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Phishers Target Anti-Money Laundering Officers at U.S. Credit Unions
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FEBRUARY 8, 2019
The USA Patriot Act , passed in the wake of the terror attacks of Sept 11, 2001, requires all financial institutions to appoint at least two Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) contacts responsible for reporting suspicious financial transactions that may be associated with money laundering.
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FEBRUARY 18, 2021
Now that we've taken a look at a common business scenario without a Records Management program, let's really dig into the value of what Records Management can bring to the table. Learn more in AIIM's Glossary Page ).
Remembering 9/11 Attacks – A Moment of Silence
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On 9/11/2001 the attacks on the World Trade Centers began. Let us never forget. The post Remembering 9/11 Attacks – A Moment of Silence appeared first on IG GURU.
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The Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020: Initial Catalysts, Current Implications, and Future Impacts
Speaker: Elizabeth "Paige" Baumann, Founder and CEO of Paige Baumann Advisory, LLC
anti-money laundering laws since the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001. In this webinar, you'll be provided with a clear overview of the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 (AMLA), which also includes the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). The AMLA represents the most significant changes in U.S.
Email Provider VFEmail Suffers ‘Catastrophic’ Hack
Krebs on Security
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
Founded in 2001 and based in Milwaukee, Wisc., Email provider VFEmail has suffered what the company is calling “catastrophic destruction” at the hands of an as-yet unknown intruder who trashed all of the company’s primary and backup data in the United States. VFEmail provides email service to businesses and end users.
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Russians Shut Down Huge Card Fraud Ring
Krebs on Security
MARCH 26, 2020
” According to cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 , Stroganov has been a long-standing member of major underground forums since at least 2001. The post claimed that among those apprehended was the infamous cybercriminal Alexey Stroganov, who goes by the hacker names “Flint” and “Flint24.”
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Pharmaceutical giant Cencora discloses a data breach
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
formerly known as AmerisourceBergen, is an American drug wholesale company and a contract research organization that was formed by the merger of Bergen Brunswig and AmeriSource in 2001. Cencora, Inc. The Company had $238.6 billion in revenue for fiscal year 2022 and had approximately 44,000 employees.
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Steel sheet giant Hoa Sen Group hacked by Maze ransomware operators
Security Affairs
AUGUST 21, 2020
The Hoa Sen Group (HSG) was founded in the year 2001, it has 7,100 employees across all its 343 companies and has been earning annual revenue of around $1.18 Hoa Sen Group is the no.1 1 company in the field of manufacturing and trading steel sheet in Vietnam and the leading exporter of steel sheet in Southeast Asia.
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From Cybercrime Saul Goodman to the Russian GRU
Krebs on Security
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
Launched in 2001 under the tagline “Network terrorism,” Mazafaka would evolve into one of the most guarded Russian-language cybercrime communities.
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The Last Watchdog
JUNE 27, 2023
Swissbit was founded in 2001 and has offices in Switzerland, Germany, USA, Japan and Taiwan. Swissbit’s storage range includes SSDs with PCIe and SATA interface such as mSATA, Slim SATA, CFast™, M.2 2 and 2.5” as well as CompactFlash, USB flash drives, SD Memory Cards, microSD Memory Cards and managed NAND BGAs like e.MMC.
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Ross Anderson
Schneier on Security
MARCH 31, 2024
It was well before 2001, when we created the Workshop on Economics and Information Security. Ross Anderson unexpectedly passed away Thursday night in, I believe, his home in Cambridge. I can’t remember when I first met Ross. Of course it was before 2008, when we created the Security and Human Behavior workshop.
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GUEST ESSAY: ‘Tis the season — to take proactive measures to improve data governance
The Last Watchdog
DECEMBER 10, 2018
About the essayist: Todd Feinman is president and CEO of Identity Finder , co-founding the company in 2001. May these recent disheartening examples in the news spur brands to act today and take action to protect sensitive data and avoid the far-reaching negative impacts of high-profile data breaches.
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MY TAKE: The back story on the convergence, continuing evolution of endpoint security
The Last Watchdog
AUGUST 17, 2018
In 1990, Florin and Mariuca Talpes parlayed a $300 stake borrowed from a relative into a company which would become Bitdefender in 2001. I visited with Joe Sykora, vice president of worldwide channel development for Bitdefender, at Black Hat USA 2018 , and asked him to put the remarkable staying power of endpoint security in context.
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Web application exposures continue do bedevil companies as digital transformation accelerates
The Last Watchdog
MARCH 21, 2019
The San Jose, CA-based security vendor has been helping companies protect their web applications since the company was founded in 2001 by world-renowned ethical hacker Jeremiah Grossman , who also happens to be a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, as well as a native of my home state, Hawaii.
Mary’s Annual Internet Trends
John Battelle's Searchblog
JUNE 2, 2013
The Internet Summit had its last event in July of 2001, and the space was taken over by Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg, who went on to launch All Things Digital , which has thrived to this day. I went on to launch the Web 2 Summit in 2004, and it was at that event that Mary started presenting her annual Internet Trends deck.
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Estonia sues Gemalto for 152M euros over flaws in citizen ID cards issued by the company
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 30, 2018
The Estonian electronic ID cards have been manufactured by the Swiss company Trub AG and its successor Gemalto AG since 2001. At the time, Estonia had issued 1.3 million electronic ID cards offering citizens online access to a huge number of services through the “e-government” state portal.
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National Cybersecurity Alliance advocates ‘shared responsibility’ for securing the Internet
The Last Watchdog
AUGUST 2, 2018
The National Cyber Security Alliance is a non-profit group, underwritten by the top tech companies and biggest banks, that has been out there since 2001 promoting best practices and supplying programs to engrain this mindset in our society. Related: Using ‘gamification’ for security training.
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Getting Things Done - the art of efficiency, productivity & organizational clarity
Collaboration 2.0
MARCH 16, 2009
GTD has gone on to sell over 2 million copies since it was published in 2001 and is available [.] I had the pleasure of attending the GTD summit last week: the inaugural conference arranged by The David Allen Company around the GTD methodology outlined in Allen’s book ‘Getting Things Done: The art of stress free productivity‘.
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U.S. Treasury Department Seeks Public Comment On Potential Federal Cyber Insurance Program
Data Matters
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Treasury Department is seeking public comment on the need and scope for a potential federal insurance response to catastrophic cyber incidents, akin to the one put in place for terrorism insurance after the attacks of September 11, 2001. The post U.S.
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Lockbit ransomware gang claims to have breached the Italian Revenue Agency
Security Affairs
JULY 25, 2022
“The Revenue Agency, operational since 1 January 2001, was born from the reorganization of the Financial Administration following the Legislative Decree No. 300 of 1999. It has its own statute and specific regulations governing administration and accounting.
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What companies need to know about ‘SecOps’ — the path to making ‘digital transformation’ secure
The Last Watchdog
AUGUST 21, 2018
Denim Group was originally founded in 2001 doing custom software development and eventually expanded its offerings to focus on application security, helping organizations deal with the security impact of the software they were developing. Bridging the gap. That’s where Denim Group comes in.
The Unattributable "db8151dd" Data Breach
Troy Hunt
MAY 15, 2020
Met at the 6th National Pro Bono Conference in Ottawa in September 2016 Met on 15-17 October 2001 in Vancouver for the Luscar/Obed/Coal Valley arbitration. Arranged for carpenter apprentice Devon [redacted last name] to replace bathroom vanity top at [redacted street address], Vancouver, on 02 October 2007. It feels like a CRM.
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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
SEPTEMBER 26, 2019
The first practical IBE scheme was given by Boneh and Franklin [7] in 2001 using bilinear pairing on elliptic curves. Since 2001, various extensions of normal IBE/IBS have been proposed: Identity-based signcrypt schemes. In Colin Boyd, editor, Advances in Cryptology – ASIACRYPT 2001, pages 514–532. 213-229, 2001.
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How DMARC Can Protect Against Ransomware
eSecurity Planet
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
IPv6 : v=spf1 ip6 :2001:4860:4860::8888 ip6 :2001:4860:4860::8844 -all. For example, hackers may forge a fake email, impersonating the CEO or any director, but SPF checks whether the sender has an approved IP address in the SPF record and blocks the email if it doesn’t. For example: IPv4 : v=spf1 ip4 :8.8.8.8 ip4 :8.8.4.4 -all.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 27, 2010
I've been on about this ever since I studied Google in 2001: Media traditionally has gained its profits by owning distribution. it's driven by the same old media love affair with distribution lock in.
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A 15-Year-Old Unpatched Python bug potentially impacts over 350,000 projects
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
dot dot) sequence in filenames in a TAR archive, a related issue to CVE-2001-1267. The issue is a Directory traversal vulnerability that resides in the ‘extract’ and ‘extractall’ functions in the tarfile module in Python. A user-assisted remote attacker can trigger the issue to overwrite arbitrary files via a.
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What Happened to Cyber 9/11?
Schneier on Security
NOVEMBER 19, 2018
Let's ask the question more generally: why hasn't there been another 9/11 since 2001? These are all good reasons, but I think both authors missed the most important one: there simply aren't a lot of terrorists out there. But since then, nothing.
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Implementing Information Management on SharePoint and Office365
AIIM
NOVEMBER 17, 2017
Since its humble beginnings in 2001, it has grown to nearly 200 million seats and is found in every industry sector. It's hard to overestimate the impact of SharePoint on the information management market. If you're reading this blog post, you likely have SharePoint in your organization.
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Red TIM Research found two rare flaws in Ericsson OSS-RC component
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 25, 2021
Below is the list of flaws reported to the vendor since 2001 and included in the National Vulnerability Database of the United States of America. The vulnerabilities have been reported to Ericsson by the researchers Alessandro Bosco, Mohamed Amine Ouad, and by the head of laboratory Massimiliano Brolli.
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NSA Equation Group tool was used by Chinese hackers years before it was leaked online
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 22, 2021
In 2015, Kaspersky first spotted the NSA Equation Group, it revealed it was operating since at least 2001 and targeted almost any industry with sophisticated zero-day malware. Check Point Research team discovered that China-linked APT31 group ( aka Zirconium.)
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The M.D. Anderson Case and the Future of HIPAA Enforcement via Privacy + Security Blog by Daniel Solove
IG Guru
FEBRUARY 26, 2021
14, 2001), the 5th Circuit struck down a fine and enforcement action by HHS as arbitrary and capricious. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit just issued a blistering attack on HIPAA enforcement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). In University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer v. 19-60226, Jan. The post The M.D.
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Unseen 9/11 photos bought at house clearance sale
IG Guru
SEPTEMBER 11, 2019
June 19 2019 via BBC News Archivists who bought a stash of CDs at a house clearance sale found 2,400 photos of Ground Zero in New York taken following the 9/11 attacks in 2001. They appear to have been taken by an as yet unidentified construction worker who helped to clear up the wreckage of […].
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Compete To Death, or Cooperate to Compete?
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 11, 2012
Now, I’m not sure it would have mattered, given the great crash of 2001. Since those publications died, the blogosphere has claimed the market, and now it’s far larger than the one we lost back in 2001. Two years later, both of us were out of business. Perhaps we might have survived the wipeout of the dot com crash.
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NIST’s Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 8, 2022
NIST is an old hand at this competitive process, having previously done this with symmetric algorithms (AES in 2001) and hash functions (SHA-3 in 2015). The idea is to standardize on both a public-key encryption and digital signature algorithm that is resistant to quantum computing, well before anyone builds a useful quantum computer.
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CIPL Celebrates Two Decades of Data Policy Innovation
Hunton Privacy
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
The Centre for Information Policy Leadership (“CIPL”), a global privacy and security think tank founded in 2001 by leading companies and Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, is celebrating 20 years of working with industry leaders, regulatory authorities and policymakers to develop global solutions and best practices for privacy and responsible data use.
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Whoa!!! Larry Page To Take Over As Google CEO
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 20, 2011
Old timers will recall Larry ran Google before the founders brought in Eric back in 2001. Schmidt sent a message to his Twitter followers saying, "Day-to-day adult supervision no longer needed!". Here's the tweet. More on this as it develops. Update: Here's Eric's post announcing the change.
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Vulnerability Finding Using Machine Learning
Schneier on Security
APRIL 20, 2020
Since 2001 Microsoft has collected 13 million work items and bugs. To better label and prioritize bugs at that scale, we couldn't just apply more people to the problem. However, large volumes of semi-curated data are perfect for machine learning.
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I Don't Like The iPad Because.
John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 27, 2010
I've been on about this ever since I studied Google in 2001: Media traditionally has gained its profits by owning distribution. it's driven by the same old media love affair with distribution lock in.
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81 Recommended reading for Knowledge Audits
ChiefTech
NOVEMBER 4, 2008
2001, ‘CEO Update: Measuring the Success of Enterprise Knowledge Management', The Monthly Research Review, Gartner, Jan. 2001, ‘Knowing What We Know: Supporting Knowledge Creation and Sharing in Social Networks', Organizational Dynamics, Vol. 2001, The who, what and why of knowledge mapping , Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol.
Comparing Twitter Growth to FBook, GOOG
John Battelle's Searchblog
MARCH 21, 2009
But even with a much larger Web audience than Google had back in 1998-2001, Twitter is not yet tracking to Google's (or Facebook's) early growth. Three years later it has (roughly) 8 million US uniques users (compete). Interesting to note the velocity of growth in Twitter's chart, it's clearly picking up.
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Tapping your stores of unstructured data can yield new insights…
OpenText Information Management
JUNE 20, 2019
Nick is the firm’s lead analyst for AI and machine learning, an area he has been researching since 2001. Note: This blog is by guest author Nick Patience, Founder & Research Vice President of 451 Research. Almost every company wants to be data-driven.
Standard contractual clauses and data transfers after Schrems II: EDPB-EDPS Joint Opinion on Draft SCCs
DLA Piper Privacy Matters
APRIL 20, 2021
The Draft SCCs would repeal the existing SCCs (dating from 2001, 2004 and 2010) and would introduce one set of modular SCCs, useable in the four different scenarios or “modules” (either controller to controller, controller to processor, processor to processor, or processor to controller).
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eDiscovery Daily
APRIL 1, 2019
As always, the best resource for tracking eDiscovery Mergers, Acquisitions, and Investments is Rob Robinson’s ComplexDiscovery site – after all, Rob via ComplexDiscovery has noted more than 375 M&A+I events between November 2001 and today. To wit: Q1 2019’s 16 transactions are more than all but one year from 2001 to 2009.
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