Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

The Bandook was spotted last time in 2015 and 2017 campaigns, dubbed “ Operation Manul ” and “ Dark Caracal “, respectively attributed to Kazakh and the Lebanese governments. The first stage leverages a lure Microsoft Word document (e.g. ” reads the report published by Check Point.

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Energy and Utilities Government Archiving Education 345

Gimmal

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Enter metadata—a powerful tool that can revolutionize your information governance strategy. This method has been perpetuated by document management systems and enterprise content management platforms, reinforcing our reliance on folder structures. Consider the question: On average, how many clicks does it take you to find a document?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2022

A sophisticated threat actor, tracked as Earth Lusca, is targeting government and private organizations worldwide as for financial purposes. These links contain files that are disguised either as documents that would be of interest to the potential target, or as opinion forms allegedly coming from another media organisation.”reads

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

Google sued by New Mexico attorney general for collecting student data through its Education Platform. ObliqueRAT, a new malware employed in attacks on government targets in Southeast Asia. Data on Detection of Malicious Documents in Gmail are impressive. The best news of the week with Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The attackers stole documents from the NWO and demanded a ransom to avoid leaking them online, but the research council refused to pay. As part of the Dutch national government, NWO does not address the demands of criminals on grounds of principle. “On 8 February, the DoppelPaymer hacker group gained access to the NWO network.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

. “As early as 2022, APT28 actors had utilized compromised EdgeRouters to facilitate covert cyber operations against governments, militaries, and organizations around the world.” and foreign governments and military, security, and corporate organizations. ” reads the joint report. ” concludes the report.

Energy and Utilities 333

Energy and Utilities Military Government Phishing 333

Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2021

The groups targeted organizations in the business services, financial, health, retail/consumer, aero-military, engineering and manufacturing, government, education, transportation, and utilities industries. In some attacks, the threat actors used weaponized Excel documents as a downloader.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Most of the compromised websites are e-commerce sites, but crooks also offered access to websites of organizations in healthcare, legal, education and insurance industries and belonging to government agencies. According to the experts, most of the compromised servers are from U.S., Russian, or German hosting services.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2021

In April 2017, Symantec security experts who analyzed the alleged CIA hacking tools included in the Vault 7 dump that were involved in attacks aimed at least 40 governments and private organizations across 16 countries. According to the firm, the US cyber spies are targeting various industry sectors and government agencies.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 2, 2024

OpenAI’s Altman Sidesteps Questions About Governance, Johansson at UN AI Summit Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter)

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2022

SentinelOne documented a series of attacks aimed at government, education, and telecom entities in Southeast Asia and Australia carried out by a previously undocumented Chinese-speaking APT tracked as Aoqin Dragon. The APT primary focus on cyberespionage against targets in Australia, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Vietnam.

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Encryption Education Security Cybersecurity 246

Collibra

JUNE 27, 2024

UCLA Health is at the forefront of AI innovation in healthcare and has partnered with Collibra to bring clear, accessible AI governance to all levels of its organization. Balancing governance and innovation To many developers, data governance is the opposite of innovation. The two can coexist, but there needs to be a balance.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2022

Microsoft Office Documents. Microsoft Office Documents. PEframe is an open source tool to perform static analysis of malware executables and malicious MS Office documents. olevba is a script to parse OLE and OpenXML files such as MS Office documents (e.g. Some files are more used in attacks. Compressed files. Pdf-parser.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

A joint report published by ENISA and CERT-EU warns of Chinese APTs targeting businesses and government organizations in the European Union. The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) and CERT-EU warn of multiple China-linked threat actors targeting businesses and government organizations in the EU.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Organizations are addressing zero-day vulnerabilities more quickly, says Google CISA, FBI, NSA warn of the increased globalized threat of ransomware Croatian phone carrier A1 Hrvatska discloses data breach FritzFrog P2P Botnet is back and targets Healthcare, Education and Government Sectors CISA adds 15 new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (..)

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) is warning of the North Korea-linked ARCHIPELAGO group that is targeting government and military personnel, think tanks, policy makers, academics, and researchers in South Korea, the US and elsewhere. The experts pointed out that ARCHIPELAGO focuses on building a rapport with targets.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Abnormal Security documented how it tied the email back to a Nigerian man who acknowledged he was trying to save up money to help fund a new social network he is building called Sociogram. “Education is definitely one piece, as raising awareness is hands down the best way to get ahead of this,” Tokazowski said, in a June 2021 interview.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 22, 2021

As more information about IoT device vulnerabilities is published, the pressure on industry and government authorities to enhance security standards might be reaching a tipping point. government, standards will not apply to the IoT market at-large. government, standards will not apply to the IoT market at-large.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2023

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

ICICI Bank leaked millions of records with sensitive data, including financial information and personal documents of the bank’s clients. In 2022, the ICICI Bank’s resources were named a “critical information infrastructure” by the Indian government – any harm to it can impact national security.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 14, 2022

Financial services, health, home security, governance and all other mission critical services are now provided online. Each time we subscribe for an online service or install a mobile application, we are introduced with a document which explains in detail how our private data will be handled. This document is called a privacy policy.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 27, 2020

To prove ownership over the hijacked firms, they hire low-wage image editors online to help fabricate and/or modify a number of official documents tied to the business — including tax records and utility bills. Another team member works on revising the business documents and registering them on various sites.

Energy and Utilities 363

Energy and Utilities Computer and Electronics Insurance Risk 363

AIIM

JUNE 29, 2021

If you’ve been paying attention to the research we conduct and the educational information we share, you know that AIIM describes Intelligent Information Management (IIM) as all the things you want to do with, or get from, your organization’s information. Automating Governance and Compliance. Extracting Intelligence from Information.

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AIIM

JANUARY 7, 2021

A recent study commissioned by Egnyte surveyed 400 IT leaders to understand how COVID-19 has impacted businesses’ ability to maintain data security and governance with a distributed workforce. A well-educated and well-informed workforce is one of the best defenses against security risks. Governance is not coming and going.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

A digital identification tool provided by OCR Labs to major banks and government agencies leaked sensitive credentials, putting clients at severe risk. Its services are used by companies and financial institutions including BMW, Vodafone, the Australian government, Westpac, ANZ, HSBC, and Virgin Money.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2024

.” Dark Angels is thought to be a Russia-based cybercrime syndicate whose distinguishing characteristic is stealing truly staggering amounts of data from major companies across multiple sectors, including healthcare, finance, government and education.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 31, 2020

” “Essentially a branch of government has contracted with a company to commit crimes, and that’s very troubling,” lamented Iowa state Sen. ” “It’s really on the owners of the organization to educate the customer of those potential pitfalls,” Nickerson continued. Zach Whiting.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The only way to tackle this challenge is to educate the users about these threats and their potential implications. Users could leave all the responsibility to governments and other institutions. One of them allowed hackers to run malware through boobytrapped Microsoft Office documents.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

For example, your accounting technology should have features that work to protect your data, like internal controls, multi-factor authentication, or an audit trail that documents change to your data. Stay educated. Stay proactive.

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Collibra

AUGUST 1, 2024

Bias, discrimination, misinformation, data privacy, confidentiality, data security and intellectual property rights are all real concerns when AI is not properly deployed and governed. The companies, organizations and governments that build and deploy AI do as well. Citizens are not the only ones that face risks with AI.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 25, 2019

Most of my career has been spent evangelizing the power of technology to positively transform business, education, and politics. My current work is split between two projects: One has to do with data governance, the other political media. And second… Governance. But Governance? Data Governance. So let’s go.

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Gimmal

DECEMBER 17, 2024

For example, if a confidential HR document containing sensitive employee information is accessible to AI tools, this data could be unintentionally included in new documents or reports. Effective AI deployment requires proactive data governance.

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Information governance Government Compliance Risk 52

AIIM

JUNE 4, 2020

The documents will be admitted if they meet the very strict conditions attached to business records under the hearsay rules. They also form part of the legal documentation in the employment contract. Like Part 1, this article cannot be taken as legal advice; it is for educational purposes only. So, let's take a look.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In our recent state of the software supply chain report, we documented a 430% increase in malicious code injection within OSS projects – or next-gen software supply chain attacks, and this isn’t the first time we have seen attacks including counterfeit components. About the author: Ax Sharma. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 8, 2023

The libOQS library that is included in Sandwich gives easy access to new post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithms from NIST, which will be critical to protect government entities and corporations against threats posed by quantum computers. To access Sandwich and review the documentation, visit the SandboxAQ GitHub repository.

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Libraries Encryption Access Cybersecurity 188

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 17, 2023

The government seized four-dozen booter domains, and criminally charged Dobbs and five other U.S. But the government’s core claim — that operating a booter site is a violation of U.S. man charged in the government’s first 2018 mass booter bust-up. men for allegedly operating stresser services. Charles, Ill.

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Collibra

JUNE 4, 2021

Although the enterprise demands business growth through digital transformation and optimization, the enterprise also constantly experiences challenges due to the lack of modern data and analytics governance. In fact, according to Nasdaq , 80% of analytics projects fail because of poor data governance. Education and training.

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