IT Governance

MARCH 17, 2020

Cyber security experts have found that the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has led to a surge in phishing scams , with both individuals and organisations at risk. Scammers are cashing in on coronavirus. It’s no surprise that cyber criminals are rolling out coronavirus-themed phishing emails. What is phishing?

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IT Governance

JUNE 12, 2020

According to John Hultquist, Director of Threat Analysis at FireEye: “It’s a free-for-all out there – and with good reason – you don’t want to be the intelligence agency that doesn’t have a good answer for what’s going on.”. COVID-19 has seen a major shift in the tactics used by cyber criminals. It’s a free-for-all”.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

MARCH 25, 2020

It’s the kind of story that just lands in your lap. ” Couched as a review of Facebook products helpful in our current era of social distancing and mandated work from home, the column may well stand as a turning point in what was once knows as the “ techlash.” It certainly seems that way.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 15, 2020

There was toilet roll hoarding, Zoom quizzes, doomscrolling ONS figures, homeschooling, more Zoom quizzes, pubs closing, pubs reopening, and debates about what constitutes a substantial meal. To close out the year, we’ve gathered some of the most notable stories from the past 12 months. What a simple time January 2020 was.

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IT Governance

JUNE 25, 2020

England’s coronavirus lockdown will all but end on 4 July, with the government allowing pubs, restaurants, cinemas, museums and hotels to reopen. This information is intended to help these businesses track coronavirus cases and contact people who have come into contact with someone who has been infected. A rushed decision.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

A patient at Dusseldorf University Hospital died during a ransomware infection in what is reportedly the first death directly linked to a cyber attack. An already tragic story was made more so with a report from the German news outlet RTL , which claimed that the cyber attack wasn’t intended for the hospital. Same old story.

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AIIM

MARCH 19, 2020

Enter the coronavirus and COVID-19. Since then, I've delivered more than 400 workshops, seminars, breakout sessions, and training courses relating to information management – almost all in person. This is one of Stephen Covey's "7 Habits for Highly Effective People"; Steve Pavlina expands on it here. Distance Learning and Social Distancing.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

“Because of the Coronavirus, we have all these major corporations that previously had entire warehouses full of people who are now working remotely. For now at least, they appear to be focusing primarily on companies in the financial, telecommunications and social media industries. As a result the attack surface has just exploded.”

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IT Governance

JULY 2, 2020

This was one of the first widely reported phishing scams to exploit the coronavirus, when it was particularly successful because it came at a time when people were concerned about being furloughed and the overall economic fallout of the pandemic. Fresh wave of fake COVID-19 tax rebates.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

APRIL 19, 2020

As the coronavirus crisis built to pandemic levels in early March, a relatively unknown tech company confronted a defining opportunity. As the coronavirus began dominating news reports in the western press, Zoom announced its first full fiscal year results as a public company. The company logged $622.7

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IT Governance

MARCH 25, 2020

If football and concerts and socialising and personal space don’t matter any more, then what does? We’re not here to answer those questions, but we can help you navigate what’s important in the workplace, which – as ever – is to remain safe and productive. At home with… a copywriter.

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The Security Ledger

APRIL 15, 2020

In this episode of the podcast (#181), we're joined by Shashi Prakash, Chief Scientist at the firm Bolster.ai, to talk about the surge in COVID 19-themed scams and phishing attacks in recent weeks and what individuals and companies can do thwart COVID-themed scams and attacks. Read the whole entry. » and 25,000 dead, as of this posting.

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Unwritten Record

AUGUST 10, 2022

The descriptions provide the release date, titles and brief summaries of the individual stories in each release for the film reels in NARA’s holdings, which date from July 1929 to December 1967 , when Universal ceased operations. Universal Newsreel Opening Credits /Logo. Original Universal Newsreel Release sheet for Volume 18, Release 387.

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The Security Ledger

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Related Stories Episode 195: Cyber Monday Super Deals Carry Cyber Risk DHS Looking Into Cyber Risk from TCL Smart TVs Episode 197: The Russia Hack Is A 5 Alarm Fire | Also: Shoppers Beware! The Coronavirus has killed almost two million people globally and caused trillions of dollars in economic disruption. We hope you enjoy it.

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eDiscovery Daily

MARCH 16, 2020

If you’re not sick from COVID-19 (aka, the Coronavirus), you’re probably sick of hearing about COVID-19. Regardless, I won’t bore you with what you already know about COVID-19 and how it has disrupted (and will continue to disrupt) our way of life (well, I won’t bore you much anyway). Even Forrest Gump has it.

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CILIP

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

for August and September as the NHS re-focused on critical care for people with coronavirus symptoms. for August and September as the NHS re-focused on critical care for people with coronavirus symptoms. A timely Christmas gift ? librarians and knowledge specialists in health. Until now, that is. The gift of time. heavy lifting?

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Archive-It

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Archive-It partners continue to collect and preserve the stories of a global pandemic in their local communities. American Libraries : Collecting Coronavirus Stories. Journal of the Medical Library Association : The National Library of Medicine Global Health Events web archive, coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic collecting.

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Archive-It

DECEMBER 21, 2022

This digital archive, built with Archive-It, captured news stories, videos, data trackers, and social media posts from organizations and media outlets on the ground. What we’re reading. ICYMI: National Library of History Talk “What’s in a Web Archive Collection” now online. Russia’s War on Ukraine” Digital Archive.

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The Schedule

MARCH 27, 2020

If so, it’d be interesting to find out how effectively your training translated to actual deployment and what, if anything, you wish you’d done differently. What happens when people need access to paper files that are in remote storage?

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 16, 2020

Security experts are poring over thousands of new Coronavirus-themed domain names registered each day, but this often manual effort struggles to keep pace with the flood of domains invoking the virus to promote malware and phishing sites, as well as non-existent healthcare products and charities.

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Shoreline Records Management

DECEMBER 7, 2020

While nearly every industry has struggled, the coronavirus has been incredibly damaging to the medical industry and small businesses. The stories of these doctors and their patients are saddening as this is never how they envisioned retiring. Regardless of the reasoning, the pandemic has greatly affected medical practices and patients.

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Shoreline Records Management

DECEMBER 6, 2020

While nearly every industry has struggled, the coronavirus has been incredibly damaging to the medical industry and small businesses. The stories of these doctors and their patients are saddening as this is never how they envisioned retiring. Regardless of the reasoning, the pandemic has greatly affected medical practices and patients.

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CILIP

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

We have to continuously demonstrate to people, that being a part of an association is not only about what they can achieve for themselves and f their own career development, we also have to show them what they are contributing to ? what is the value proposition of an association?? It is no longer only about career trajectory.

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Archive-It

MAY 14, 2020

What web archivists are collecting. Archive-It parters of all organizational types are collecting, and almost half of all collections record their own institutions’ experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic, for example: COVID-19 @ Arizona State University Response Florida State University Coronavirus Archive.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2020

As the Coronavirus pandemic continues to force people to work from home, countless companies are now holding daily meetings using videoconferencing services from Zoom. zWarDial, an automated tool for finding non-password protected Zoom meetings. Each Zoom conference call is assigned a Meeting ID that consists of 9 to 11 digits.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 19, 2021

The media has certainly paid a lot of attention to this story. In fact, Fortune magazine featured an article entitled, “A Digital Pandemic Tops off Coronavirus Woes.” With so many companies and government agencies affected, I’m sure we will continue to hear about the story and damage for many months to come.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 6, 2020

This second podcast from The Hacker Mind tells the story of one of PPP's members, Zaratec: How she first joined PPP, what skills she’s learned from CTFs in general and now uses in her real-world job, and the team is making changes for this year's online CTF final. What mad skills does one have to possess to be on their team?

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 5, 2020

This second podcast from The Hacker Mind tells the story of one of PPP's members, Zaratec: How she first joined PPP, what skills she’s learned from CTFs in general and now uses in her real-world job, and the team is making changes for this year's online CTF final. What mad skills does one have to possess to be on their team?

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 5, 2020

This second podcast from The Hacker Mind tells the story of one of PPP's members, Zaratec: How she first joined PPP, what skills she’s learned from CTFs in general and now uses in her real-world job, and the team is making changes for this year's online CTF final. What mad skills does one have to possess to be on their team?

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Archive-It

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Web archivists have already collected over 40 TB of web data from thousands of sites about the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) and its effects on their communities, research areas, and institutions. Much of the COVID-19 web archiving story is the story of web archiving generally, just concentrated.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 2, 2020

So that's the tl;dr, let me now share as much as I can about what's been happening since April 2019 and how the service will operate in the future. It wasn't something I could have seen coming nor was it anything to do with HIBP itself, but it introduced a range of new and insurmountable barriers. My bag hadn't made it.

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