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Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) discloses data breach after ransomware attack

Security Affairs

The Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) finally disclosed a data breach impacting students, past students, and teachers after the June attack. In June a ransomware attack hit the Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE), now the organization disclosed a data breach.

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Who Is the Network Access Broker ‘Babam’?

Krebs on Security

Rarely do cybercriminal gangs that deploy ransomware gain the initial access to the target themselves. More commonly, that access is purchased from a cybercriminal broker who specializes in acquiring remote access credentials — such as usernames and passwords needed to remotely connect to the target’s network.

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Urgent appeal: protect funding for public libraries at risk

CILIP

These duties intersect with council responsibilities under the Equalities Act 2010 and the Public Sector Equality Duty to ensure that changes to library services take into account the full range of needs of local residents, both now and in the future. They are free to all and foster literacy, education, and community engagement.

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Filming the Far North: Louise Arner Boyd’s Arctic Travels

Unwritten Record

The clips below show how Boyd shot and constructed the film to serve as an educational introduction to the Arctic environment. These clips, primarily of types of sea ice with an in-focus appearance from Boyd at the end, show how Boyd edited the footage and added intertitles to create an educational film. Local Identifier: 401.83.2)

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

Security Affairs

universities and colleges were targeted in phishing attacks, threat actors attempted to infect the victims’ systems with a remote access Trojan (RAT) previously used by Chinese state-sponsored hackers. Hupigon is a remote access Trojan (RAT) that has been active since at least 2006, it was first detected by FireEye in 2010.

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AIIM vs. ARMA: An Honest Comparison of Membership

AIIM

As a paid professional member of both since 2001 – August 2001 for AIIM, September 2001 for ARMA, and having served on both organizations’ Board of Directors (2004-2005 for AIIM, 2007-2010 for ARMA), I have thoughts on both and will compare them in several key areas, including: Focus. Access to members-only iMasters virtual roundtable events.

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FBI and CISA joint alert blames Russia’s Energetic Bear APT for US government networks hack

Security Affairs

has been active since at least 2010 most of the victims of the group are organizations in the energy and industrial sectors. ” The Russian-sponsored APT actor uses previously obtained user and administrator credentials to access the target network and then perform lateral movement to locate high-value assets and exfiltrate data.