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A deeper insight into the CloudWizard APT’s activity revealed a long-running activity

Security Affairs

A deeper analysis revealed that the threat actor CloudWizard has been linked to an activity cluster that dates back to May 2016 that was tracked by ESET researchers as Operation Groundbait. Further analysis revealed that the actor behind the above operations has been active since at least 2008. ” We are in the final!

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Calculating the Benefits of the Advanced Encryption Standard

Schneier on Security

Extending the approach of looking back from 2017 to the larger national economy required the selection of economic sectors best represented by the 169 survey respondents. Still, I like seeing this kind of analysis about security infrastructure. Thus, the NPV from today's perspective is $8,772,000,000; the B/C ratio is therefore 70.2/1;

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Hunting the ICEFOG APT group after years of silence

Security Affairs

This week, Chi-en (Ashley) Shen presented at the CONFidence cybersecurity conference held in Poland her analysis on new samples of malware associated with the ICEFOG group. Attackers leveraged CVE 2017-11882 shared exploit template and used a fileless version of the ICEFOG-M.

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DoppelPaymer, a fork of BitPaymer Ransomware, appeared in the threat landscape

Security Affairs

In mid-2017, the group released BitPaymer ransomware (aka FriedEx) that was used in attacks against high profile targets and organizations. This new variant was behind a series of ransomware campaigns beginning in June 2019, including attacks against the City of Edcouch, Texas and the Chilean Ministry of Agriculture.”

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RFID Market – Global Forecast to 2023

RFID Global Solution, Inc.

between 2017 and 2023. The base year considered for the study is 2016, and the forecast period is between 2017 and 2023. The base year considered for the study is 2016, and the forecast period is between 2017 and 2023. Animal Tracking/Agriculture. Quantitative Analysis. Competitive Analysis. Active RFID.

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Climate change predictions: Anticipating and adapting to a warming world

IBM Big Data Hub

Parts of Africa will be especially vulnerable, with agricultural yields declining by as much as 50% in some areas. Global Change Research Program, 2017. The IPCC projects that water available for human use will continue to decline in North America, while water security will be at risk in Africa, Asia and South America.

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Part 2: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about the evolution from RIM to Content Services?

ARMA International

ARMA (2017) describes RIM practices as the “knowledge and skills required to systematically manage information assets from creation or receipt through processing, distributing, sharing, using, accessing, organizing, storing and retrieving, and disposing of them. What are traditional RIM practices? The “Art of the Possible” for the End-state.