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CIA Hacking unit APT-C-39 hit China since 2008

Security Affairs

Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 revealed that the US CIA has hacked Chinese organizations in various sectors for the last 11 years. Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 is accusing that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of having hacked Chinese organizations for the last 11 years.

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Why Were the Russians So Set Against This Hacker Being Extradited?

Krebs on Security

The Russian government has for the past four years been fighting to keep 29-year-old alleged cybercriminal Alexei Burkov from being extradited by Israel to the United States. authorities, and that the Russian government is probably concerned that he simply knows too much. A screen shot from the Mazafaka cybercrime forum, circa 2011.

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Purple Lambert, a new malware of CIA-linked Lambert APT group

Security Affairs

” The Lambert APT (aka Longhorn APT ) has been active since at least 2008, but its first samples were spotted in 2014. Symantec believes Longhorn is a North American hacking group that has been active since at least 2011. reads the analysis published by Symantec.

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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. But what exactly is documentation?

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Google dorks were the root cause of a catastrophic compromise of CIA’s communications

Security Affairs

Google queries allowed Iran Government to dismantle the CIA communication network used by its agents and kill dozens of tens of spies. In a 2012 incident in China, the Chinese government identified and killed 30 US spies. According to Yahoo ! ” reported Yahoo News. ” reported Yahoo News. ” states the report.

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Predictions 2021: Disinformation, SPACs, Africa, Facebook, and a Return to Tech Optimism

John Battelle's Searchblog

I’m generally inclined to be optimistic, but rose-colored glasses stretch time. Good things always take longer to emerge than any of us would wish. In some ways, this is foolhardy – like predicting that the election would drive 2020, only to see it overwhelmed by COVID-19. Facebook’s chickens come home to roost.

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Part 3: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about effecting risk management and change management?

ARMA International

Take the example of the pandemic: only some governments engaged pandemic experts to develop actions plans. The end state is to use DT to optimize the use of resources, increase ROI, and improve governance, strategic risk management, and compliance, as illustrated by the five levels in Figure 3. Linking Scope to the Business Use Cases.