Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The vulnerability is a use-after-free issue in the Win32k kernel driver, tracked as CVE-2021-40449 , that was addressed by Microsoft with the release of October Patch Tuesday security updates. The post Chinese APT IronHusky use Win zero-day in recent wave of attacks appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 3, 2018

According to New Zealand’s Government Communications Security Bureau, Huawei equipment for 5G infrastructure poses a “significant network security risk,” for this reason, it asked mobile company Spark to avoid using the equipment of the Chinese company. In 2008, New Zealand signed a free-trade deal with China.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 10, 2022

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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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Not to mention retirement (from Social Security to 401ks, etc.). 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. Now let’s compare Government as a percent of GDP to private Industry.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2019

million to settle a legal dispute for selling vulnerable software to the US government. Back in 2008, a whistle-blower identifies a vulnerability in Cisco video surveillance software, but the tech giant continued to sell the software to US agencies until July 2013. SecurityAffairs – Cisco, US Government). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2019

A new security assessment conducted by the Defense Department Inspector General revealed that the Pentagon is still exposed to many cyber risks, The report published by the Defense Department Inspector General on January 9, shows a worrisome situation, there are 266 issue, some of them are ten-years-old cybersecurity?related

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2021

A 31-year-old Canadian man has been arrested and charged with fraud in connection with numerous ransomware attacks against businesses, government agencies and private citizens throughout Canada and the United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) contacted them regarding ransomware attacks that were based in Canada.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2023

In October 2022, Kaspersky researchers uncovered a malware campaign aimed at infecting government, agriculture and transportation organizations located in the Donetsk, Lugansk, and Crimea regions with a previously undetected framework dubbed CommonMagic. This means that the threat actor was able to avoid detection for more than 15 years.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 30, 2023

’ Qakbot , also known as QBot, QuackBot and Pinkslipbot, is an info-stealing malware that has been active since 2008. “The victims ranged from financial institutions on the East Coast to a critical infrastructure government contractor in the Midwest to a medical device manufacturer on the West Coast.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2020

The Turla APT group (aka Snake , Uroburos , Waterbug , Venomous Bear and KRYPTON ) has been active since at least 2007 targeting diplomatic and government organizations and private businesses in the Middle East, Asia, Europe, North and South America, and former Soviet bloc nations. ” reads the analysis published by Palo Alto Networks.

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The Security Ledger

DECEMBER 29, 2021

As always, you can check our full conversation in our latest Security Ledger podcast at Blubrry. Back in 2008, the late, great security researcher Dan Kaminsky discovered a serious security flaw in a ubiquitous Internet technology: the domain name system, or DNS. Mark Stanislav is a VP of Information Security at Gemini.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

For years, security experts — and indeed, many top cybercriminals in the Spamit affiliate program — have expressed the belief that Sal and Icamis were likely the same person using two different identities. 2008, wherein he addresses forum members with the salutation, “Hello Gentlemen Scammers.”

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

It’s been going on since at least 2008. The US government has known about it for almost as long, and has tried to keep the attack secret: China’s exploitation of products made by Supermicro, as the U.S. ”) Here’s me in 2018: Supply-chain security is an incredibly complex problem.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2021

” The Lambert APT (aka Longhorn APT ) has been active since at least 2008, but its first samples were spotted in 2014. In March 2020, Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 accused the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of having hacked Chinese organizations for the last 11 years. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Google queries allowed Iran Government to dismantle the CIA communication network used by its agents and kill dozens of tens of spies. News the security breach has happened in 2009, the Iranian intelligence infiltrated a series of websites used by the CIA to communicate with agents worldwide, including Iran and China.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 10, 2022

We live in a digital world in which we engage with significant social, government, retail, business and entertainment services now delivered without any direct human service management. The report provides novel and important insights for businesses, governments, academics and citizens. Governments need to take action.

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Adam Levin

APRIL 15, 2019

A technical glitch took down a wireless network used by New York City’s municipal government, raising serious questions about security and reliability of operational technology used by the city. The New York City Wireless Network, or NYCWiN, was initially deployed in 2008 at a cost of $500 million.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2021

On March 2nd, Microsoft released emergency out-of-band security updates that address four zero-day issues (CVE-2021-26855, CVE-2021-26857, CVE-2021-26858, and CVE-2021-27065) in all supported MS Exchange versions that are actively exploited in the wild. If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

A statement of facts filed by the government indicates Petr Pacas was at one point director of operations at Company A (Adconion). The government alleges the men sent forged letters to an Internet hosting firm claiming they had been authorized by the registrants of the inactive IP addresses to use that space for their own purposes.

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CILIP

JUNE 30, 2021

The purpose of this review is to identify the opportunities and risks inherent in the current model for the resourcing and funding of public libraries, to identify under-exploited opportunities to secure a more diverse and sustainable funding base for the future and to set out a roadmap or recommendations for how this might be achieved.

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IG Guru

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

AUGUST 27, 2018 08:48 PM ET The late senator pushed relentlessly for the government to develop a comprehensive cyber deterrence strategy. During the 2008 […]. By Joseph Marks, Senior Correspondent Shortly before Gen. Keith Alexander’s April 2010 hearing to be the first chief of U.S. Cyber Command, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.,

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Security Affairs

JUNE 28, 2019

The Regin malware has been around since at least 2008, most Regin infections were observed in Russia (28%) and Saudi Arabia (24%), but other attacks were spotted in Iran, Ireland, India, Afghanistan, Austria, Belgium, Mexico, and Pakistan. Yandex acknowledged the security breach but did not provide further details on the attack.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2020

QBot, aka Qakbot and Pinkslipbot , has been active since 2008, it is used by malware for collecting browsing data and banking credentials and other financial information from the victims. The post Qbot uses a new email collector module in the latest campaign appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Kaspersky reported the flaw to Microsoft on October 17, the security firm observed attacks against systems protected by its solution and attempting to exploit the zero-day flaw affecting the Win32k component in Windows. The CVE-2018-8589 vulnerability only affects Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008. Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Secret Service issued a detailed advisory on the BlackByte Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) group, which has attacked critical infrastructure industries in recent months, among them government, financial and food and agriculture targets. A Top Priority for Security Teams. cybersecurity advisories in recent weeks. 7 SP1, 8, 8.1)

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2020

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. time zone. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2020

Earlier versions of Agent.BTZ were used to compromise US military networks in the Middle East in 2008. Thus, it is able to bypass some security controls because it doesn’t rely on any malicious domain.” The post New Turla ComRAT backdoor uses Gmail for Command and Control appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 21, 2019

Department of Homeland Security issued an emergency directive in January 2019 giving government agencies ten days to verify that they weren’t compromised by DNS hijacking. Today, less than 20% of DNS traffic is secured by DNSSEC, and only three percent of Fortune 1,000 companies have implemented it.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2019

But this new directorate seems to signal a pivot towards a more public approach to security than the Agency has taken in the past. The directorate also reflects a change in the importance of national cybersecurity and provides a hint as to how government agencies are rethinking how cybersecurity divisions should be organized.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 8 December 2017. The chief executive of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre, Ciaran Martin, has warned senior civil servants about using Russian antivirus (AV) software in government departments. Here are this week’s stories.

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AIIM

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

You may not know that we developed a 4-day Email Management class in 2008 or a 2-day Social Media Governance course in 2011. It is targeted at business and information management managers responsible for their organization’s information governance and/or information management processes.

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ARMA International

JULY 17, 2023

The first is that ever since 2008, corporate clients are much more cost-conscious and in pursuit of the best available deal. Given this backdrop of permanently increased matter mobility, what then are the issues and the key governance considerations that firms should pay attention to? Why is there more matter mobility now?

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IG Guru

JUNE 25, 2019

Before 2008, he would sometimes challenge his students to stay off the internet for 48 hours and then discuss how it affected them. Jeff Hancock likes to give his Stanford University students weekend assignments that let them experience concepts discussed in class for themselves.

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IG Guru

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Franks The Master of Archives and Records Administration (MARA) degree was launched in August 2008 in what is now the School of Information at San José State University. Master of Archives and Records Administration (MARA) Celebrates its 10th Anniversary By Dr. Patricia C.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

The German court referred the questions to the CJEU for a preliminary ruling in connection with a case that arose in 2008 when a German citizen challenged the German federal government’s storage of the dynamic IP addresses of users on government websites. The citizen’s claim initially was rejected by the court of first instance.

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Data Matters

JANUARY 22, 2018

First enacted in 2008, Section 702 is a surveillance law that permits the targeting of foreign individuals overseas. person query in certain circumstances—specifically, if the query was in connection with a criminal investigation unrelated to national security and not designed to find foreign intelligence information.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 3, 2018

This week, we discuss the 10 million affected by Dixons Carphone’s 2017 data breach, the exposure of hundreds of thousands of clothes shoppers’ details, Yale University’s ten-year old data breach, and a return to typewriters for government workers in Matanuska-Susitna Borough in Anchorage. Here are this week’s stories.

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