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2022 brought ‘most intense cyber-attacks so far’ / Article

February 28, 2023/in Internet Security

SAB’s main tasks include intelligence and counter-intelligence activities as well as protection of classified information

“Russia continues its confrontational and aggressive policy towards the West. Its aim remains to divide the West’s unity against Russia,” said SAB in one of its more obvious conclusions.

“It is in Russia’s best interests to promote internal tensions and public dissatisfaction with the government or economic situation in Western countries, assuming that domestic problems could push certain European countries into reducing their political focus on Russia’s war in Ukraine,” SAB says in a summary of the report’s content, which is dominated by Russia. Nearly three-quarters of the report’s 42 pages concern Russia and Belarus.

“In addition to military operations, Russia is also actively developing informational influence operations. Having a border with Russia, Latvia is particularly affected by this – the historical memory of the Latvian society, as well as the geopolitical environment of our country and the large Russian-speaking population have a significant impact in this situation,” said director of SAB Egils Zviedris.

There is a high probability that Russia may decide to completely stop supplying energy resources to European countries in order to punish them for supporting Ukraine, states the report.

As regards domestic matters, SAB said it paid increased attention to the activities of “propaganda media, financed and supported by Russia,” during the period leading up to Saeima elections in October 2022, but that “No coordinated information influence operations were directly detected.”

“Even though no direct Russian interference in the elections was detected, we can still conclude that in the long term Russian propaganda messages have reached a significant part of Latvian society,” said SAB in its report.

According to SAB: “In 2022, Latvian cyberspace endured the most intense cyber-attacks so far. Cyber-attacks are carried out in waves and their number is increasing both because of the wider usage of Internet and cyberspace and the ongoing war in Ukraine. In 2022, the number of incidents registered and processed by the…

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October 30, 2022/in Mobile Security

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Tis the season to be jolly: Don’t let hackers ruin holidays | Article

December 17, 2021/in Computer Security

ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill. – While it’s supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year, the holiday season can turn into a hunting ground for hackers, scammers, and identity thieves, becoming THEIR favorite time of the year.

Why is that?

While many of us still prefer the traditional in-person shopping experience, many others have switched heavily to online purchases in the past few years, even more since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic early last year.

This has caused a significant increase in our population’s record of online activities, also referred to as digital footprint.

“When we make online purchases, we leave a trail of personal information such as our home address, date of birth, credit card information, spending habits, and even our personal preferences,” said Dr. Kathy Linderman, chief information officer for the U.S. Army Sustainment Command G6 (Information Management).

While online shopping is practical, fast, and often easier, we do tend to share a lot of sensitive information that could expose us to personal and financial risks.

“Some shopping websites will place ‘cookies’ on each visitor’s computer to track online activity and provide information to the cookie owner,” Linderman said. “All of this information is often used to target us with advertisements for other products or services we might like.”

However, such information…

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Rule requires banks report significant ‘computer-security incidents’ within 36 hours | Article

November 19, 2021/in Computer Security

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Federal Reserve, and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) approved the policy, which also requires service providers for financial institutions to notify affected bank customers of any service outage caused by a computer-security incident that lasts longer than four hours.

The rule is effective April 1, 2022, and compliance is required by May 1, 2022.

A computer-security incident is described in the rule as an “occurrence that results in actual harm to the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of an information system or the information that the system processes, stores, or transmits.” Such incidents can be caused by a variety of factors, including cyberattacks launched by hackers with “destructive malware or malicious software” as well as “non-malicious failure of hardware and software, personnel errors, and other causes.”

A “notification incident” is defined in the rule as a computer-security incident “that disrupts or degrades, or is reasonably likely to disrupt or degrade, the viability of the banking organization’s operations; result[s] in customers being unable to access their deposit and other accounts; or impact[s] the stability of the financial sector.”

The rule requires any bank services provider subject to the Bank Service Company Act (BSCA) to notify at least two individuals within the affected banking organization of a computer-security incident that it “believes in good faith could disrupt, degrade, or impair services provided subject to the BSCA for four or more hours.” The bank organization would then determine if the incident rises to the level of a notification incident and inform its regulators if that is the case.

“The notification requirement for bank service providers is important because banking organizations have become increasingly reliant on third parties to provide essential services,” the rule said. “… [A] banking organization needs to receive prompt notification of computer-security incidents that materially disrupt or degrade, or are reasonably likely to materially disrupt or degrade, these services because prompt notification will allow the banking…

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