Krebs on Security

JULY 27, 2020

This story is about the victims of a particularly aggressive business ID theft ring that’s spent years targeting small businesses across the country and is now pivoting toward using that access for pandemic assistance loans and unemployment benefits. ” PHANTOM OFFICES. . ” PHANTOM OFFICES.

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ARMA International

APRIL 22, 2024

Annual file plan reviews are snapshots in time at best, and over time, offices will develop their unique file plan structure. The inventory process gathers information about organizational records including description, series, format, date range, volume, location, and other pertinent data.

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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. the company’s employees are located in Novosibirsk, Russia. ” GOV 311.

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National Archives Records Express

DECEMBER 19, 2023

At last week’s BRIDG Meeting , we made an announcement to mark the 10th anniversary of the Federal Records Officer Network. The following is a guest post from the leaders of the Federal Records Officer Network. We congratulate them on this milestone and wish them continued success.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 20, 2024

Gaskell has been quoted in multiple “articles” about random subjects, such as this article at HRDailyAdvisor about the pros and cons of joining a company-led fantasy football team. ” Imagine that: Two different people-search companies mentioned in the same story about fantasy football. What are the odds?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2022

government offers up to $10 million for info that allows to identify or locate six Russian GRU hackers who are members of the Sandworm APT group. The US Department of State is offering up to $10 million for info that allows to identify or locate six Russian GRU hackers who are members of the Sandworm APT group. critical infrastructure.”

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AIIM

MAY 11, 2021

Nonetheless, what is the justification for separating what we prohibit when using technology from what we prohibit in day-to-day office life -- wherever the office is nowadays? The words in a typewritten paper memorandum that can bully a co-worker, aren't those the same words we worry about in electronic messages?

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Nick’s company works primarily in the mergers and acquisitions space, and his job involves advising clients about which companies and investors might be a good bet. Nick told his clients about his reservations, but each nevertheless was excited that someone was finally interested enough to invest in their ideas.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Toyota also notified the data protection officer for North Rhine-Westphalia about the security breach. The documents are in German, a circumstance that suggests that they have been stolen from company systems located in Germany. They should monitor unusual activities and obtain a current credit report from Schufa.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 19, 2018

In the wake of a scandal involving third-party companies leaking or selling precise, real-time location data on virtually all Americans who own a mobile phone, AT&T , Sprint and Verizon now say they are terminating location data sharing agreements with third parties. mobile networks. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)

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OpenText Information Management

MAY 17, 2023

With Sales teams toggling between in-office and remote locations, working smarter and more efficiently has never been more important.

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Reltio

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Reltio's rapid growth continues to bring us to new and exciting places, which is why I am excited to announce that we've opened a new office in Lisbon, Portugal. As a global, distributed workforce, we're no strangers to locations far and wide. Lisbon is a perfect new location for our company. 11 years ago.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 19, 2021

Browse the comments on virtually any story about a ransomware attack and you will almost surely encounter the view that the victim organization could have avoided paying their extortionists if only they’d had proper data backups. And that’s usually not the best time to have to come up with these sorts of plans.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 26, 2022

The amendments, enacted as HB 7055 , require state agencies and local governments to report ransomware incidents to the state’s Cybersecurity Operations Center (“CSOC”), the Cybercrime Office of the Department of Law Enforcement and local sheriff no later than 12 hours after discovery.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

SME Edge verifies all connections in and out of offices, disallows internet traffic that has not been approved for enterprise use, and closes all network traffic loopholes, protecting against phishing, social engineering, and zero-day attacks. About Nerds On Site Inc.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 9, 2023

While the defendant in this case hasn’t yet been named publicly, the NetWire website has been leaking information about the likely true identity and location of its owner for the past 11 years. ’s Companies House shows that in 2017 Mr. Zanko became an officer in a company called Godbex Solutions LTD.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 6, 2021

From Ontario and not surprising : Since September 2021, officers have investigated five incidents where suspects have placed small tracking devices on high-end vehicles so they can later locate and steal them. Once the new key is programmed, the vehicle will start and the thieves drive it away.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 29, 2020

Employees, contractors, suppliers and customers consume and contribute from remote locations via their smartphones. And the first tools many of them grab for daily is a cloud-hosted productivity suite: Office 365 or G Suite. LW: You’ve been speaking a lot about the cloud-mobile environment; please explain what you’re referring to.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 2, 2023

The leaked records indicate the network’s chief technology officer in Pakistan has been hacked for the past year, and that the entire operation was created by the principals of a Tennessee-based telemarketing firm that has promoted USPS employment websites since 2016. He was kind and sweet and truly cared about others.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 29, 2019

These dangerous hoaxes involve making false claims to emergency responders about phony hostage situations or bomb threats, with the intention of prompting a heavily-armed police response to the location of the claimed incident. When Wichita officers responded to the address given by the caller — 1033 W.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 7, 2022

There were about 10,000 brute force attacks against nearly 130,000 MSP user accounts monitored by SaaS Alerts, so determined cybercriminals have multiple ways to compromise target accounts. ” Office 365 the Most Attacked App. Ragnar Locker, for example, terminates when it encounters a machine in former USSR countries.

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National Archives Records Express

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In advance of Hurricane Ian, we remind federal agencies of important records emergency information located at [link] , and other useful guidance. For more details on this process, see NARA’s information about emergency disposal. For more details about this process, see NARA’s information about unauthorized disposition.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 5, 2022

Let’s walk through some practical steps organizations can take today, implementing zero trust and remote access strategies to help reduce ransomware risks: •Obvious, but difficult – get end users to stop clicking unknown links and visiting random websites that they know little about, an educational challenge. Food for thought, eh!

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AIIM

MAY 23, 2019

Converting your paper files into digital files via document scanning services can really help in alleviating the nuisance of managing paperwork at the office. Your Office Space Is Saved. Even the need for a large office can be eliminated and you may move to a smaller one, reducing your rental cost. No Missing or Files.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Now new findings reveal that AVrecon is the malware engine behind a 12-year-old service called SocksEscort , which rents hacked residential and small business devices to cybercriminals looking to hide their true location online. The company was located in Chisinau, Moldova and owned by Adrian Crismaru. WHO’S BEHIND SOCKSESCORT?

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Krebs on Security

MAY 19, 2020

In January 2019, dozens of media outlets raised the alarm about a new “megabreach” involving the release of some 773 million stolen usernames and passwords that was breathlessly labeled “the largest collection of stolen data in history.” ” Items SBU authorities seized after raiding Sanix’s residence.

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Unwritten Record

MAY 2, 2024

On April 30, 1803, 828,000 square miles of land were purchased by the United States from the then-owner of its territory, France, for $15 million, which today would be about $342 million. This is a photograph of the ceremony in the Rayburn House Office Building for the loan of the Louisiana Purchase to the Louisiana State Museum.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 24, 2024

It’s all about running lean, and they want to cut back without losing the benefits and features these solutions bring to the table. Delegates can hear about the essential frameworks, standards, and references that are shaping this field, alongside the significance of software bill of materials (SBOM). You can register HERE.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The Glenn County Office of Education in California suffered an attack limiting access to its own network. Report any hacking attempts or ransomware demands to the FBI or the authority in the business’s location. About the essayist: Zac Amos writes about cybersecurity and the tech industry, and he is the Features Editor at ReHack.

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The Guardian Data Protection

APRIL 13, 2022

Private contractor running service sent email to applicants containing more than 170 email addresses The Home Office’s visa service has apologised for a data breach in which the email addresses of more than 170 people were mistakenly copied into an email circulated last week.

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Unwritten Record

APRIL 24, 2024

More information about the history of this government office may be found in the National Archives Catalog. Below is a map of the Gila River Project in Arizona showing the location of the project and irrigable land: Record Group 75: Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1793-1999. NAID: 354519590. Map of State of Oklahoma.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2024

. “The sanctions against Russian national Dmitry Khoroshev (pictured), the administrator and developer of the LockBit ransomware group, are being announced today by the FCDO alongside the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs.”

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

ICE paid out about $28,000 to Cowboy Streetlight Concealments over the same period of time. Fifty thousand dollars doesn't buy a lot of streetlight surveillance cameras, so either this is a pilot program or there are a lot more procurements elsewhere that we don't know about.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 7, 2023

This month, we have a pair of stories about Microsoft. Source: Microsoft The messages faithfully recreate the layout of a genuine Microsoft email, and tell recipients that the organisation has “detected something unusual about a recent sign-in for the Microsoft account [email address].

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2023

This means that threat actors can get their hands on API (application programming interface) keys, Google Storage buckets, and unprotected databases and exploit that information simply by analyzing publicly available information about apps. At the time of writing this article, the app had a 4-star (out of 5) rating based on 12K reviews.

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Info Source

AUGUST 16, 2023

COVID had a large impact on the scanning hardware market, shifting purchases to smaller scanners that could be used by workers suddenly barred from the office. And we saw kind of a shift during COVID from back office or what we would traditionally call batch scanning to what we include as distributed scanning.

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The Texas Record

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

While it can be cumbersome, hard to obtain buy-in, and require an upfront cost, it is one of the most important documents that your office can create. This article will promote critical thinking and provide some guidance for developing your office’s information management disaster plan. Check for mold, mildew, fire hazards, etc.

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