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Facebook links cyberespionage group APT32 to Vietnamese IT firm

Security Affairs

The APT32 group has been active since at least 2012, it has targeted organizations across multiple industries and foreign governments, dissidents, and journalists. ” said Nathaniel Gleicher, Head of Security Policy at Facebook, and Mike Dvilyanski, Cyber Threat Intelligence Manager.

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Feds Warn About Critical Infrastructure Ransomware Attacks, Vulnerabilities

eSecurity Planet

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. The flaws affect a range of vendors, including widely used products from Apple, Oracle and Microsoft.

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Mobile Libraries: Culture on the Go

Unwritten Record

government used bookmobiles to promote a concept known as “cultural diplomacy.” The American government was taking a greater role in global affairs following the end of World War II, as the Marshall Plan and the Smith-Mundt Act in 1948 clearly demonstrate. government to uphold American foreign policy through public diplomacy.

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The Ukrainian Market – A Struggle To Survive

Info Source

Although typically known as the industrial base of the Soviet Union, agriculture is a large part of Ukraine’s economy. Ukraine is one of the world’s largest agricultural producers and exporters and is known as the breadbasket of Europe. Food and other agricultural products (worth $13 billion), metallurgy ($8.8

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Predictions 2014: A Difficult Year To See

John Battelle's Searchblog

And I cannot imagine one company or government will solve the issue of climate change (no matter how many wind farms or autonomous cars Google might create), nor will thousands of well meaning but loosely connected organizations (or the UN, for that matter). Predictions 2012. 2012: How I Did. This won’t last forever.

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If-Then and Antiquities of the Future

John Battelle's Searchblog

” Or, “If the government had the ability to track everything we do both offline and on, then what might our society look like?” If more than a billion people had a mobile phone by 2012, I’d have wondered, then what might our world look like? Our agricultural practices and policies? Our life expectancies?

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If-Then and Antiquities of the Future

John Battelle's Searchblog

” Or, “If the government had the ability to track everything we do both offline and on, then what might our society look like?” If more than a billion people had a mobile phone by 2012, I’d have wondered, then what might our world look like? Our agricultural practices and policies? Our life expectancies?