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Google warned users of 33,015 nation-state attacks since January

Security Affairs

Google delivered over 33,000 alerts to its users during the first three quarters of 2020 to warn them of attacks from nation-state actors. Google delivered 33,015 alerts to its users during the first three quarters of 2020 to warn them of phishing attacks, launched by nation-state actors, targeting their accounts. election. .

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Google sent over 50,000 warnings of state-sponsored attacks, +33% from same period in 2020

Security Affairs

The data were provided by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), which tracks government-backed hacking campaign, which warns of a significant increase in the number of the alert compared to the previous year. “So far in 2021, we’ve sent over 50,000 warnings, a nearly 33% increase from this time in 2020. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Dark Basin, a hack-for-hire group that remained under the radar for 7 years

Security Affairs

Researchers from Citizen Lab uncovered the operations of a hack-for-hire group tracked as Dark Basin that targeted thousands of journalists, elected and senior government officials, advocacy groups, and hedge funds worldwide over 7 years. ” reads the report published by Citizen Lab. BellTroX’s slogan is: ‘you desire, we do!’”.

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LGBTQ+ Network News from Information Professional

CILIP

In November, CILIP LGBTQ+ Steering Group handed over the reins to the first elected CILIP LGBTQ+ Committee and we?re re working with The British Library helping to develop the LGBTQ+ Lives Online project which focuses on curating, collecting, tagging and categorising UK websites with an LGBTQ+ focus, as part of the UK Web Archive initiative.

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DB2 Dispatch from Vegas: IOD, Day One

Robert's Db2

It's expected that by 2020 that number will be around 35 zettabytes (a zettabyte is 1 sextillion bytes, or a billion terabytes). With the conclusion of the opening session, it was on to elective sessions. This presentation was delivered in tag-team style by IBM's Roger Miller and Terrie Jacopi, and by Dil Sasidharan of Morgan Stanley.

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US: The CCPA ‘Moving Target’ One Month Before Privacy Enforcement Begins

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

The sampling is to determine by June 25 whether the initiative will appear on the November 2020 election ballot – in which case, it is widely expected to be approved. The CPRA is now subject to sampling of the validity of those signatures. What About the CPRA Initiative?

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Google reveals that foreign hackers are already targeting Trump and Biden campaigns

Security Affairs

Foreign hackers are targeting campaign staffs for both President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden ahead of the November US election. Google TAG revealed that China-linked cyberespionage group APT31 is targeting Biden campaign staff, while the Iran-linked APT35 group is targeting Trump campaign staff with spear-phishing attacks.