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Emissary Panda APT group hit Government Organizations in the Middle East

Security Affairs

Chinese Cyber-Spies Target Government Organizations in Middle East. Chinese APT group Emissary Panda has been targeting government organizations in two different countries in the Middle East. defense contractors , financial services firms, and a national data center in Central Asia. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Why I believe the Blockchain will transform Government

CGI

Why I believe the Blockchain will transform Government. Fri, 12/11/2015 - 04:23. You may not yet have come across the Blockchain but it is making waves within the financial services community and is heralded as one of the most significant advances in technology for a generation. ravi.kumarv@cgi.com.

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Episode 222: US Rep. Himes on Congress’s About-face on Cybersecurity

The Security Ledger

It is also no secret that sophisticated nation-state adversaries have made a habit of poking around inside sensitive government and corporate networks. . The 2015 Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act is one great example. For some reason, however, that message has mostly fallen on deaf ears on Capitol Hill.

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U.S., U.K. Sanction 7 Men Tied to Trickbot Hacking Group

Krebs on Security

Department of the Treasury says the Trickbot group is associated with Russian intelligence services, and that this alliance led to the targeting of many U.S. companies and government entities. BOTNET, THE MOVIE In 2015, Kovalev reportedly began filming a movie in Russia about cybercrime called “ Botnet.”

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France and Germany will block Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency

Security Affairs

France and Germany governments announced that they will block Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency , the news was reported by French finance ministry Bruno Le Maire. “We reads a joint statement issued by the two governments, “I want to be absolutely clear: in these conditions, we cannot authorise the development of Libra on European soil.”

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BEST PRACTICES: Mock phishing attacks prep employees to avoid being socially engineered

The Last Watchdog

In 2015, penetration tester Oliver Münchow was asked by a Swiss bank to come up with a better way to test and educate bank employees so that passwords never left the network perimeter. Promising metrics Since its launch in March 2015, Lucy has grown to 23 employees, with zero outside funding. It is headquartered in Zurich, with a U.S

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Iran-linked APT group Pioneer Kitten sells access to hacked networks

Security Affairs

According to the experts, the threat actors are merely trying to monetize their efforts selling information that have no intelligence value for the Iranian Government. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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