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CIRWA Project tracks ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure

Security Affairs

The project was launched in September 2019 and as of August 2020, the experts collected 680 records of ransomware attacks that took place since November 2013. now has 687 records assembled from publicly disclosed incidents between November 2013 and August 2020.” ” reads the project description.

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Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part I

Krebs on Security

Ngo got his treasure trove of consumer data by hacking and social engineering his way into a string of major data brokers. By the time the Secret Service caught up with him in 2013, he’d made over $3 million selling fullz data to identity thieves and organized crime rings operating throughout the United States.

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GUEST ESSAY: ‘World password day’ reminds us to embrace password security best practices

The Last Watchdog

Did you know that this unconventional celebration got its start in 2013, and that it’s now an official holiday on the annual calendar? Passwords are now an expected and typical part of our data-driven online lives. MFA is an effective way to prevent cybercriminals from accessing passwords via third party online systems.

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StrongPity APT spreads backdoored Android Telegram app via fake Shagle site

Security Affairs

StrongPity APT group has been active since at least 2013, it’s responsible for cyberespionage campaigns against Turkish targets. .” The HTML code of the fake site includes was copied from the legitimate shagle.com site on November 1st, 2021, using a tool called HTTrack, while the domain was registered on the same day.

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North Korean APT group Kimsuky allegedly hacked South Korea’s atomic research agency KAERI

Security Affairs

A KAERI spokesperson revealed that threat actors exploited a vulnerability in a virtual private network (VPN) server to gain access to the network of the institute. “The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute checked the history of access to some systems by unknown outsiders through the VPN system vulnerability.

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How to use Netezza Performance Server query data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)

IBM Big Data Hub

This demonstration illustrates how Netezza Performance Server (NPS) can be extended to access data stored externally in cloud object storage (Parquet format files). Netezza Performance Server (NPS) has recently added the ability to access Parquet files by defining a Parquet file as an external table in the database.

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NHS’ Plans to Share Patient Records with Third Parties

Data Matters

Although the GP data collection was set to take place as of July 1, 2021, on June 8, 2021 it was announced that the launch will be postponed to September 1, 2021. Once collected, the data will be combined to create a single, national data lake.