Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Thousands of unpatched MikroTik Routers are involved in new cryptocurrency mining campaigns. Thousands of unpatched devices are mining for cryptocurrency at the moment. Even if the vendor released a security fix that addresses the flaw in April, the number of not updated routers is still very high.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

“I suspect it’s probably a derivate of other IoT crypto mining botnets,” Cashdollar told The Register. “The malware is uploaded as gzip compressed tarball archives of binaries, scripts, and libraries. System administrators need to employ security best practices with the systems they manage.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2019

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. A backdoor mechanism found in tens of Ruby libraries. Employees abused systems at Ukrainian nuclear power plant to mine cryptocurrency. Hackers are scanning the web for vulnerable Fortinet, Pulse Secure Products installs. A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived!

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2019

The Commons FileUpload library is the default file upload mechanism in Struts 2, the CVE-2016-1000031 was discovered two years ago by experts at Tenable. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2019

Security experts at Trend Micro have discovered a new Monero cryptomining miner, dubbed BlackSquid, that is targeting web servers, network drives, and removable drives. “Simultaneous with its attacks, BlackSquid also downloads and executes two XMRig cryptocurrency-mining components.! continues the analysis. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2018

Experts uncovered a massive cryptojacking campaign that is targeting MikroTik routers to inject a Coinhive cryptocurrency mining script in the web traffic. According to Trustwave the hackers were exploiting a zero-day flaw in the MikroTik routers to inject a copy of the Coinhive library in the traffic passing through the MikroTik router.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Since the beginning of the year, security firms observed a new intense ransomware campaign spreading the Shade ransomware. Between January and February, a new, intense, ransomware campaign has been observed by many security firms. However, the mining pool dashboard provides a clue of the current number of infected machines.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

This week, we discuss the use of cryptocurrency mining software on numerous government websites, a phishing scam that robbed Bee Token investors of $1 million and cyber attacks on the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. I mentioned cyber criminals’ increasing use of cryptocurrency mining or ‘cryptomining’ software a couple of weeks ago.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2020

The operation was launched in June 2019, the experts first identified the compromised devices then alerted victims to install security patches that lock out the malicious code. Let me close by highlighting the importance of collaboration between the authorities and the private security firms in the fight against emerging cyber threats.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

This week, in our last podcast of the year, we revisit some of the biggest information security stories from the past 12 months. As is now traditional, I’ve installed myself in the porter’s chair next to the fire in the library, ready to recap some of the year’s more newsworthy information security events.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Srivastav 2014) See Figure 1 (HistoryComputer 2021). For example, organizations can re-package video libraries, songs, research, and course material for different audiences – customers, researchers, academics, students, and so on; and they can monetize the content via CaaS. Figure 1: Illustration of Bush’s Memex.

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CILIP

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Simon Burton is Director and co-founder of CB Resourcing, an information professional recruitment firm he set up in 2014. Here he gives his view of changes in the job market for library and information roles in the corporate sector. Public libraries jobs. ?There Academic Libraries. ?From But first we turn to CILIP?s

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Brandeis Records Manager

MAY 27, 2015

We made early acquaintances with Legal and Information Security leaders. Our initial client service engagements—managed offsite storage and retrieval, secure document shredding, digitization, and, recently, electronic redaction—began in March of 2014. We were proactive with offers to present on the program at any venue.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

How will organizations use so-called “vaccine passports” related to employees and customers and how will organizations secure their protected health information (PHI) in response to changing health directives? IA overlaps many areas of design, such as navigation, user experience, user interface, security model, taxonomy, and metadata.

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