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Who’s Behind the ‘Web Listings’ Mail Scam?

Krebs on Security

The story concluded that this dubious service had been scamming people and companies for more than a decade, and promised a Part II to explore who was behind Web Listings. Since at least 2007, Web Listings Inc. The missives appear to be an $85 bill for an “annual search engine listing” service.

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Intuit to Share Payroll Data from 1.4M Small Businesses With Equifax

Krebs on Security

Financial services giant Intuit this week informed 1.4 Intuit says the change is tied to an “exciting” and “free” new service that will let millions of small business employees get easy access to employment and income verification services when they wish to apply for a loan or line of credit.

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Lazarus malware delivered to South Korean users via supply chain attacks

Security Affairs

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. The activity of the Lazarus APT group surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks.

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Emissary Panda updated its weapons for attacks in the past 2 years

Security Affairs

defense contractors , financial services firms, and a national data center in Central Asia. In 2018, Emissary Panda was observed using an updated version of the ZxShell RAT first developed in 2006 and whom code was released in 2007. “This Gh0st RAT sample communicated with IP address 43 [. ]

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Summary – “Industry in One: Financial Services”

ARMA International

The scope of a records and information management (RIM) program in financial services can seem overwhelming. Compared to other industries, the complexities of managing records and information in financial services are arguably some of the toughest to solve, primarily because of the intense regulatory scrutiny.

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Why you should keep data observability separate from data cleansing

Collibra

For financial services, data governance found its roots in risk. As CROs prioritized Operational Risk post the 2007 financial crisis, those leaders also looked to centralized thought like the Basel Accords. Observability partners well with correction, but merging inspection and action often leads to further complications.

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Best Digital Forensics Tools & Software for 2021

eSecurity Planet

Developed by the SANS Institute in 2007, SIFT works on 64-bit OS, automatically updates the software with the latest forensic tools and techniques, and is a memory optimizer. The first version of Volatility was launched at Black Hat and DefCon in 2007 and based its services around academic research into advanced memory analysis and forensics.