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

Security Affairs

Hupigon is a remote access Trojan (RAT) that has been active since at least 2006, it was first detected by FireEye in 2010. ‘This campaign delivered over 150,000 messages to over 60 different industries, with 45% focused on education, colleges, and universities,” Proofpoint concluded.

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

Security Affairs

Hupigon is a remote access Trojan (RAT) that has been active since at least 2006, it was first detected by FireEye in 2010. ‘This campaign delivered over 150,000 messages to over 60 different industries, with 45% focused on education, colleges, and universities,” Proofpoint concluded.

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How we ended up in an era of intentional ignorance

WIRED Threat Level

“…instead of this promised blossoming of the modern mind, instead of education in an instant, we snapped our fingers and got entertainment, a medium without prerequisites, perplexity, and exposition.” Here’s a six-month old essay about online media that resonated with me for a couple of reasons. Definitely.

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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. David Balaban is a computer security researcher with over 17 years of experience in malware analysis and antivirus software evaluation.

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The Ongoing Battle Over How ESI is Produced: eDiscovery Trends, Part Three

eDiscovery Daily

Static images are equally useful for analysis purposes as native files. FRCP Rule 34, Committee Notes on Rules – 2006 Amendment. Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 34 does not specifically call for production in native format. Image-based productions have been accepted in many courts.

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It’s Not Too Late to Attend This Year’s EDRM Workshop at Duke: eDiscovery Best Practices

eDiscovery Daily

as well as sessions to launch new efforts to create a template for proportionality analysis and address issues in information governance. I’ve been coming to EDRM Workshop meetings since the second year of EDRM’s existence in 2006 and last year was one of the best meetings ever! per night plus tax through May 7.

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Litigate or Settle? Info You Need to Make Case Decisions: eDiscovery Best Practices

eDiscovery Daily

By 2006 there were only half the number of federal civil trials that there were in 1962 and since 2006, civil trials have continued to decline although at a much slower pace. According to AOC statistics, from 1962 through 1985, federal civil trials doubled, increasing every year.

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