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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 10, 2023

NZ cloud assets the focus of attackers, Thales survey finds [Ed: If the very proposition of clown computing is that you do not control it and it's far away from you, only insanity can convince people that's better for security. Clown computing =means unsafe, not in your premises.]

The company provided the statistic as part of its 2023 Thales Cloud Security Study, an annual assessment of cloud security threats, based on input from nearly 3000 professionals across 18 countries, including New Zealand.

Vasudev Kamath: Using LUKS-Encrypted USB Stick with TPM2 Integration [Ed: Microsoft systemd is not security, Microsoft systemd is a mess and complexity is the enemy of security]

I use a LUKS-encrypted USB stick to store my GPG and SSH keys, which acts as a backup and portable key setup when working on different laptops.

[Repeat]It: Luigi Vanvitelli hospital hit by ransomware

A spokesperson for the hospital also stated that the attack mostly affected software used in analysis laboratories. “This does not mean that the analysis laboratories are at a standstill, but,” she underlines, “at the moment they are proceeding at a very low speed, in a pseudo manual”.

Naples, [cracker] attack on Vanvitelli hospital

The authors of the ransomware-type computer attack against the computer system of the Luigi Vanvitelli university hospital in Naples could be part of a group of Chinese [crackers]. The hypothesis is based on the type of email address provided by the attacker to invite the technicians of the Aou Vanvitelli to request information on how to get back the data which it is presumed to have been stolen.

The first technical malfunction detected on the computer platform of the Aou Vanvitelli dates back to Saturday 1st July. Between Saturday and Sunday the technicians worked to get the platform back on its feet but, when this happened on Monday afternoon, they realized that it was not a technical failure, but a real cyber attack.