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. Static Analysis x Dynamic Analysis.

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

When implemented in a responsible way—where the technology is fully governed, privacy is protected and decision making is transparent and explainable—AI has the power to usher in a new era of government services. AI’s value is not limited to advances in industry and consumer products alone.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Experts warn of a surge in NetSupport RAT attacks against education, government, and business services sectors. The most impacted sectors are education, government, and business services. In recent years, multiple threat actors, including the group TA569 , have been observed using the software as a Remote Access Trojan (RAT).

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erwin

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Why should you integrate data governance (DG) and enterprise architecture (EA)? Data governance provides time-sensitive, current-state architecture information with a high level of quality. Automating Data Governance and Enterprise Architecture. Data Governance and Enterprise Architecture for Regulatory Compliance.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Transcript: Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 8 September 2023. According to the statement, attackers were able to access servers that held emails, control systems and reference copies of the electoral registers of those registered to vote in the UK between 2014 and 2022, as well as overseas voters.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Initial Access Broker Also Tied to Hits on European Humanitarian Organizations Whether for profit or in furtherance of Russian geopolitical interests - or both - former members of the Conti ransomware group have been targeting networks operated by the Ukrainian government and businesses, as well as European nonprofit organizations, Google's Threat (..)

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IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This is due to: An inability to access the right data. Customers, employees and shareholders expect organizations to use AI responsibly, and government entities are demanding it. The solution: AI Governance. 3 main reasons why organizations struggle with adopting AI. Lack of confidence to operationalize AI.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 26, 2021

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released five malware analysis reports (MARs) related to samples found on compromised Pulse Secure devices. CISA published five malware analysis reports (MARs) related to samples found on compromised Pulse Secure devices. ” reads CISA’s advisory. ” reads the MAR.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

China-linked BRONZE PRESIDENT group is targeting government officials in Europe, the Middle East, and South America with PlugX malware. Secureworks researchers reported that China-linked APT group BRONZE PRESIDENT conducted a new campaign aimed at government officials in Europe, the Middle East, and South America with the PlugX malware.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Security researchers uncovered a large phishing campaign targeting multiple government departments in APAC and EMEA countries. . Researchers from cybersecurity firm Cyjax uncovered a large phishing campaign targeting multiple government departments in APAC and EMEA countries. . ” reads the analysis published by the experts.

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erwin

APRIL 2, 2021

Data Security Starts with Data Governance. Lack of a solid data governance foundation increases the risk of data-security incidents. That’s especially true as the data-driven enterprise momentum grows along with self-service analytics that enable users to have greater access to information, often using it without IT’s knowledge.

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erwin

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

When an organization’s data governance and metadata management programs work in harmony, then everything is easier. Data governance is a complex but critical practice. Creating and sustaining an enterprise-wide view of and easy access to underlying metadata is also a tall order. Data Governance Attitudes Are Shifting.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Taiwan ‘s government agencies face around five million cyberattacks and probes every day, most of them from China. Around five million cyber attacks hit Taiwan’s government agencies every day, and most of the hacking attempts are originated from China. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Taiwan Government).

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IT Governance

JULY 5, 2021

Access control policies are an unquestionably important part of ISO 27001. 9 covers and what your access control should include. 9 of ISO 27001 helps you govern who has access to your organisation’s sensitive information and under what scenarios. What does an ISO 27001 access control policy cover? What is Annex A.9

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erwin

OCTOBER 8, 2020

And as you make this transition, you need to understand what data you have, know where it is located, and govern it along the way. As organizations look to migrate their data from legacy on-prem systems to cloud platforms, they want to do so quickly and precisely while ensuring the quality and overall governance of that data.

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erwin

MARCH 25, 2021

erwin recently hosted the second in its six-part webinar series on the practice of data governance and how to proactively deal with its complexities. Led by Frank Pörschmann of iDIGMA GmbH, an IT industry veteran and data governance strategist, the second webinar focused on “ The Value of Data Governance & How to Quantify It.”.

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erwin

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Data governance isn’t a one-off project with a defined endpoint. Data governance, today, comes back to the ability to understand critical enterprise data within a business context, track its physical existence and lineage, and maximize its value while ensuring quality and security. Passing the Data Governance Ball.

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Collibra

DECEMBER 19, 2023

As organizations increasingly embrace AI, understanding and implementing effective enterprise AI governance is becoming more and more critical to sustaining AI success and mitigating risk. Today, AI-driven organizations can leverage AI governance to mitigate risk, adhere to legal requirements and protect privacy.

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erwin

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

erwin released its State of Data Governance Report in February 2018, just a few months before the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect. Download Free GDPR Guide | Step By Step Guide to Data Governance for GDPR?. Data governance maturity includes the ability to rely on automated and repeatable processes.

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Preservica

AUGUST 14, 2020

The COVID-19 global pandemic has simultaneously and exponentially increased the production of electronic government records and the demand for online access to public records and information. Access to Public Records. Public access to government information is an underpinning of our democracy. Active Preservation.

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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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The Texas Record

MAY 18, 2023

Good records and information management ensures that stakeholders are satisfied that they have proper access to the information they need. One way to ensure that these vital programs thrive is to conduct a SWOT analysis. A SWOT analysis analyzes the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of a program.

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erwin

JANUARY 30, 2020

I’m excited to share the results of our new study with Dataversity that examines how data governance attitudes and practices continue to evolve. Defining Data Governance: What Is Data Governance? . 1 reason to implement data governance. Most have only data governance operations.

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Collibra

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Data quality and data governance are both indispensable for organizations that want to become Data Intelligent enterprises. Data quality and data governance are certainly related, but they are two separate disciplines. However, organizations need data governance first to create the foundation for enterprise-scale data quality.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2021

Network Access Control (NAC) helps enterprises implement policies for controlling devices and user access to their networks. NAC can set policies for resource, role, device and location-based access and enforce security compliance with security and patch management policies, among other controls.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2022

Threat intelligence firm Resecurity details how crooks are delivering IRS tax scams and phishing attacks posing as government vendors. Further analysis uncovered embedded scenarios detecting the victim’s IP (using GEO2IP module, deployed on a third-party WEB-site), likely done to selectively choose targets or to filter by region.

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Collibra

APRIL 7, 2022

Data governance is important because it brings meaning to an organization’s data. Why is data governance important? Data governance is about managing data and processes so data can be used as a consistent, secure and organized asset that meets policies and standards. What are the benefits of data governance?

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IT Governance

MAY 8, 2019

Most GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) compliance projects start with a gap analysis. A gap analysis is a popular method of assessing compliance against the requirements of the Regulation. What does a gap analysis involve? Can I use a free GDPR gap analysis tool? What gap analysis options are available?

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KnowBe4

JANUARY 17, 2023

An analysis of the publicly-accessible data on ransomware attacks shows that these sectors that were a primary target of ransomware in 2021 continued as targets in 2022 to the same degree.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Stormshield is a major provider of network security products to the French government, some approved to be used on sensitive networks. At the time of this writing, it is not clear the impact of the security breach on government networks. ” reads the data breach notification published the vendor. ” continues Stormshield.

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erwin

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Who has had access to it? The Regulatory Rationale for Integrating Data Management & Data Governance. Now, as Cybersecurity Awareness Month comes to a close – and ghosts and goblins roam the streets – we thought it a good time to resurrect some guidance on how data governance can make data security less scary.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 23, 2021

To fill this gap and aid in the analysis, detection, and testing of malware, sandboxing is widely used to give organizations the setting, isolation, and security tools needed to preserve the integrity of the host network. Sandbox solutions today are compared today by their set of features to aid advanced malware analysis. Automation.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2024

The ransomware attack on Xplain impacted tens of thousands Federal government files, said the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) of Switzerland. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) published a data analysis report on the data breach resulting from the ransomware attack on the IT services provider Xplain.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Most of the victims were in Vietnam, the group focuses on foreign government organizations of countries in Southeast Asia. . “Some of these open source Remote Access Trojans (RATs) are known to be of Chinese origin, along with some other resources set to Chinese.” ” reads the report published by BitDefender.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 12, 2022

Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) says it is investigating reports that hackers gained unauthorized access to an agency portal that taps into 16 different federal law enforcement databases. Unidentified hackers shared this screenshot of alleged access to the Drug Enforcement Administration’s intelligence sharing portal.

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Collibra

JANUARY 1, 2021

Creating a data governance framework is crucial to becoming a data-driven enterprise because data governance brings meaning to an organization’s data. However, many organizations struggle to build a data governance program because the practice can seem amorphous. What is a data governance framework? Distinct use cases.

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erwin

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Managing an organization’s governance, risk and compliance (GRC) via its enterprise and business architectures means managing them against business processes (BP). Governance, risk and compliance are treated as isolated bubbles. The C-Level Demands GRC Real-Time Impact Analysis. Impact analysis is critical.

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