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U.S. Internet Leaked Years of Internal, Customer Emails

Krebs on Security

has a business unit called Securence , which specializes in providing filtered, secure email services to businesses, educational institutions and government agencies worldwide. Some of the exposed emails dated back to 2008; others were as recent as the present day. The Minnesota-based Internet provider U.S. Internet Corp. ” U.S.

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When Your Smart ID Card Reader Comes With Malware

Krebs on Security

government employees and contractors have been issued a secure smart ID card that enables physical access to buildings and controlled spaces, and provides access to government computer networks and systems at the cardholder’s appropriate security level. government smart cards. government smart cards.

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GUEST ESSAY: Restore Us Institute (RUI) aims to protect Americans from online harms and crimes

The Last Watchdog

Government policymakers decided in the 1990s to promote inherently insecure, nascent Internet technology to be the world’s primary global information infrastructure for all the world’s communications, content, and commerce. Government policymakers decided in the 1990s to de facto nationally abdicate governing online.

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CVE-2019-1132 Windows Zero-Day exploited by Buhtrap Group in government attack

Security Affairs

The CVE-2019-1132 flaw addressed by Microsoft this month was exploited by Buhtrap threat actor to target a government organization in Eastern Europe. The second one, tracked as CVE-2019.0880, affects Windows 7 and Server 2008. The issue resides in the way splwow64 (Thunking Spooler APIs) handles certain calls. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Documentation Theory for Information Governance

ARMA International

iv] Further, “the practices of government [and other public and private institutions] become formal or official to the extent that they are documented.” [v] This article aims to consider what a documentary focus can offer to the practices and understandings of information governance. A Documentary Approach.

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Adconion Execs Plead Guilty in Federal Anti-Spam Case

Krebs on Security

The government alleged that between December 2010 and September 2014, the defendants engaged in a conspiracy to identify or pay to identify blocks of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses that were registered to others but which were otherwise inactive. .'”

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Government By Numbers: Some Interesting Insights

John Battelle's Searchblog

Of course, were such a hypothesis true, one might imagine that the over percentage of GDP represented by government workers would have gone *down* over the past few decades. For example, check out this chart of what’s growing in our government, and what’s not: Aha! No wonder 2008 was such a (continuing) disaster.