Preservica

DECEMBER 29, 2022

From academic institutions and government agencies to corporate businesses and the health sector, 2022 was full of world events that will shape our history forever. The new Charter incorporates 7 Sustainability Principles around data, software, operations, knowledge, finance, governance, and environmental impact.

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IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2022

Welcome to our May 2022 review of data breaches and cyber attacks. We identified 77 security incidents during the month, resulting in 49,782,129 compromised records. Meanwhile, be sure to subscribe to our Weekly Round-up to receive the latest cyber security news and advice delivered straight to your inbox.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 1, 2022

Welcome to our July 2022 review of data breaches and cyber attacks. We identified 85 security incidents during the month, resulting in 99,243,757 compromised records. Meanwhile, be sure to subscribe to our Weekly Round-up to receive the latest cyber security news and advice delivered straight to your inbox. In other news….

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2024

ESET researchers reported that a Windows version of DinodasRAT was used in attacks against government entities in Guyana. ESET first discovered a new Linux version of DinodasRAT in October 2023, but experts believe it has been active since 2022. Compared to RESHELL, XDealer provides more comprehensive backdoor capabilities.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

FritzFrog P2P botnet is back and is targeting servers belonging to entities in the healthcare, education, and government sectors. The bot is written in Golang and implements wormable capabilities, experts reported attacks against entities in the government, education, and finance sectors. ” reads the report published by Akamai.

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2022

A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs for free in your email box. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 366 by Pierluigi Paganini appeared first on Security Affairs. To nominate, please visit:? Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 8, 2024

Speed remains critical to security, but more importantly, patching teams need to make progress with patch and vulnerability management. Here’s a roundup of the week’s major vulnerabilities that security teams should mitigate or patch. No organization should remain vulnerable six months after vendors issue patches!

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 5, 2023

“In 2022, governments fought wars online, businesses were affected by multiple ransomware gangs, and regular users’ data was constantly on hackers’ radars,” said NordVPN CTO Marijus Briedis. Also read: SANS Outlines Critical Infrastructure Security Steps as Russia, U.S.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2022

The Raspberry Robin worm attacks aimed at telecommunications and government office systems across Latin America, Australia, and Europe. Researchers from Trend Micro have uncovered a Raspberry Robin worm campaign targeting telecommunications and government office systems across Latin America, Australia, and Europe. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2022

A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 364 by Pierluigi Paganini appeared first on Security Affairs. To nominate, please visit:? Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Quick response (QR) codes are a convenient format for storing all kinds of information in a readable and secure way, at least when correctly implemented. With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, for example, governments have recently implemented QR codes to create Digital COVID Certificates for vaccination, tests status and other reasons.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 15, 2022

Vulnerabilities in WatchGuard firewalls and Microsoft Windows and Windows Server need to be patched and fixed immediately, security organizations said in alerts this week. Sandworm used malware dubbed “Cyclops Blink” to create a botnet that performs CVE-2022-23176 exploits and turns the infected devices into command and control servers.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2023

In recent years, the researchers observed the group expanding its operations to include financial institutions and government entities. PingPull, was first spotted by Unit 42 in June 2022, the researchers defined the RAT as a “difficult-to-detect” backdoor that leverages the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) for C2 communications. .

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2022

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) this week added seventeen actively exploited vulnerabilities to the Catalog. CISA is requiring 10 of 17 vulnerabilities added this week to be addressed within February 1st, 2022. The total number of vulnerabilities included in the catalog reached this week 341 vulnerabilities.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

. “CISA obtained four malicious files for analysis during an on-site incident response engagement at a Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) organization compromised by Iranian government sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) actors.” Secure credentials by restricting where accounts and credentials can be used.

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OpenText Information Management

MAY 6, 2024

AI trends – what is the role of AI in the security market? million users in the two years following the November 2022 release of ChatGPT, more than doubling the adoption rate of both tablets and smartphones. As AI development and usage continue to evolve, the security landscape is bound to evolve with them. billion by 2030.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2022

Recently, the Chinese security firm Rising detected a Linux variant of the SFile ransomware that uses the RSA+AES algorithm mode. ” reads the analysis published by Rising.AFR-6fyvilv #Sfile #Ransomware New Sample: 6E029B9B0A600CDC1E75A4F7228B332B pic.twitter.com/tB27dM8tjd — dnwls0719 (@fbgwls245) January 9, 2022.

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Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2023

The US government announced to have disrupted the peer-to-peer (P2P) network of computers compromised by the Snake malware. The malware has been designed and used by Center 16 of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) in cyber espionage operations on sensitive targets. . ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2022

Cyber Security Specialist Zoziel Pinto Freire shows an example of malicious file analysis presented during his lecture on BSides-Vitória 2022. My objective with this series of articles is to show examples of malicious file analysis that I presented during my lecture on BSides-Vitória 2022. Some files are more used in attacks.

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IT Governance

MAY 7, 2024

A further 381,000 New York City public school students affected by 2022 data breach In January 2022 , personal data from around 820,000 New York City public school students, both current and former, was breached. The data breached included usernames and email addresses. Reportedly, the vulnerability has now been mitigated.

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2023

AhnLab Security Emergency response Center (ASEC) researchers reported that the Lazarus APT Group is targeting vulnerable versions of Microsoft IIS servers in a recent wave of malware-based attacks. Then the library is executed via the Windows IIS web server process. The msvcr100.dll “the functionality of msvcr100.dll

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

A cyber espionage group targets governments and state-owned organizations in multiple Asian countries since early 2021. Threat actors are targeting government and state-owned organizations in multiple Asian countries as parts of a cyber espionage campaign that remained under the radar since early 2021. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2022

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), along with the Coast Guard Cyber Command (CGCYBER), published a joint advisory to warn of hacking attempts exploiting the Log4Shell flaw in VMware Horizon servers to compromise target networks. ” reads the advisory. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 3, 2022

Findings released this week by ReversingLabs show 87 percent of security and technology professionals view software tampering as a new breach vector of concern, yet only 37 percent say they have a way to detect it across their software supply chain. For a full drill down on our discussion please give the accompanying podcast a listen.

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The more security teams and employees know about the different types of cybersecurity threats, the more effectively they can prevent, prepare for, and respond to cyberattacks. According to the IBM Security X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2023 , ransomware attacks represented 17 percent of all cyberattacks in 2022.

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CILIP

JULY 27, 2021

CILIP is pleased to announce the call-for-nominations for candidates wishing to stand for election as either Vice President or a Trustee of the CILIP Board from January 2022. This year, there are two vacancies for full Trustees and one for Vice President (who as per our governing documents would become President in 2023).

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Security researcher Alvaro Muñoz recently warned of a critical vulnerability in versions 1.5 The flaw, dubbed “Text4Shell” and identified as CVE-2022-42889 , can enable remote code execution via the StringSubstitutor API. government cabinet-level department devoted 33,000 hours to investigating and responding to the flaw.

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CILIP

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

CILIPSGoGreen has been running since the summer, helping to surface and share sustainability success stories from libraries and information services across Scotland. Our #CILIPSGoGreen activities so far include: Sharing an in-depth video interview with Glasgow Seed Library about the social and environmental impact of their work.

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National Archives Records Express

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

On World Digital Preservation Day , it seems appropriate to share how NARA has developed its digital preservation program in recent years to ensure that the electronic records of the United States government truly are available, as declared in this year’s theme: “For All, For Good, Forever.”. development.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 11, 2024

There’s an important moral to the story of the attack and its discovery : The security of the global internet depends on countless obscure pieces of software written and maintained by even more obscure unpaid, distractible, and sometimes vulnerable volunteers. These code repositories, called libraries, are hosted on sites like GitHub.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Related: The case for ‘SBOM’ This flaw in the Apache Log4J logging library is already being aggressively probed and exploited by threat actors — and it is sure to become a major headache for security teams in 2022. 24 by the Alibaba Cloud Security team. Securing runtime. Then on Dec.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Guido Vranken returns to The Hacker Mind to discuss his CryptoFuzz tool on GitHub, as well as his experience fuzzing and finding vulnerabilities in cryptographic libraries and also within cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum. That means it falls to you to protect your cryptocurrency. Yeah, like that. All of which speaks to the power of hacking.

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CILIP

DECEMBER 13, 2021

We have also been able to grow our influence in Westminster and the Devolved Administrations, particularly thanks to the re-launch of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Libraries, Information and Knowledge (APPG LInK) ? to promote collaboration between libraries in the UK and overseas. Building bridges, not walls. be the bridge?,

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Welcome to our September 2022 list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Compared to August, it was a comparatively quiet month, as we identified 88 publicly disclosed security incidents and 35,566,046 compromised records. Ransomware. Data breaches. Malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents. Cyber attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

We each need to consider how these trends may affect our organizations and allocate our budgets and resources accordingly: AI will turbo-charge cybersecurity and cyberthreats: Artificial intelligence (AI) will boost both attackers and defenders while causing governance issues and learning pains.

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IT Governance

APRIL 22, 2024

million records from World-Check, a screening database used to screen potential customers for links to illegal activity and government sanctions. Compromised data includes names, passport numbers, Social Security numbers, online crypto account identifiers and bank account numbers.

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CILIP

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

John Dolan and Ayub Khan have long shared an interest in the international library scene and how different countries and cultures can share and benefit from each other. Our involvement started when we answered a British Council advertisement, in October 2014, for help with reinstating libraries in Lahore and Karachi, Pakistan.

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