Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2020

To mitigate the threat and prevent it from spreading inside the city network the City of Durham has disabled all access into the DCI Network for the Durham Police Department with the result that 911 call center was shut down. 911 calls, though, are being answered.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2021

“RedFoxtrot has primarily targeted aerospace and defense, government, telecommunications, mining, and research organizations in Afghanistan, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. ” continues the report. . located in Wuhan.” ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2020

The bot is written in Golang and implements wormable capabilities, experts reported attacks against entities in government, education, and finance sectors. The bot is able to establish a backdoor on the infected systems in order to achieve continued access.

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Encryption Mining Communications Access 363

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The government alleges the men used malware-laced phishing emails and “supply chain” attacks to steal data from companies and their customers. backed media outlet that ran stories examining the Chinese government’s treatment of Uyghur people living in its Xinjian region.

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Government Mining Big data Phishing 363

Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

In order to help as many people as possible secure their devices against potential cyberattacks, the CyberNews security team accessed 27,944 printers around the world and forced the hijacked devices to print out a short 5-step guide on how to secure a printer, with a link to a more detailed version of the guide on our website.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2024

Over the past year, ExCobalt targeted Russian organizations in the the following industries: Metallurgy Telecommunications Mining Information technology Government Software development The Cobalt’s hallmark was the use of the CobInt tool , the same tool that ExCobalt began using in 2022.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2023

rail and locomotive company Wabtec hit with Lockbit ransomware Synology fixes multiple critical vulnerabilities in its routers Canadian Copper Mountain Mining Corporation (CMMC) shut down the mill after a ransomware attack BitRAT campaign relies on stolen sensitive bank data as a lure Does Volvo Cars suffer a new data breach?

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2024

GootLoader is still active and efficient Hackers stole OpenAI secrets in a 2023 security breach Hackers leak 170k Taylor Swift’s ERAS Tour Barcodes Polyfill.io GootLoader is still active and efficient Hackers stole OpenAI secrets in a 2023 security breach Hackers leak 170k Taylor Swift’s ERAS Tour Barcodes Polyfill.io

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2023

CISA and ENISA enhance their Cooperation CISA adds Qlik bugs to exploited vulnerabilities catalog Report: 2.6 CISA and ENISA enhance their Cooperation CISA adds Qlik bugs to exploited vulnerabilities catalog Report: 2.6

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2024

That may explain why major tech companies restrict employee access to similar AI tools, particularly those provided by external sources, due to concerns that these services could take advantage of potentially proprietary data submitted to them.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

“In short, Kobalos grants remote access to the file system, provides the ability to spawn terminal sessions, and allows proxying connections to other Kobalos-infected servers.” The experts pointed out that Kobalos has not been used to abuse infected supercomputers for cryptocurrency mining.

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Mining IT Security Government 279

Gimmal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, information governance has become more critical than ever. Emerging technologies, regulatory changes, and shifting business models are reshaping how we approach information governance. Maintaining Audit Trails: Providing detailed records of data access and changes for accountability.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2018

The DCMS (Digital, Culture, Media & Sport) department of the United Kingdom government published the “ Code of Practice for Consumer IoT Security ” and the “ Secure by Design: Improving the cyber security of consumer Internet of Things Report ”, setting guidelines and recommendations for secure IoT devices.

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IoT Security Manufacturing Privacy 278

The Texas Record

JUNE 28, 2021

In a nutshell, this is information governance. ARMA defines “information governance” as “the overarching and coordinating strategy for all organizational information. But how is information governance any different than records management? ” That sounds great! ” That sounds great! Extra Phases.

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Information governance Government Records Management e-Discovery 98

Krebs on Security

JUNE 18, 2021

.” Mark Rasch , also former federal prosecutor in Washington, said the SEC is signaling with this action that it intends to take on more cases in which companies flub security governance in some big way. It also means you probably don’t know whether or not anyone has accessed that data.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2021

A 31-year-old Canadian man has been arrested and charged with fraud in connection with numerous ransomware attacks against businesses, government agencies and private citizens throughout Canada and the United States. Upon release from prison, Skorjanc became chief technology officer for NiceHash , a cryptocurrency mining service.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2020

Adding multi-factor authentication (MFA) at these various providers (where available) and/or establishing a customer-specific personal identification number (PIN) also can help secure online access. Armed with access to your inbox, thieves can then reset the password for any other service or account that is tied to that email address.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The Russian government has already blocked the p rofessional social network L inkedIn in 2016 under the data-localization legislation. This week the Russian government has blocked the ProtonMail end-to-end encrypted email service and ProtonVPN VPN service. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Mining Government Personal data Encryption 178

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Several strong themes emerged from 2022’s crop of breaches, including the targeting or impersonating of employees to gain access to internal company tools; multiple intrusions at the same victim company; and less-than-forthcoming statements from victim firms about what actually transpired.

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Passwords Ransomware Computer and Electronics Access 293

IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 17, 2023

Auto-discovery tools like process mining — a tool gaining popularity with organizations — does just that. 36% of respondents polled primarily use automated discovery tools like process mining, which improve their ability to analyze processes objectively and at scale.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2019

At least 23 Texas local governments targeted by coordinated ransomware attacks. million to allow towns to access encrypted data. Employees abused systems at Ukrainian nuclear power plant to mine cryptocurrency. Once again thank you! Bluetana App allows detecting Bluetooth card skimmers in just 3 seconds.

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ARMA International

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Follow this trajectory and you’ll push the envelope toward information governance (IG) and position yourself as a Very Important Person in your enterprise. A client of mine in the construction industry recognized that its enterprise resource planning (ERP) system was in dire need of replacement. A Real-World Example. Are You Ready?

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

This week, we discuss the Australian government’s loss of thousands of classified documents, DCMS Secretary of State Matt Hancock’s buggy new app and the growing trend of cybercriminals using cryptocurrency miners. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 2 February 2018. Here are this week’s stories.

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Mining Blockchain Government Libraries 58

erwin

AUGUST 6, 2020

Be more self-sufficient in accessing and preparing the data. Collaborate more effectively with their partners in data (management and governance) for greater efficiency and higher quality outcomes. Collaborate more effectively with their partners in data (management and governance) for greater efficiency and higher quality outcomes.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

This indicates that the attackers either had access to the source code of the victim’s projects or injected malware on the premises of the breached companies at the time of project compilation.” ” continues the analysis. “Even the data with the encrypted payload is stored inside this code section.

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Mining Encryption IT Government 256

The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 28, 2019

Related: Long run damage of 35-day government shutdown. Why we’re in the ‘Golden Age’ of cyber espionageThe fact is cyber criminals are expert at refining and carrying out phishing, malvertising and other tried-and-true ruses that gain them access to a targeted victim’s Internet-connected computing device.

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Privacy Passwords Security Access 196

Troy Hunt

MARCH 1, 2018

I ran it on a coffee budget (the goal was to keep the operating costs under what a couple of cups from a cafe each day would cost) and I made it freely accessible. And this is precisely why I'm writing this piece - to talk about how I'm assisting the UK and Australian governments with access to data about their own domains.

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Government Passwords Data breaches Authentication 87

IT Governance

MARCH 29, 2022

IT Governance found more than 1,200 publicly disclosed security incidents in 2021 , which correlates to society’s increasingly reliance on computers and the expanding influence that criminal hackers have. Then there’s blockchain mining. appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. This is no small matter. public Clouds and 2.7

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Since the beginning of 2018, Group-IB experts detected that cybercriminals were seeking to get access to the user databases of Hong Kong state Internet portals responsible for taxes, trade, procurement, logistics, innovations and hi-tech infrastructure. Espionage as one of the main APT groups’ goals. About the author Group-IB.

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Phishing Manufacturing Marketing Blockchain 272

eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

He has “worked around the clock” to secure assets, identify crypto on the blockchain , find records, and work with regulators and government authorities. Sam Bankman-Fried and Zixiao “Gary” Wang controlled the access. One way is through hijacking computer resources to mine cryptocurrencies. The Cloudy Future. In the U.S.,

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

. “The Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), with its state and territory partners, is continuing to respond to the widespread malware campaign known as Emotet while responding to reports that hackers are exploiting the BlueKeep vulnerability to mine cryptocurrency.”

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Honeypots Mining Security Ransomware 228

Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Commercial entities are besieging universities with requests for access to data or for partnerships to mine them. The privacy frontier facing research universities spans open access practices, uses and misuses of data, public records requests, cyber risk, and curating data for privacy protection.

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Privacy Data collection Security Mining 91

erwin

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Untapped data, if mined, represents tremendous potential for your organization. And to truly understand it , you need to be able to create and sustain an enterprise-wide view of and easy access to underlying metadata. Quite honestly, knowing what data you have and where it lives is complicated. This isn’t an easy task.

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Metadata Big data Government Mining 104

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

To this end, some impressive technology has been created to combat the technological side of the issue, to keep hackers and similar bad actors from accessing data and account privileges they shouldn’t. In 2020 alone, 79 ransomware attacks were conducted against government entities in the U.S., costing an estimated $18.88

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Energy and Utilities Phishing Blockchain Cybersecurity 121

erwin

MAY 7, 2020

Those that can mine it and extract value from it will be successful, from local organizations to international governments. The relations were accessible by a language. Organizations using erwin Evolve can synergize EA with wider data governance and management efforts. The Value of Data Architecture.

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Sales Mining Communications Big data 131

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2021

IoT device security has also attracted the attention of federal government officials (see The IoT Cybersecurity Act of 2020: Implications for Devices ). In addition, organizations can adopt Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) access methods. billion in 2018. Spending on Digital Display Ads Increasing.

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IoT Cloud Mining Security 145

OpenText Information Management

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Cybersecurity gaps will continue to be reduced with governance playing a critical role. Organizations across the sector will enhance their frameworks for data ownership, access control, and compliance with international regulations like GDPR and NERC CIP. Are you ready to learn more?

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Energy and Utilities IoT Customer Experience Manufacturing 59