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US disrupts Russia-linked Snake implant’s network

Security Affairs

The malware has been designed and used by Center 16 of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) in cyber espionage operations on sensitive targets. The development of the Snake malware, aka Uroburos , started in late 2003 and was completed in early 2004. “The FSB used the OpenSSL library to handle its Diffie-Hellman key exchange.

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Buran ransomware-as-a-service continues to improve

Security Affairs

Buran is advertised as a stable malware that uses an offline cryptoclocker , 24/7 support, global and session keys, and has no third-party dependencies such as libraries. The post Buran ransomware-as-a-service continues to improve appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – Buran RaaS, malware).

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Digitization vs. Digital Preservation

Preservica

Our company started as a project back in 2003 with the UK National Archives as a public sector research project that resulted in the creation of PRONOM, a searchable public technical registry, and DROID, a file format identification tool – both of which are still used today. Q: How can organizations start to explore digital preservation?

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[SI-LAB] FlawedAmmyy Leveraging Undetected XLM Macros as an Infection Vehicle

Security Affairs

This technology is stored in the Workbook OLE stream in Excel 97-2003 format which makes it very difficult to detect and parse by antivirus (AV) engines. This is part of a giant list of Living off the Land (LOL) techniques that attackers employ to mask their activities from runtime endpoint security monitoring tools such as AVs.

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The Sainsbury Archive chooses Preservica to create new cloud-based digital archive

Preservica

It is expected to create around 65 TB of information, and therefore felt it was important to ensure its unique digital material could be safely stored and future-proofed, using a secure cloud-hosted preservation and access platform. Visit: www.preservica.com Twitter: @preservica.

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BOOM! – Looking Back at When the Bodie Island Lighthouse Went Dark in May of 1863

Unwritten Record

RG 26: The Library Atlas of the World. A number of Confederate forts had been set up in the area, including Fort Hatteras and Fort Oregon, in an effort to secure and protect the waterways. Visible at the extreme left edge of the map below, it is easy to see how the island chain became known as “The Outer Banks”!

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DevOps Chat Podcast: $2M DARPA Award Sparks Behavior Testing With ForAllSecure's Mayhem Solution

ForAllSecure

Secure software depends on people finding vulnerabilities and deploying fixes before they are exploited in the wild. This has led to a world of security researchers and bug bounties directed at finding new vulnerabilities. When I got out of undergrad, I was a computer security officer. Brumley: Yeah, absolutely. Brumley: Yeah.