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OilRig APT group: the evolution of attack techniques over time

Security Affairs

I am perfectly aware that such a division could just be indicative, as a matter of fact, is not a strict division between timing groups, it’s really hard to give a strong and strict attribution (at least in my personal point of view) and very often it’s definitely not “black and white”. group_a : from 2016 to August 2017 2.

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University, Professional Certification or Direct Experience?

Security Affairs

So the knowledge is the focus and understanding what knowledge means could definitely help us to improve our teaching processes. Moreover Alice is definitely not sure 100% the countermeasures she adopted will be enough strong to defeat the upcoming cyber attack. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background.

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From Targeted Attack to Untargeted Attack

Security Affairs

For example a targeted attack might address Naval industry ( MartyMcFly example is definitely a great example) or USA companies ( Botnet Against USA, Canada and Italy is another great example) and are mainly built focusing specific target sectors. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background.

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Step By Step Office Dropper Dissection

Security Affairs

In order to follow the required steps – before getting into powershell encoded payload – (I will call it: stage2) the native Microsoft Office debugger would definitely help you. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. stage2: powershell extraction. About the author: Marco Ramilli, Founder of Yoroi.

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GUEST ESSAY: How stricter data privacy laws have redefined the ‘filing’ of our personal data

The Last Watchdog

We can see, by this definition, that the focus of how filing systems should be organized shifts significantly with a central purpose now being the ability to classify individuals and the personal data an organization collects on them. The reason tends to be due to speed and compute costs, considering the over “ 2.5 Less can be more.

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GDPR and The Data Governance Imperative

AIIM

GDPR and the Data Governance Imperative. The confluence of big data, cloud computing, social media, mobile devices collect and aggregate diverse data sets, which taken together, such as internet search habits and GPS tracking information may expose personally identifiable information. The Information Governance Imperative.

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Leveraging IBM Cloud for electronic design automation (EDA) workloads

IBM Big Data Hub

Electronic design automation (EDA) is a market segment consisting of software, hardware and services with the goal of assisting in the definition, planning, design, implementation, verification and subsequent manufacturing of semiconductor devices (or chips). The primary providers of this service are semiconductor foundries or fabs.

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