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

Security Affairs

A deeper analysis of some of these samples revealed that they were compiled in 2014 and used in the wild between 2014 and 2015. reads the analysis published by Symantec. Symantec believes Longhorn is a North American hacking group that has been active since at least 2011.

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DePriMon downloader uses a never seen installation technique

Security Affairs

According to a report published by Symantec in 2017, Longhorn is a North American hacking group that has been active since at least 2011. ” reads the analysis. ESET researchers pointed out that the authors have put significant effort into encryption in order to prevent the analysis of the DePriMon malware.

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Top 9 Network Access Control (NAC) Solutions

eSecurity Planet

The company started in education and has expanded to government and corporate markets. ExtremeControl is popular with education, entertainment, hospitality and healthcare customers and can scale to 200,000 endpoints. Aruba ClearPass may also be known as Avenda eTIPS after HPE acquired Avenda and its NAC solution in 2011.

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SHARED INTEL: How ransomware evolved from consumer trickery to deep enterprise hacks

The Last Watchdog

Related: What local government can do to repel ransomware Ransomware came into existence in 1989 as a primitive program dubbed the AIDS Trojan that was spreading via 5.25-inch Local governments, small and medium-sized businesses, large international corporations, healthcare facilities, and educational institutions are the common targets.

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Notes and observations about the 2012 intranet innovation award winners

ChiefTech

This year, Pleio, a customised version of Elgg developed by the Dutch government , also won an award. Pleio: A social network for Dutch government on Prezi. We also deployed Elgg for a Government 2.0 Incidentally, the NSW Department of Education is also a Socialtext customer (see below).

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Judging Facebook's Privacy Shift

Schneier on Security

Shutting down a feature based on internal security analysis would be a clear message. And Facebook has repeatedly violated a 2011 Federal Trade Commission consent order regarding user privacy. Societies will regulate Facebook, and the quality of that regulation requires real education of legislators and their staffs.

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California Enacts Broad Privacy Laws Modeled on GDPR

Data Matters

An analysis of the bill prepared by the California Assembly before the vote also indicated that AB 375 was intended to address controversies concerning third-party sale of personal information acquired from social media without data subjects’ authorization. education information. biometric information. geolocation data.

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