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Crooks target US universities with malware used by nation-state actors

Security Affairs

universities and colleges were targeted in phishing attacks, threat actors attempted to infect the victims’ systems with a remote access Trojan (RAT) previously used by Chinese state-sponsored hackers. Hupigon is a remote access Trojan (RAT) that has been active since at least 2006, it was first detected by FireEye in 2010.

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Sophie Sayer on the IT Governance Partner Programme

IT Governance

When you partner with us, you get full access to our data privacy and cyber security offering of consultancy , training , penetration testing , staff awareness courses , software , tools and books. The main objective is to educate their sales teams about new products and/or services. So this year, for example, the PCI DSS v4.0

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Crooks target US universities with malware used by nation-state actors

Security Affairs

universities and colleges were targeted in phishing attacks, threat actors attempted to infect the victims’ systems with a remote access Trojan (RAT) previously used by Chinese state-sponsored hackers. Hupigon is a remote access Trojan (RAT) that has been active since at least 2006, it was first detected by FireEye in 2010.

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Finding Positive Opportunity in Social Distancing

AIIM

in January 2006. And with learning on demand and how modular many educational events are, you can spread the learning over weeks or months, at a pace that works for you. And many educational opportunities are available in self-paced online or on-demand formats - we'll look at that next. Enter the coronavirus and COVID-19.

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SHARED INTEL: Mobile apps are riddled with security flaws, many of which go unremediated

The Last Watchdog

Also, WhiteHat has been generating this report annually since 2006. We’re using mobile applications to access our bank balances, our schedules, our children’s schedules, whatever it may be. The key, though, is these mobile applications are accessing backend servers over the Internet, mostly, to get to this data on your phones.

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Preservica congratulates 2019 Emmett Leahy Award winner

Preservica

The Emmett Leahy Committee also recognized his efforts at outreach in educating archivists and records managers throughout Asia, as well as the leadership positions he has held in the archival community.

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SHARED INTEL: How ransomware evolved from consumer trickery to deep enterprise hacks

The Last Watchdog

The Archiveus Trojan from 2006 was the first one to use RSA cipher, but it was reminiscent of a proof of concept and used a static 30-digit decryption password that was shortly cracked. In many cases, the crooks hack managed service providers (MSPs) first and then use this access to compromise the partnering organizations.