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Security News for the Week Ending June 3, 2022

FBI Warns US Colleges of Widespread VPN Credential Leaks – On Russian Crime Forums Here’s a shocker. Cybersecurity practices at US colleges and universities are not so good. According to an FBI PIN (Color WHITE, general distribution), Russian cybercrime forums are offering network and VPN credentials for sale for many US higher education institutions, some […]

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46% of Organizations Store Passwords in Shared Documents

I can tell you from personal experience of our pentesting that this is true. We often find password documents – spreadsheets and text documents, unencrypted and unprotected. This is in spite of the fact that 93% of the respondents require password management training and 63% hold that training more than once a year. 8 percent […]

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What Does Remote Bricking of Ukrainian Tractors Mean to US Farmers?

When Russian troops stole millions of dollars of John Deere farm equipment from an authorized Deere dealer, Agrotek-Invest, in Melitopol, Ukraine, they trailered them to Checknya, about 700 miles away. What the Russians did not know is that (a) the equipment has a GPS in it, so Deere knew exactly where they took it and […]

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Security News for the Week Ending May 27, 2022

Yet Another Russian Military “Asset” Catches Fire Russian jet engine design hub Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute which is outside Moscow, did a “halt and catch fire” due to a fire at the electrical substation which powered the former design center. Score one for Ukraine, according to Russia. Russia claims it is the world’s largest scientific research […]

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Most Organizations Don’t Follow Best Backup Practices

In a survey of 400 veteran IT security practitioners, across a wide variety of industries such as healthcare, tech, education and finance, focused on data resilience, 93 percent said they have a ransomware readiness plan, but there are significant knowledge gaps. 26 percent said the cloud is too risky for backup, but only a third […]

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