Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2020

Malware attack took down 600 computers at Volusia County Public Library. For the second time in a few days, Greek Government websites hit by DDoS attacks. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. US-based childrens clothing maker Hanna Andersson discloses a data breach. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2019

The hackers targeting organizations across multiple industries and have also targeted foreign governments, dissidents, and journalists. The two loaders discovered by Cylance and used by the APT group use side-loaded DLLs and an AES128 implementation from Crypto++ library for payload decryption. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The APT group, recently discovered by ESET, targeted government and private companies in Belarus, Moldova, Russia, Serbia, and Ukraine, including militaries and Ministries of Foreign Affairs. The malware samples analyzed by the researchers are slightly obfuscated using string obfuscation and dynamic Windows API library loading.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

A previously unknown cyber espionage group, tracked as Gallmaker, has been targeting entities in the government, military and defense sectors since at least 2017. Gallmaker is a politically motivated APT group that focused its surgical operations on the government, military or defense sectors. ” continues Symantec.

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IG Guru

JANUARY 25, 2021

. – The Crowley Company (Crowley), a worldwide leader in digitization scanning solutions and services with offices in Frederick, Maryland, San Dimas, California and Basingstoke, UK, is pleased to announce that the firm has been honored with LibraryWorks’ Modern Library (MLA) awards for the seventh consecutive year.

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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2019

Croatia government agencies targeted with news SilentTrinity malware. Backdoor mechanism found in Ruby strong_password library. Cyberattack shuts down La Porte County government systems. Prototype Pollution flaw discovered in all versions of Lodash Library. Once again thank you! Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2019

The APT10 group has added two new malware loaders to its arsenal and used in attacks aimed at government and private organizations in Southeast Asia. In April 2019, China-linked cyber-espionage group tracked as APT10 has added two new loaders to its arsenal and used it against government and private organizations in Southeast Asia.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2019

In other words all the infrastructures, the samples, the command and controls, the domains and IPs, the certificate, the libraries and, general speaking, all the operations that come before the attack phase in term of environments. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 2, 2019

Turla group has been active since at least 2007 targeting government organizations and private businesses. “To confound detection, its operators recently started using PowerShell scripts that provide direct, in- memory loading and execution of malware executables and libraries. ” reads the report published by ESET.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2020

The cyber-espionage group tracked as APT40 (aka TEMP.Periscope , TEMP.Jumper , and Leviathan ), apparently linked to the Chinese government, is focused on targeting countries important to the country’s Belt and Road Initiative (i.e. Hainan Xiandun even appears to operate from the Hainan University Library!” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

DHS CISA issued an emergency directive to tells government agencies to address the Zerologon vulnerability (CVE-2020-1472) by Monday. The Department of Homeland Security’s CISA issued an emergency directive to order government agencies to address the Zerologon vulnerability (CVE-2020-1472) by Monday. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

A new piece of Ryuk Stealer targets government, military and finance sectors. CVE-2020-7247 RCE flaw in OpenSMTPD library affects many BSD and Linux distros. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Did H&M spy on its German employees?

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2019

This library tries to load the missing DLL “diagtrack_wininternal.dll” several times per day. The “diagtrack.dll” also tries to run the missing “WindowsPerformanceRecorderControl” and “diagtrack_win.dll” libraries from time to time (but less often than “diagtrack_wininternal.dll”). Exploitation.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2019

Microsoft.Exchange.WebService.dll which includes the real functionalities used by Jason.exe, it’s a Microsoft developed library, PassSamplewhich includes some patterns implementation of possible Passwords (ie.[User@first]@@[user@first]123) Last Microsoft Exchange WebServices dll version dates to 2015. WebService.dll assemply version.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

GOBLIN PANDA was focused on Vietnam, most of the targets were in the defense, energy, and government sectors. The document did not specifically reference projects related to the Vietnamese government or departments, however, they could be used to trick Government of Vietnam personnel to open them. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

“This led me to the process called , run by the system level LaunchAgent apple, and the Suggestions folder in the user-level Library folder, which contains multiple files and some potentially important database files ( files).” ” reads a post published by Gendler on Medium. ” continues the post. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2019

At least 23 Texas local governments targeted by coordinated ransomware attacks. A backdoor mechanism found in tens of Ruby libraries. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Once again thank you! Bluetana App allows detecting Bluetooth card skimmers in just 3 seconds. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Ransomware attack impacted government services in the territory of Nunavut, Canada. A flaw in the Libarchive library impacts major Linux distros. Two former Twitter employees charged of spying on Users for Saudi Arabian Government. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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ARMA International

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

iv] Further, “the practices of government [and other public and private institutions] become formal or official to the extent that they are documented.” [v] This article aims to consider what a documentary focus can offer to the practices and understandings of information governance. A Documentary Approach.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 21, 2019

Related: Cyber spies feast on government shut down. This jQuery vulnerability has been known to the black hat community since about 2015. Your software library might not depend on this (jQuery) library, but you might use some other third-party library, and that library depends on the vulnerable library,” Becker explained. “So

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

We need to tell to the liner that we want a plain binary file without linked libraries or linked symbols, fir such a reason we’re going to use –oformat binar. David Jurgens: Help PC Reference Library AshakiranBhatter : Writing BootLoader. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2019

The hackers targeted organizations across multiple industries and have also hit foreign governments, dissidents, and journalists. of the wolfSSL library , formerly known as CyaSSL. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” continues the analysis. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The money is kept by the government and in return, a “non-permanent” profit officially titled as “interest” is given back to the officers at the end of each year. The two dll are legit windows library and are used in support of the malicious behaviour. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2018

Turla is the name of a Russian cyber espionage APT group (also known as Waterbug, Venomous Bear and KRYPTON) that has been active since at least 2007 targeting government organizations and private businesses. The backdoor is a standalone DLL (dynamic link library) that interacts with Outlook and The Bat! Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2020

Lampion was first documented in December 2019 , and it was distributed in Portugal via phishing emails using templates based on the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax. VBS file leverages the Windows rundll32 library to inject the first DLL into memory (P-14-7.dll), More recently, in May 2020, a new variant of Lampion was observed.

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CILIP

AUGUST 12, 2020

Do libraries have a role at the cutting edge of tech ethics? Set up by tech entrepreneur Martha Lane Fox in 2015, Doteveryone has lobbied government for more regulation of big tech and lobbied big tech companies to act more responsibly towards their users. Government solution? s terrible that people are being excluded.

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The Texas Record

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The history of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission began in the 1830s when Texas was still a Republic. In 1909, the Texas Library and Historical Commission was created to direct the State Library, aid and encourage public libraries, and collect materials related to Texas history. Land at 4400 Shoal Creek Blvd.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

We need to tell to the liner that we want a plain binary file without linked libraries or linked symbols, fir such a reason we’re going to use --oformat binar. David Jurgens: Help PC Reference Library AshakiranBhatter : Writing BootLoader. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. as -o boot.o

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2019

New trojan called ‘Lampion’ has spread using template emails from the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax during the last days of 2019. Last days of 2019 were the perfect time to spread phishing campaigns using email templates based on the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax. To get details about the library inside the 0.zip

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The Texas Record

APRIL 9, 2020

Recorded Webinar – July 2015 – 33 mins). Records Management for Blogs, Texts, Social Media, Cloud Computing and more!

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CILIP

OCTOBER 18, 2021

s library and information association and the Archives & Records Association (ARA) have jointly convened a Workforce Data Consortium (please see below for a full list of partners) to fund a Workforce Mapping Survey of the library, archives, records, information and knowledge sector. Invitation to Tender ? Workforce Mapping.

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CILIP

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Access to quality library services is one of the most transformative investments our society could make. Manifesto for Libraries? calling on the Government to ?recognise recognise the opportunity to transform lives across the UK by investing in the future of our libraries.? Fair funding for Local Government.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2019

The attack attribution is still unclear but the large scale of the malicious activities has also been confirmed by Unit42, who reported attack attempt against government verticals too. . Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Figure 7: Static information about payload described in table 2.

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The Texas Record

JULY 31, 2018

But in January 2015, the records of Governor Rick Perry’s administration were received by TSLAC. This unprecedented transfer of electronic records provided the catalyst for developing a repository for the long-term preservation of and access to the historic digital records of the Texas State Government. Can be accessed here: [link]. [2]

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CILIP

JUNE 14, 2023

Highly skilled and predominantly female - Workforce Mapping 2023 Survey results out now The libraries and information sector has a highly experienced and predominantly female workforce, with 40 per cent of staff having more than 20 years of work experience, according to data gathered for the Workforce Mapping 2023 survey.

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Preservica

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

For more than 50 years, the Ohio History Connection has worked with state and local government agencies to preserve the history of Ohio and its citizens. The state archives and the official memory of Ohio's government are recorded through public records, documents and images. About Preservica.

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CILIP

OCTOBER 4, 2021

A WELL-trodden path from Weekend Assistant in a public library to a career as an information professional may sound familiar to many readers. My first experience of working in libraries was during my time at college when I was an A-Level student and I secured a Saturday job in my local public library. s LIS course. Jake says: ?My

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