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1,859 Android and iOS apps were containing hard-coded Amazon AWS credentials

Security Affairs

In some cases, the presence of the access keys has no specific reason, in other cases, they are part of testing and never removed code. These credentials are typically used for downloading appropriate resources necessary for the app’s functions as well as accessing configuration files and authenticating to other cloud services.

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Clearing Up the Confusion between Document Management Systems and Digital Preservation Systems

Preservica

Document Management and Digital Preservation - Similar, but Different. Public institutions at all levels create more and more records electronically every year, some with the goal of creating and maintaining records solely in electronic format. It can be a struggle to simply manage all of those records in a plethora of formats and applications.

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Emotat Malware Causes Physical Damage

Schneier on Security

The Emotet payload was delivered and executed on the systems of Fabrikam -- a fake name Microsoft gave the victim in their case study -- five days after the employee's user credentials were exfiltrated to the attacker's command and control (C&C) server.

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Redcentric Partners with Thales to Provide Scalable, Flexible Remote Access

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Here are four key benefits to our business from partnering with Thales to deliver cloud-based access management and authentication via SafeNet Trusted Access. Paying upfront for authentication services when customers were unsure of how many users they would need or for how long they’d need remote access would not be practical financially.

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New book tackles the challenges of discovery in the (post-Google) era

CILIP

Facet Publishing announce the release of Resource Discovery for the Twenty-First Century Library: Case studies and perspectives on the role of IT in user engagement and empowerment, edited by Simon McLeish. Readers can benefit from enhanced discovery in both an inbound and outbound manner. Noting the book?s

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Data Breaches, Phishing, or Malware? Understanding the Risks of Stolen Credentials

Elie

In this paper, we present the first longitudinal measurement study of the underground ecosystem fueling credential theft and assess the risk it poses to millions of users. Drawing upon Google as a case study, we find 7–25% of exposed passwords match a victim’s Google account. million potential victims of phishing kits; and 1.9

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Accelerating Data Security and Manufacturing Production for Medical Sensors by 20x with nTropy.io and Thales

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Medical sensors are now better protected and trusted using established PKI standards to ensure proper authentication to other devices, provide end-to-end encryption, and then derive keys to decrypt data when it arrives at a verified location. To learn more, read this case study. Both Thales and nTropy.io