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Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits to Running People-Search Networks

Krebs on Security

On March 14, KrebsOnSecurity published a story showing that Onerep’s Belarusian CEO and founder Dimitiri Shelest launched dozens of people-search services since 2010, including a still-active data broker called Nuwber that sells background reports on people. government. Shelest denied ever being associated with Spamit.

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Iranian government blocked Wikipedia Farsi due Coronavirus outbreak

Security Affairs

The restrictions were implemented for some 24 hours and the government removed them in the afternoon of March 3rd, 2010. Iran us facing a growing crisis due to the Coronavirus outbreak, the government will temporarily release 54,000 people from prisons as officials struggle to contain the rapid spread of the epidemic.

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

Security Affairs

The US government declared that Russia-linked APT group Energetic Bear has breached US government networks and exfiltrated data. has been active since at least 2010 most of the victims of the group are organizations in the energy and industrial sectors. ” reads the advisory. ” reads the advisory.

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Central and local must government to come together and safeguard the future of our libraries

CILIP

Central and local must government to come together and safeguard the future of our libraries The current regulation and oversight of library services in England means that the Government is failing in its duty of accountability to the taxpayer and in its specific duty of sector development and improvement.

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MI5 chief warns of Chinese cyber espionage reached an unprecedented scale

Security Affairs

Chinese cyber espionage aims at obtaining commercial secrets and intellectual property to advantage the government of Beijing. The espionage activity used different means to conceal the involvement of the Chinese government, including financial investments. ” reported BBC.

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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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British Court rejects the US’s request to extradite Julian Assange

Security Affairs

A British court has rejected the request of the US government to extradite Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to the country. government will likely appeal the decision. He published thousands of classified diplomatic and military documents on WikiLeaks in 2010. Of course, the U.S.

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