Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In due course, the malicious actor was able to partially compromise our infrastructure, and gain access to document storage.” ” Cyber criminals also targeted crypto-mining firm NiceHash with the same technique and successfully carried out a DNS hijacking attack.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2021

“During the course of this investigation, OPP investigators determined an individual was responsible for numerous ransomware attacks affecting businesses, government agencies and private individuals throughout Canada as well as cyber-related offenses in the United States,” reads an OPP statement.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Of course, there are many more possibilities.”. Experts pointed out that Network gateways are privileged targets for threat actors because they can compromise them in order to gain initial access to corporate networks. The capabilities to target Netgear, Huawei, and ZTE gateways allow the bot to increase its resistance to takedown.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Malwarebytes reports that, once installed, DarkGate Loader can be used for many nefarious purposes, including “remote access, cryptocurrency mining, keylogging, clipboard stealing, and information stealing”. You can help educate your staff with IT Governance’s Phishing Staff Awareness Training Programme.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The attackers hijack the idle processing power of the targeted machines to mine cryptocurrency. There are ready-to-use scripts available publicly like redisMassExploit that collect vulnerable Redis instances using Shodan and then create rogue SSH access automatically: print 'TOTAL CHECKED TARGETS: {0}'.format(len(targets)).

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 24, 2022

At ProtectNowLLC.com , we have a tool that has access to over 12 billion compromised records where you can search your username aka your email address to find out if your username and associated password have been compromised on a variety of breached accounts. You can use the same method, of course, for the smaller parts of the password.

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AIIM

JUNE 16, 2020

The AIIM Community: As a professional member, you have access to the online and in-person community of like-minded professionals. Guidance: As a professional member, you also have access to industry-leading research, guidelines, and best practices on a variety of topics and technologies. The Pros of AIIM Professional Membership.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 28, 2019

Why we’re in the ‘Golden Age’ of cyber espionageThe fact is cyber criminals are expert at refining and carrying out phishing, malvertising and other tried-and-true ruses that gain them access to a targeted victim’s Internet-connected computing device. Targeting one device. percent, according to tech consultancy Gartner.

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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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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2021

The delivery of malicious code through advertising supply chains is an insidious attack spanning over the course of 15 years. They include allowing conditional access to corporate infrastructure to hardened devices issued by IT, updating work-from-home policies and procedures, and security awareness training for those working remotely.

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CILIP

APRIL 5, 2023

Similarly, the European Commission’s assessment of the evidence around its future text and data mining rules noted rightholders’ claim that an exception would “facilitate the misuse and piracy of their content and make them lose business opportunities in future”. However, this wasn’t always the case.

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CILIP

MARCH 19, 2021

If you go to a rich university, you will have access to information that you can?t d borrowed from and donated to the library, and then we used large scale computing to mine that against all the books he?d s all contingent on having access to the full text of these books. Here the text mining is used to hunt down references. ?You

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IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2024

They accessed 41.5 million customers’ data having gained access via a vulnerability in Hathaway’s Laravel web application framework. million individuals affected HealthEC LLC, a health technology company, has announced that it suffered a data breach in July 2023, in which systems were accessed and files were copied.

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Preservica

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The member libraries needed a way to preserve, store, and provide access to important digital objects such as archival materials, special collections, theses and dissertations, institutional materials (such as course catalogs, images, records), and more.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 17, 2021

Since the blockchain is globally accessible and hard to take down, the botnet’s operators appear to be safe. Blockchains are a type of “distributed ledger”: a record of all transactions since the beginning, and everyone using the blockchain needs to have access to — and reference — a copy of it.

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Preservica

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

With a plethora of content housed in our archive collection, of course, in an ideal world, we would be holding a physical exhibition to share this diverse material. The challenge in hosting this exhibition was in both how to showcase and provide access to this material, while also designating it the respect, integrity and quality it requires.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Rather than dropping ransomware on victims’ machines and hoping they would pay to regain access to their files, cyber criminals were increasingly cutting out the middle man and infecting victims’ machines with software that used their spare processing power to mine for cryptocurrency. million payment cards and 1.2

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eDiscovery Daily

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Craig Ball once made a great point in responding to a post of mine about educating lawyers when he said “ We not only need to persuade lawyers to take the plunge, we need to insure there’s a pool for them to jump into. Do they go to a community night course on computers?

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The Schedule

OCTOBER 11, 2018

End of the day both Archives and Records Management work are about appraisal, acquisition, processing, access, and disposition; the difference is the emphasis placed on each. Do you like appraisal or accessioning work better? though I am aiming to get back on the education horse for City employees. Good question!

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 19, 2012

But at “hubadverts.com/on-data/” for example, you will see a recent post of mine, scraped in its entirety. Of course, the last thing I am going to do is try to log into the back end of the site, because that would give the spammers access to the backend login information of my own site.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

This is a service created by a good friend of mine, Scott Helme. Now of course, you should do all the things good developers know they should do to prevent XSS attacks, specifically output encoding all untrusted data, but clearly this doesn't always happen. This is what Report URI does and that's why I'm joining the company.

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Robert's Db2

MARCH 28, 2014

Not long ago, a colleague of mine sent to me an e-mail message that he'd received from a person who supports DB2 for z/OS at a US-based company. In this message the IT professional wrote of some DB2-accessing application programs that were running into lock contention issues with page-level locking (the default) in effect. No problem.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 19, 2017

I wrote a free course for Varonis on GDPR earlier this year and I'm going to be referring to points from there quite a bit in this blog post. The owner can request the organisation provide them with a copy of their data ("right of access"). The owner can request the organisation delete their data ("right to erasure").

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

You could, of course, sell your skillz to the dark web. And in this hacker mine episode, I'm going to be giving some practical insight around the world of bug bounties through the eyes of various hackers I have previously interviewed on the show. You have visibility and some access to what you're testing. I'm Robert Vamosi.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The memex was a hypothetical information-centric hypertext device that would permit people to access any information, regardless of where it was stored. This implies a cloud computing model that ARMA defines as “A model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g.,

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Archives Blogs

JUNE 17, 2020

In partnership with the University of Virginia’s Rotunda electronic imprint and documentary edition projects, we made a freely accessible and searchable online resource for people to read the papers of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams (and family), Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison. .

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Nor am I going to wade into the debate about the ecological consequences of mining cryptocurrencies. Vranken: Well, mining means cracking a puzzle, which has a certain amount of time and that takes like 10 seconds or something. So there are companies which only mine cryptocurrencies and they make money by this.

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Reltio

MARCH 19, 2019

Of course, our initial MDM project proposal was rejected outright! A passion of mine is imparting the knowledge and experience that the data leaders of today possess to the next generation of data professionals. Experience does of course count for a lot. And I returned to being a Junior Project Manager.

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Troy Hunt

AUGUST 7, 2018

Only a few weeks ago, I wrote about a new GDPR course with John Elliott. We've been getting fantastic feedback on that course and I love the way John has been able to explain GDPR in a way that's actually practical and makes sense! In my experience, that's a bit of a rare talent in GDPR land.

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Data Protection Report

JUNE 27, 2018

United States, holding that the federal government needs a warrant to access cellphone location records. In the decision, the Court agreed that there should be a higher standard for accessing location records due to their intrusive nature. On June 22, 2018, the US Supreme Court issued a 5-4 decision in Carpenter v.

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CILIP

JUNE 29, 2021

Know your rights: the key to eBook access. Away from issues of undermining access to the work of authors, it also doesn?t We found this out a number of years ago when LACA supported a researcher at LSE who wanted to do text and data mining of a website and the Captcha technology was preventing it. ?At t have enforced it.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

MARCH 12, 2014

And of course, on the Internet, there’s a yard sale’s worth of preferences: I’ve got settings for Twitter, Facebook, WordPress, Evernote, and of course Google – where I probably have a dozen different settings, given I have multiple identities there, and I use Google for mail, calendar, docs, YouTube, and the like.

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Daradiction

JULY 22, 2013

I know it it mine. We were all delightfully shocked how beatiful and accessable the Gaudalupe Valley is. I'm the wiser for it, and even though I got a crash course in surfboard repair, i'll still take them to Bill to get fixed when I'm down there next. The weather and waves have never let us down.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Of course Michelle will leverage Adwords, and Facebook, and any other advertising service to help her new business grow. The site reconstructs around her answer, showing suggested data repositories she might mine. Ok, back to Michelle and her new restaurant. “Starting a restaurant in New York City,” she responds.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Several strong themes emerged from 2022’s crop of breaches, including the targeting or impersonating of employees to gain access to internal company tools; multiple intrusions at the same victim company; and less-than-forthcoming statements from victim firms about what actually transpired. com, which was fed by pig butchering scams.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

So, it has access really unfettered access to everything on the network. So you don't want to block it from getting to something because obviously you need it to have free access to everything. If I could figure out a way to get some mauler into that package I could get access to everything on the network.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

So, it has access really unfettered access to everything on the network. So you don't want to block it from getting to something because obviously you need it to have free access to everything. If I could figure out a way to get some mauler into that package I could get access to everything on the network.

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