Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The Russia-linked Gamaredon APT group attempted to compromise an unnamed Western government entity in Ukraine. In Mid January the Ukrainian government was hit with destructive malware, tracked as WhisperGate , and several Ukrainian government websites were defaced by exploiting a separate vulnerability in OctoberCMS.

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2023

The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions against four entities and one individual for their role in malicious cyber operations conducted to support the government of North Korea. ” reads the announcement.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 3, 2013

On July 2, 2013, the Indian government released its ambitious National Cyber Security Policy 2013.

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Dark Reading

JUNE 14, 2022

"Aoqin Dragon" has been operating since at least 2013, with targets including government and telecommunications companies in multiple countries.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In May 2013, the U.S. Prompted by assurances that the government would one day afford Liberty Reserve users a chance to reclaim any funds seized as part of the takedown, KrebsOnSecurity filed a claim shortly thereafter to see if and when this process might take place.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 17, 2023

As a result, the government was able to charge Golestan with 20 counts of wire fraud — one for each payment made by the phony companies that bought the IP addresses from ARIN. By 2013, a number of Micfo’s customers had landed on the radar of Spamhaus , a group that many network operators rely upon to stem the tide of junk email.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 10, 2018

And, it was just before the holidays in 2013 that Target announced the infamous breach impacting more than a hundred million people. Practicing good data governance is easier than you think. Related podcast: The need to lock down unstructured data. By knowing your risk exposure, you are half way there.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a In December 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published new details about the identity of “Rescator,” a Russian cybercriminal who is thought to be closely connected to the 2013 data breach at Target.

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ARMA International

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

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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IT Governance

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The introduction of ISO 27001:2022 won’t have an immediate effect on organisations that are currently certified to ISO 27001:2013 or are in the process of achieving certification. For the time being, organisations should continue to follow the 2013 version of the Standard. appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. Get started.

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Preservica

JUNE 12, 2013

Thanks to all those who made IRMS 2013 such a great event, to those who dropped by the stand and everyone who participated in our survey. Tessella will be holding a free webinar to discuss digital preservation in local government and the G-Cloud revolution. Clearly there is no one size fits all for keeping records.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The United States government sued Edward Snowden , the former CIA employee and NSA contractor, to block payment for his book, Permanent Record. The government of the United States has just announced a lawsuit over my memoir, which was just released today worldwide. ” reads the press release published by the DoJ.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The attack did not impact systems employed in the 2013 census. The cyberattack hit the servers of the National Agency for Information Society (AKSHI), which handles many government services. The relations between Albania and Iran have deteriorated since the government of Tirana offered asylum to thousands of Iranian dissidents.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 5, 2021

On March 2, Microsoft released emergency security updates to plug four security holes in Exchange Server versions 2013 through 2019 that hackers were actively using to siphon email communications from Internet-facing systems running Exchange. ” Reached for comment, Microsoft said it is working closely with the U.S.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 16, 2014

On July 15, 2014, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) released its Annual Report for 2013/14 (the “Report”). The total number of complaints received by the ICO regarding cookies in 2013 and 2014 fell almost 60% as compared to the previous year.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 23, 2022

government, has emerged as the de facto international source for cryptographic standards. But in 2013, Edward Snowden disclosed that the National Security Agency had subverted the integrity of a NIST cryptographic standard­the Dual_EC_DRBG­enabling easy decryption of supposedly secured communications. government process.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

But that story omitted an important historical detail about Pushwoosh: In 2013, one of its developers admitted to authoring the Pincer Trojan , malware designed to surreptitiously intercept and forward text messages from Android mobile devices. Pushwoosh says it is a U.S. But Reuters found that while Pushwoosh’s social media and U.S.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 28, 2014

The report provides information on data breaches reported to California’s Attorney General in 2012 and 2013. Overall, 167 breaches were reported by 136 different entities to California’s Attorney General in 2013. In addition, the number of reported data breaches increased by 28 percent in 2013, rising from 131 in 2012 to 167 in 2013.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

According to our team, the exposed files belonged to the WBSC, the world governing body for baseball, softball, and Baseball5 – a recently introduced sport combining the previous two. Government-issued documents are arguably the most important form of identification a person holds. the team said.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In 2013, Yahoo suffered one of the worst data breaches in history, exposing over 3 billion user accounts. government agencies. government agencies and large organizations were hit by cyberattacks due to a vulnerability in their IT infrastructure provider – SolarWinds. SolarWinds attack on U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

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 FBI spoofs 2012 – 2013. File encryption 2013 – 2015. inch diskettes. None of these early threats went pro.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Lauri Love Wins Appeal, But Faces Prosecution in England Lauri Love, a British man accused of 2012 and 2013 hack attacks against U.S. government computers - including systems operated by the Federal Reserve, U.S. Army and NASA - has won his legal bid to quash a U.S. extradition request.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Lauri Love Wins Appeal, But Faces Prosecution in England Lauri Love, a British man accused of 2012 and 2013 hack attacks against U.S. government computers - including systems operated by the Federal Reserve, U.S. Army and NASA - has won his legal bid to quash a U.S. extradition request.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Security experts from FireEye found evidence that links the development of the Triton malware (aka Trisis and HatMan) to a Russian government research institute. a Russian government-owned technical research institution located in Moscow. The following factors supporting this assessment are further detailed in this post.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2022

The Gamaredon group was first discovered by Symantec and TrendMicro in 2015, but evidence of its activities has been dated back to 2013. The group targeted government and military organizations in Ukraine. In December 2019, the APT group targeted several Ukrainian diplomats, government and military officials, and law enforcement.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The project was launched in September 2019 and as of August 2020, the experts collected 680 records of ransomware attacks that took place since November 2013. now has 687 records assembled from publicly disclosed incidents between November 2013 and August 2020.” ” reads the project description.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2021

Inglis retired from NSA in 2014 where he served the US government for 28 years, since 2013 as the agency’s deputy director. Easterly has worked in the cybersecurity division at Morgan Stanley for the past four years, she has served 14 years in government and military service. I’m proud of what we are building across the U.S.

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

T]he government may have violated the Fourth Amendment when it collected the telephony metadata of millions of Americans[…]” stated the ruling. . Bush in the wake of the September 11 attacks, but had been phased out by the NSA between 2018 and 2019 after disuse and technical issues had rendered the data collected unusable. . “[T]he

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 17, 2023

The only work experience Dobbs listed on his resume was as a freelance developer from 2013 to the present day. The government seized four-dozen booter domains, and criminally charged Dobbs and five other U.S. But the government’s core claim — that operating a booter site is a violation of U.S. Charles, Ill.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 4, 2021

Check Point has evidence that (probably government affiliated) Chinese hackers stole and cloned an NSA Windows hacking tool years before (probably government affiliated) Russian hackers stole and then published the same tool.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Two former Twitter employees have been charged with spying on thousands of Twitter user accounts on behalf of the Saudi Arabian government. Two former Twitter employees have been charged with spying on thousands of Twitter user accounts on behalf of the Saudi Arabian government.

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National Archives Records Express

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Established in 2013, the Federal Records Officers Network (FRON) is a network of records and information management (RIM) professionals that address records issues that exist across Federal agencies. We congratulate them on this milestone and wish them continued success. Their leadership has asked that we share this blog post.

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AIIM

APRIL 21, 2023

in 2013 to 6.2% Consider information governance and interoperability when adding new systems.” Seventy-eight percent of survey respondents feel that technology usage is driving the vast volume, velocity, and variety of information that is flooding their organizations. in 2018 and now 14.42% in 2023.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 30, 2022

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is recommending that government agencies and private organizations that use Microsoft’s Exchange cloud email platform migrate users and applications to Modern Auth before Basic Auth is deprecated in October. In contrast, Modern Auth that relies on OAuth 2.0 Click Save.

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Threatpost

JUNE 17, 2022

Evidence suggests that a just-discovered APT has been active since 2013.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2019

million to settle a legal dispute for selling vulnerable software to the US government. Back in 2008, a whistle-blower identifies a vulnerability in Cisco video surveillance software, but the tech giant continued to sell the software to US agencies until July 2013. Cisco is going to pay $8.6 ” reported The New York Times.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2023

The government of Pyongyang blames the US and South Korea for preparing a future invasion of their country. Kimsuky cyberespionage group (aka ARCHIPELAGO, Black Banshee, Thallium , Velvet Chollima, APT43 ) was first spotted by Kaspersky researcher in 2013. ” reported Reuters agency.

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