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No Mail, Low Morale: The 6888th Central Postal Battalion

Unwritten Record

On February 25, 2009, a public event at the Women in Military Service for America Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery honored the work of the 6888th, and on November 30, 2018 a monument in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas was made in their honor. .” Local Identifier: 111-SC-200585; National Archives Identifier: 175539133.

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Latest Turla backdoor leverages email PDF attachments as C&C mechanism

Security Affairs

. “These organizations are the latest known additions to the list of victims of this APT group that has been targeting governments, state officials, diplomats, and military authorities since at least 2008.” ” The Turla backdoor has been used since at least 2009 and was continuously improved across the years.

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

As is now traditional, I’ve installed myself in the porter’s chair next to the fire in the library, ready to recap some of the year’s more newsworthy information security events. in which the travel records of military and civilian personnel – which included their personal information and credit card data – were compromised.