 BILLION in 2022 — Crypto Fraud Grows Fast

| | Call Center Fraud , Crypto , crypto fraud , cryptocurrency , FBI , Fraud , IC3 , Internet Crime Complaint Center , Investment Scams , Phishing , Ransomware , SB Blogwatch , Scams
Ben is disappointed: FBI reports huge rise in cryptocurrency investment scams. Why am I not surprised? ...
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White House to Regulate Cloud Security: Good Luck With That

| | Biden administration , Biden National Cybersecurity Strategy , Cloud Security , cybersecurity regulation , regulation , SB Blogwatch , White House
Be careful what you wish for: Biden wants new regulations for cloud providers—but we’re not sure it’ll help ...
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‘Extraordinary, Egregious’ Data Breach at House and Senate

| | Congress , DC Health Link , Health insurance , HIPAA , House of Representatives , pii , Privacy , SB Blogwatch , US Congress , US Senate
Capitol Trouble: Senators, representatives and staffers suffer PII leak. Could it finally kickstart some action? ...
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GoDaddy Hosting Hacked — for FOURTH Time in 4 Years

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GoDaddy’s web hosting service breached yet again. This time, the perps were redirecting legit websites to malware ...
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Another Password Manager Leak Bug: But KeePass Denies CVE

| | CVE-2023-24055 , default settings , Dominik Reichl , KeePass , open source , password managers , SB Blogwatch
Two researchers report vulnerability in KeePass. But lead developer Dominik Reichl says it’s not a problem—and refuses to fix the flaw ...
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US and UK Ban More Chinese Kit as Xi’s Grip Weakens

| | china , chinese government , Dahua , Hikvision , Huawei , Hytera , Peoples Republic of China , SB Blogwatch , ZTE
Two key members of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance have made further moves to stop Chinese equipment imports ...
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Critical Infrastructure’s Open Source Problem

| | cisa , Critical Infrastructure , executive order cybersecurity , open source , OpenSSF
Open source has a security problem, and that could have real-world impact when it affects critical infrastructure. According to research from Synopsis, 78% of code in codebases is open source, and 81% ...
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Gov’t Adds Open Source Security to Software Supply Chain

| | executive order , Federal Government , open source , software supply chain
The federal government is stepping up to protect the software supply chain. Last year, president Biden signed an executive order to improve national cybersecurity and bring better protection to federal government networks ...
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