Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2024

ESET researchers reported that a Windows version of DinodasRAT was used in attacks against government entities in Guyana. ESET first discovered a new Linux version of DinodasRAT in October 2023, but experts believe it has been active since 2022. Compared to RESHELL, XDealer provides more comprehensive backdoor capabilities.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2022

The Raspberry Robin worm attacks aimed at telecommunications and government office systems across Latin America, Australia, and Europe. Researchers from Trend Micro have uncovered a Raspberry Robin worm campaign targeting telecommunications and government office systems across Latin America, Australia, and Europe. Pierluigi Paganini.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 3, 2023

As tempting as it is turn our backs on 2022 and look forward to the new year, let’s take a moment to consider the security incidents that occurred, for better or worse, at the back end of last year. In total, we found 78 publicly recorded data breaches in December 2022, which accounted for 31,586,757 breached records.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 8, 2023

8, 2023 – SandboxAQ today announced Sandwich, an open source framework and meta-library of cryptographic algorithms that simplifies modern cryptography management. emerging as an independent, growth-capital-backed company in 2022. Palo Alto, Calif., A broad range of U.S. SandboxAQ is backed by T.

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IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2022

Welcome to our May 2022 review of data breaches and cyber attacks. If you’re facing a cyber security disaster, IT Governance is here to help. The post List of data breaches and cyber attacks in May 2022 – 49.8 million records breached appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. Get started. Ransomware.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 1, 2022

Welcome to our July 2022 review of data breaches and cyber attacks. If you’re facing a cyber security disaster, IT Governance is here to help. The post List of Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in July 2022 – 99.2 Million Records Breached appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

FritzFrog P2P botnet is back and is targeting servers belonging to entities in the healthcare, education, and government sectors. The bot is written in Golang and implements wormable capabilities, experts reported attacks against entities in the government, education, and finance sectors. ” reads the report published by Akamai.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 8, 2024

CISA Adds Chrome & Perl Library Bugs to Active Exploitation List Type of attack: Arbitrary (ACE) and remote code execution (RCE) attacks that exploit data import/export operations in Excel-related functions in web applications and denial of service (DOS) crashes or ACE/RCE related to heap buffer overflows in Chrome. Versions 0.65

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2022

The Raspberry Robin worm attacks aimed at telecommunications and government office systems across Latin America, Australia, and Europe. Researchers from Trend Micro have uncovered a Raspberry Robin worm campaign targeting telecommunications and government office systems across Latin America, Australia, and Europe. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Collibra

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Throughout the year, new features to Assessments, including an out-of-the-box Assessments workflow, copy draft Assessments, Assessment as PDF, a Governance toggle, URL support , Export/Import templates, and an Assessment tab (Assessment Review). But … we have not seen adoption of Assessments. We call it NPI.

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Archive-It

JULY 20, 2022

Archive-It partners and friends are invited to join us in-person at: Archive-It Partner Meeting in Boston – The annual meeting of Archive-It partners will return in-person this year on August 24, 2022 , at MIT Libraries. Partners can help us test this experience starting August 2, 2022 by using our Help Widget. Kathrine R.

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CILIP

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Apprenticeship Stories: Tom Saye Tom Saye As we celebrate National Apprentice Week, Tom Saye, Library Assistant, East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust, shares his experience of how an apprenticeship opened the door to a new career. The more I looked into it, the more I came to realise that a job within a library would suit me.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2023

Most internet-exposed Cacti servers exposed to hacking French CNIL fined Tiktok $5.4 Most internet-exposed Cacti servers exposed to hacking French CNIL fined Tiktok $5.4 Most internet-exposed Cacti servers exposed to hacking French CNIL fined Tiktok $5.4 Most internet-exposed Cacti servers exposed to hacking French CNIL fined Tiktok $5.4

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CILIP

JANUARY 15, 2024

Together they bring a unique and diverse skillset from libraries, finance, and brand management, that will help steer the direction of CILIP as we implement our We are CILIP strategy and action plan , during this election year. Kate is a Fellow of CILIP and the RSA and has a close relationship with CILIP - she was CILIP President in 2022.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2022

CISA is requiring 10 of 17 vulnerabilities added this week to be addressed within February 1st, 2022. CVE Number CVE Title Required Action Due Date CVE-2021-32648 October CMS Improper Authentication 2/1/2022 CVE-2021-21315 System Information Library for node.js The company pointed out that all the attack attempts failed.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2023

In recent years, the researchers observed the group expanding its operations to include financial institutions and government entities. PingPull, was first spotted by Unit 42 in June 2022, the researchers defined the RAT as a “difficult-to-detect” backdoor that leverages the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) for C2 communications. .

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Archive-It

APRIL 20, 2022

Generously funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services, it will become a dedicated search and discovery access platform for COVID-19 web collections from hundreds of institutions. Federal Government Web Archiving – Partner Susan Paterson from UBC fills you in on March 29’s chat with partners web archiving for U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 15, 2022

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) urged organizations to patch a critical WatchGuard firewall vulnerability ( CVE-2022-23176 ) that affects the Fireware operating system running on WatchGuard Firebox and XTM appliances, and government agencies have been told to patch the flaw by May 2. x through 12.5.x

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2022

Please vote for Security Affairs as the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS Vote for me in the sections “The Underdogs – Best Personal (non-commercial) Security Blog” and “The Tech Whizz – Best Technical Blog” and others of your choice.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

. “CISA obtained four malicious files for analysis during an on-site incident response engagement at a Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) organization compromised by Iranian government sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) actors.” ” reads the Malware Analysis Report (AR22-320A) published by CISA.

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The Schedule

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Jessika Drmacich, Chair, former 2021 Chair: Jessika, Records Manager and Digital Resources Archivist at Williams College Special Collections (Libraries), leads Williams’ campus-wide Records Management Program, web archiving, and digital preservation. We will be soliciting for lightning talks from our community!

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Unwritten Record

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Queen Elizabeth II (April 21, 1926 – September 8, 2022) served as Queen of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth realms for 70 years up until her death at age 96, making her reign the longest of any British monarch. Check out the National Archives News featured article: In Memoriam: Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022). NAID: 6472575 ).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2022

.” reads the analysis published by Rising.AFR-6fyvilv #Sfile #Ransomware New Sample: 6E029B9B0A600CDC1E75A4F7228B332B pic.twitter.com/tB27dM8tjd — dnwls0719 (@fbgwls245) January 9, 2022. “The SFile ransomware uses the Mbed TLS library, RSA-2048 and AES-256 algorithms for file encryption.

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CILIP

APRIL 5, 2023

Standing up to arguments against copyright reforms GETTING copyright right matters for libraries. It’s arguably one side of the same coin as funding, determining what we can do with our resources, and so how far readers, researchers and learners can enjoy effective library services. This article shares some examples.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

A cyber espionage group targets governments and state-owned organizations in multiple Asian countries since early 2021. Threat actors are targeting government and state-owned organizations in multiple Asian countries as parts of a cyber espionage campaign that remained under the radar since early 2021.

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Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2023

The US government announced to have disrupted the peer-to-peer (P2P) network of computers compromised by the Snake malware. Government attributes to a unit within Center 16 of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB).” “The FSB used the OpenSSL library to handle its Diffie-Hellman key exchange.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2022

Cyber Security Specialist Zoziel Pinto Freire shows an example of malicious file analysis presented during his lecture on BSides-Vitória 2022. My objective with this series of articles is to show examples of malicious file analysis that I presented during my lecture on BSides-Vitória 2022. Example: peframe file_name. Pdf-parser.

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IT Governance

MAY 7, 2024

A further 381,000 New York City public school students affected by 2022 data breach In January 2022 , personal data from around 820,000 New York City public school students, both current and former, was breached. The data breached included usernames and email addresses. Reportedly, the vulnerability has now been mitigated.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2022

The CVE-2021-44228 flaw made the headlines in December, after Chinese security researcher p0rz9 publicly disclosed a Proof-of-concept exploit for the critical remote code execution zero-day vulnerability ( aka Log4Shell ) that affects the Apache Log4j Java-based logging library.

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Preservica

MARCH 7, 2022

In some ways, 2021 already seems like a distant memory as we find ourselves a few months into 2022. Even though we’re a few months in, we’d be remiss not to step back and reflect on the year’s serious driving power that set Preservica up for more big things in 2022. Watch this 2-minute video to learn more.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2022

Russia-linked APT29 targets diplomatic and government organizations Synology and QNAP warn of critical Netatalk flaws in some of their products Hackers stole +80M from DeFi platforms Rari Capital and Fei Protocol Apr 24 – Apr 30 Ukraine – Russia the silent cyber conflict.

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CILIP

AUGUST 4, 2020

The CILIP Board has unanimously approved five new proposals for a comprehensive programme to diversify our leadership and governance. We have set an aspirational target of 20% BAME representation on all of our committees to be achieved no later than the end of 2022. s Boards and committees to diversify representation.

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OpenText Information Management

MAY 6, 2024

million users in the two years following the November 2022 release of ChatGPT, more than doubling the adoption rate of both tablets and smartphones. The role of a CISO : The CISO must oversee project governance, ensuring quantifiable milestones are achieved. billion by 2030. eMarketer mentioned GenAI adoption will climb to 77.8

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2023

Then the library is executed via the Windows IIS web server process. ” This week, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions against four entities and one individual for their role in malicious cyber operations conducted to support the government of North Korea. The msvcr100.dll

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 3, 2022

Much of the discussion at RSA Conference 2022 , which convenes next week in San Francisco, will boil down to slowing attack surface expansion. Log4J, aka Log4Shell, refers to a gaping vulnerability that exists in an open-source logging library that’s deeply embedded within servers and applications all across the public Internet.

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CILIP

JULY 27, 2021

CILIP is pleased to announce the call-for-nominations for candidates wishing to stand for election as either Vice President or a Trustee of the CILIP Board from January 2022. This year, there are two vacancies for full Trustees and one for Vice President (who as per our governing documents would become President in 2023).

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CILIP

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

CILIPSGoGreen has been running since the summer, helping to surface and share sustainability success stories from libraries and information services across Scotland. Our #CILIPSGoGreen activities so far include: Sharing an in-depth video interview with Glasgow Seed Library about the social and environmental impact of their work.

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