KnowBe4

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

A study by researchers at Lookout has found that credential-harvesting phishing attacks against US government employees rose by 30% last year. The researchers also found that nearly 50% of US government employees are running older, unpatched versions of iOS and Android operating systems.

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The Guardian Data Protection

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Exclusive: national and local governments using targeted ads on search engines and social media A new form of “influence government”, which uses sensitive personal data to craft campaigns aimed at altering behaviour has been “supercharged” by the rise of big tech firms, researchers have warned.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2020

During Coronavirus pandemic video conferencing services have become a precious instrument for the people that worked or studied from home. According to one of the sources cited by the news agency, every ministry of the German government had a different position on the use of the Zoom platform.

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erwin

JANUARY 30, 2020

I’m excited to share the results of our new study with Dataversity that examines how data governance attitudes and practices continue to evolve. Defining Data Governance: What Is Data Governance? . 1 reason to implement data governance. Most have only data governance operations.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

“As part of a detailed study of the cyber threat, a study of the received samples of malicious programs was conducted, the peculiarities of the functioning of the management server infrastructure were established, and more than 2,000 affected computers were identified in the Ukrainian segment of the Internet.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 17, 2022

The campaign targeted global humanitarian, think tank, and government organizations. Recorded Future researchers attributed a long-running mass credential theft campaign to a Chinese nation-state actor tracked RedAlpha. Experts believe RedAlpha is a group of contractors conducting cyber-espionage activity on behalf of China.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

The cybersurveillance equipment was used by the Egyptian government to track down opponents. The investigation began in 2017 following a complaint by FIDH and LDH filed with the support of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS). A weapon of choice for authoritarian governments.” ” continues Télérama.

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erwin

AUGUST 28, 2020

Organizations with a solid understanding of data governance (DG) are better equipped to keep pace with the speed of modern business. In this post, the erwin Experts address: What Is Data Governance? Why Is Data Governance Important? What Is Good Data Governance? What Are the Key Benefits of Data Governance?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2021

The security breach took place on on May 14, and the institute discovered it only on May 31, then the research institute reported the incident to the government and launched an investigation. Early this month, researchers from Malwarebytes published a report on the Kimsuky APT’s operations aimed at South Korean government.

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erwin

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

When an organization’s data governance and metadata management programs work in harmony, then everything is easier. Data governance is a complex but critical practice. Data Governance Attitudes Are Shifting. Data Governance Attitudes Are Shifting. Why such a heavy lift?

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Krebs on Security

MAY 31, 2022

.” Jimenez said the head of the CCSS has addressed the local media , confirming that the Hive ransomware was deployed on at least 30 out of 1,500 government servers, and that any estimation of time to recovery remains unknown. On May 20, Conti leaked more than 670 gigabytes of data taken from Costa Rican government servers.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2021

The ATT&CK knowledge base is used by cyber threat analysts for the development of specific threat models and methodologies in the private sector, in government, and in the cybersecurity product and service community. ” reads one of the studies.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2023

DoS attacks affect all sectors, government services are consistently the most targeted. The study shows that 56.8 % of the attacks caused total disruption in the target. It analyses the motivations and impacts of DoS attacks, it also aims at supporting organizations in enhancing their defenses in case of an attack.

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erwin

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Will the new creative, diverse and scalable data pipelines you are building also incorporate the AI governance guardrails needed to manage and limit your organizational risk? Tackle AI data readiness and governance with erwin. The post Why data observability is essential to AI governance appeared first on erwin Expert Blog.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2021

Industry and government use ATT&CK as a foundation to develop specific cyber threat models and methodologies.” MITRE experts also published a research paper that describes their study and development toward a precise, unambiguous, and information-dense knowledge graph of cybersecurity countermeasures.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Experts say the leak illustrates how Chinese government agencies increasingly are contracting out foreign espionage campaigns to the nation’s burgeoning and highly competitive cybersecurity industry. In 2021, the Sichuan provincial government named i-SOON as one of “the top 30 information security companies.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2020

government and military personnel will remain in a federal prison. Ardit Ferizi , aka Th3Dir3ctorY, is the hacker that supported the ISIS organization by handing over data for 1,351 US government and military personnel. The man of Kosovar origin was studying computer science in Malaysia. military and other government personnel.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Ardit Ferizi , aka Th3Dir3ctorY, is the hacker that supported the ISIS organization by handing over data for 1,351 US government and military personnel. The 20-year-old man was accused of supporting the ISIS terrorist organization, he was the subject of extradition from the Malaysian government, where he lived.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 21, 2019

New GAO Report Spotlights Problems and Potential Solutions Implementing standards for recording demographic data, and also sharing best practices, could help address the challenges involved in matching the right patient with all the right records, a new government study concludes.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2019

According to the cyber security community, NotPetya is a cyber weapon develped by Russia to hit the Ukrainian government. ” This decision is a case study, both companies are facing an unprecedented court case. The overall damages that insurance firms would probably have to cover reach over $80bn.

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Collibra

JULY 6, 2022

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 8, 2025

Studying Backdoors in Web Shells, Researchers Find 4,000 Infected Systems How many servers are infected by web shells designed to give attackers remote access to systems, but now "phone home" to malicious infrastructure that's now abandoned or expired?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2023

” The Belarusian national was initially studying at one of the Białystok universities, then he worked at an organization of parachute training. The attacks aimed at almost any entity in Poland, including government services, private organizations, media outlets. The Russian national was working in the tourism industry.

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2020

Mitsubishi Electric had also already notified members of the Japanese government and the Ministry of Defense. The Defense Ministry was working on a prototype of supersonic missile known as HGV, a technology also being studied by the U.S., Now, the authorities suspect a data leak that could have exposed details of a prototype missile.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 30, 2019

Medtronic and the US government have warned that some Medtronic MiniMed insulin pumps are vulnerable to cyber attacks. Medtronic and the United States government have warned of a security vulnerability affecting some Medtronic MiniMed insulin pumps that could be exploited by hackers.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 13, 2022

Central to putting these principles into practice is establishing the appropriate governance mechanisms for AI systems. AI governance will require an agile approach. Integrating RegTech into broader AI governance process. Case studies on OpenPages: Using RegTech for AI governance.

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AIIM

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Explore free resources, solution providers, case studies and more from this domain. Explore free resources, solution providers, case studies and more from this domain. Automating Governance and Compliance (Protecting the Garden). With governance and compliance, information professionals are the farmers. Conclusion.

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Security Affairs

JULY 16, 2020

According to NCSC, the Russia-linked APT mainly targeted government, diplomatic, think-tank, healthcare and energy groups to steal sensitive data. .” “We would urge organisations to familiarise themselves with the advice we have published to help defend their networks.”.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The library announced that its buildings remain fully open and the following services are available onsite: Reading Rooms (for personal study) any collection items ordered on or before 26 October very limited, manual collection item ordering in London via our printed catalogues, for items stored in St Pancras only.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The DEV-0343 focuses on defense companies that support United States, European Union, and Israeli government partners producing military-grade radars, drone technology, satellite systems, and emergency response communication systems. The group was aggressive using brute force attacks to obtain access to Office 365 accounts.

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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. Enable Controlled Sharing: Deploy user-friendly collaboration with robust governance controls. Governance is not coming and going.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 30, 2019

The Russian Government obliges national ISPs to purchase and install the probes used by SORM system that allows the Federal Security Service (FSB) to monitor Internet traffic including online communications. Petersburg on August 25, technical details of his study are reported a paper titled “ SORM Defects.”.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

government agencies and first responders. Special Operations Command (PDF), demanding that the government turn over information collected about him and seeking restitution for his alleged kidnapping at the hands of the CIA. 404Media reported recently that the breach does not appear to impact the main consumer Verizon network.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Customers include more than half of the Fortune 10, along with hundreds of global enterprises, mid-sized companies, and government agencies worldwide. The post News alert: SpyCloud study reveals ‘infostealer’ malware can be a precursor to a ransomware attack first appeared on The Last Watchdog.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2020

Mitsubishi Electric had also already notified members of the Japanese government and Ministry of Defense. “In a case study on its website, Trend Micro lists Mitsubishi Electric as one of the companies that run the OfficeScan suite.” An attempted attack requires user authentication.” SP1 for Windows.

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Collibra

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Discussions at the event fluctuated between the recognition of the massive competitive advantage presented by AI, and the equal recognition of the risk necessitating caution and effective governance of the technology. These models have been well studied, highly trained, and operationalized with great results.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2022

Their security is crucial and intelligence agencies are alerting their governments about possible attacks from rogues states. Undersea cables allow to transfer data between countries and continents at high speeds using fiber optics. million kilometers. “The

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