Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Albania’s National Authority for Electronic Certification and Cyber Security (AKCESK) revealed that cyber attacks hit the Assembly of the Republic of Albania and telecom company One Albania. “Today, we identified and handled with full capacity and actively a cyber security incident. . ” adds AKCESK.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2022

men with computer crimes related to their alleged ownership of the popular DDoS-for-hire services. Miller was charged this week with conspiracy and violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). The DOJ also charged six U.S. The booter service OrphicSecurityTeam[.]com com and royalstresser[.]com Defendant Angel Manuel Colon Jr.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2023

Bleeping Computer reported that the Polish police arrested two individuals running the DDoS-for-hire services and collected data from a server in Switzerland used by the perpetrators. The total amount of secured property is almost PLN 260,000. zlotys and money in the amount of over 145 thousand.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Nowadays, those tools are still producing data which I believe might be useful to many people. Malware Static Analysis. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. I do have a MD in computer engineering and a PhD on computer security from University of Bologna.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2021

Taiwanese multinational hardware and electronics corporation Acer was victim of a REvil ransomware attack, the gang demanded a $50,000,000 ransom. Taiwanese computer giant Acer was victim of the REvil ransomware attack, the gang is demanding the payment of a $50,000,000 ransom, the largest one to date. billion in revenue.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2018

alongside Tony Sager , senior vice president and chief evangelist at the Center for Internet Security and a former bug hunter at the U.S. National Security Agency. Tony Sager, senior vice president and chief evangelist at the Center for Internet Security. TS: Like a lot of things in security, the economics always win.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Computer faults that disrupted voting in a North Carolina county in 2016 were not caused by cyber attacks, a federal investigation states. The analysis of laptops used in some Durham County precincts on Election Day in November 2016 showed inaccurate data to poll workers. On Monday, the U.S. ” reported the AP agency.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The SDV in a nutshell In an SDV, the vehicle serves as the technological base for future innovations, acting as a command center for collecting and organizing vast volumes of data, applying AI for insights and automating thoughtful actions. Based on insights from this data, new software is delivered to vehicles via over-the-air updates.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. The 911 service as it exists today.

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2019

– card issuer and financial corporation suffered a data breach that exposed personal information from more than 100 million credit applications. Thompson (33) is suspected to be responsible for the data breach. I commend our law enforcement partners who are doing all they can to determine the status of the data and secure it.”

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AIIM

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Data Privacy and Open Data: Secondary Uses under GDPR. Mitigate Data Privacy and Security Risks with Machine Learning. The Privacy and Security Dichotomy. GDPR and Cross Border Data Flows between the EU and the US: Current State of the Law. GDPR Compliance Starts with Data Discovery.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Marco Ramilli, founder and CEO at cyber security firm Yoroi has explained how to use Microsoft Powerpoint as Malware Dropper. The evidence comes from traffic analysis where the identified pattern sends (HTTP POST) data on browser history and specifically crafted files under User – AppData to specific PHP pages.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2019

A few hours ago, I have written about an interesting analysis of the possible hack of avionics systems, not DHS warns of cyber attacks against small airplanes. ” reads the alert published by the US Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS).

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

MARCH 20, 2023

As a reminder, in 2022, the CNIL priority topics were (i) direct marketing (ii) monitoring telework and (iii) the use of cloud computing (see our previous post ). This document provides guidance on the conditions applicable to the use of this technology which presents high risks to the data subjects’ right to privacy.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2019

This is not going to be a full path analysis so If you are interested in a more complete one, including dissection steps on final payloads, please refer to some of my previous analysis ( HERE , HERE , HERE ) or to Yoroi’s Blog. The used variable holds a Base64 representation of encrypted data. Traffic Patterns Stage3.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Today I’d like to share a quick analysis resulted by a very interesting email which claimed to deliver a SOC “weekly report” on the victim email. Technical Analysis. Analysis of dropped and executed file (emotet). I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. Emotet Depacked.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2020

Police conducted searches of the suspects’ residences and offices and seized more than $ 200,000 worth of computer equipment, weapons, ammunition and cash. Binance also partnered with TRM Labs, a blockchain analysis firm that focuses on fraud detection. “According to this fact, a criminal case under Part 2 of Art.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2019

So, I came up with this blog post and this GitHub repository where I proposed a new testing-set based on a modified version of Malware Instruction Set for Behavior-Based Analysis , also referred as MIST. The original post along many other interesting analysis are available on the Marco Ramilli blog: [link]. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 18, 2019

Cyber security expert Marco Ramilli explains the difficulties for scraping the ‘TOR networks’ and how to enumerate hidden-services with s crapers. Plus a queue manager system to manage scrapers conflicts and a database to store scraped data need to be consistent. Scraping the “TOR hidden world” is a quite complex topic.

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Security Affairs

JULY 17, 2018

Security researchers from Italian security firm TG Soft have uncovered an ongoing malware campaigns targeting Samsung service centers in Italy. ” reads the analysis published by TG Soft. The electronics service centers appear not particularly interesting for attackers because the volume of data it manage is little.

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AIIM

APRIL 12, 2022

If I’m not Zooming with my primary care provider, I’m swapping data with a specialist via a phone app or transmitting my blood pressure readings from my remote monitor to the disembodied nurse in my voicemail who chides me with messages if I miss a reading. Your symptoms will often be diagnosable from that data. Or so it seems.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 26, 2023

Cloud computing offers the potential to redefine and personalize customer relationships, transform and optimize operations, improve governance and transparency, and expand business agility and capability. In 2017, 94% of hospitals used electronic clinical data from their EHR.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

Security researcher Marco Ramilli presents a comparative analysis of attacks techniques adopted by the Iran-Linked OilRig APT group. Today I’d like to share a comparative analysis of OilRig techniques mutation over time. The original post and other interesting analysis are published on the Marco Ramilli’s blog: [link].

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2019

An expert analyzed the level of security of avionics systems used in small airplanes, and the results are disconcerting. Patrick Kiley, a senior security consultant at Rapid7 conducted an investigation into the security of avionics systems inside small airplanes. Kiley, which is also, an amateur pilot, was able to crack the ?

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Anthem”) following Anthem’s 2015 data breach. Attackers were able to download malicious files to the employee’s computer and gain access to other Anthem systems that contained individuals’ names, Social Security numbers, medical identification numbers, addresses, dates of birth, email addresses and employment information.

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Data Matters

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

identical electronic records at both its approved premises and the EDSP (whether located in Hong Kong or elsewhere). identical electronic records at both its approved premises and the EDSP (whether located in Hong Kong or elsewhere). Whom does this affect? The new requirements are relevant to firms that. How does it affect you? .

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Data Matters

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The decision now under review held that electronic communications that are stored exclusively on foreign servers cannot be reached by U.S. prosecutors to work with authorities in Ireland (where the data was stored) to secure the information in a manner consistent with Irish laws. The post U.S.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

On November 22, 2016, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) announced a $650,000 settlement with University of Massachusetts Amherst (“UMass”), resulting from alleged violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) Privacy and Security Rules. .

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Obfuscation comes to make the analysis harder and harder, but once you overcome that stage you would probably see a VBA code looking like the following one. In your next VBA Macro analysis keep in mind those stereotypes and speed up your analysis. Download And Execute an External Program. compatible; MSIE 6.0;

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 3, 2022

Department of Justice (DOJ) recently revised its policy on charging violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), a 1986 law that remains the primary statute by which federal prosecutors pursue cybercrime cases. ” What constitutes “good faith security research?”

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Some technology trends such as real-time data analytics are on-going, while others are more recent, such as blockchain. This means imaging the “art of the possible” for a new future using a cloud computing model to deliver transformative change. So, at the outset, a good question to ask is What is DT ?

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Some technology trends such as real-time data analytics are on-going, while others are more recent, such as blockchain. This means imagining the “art of the possible” for a new future using a cloud computing model to deliver transformative change. The “Art of the Possible” for the End-state.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 4, 2019

GCIS was a Davos-level conference with no vendors and no selling, where scores of chief security information officers (CISOs), top CEO’s, industry and government thought leaders and leading innovators discussed the myriad challenges in and around cybersecurity and possible solutions in today’s environment.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 27, 2023

In today’s competitive business landscape, having high compute power can be critical. The solution also includes security and controls built into the platform and is designed to allow clients across industries to consume HPC as a fully managed service while helping them address third- and fourth-party risks.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2018

During the analysis time, only really few Antivirus (6 out of 60) were able to “detect” the sample. We now have every decoding parameter, we just need to decrypt the classes by using the following data: ClassName. reg file to enumerate tons of security tools that have been widely used by analysts to analyze Malware.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The emails were disguised to look as if they come from the Central Bank of Russia and FinCERT, the Financial Sector Computer Emergency Response Team. All messages sent via email contain FinCERT’s electronic signature.”. Security Affairs – Central Bank of Russia, cybercrime ). Pierluigi Paganini.

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ARMA International

JUNE 11, 2019

Edge computing is increasingly associated with at least two “trending” terms in the IT and information arenas: Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI). Broadly speaking, the term refers to computing that’s done at or near the source of the data. back to the enterprise.”.

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