Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) is warning of the North Korea-linked ARCHIPELAGO group that is targeting government and military personnel, think tanks, policy makers, academics, and researchers in South Korea, the US and elsewhere. The experts pointed out that ARCHIPELAGO focuses on building a rapport with targets.

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Data Matters

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The framework highlights areas where the use of AI is of particular concern , including health, employment, housing, personal finance, education, and policing. The publication therefore builds on the recent trend of government attention to private sector surveillance in sensitive domains.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. It’s a surreal experience, paging through hundreds of top-secret NSA documents. Both Greenwald and his employer, the Guardian , are careful about whom they show the documents to.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

ICICI Bank leaked millions of records with sensitive data, including financial information and personal documents of the bank’s clients. In 2022, the ICICI Bank’s resources were named a “critical information infrastructure” by the Indian government – any harm to it can impact national security.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The UK’s FCDO (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) was recently hit by a “serious cyber security incident”, according to a public tender document. The Stack , which broke the story, was alerted to the attack after discovering a tender document that was published, seemingly by mistake, on the government’s website.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The ZIP file, titled “Changes to the vacation schedule”, contains a malicious link masquerading as a PDF document hosted on a SharePoint site. According to Fortinet, the document is sent as an attachment, which is presented as “a deliberately blurred image and a counterfeit reCAPTCHA”.

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IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2022

If you’re facing a cyber security disaster, IT Governance is here to help. State Bar of Georgia investigating cyber attack (unknown) US Department of Defense tricked into paying $23.5 Our Cyber Incident Response service provides the help you need to deal with the threat, as our experts guide you through the recovery process.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2022

SentinelOne documented a series of attacks aimed at government, education, and telecom entities in Southeast Asia and Australia carried out by a previously undocumented Chinese-speaking APT tracked as Aoqin Dragon. The APT primary focus on cyberespionage against targets in Australia, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Vietnam.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2023

billion rubles. Nominate here: [link] Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter newsletter) The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 414 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition appeared first on Security Affairs.

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IT Governance

JULY 4, 2023

IT Governance found 79 publicly disclosed security incidents in June 2023, accounting for 14,353,113 breached records. You can find the full list below, divided into four categories: cyber attacks, ransomware, data breaches, and malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents.

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IT Governance

APRIL 5, 2023

In this blog, we explain everything you need to know about it, including our top 8 tips for preventing malware attacks. It can do this by attaching itself to programs, script files, documents and cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in web apps. But how exactly does malware work? What is malware?

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IT Governance

AUGUST 7, 2023

One of the ways it does that is by warning people about security threats when they enter their Windows password into websites and documents. Once it’s enabled, users will receive a security alert when they type or copy their login credentials into website forms or documents.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

In this blog, we look at the top five Cloud security challenges that organisations face, and provide tips on how to overcome them. One popular attack involves the scammer claiming to be a colleague, and sending a link to a document that’s stored in the Cloud. Data breaches. The website is simply designed to look like the real thing.

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IT Governance

JULY 6, 2023

The researchers have been tracking a particular QR code phishing campaign since they first discovered a series of suspicious emails with similar Word documents attached. They soon learned that each document contained Chinese text and a QR code.

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eDiscovery Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

When performing keyword searching, the challenge to performing those searches effectively is to balance recall (retrieving responsive documents with hits) and precision (not retrieving too many non-responsive documents with hits). Continuing Legal Education (CLE) general credits, 2.0 The conference has been approved for 7.5

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

A digital identification tool provided by OCR Labs to major banks and government agencies leaked sensitive credentials, putting clients at severe risk. Its services are used by companies and financial institutions including BMW, Vodafone, the Australian government, Westpac, ANZ, HSBC, and Virgin Money.

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IT Governance

JULY 11, 2022

IT Governance discovered 237 security incidents between April and June 2022, which accounted for 99,019,967 breached records. If you are facing a cyber security disaster, IT Governance is here to help. It was followed by the public sector (47 incidents), and between them they account for almost half of all incidents that we documented.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 18, 2020

According to the study , 46% of university staff haven’t received staff awareness training in the past year, and universities spend just £7,529 a year on average educating their employees. The post 54% of universities reported a data breach in the past year appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. Affordable cyber security.

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Info Source

JULY 18, 2023

It will become mandatory for government agencies and businesses in select verticals within the next 2 years. The expanded regulation has far reaching implications for software vendors, service providers and public and private organisations with a focus on Government to Consumer (G2C) and Business to Consumer (B2C) end customers.

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IT Governance

JULY 28, 2020

Blackbaud, which provides education administration, fundraising and financial management software, was infected with ransomware, giving cyber criminals access to a wealth of sensitive information. At least eight educational institutions in the US and Canada were also affected, as well as several charities on both sides of the Atlantic.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2023

IT Governance discovered 1,063 security incidents in 2022, which accounted for 480,014,323 breached records. If you find yourself facing a cyber security disaster, IT Governance is here to help. Another big contributor was the public sector (173 incidents), with local governments contributing to a the majority of these breaches.

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Preservica

APRIL 19, 2020

The aim was to do our small part by supporting our user community - who are actively capturing, documenting and preserving the unfolding story of the pandemic for future generations - by donating free storage and providing additional training and support. Web archiving at the Government of New Brunswick, Canada. Learn more.

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IT Governance

MARCH 8, 2022

The Ukrainian government and its military were targeted by DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks, while a pro-Ukrainian group attacked the Belarusian railway system with ransomware after discovering that it was being used by Russia to transport tanks and weapons. Tesco warns customers of voucher scam. Get started.

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eDiscovery Daily

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Now, TSC is releasing an update to its 2014 commentary on Information Governance. On Wednesday, TSC and its Working Group 1 on Electronic Document Retention & Production (WG1) announced the publication of the Public Comment Version of The Sedona Conference Commentary on Information Governance, Second Edition.

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Lenny Zeltser

MAY 11, 2023

Various government organizations also offer detailed guidance, including: The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Framework , created by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), defines the lexicon for discussing cybersecurity roles.

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IT Governance

APRIL 28, 2022

Meanwhile, Digital Shadows Senior Cyberthreat Intelligence Analyst Chris Morgan, added: “There are screenshots reportedly highlighting documents taken from Coca Cola’s network. Notably, every one of the organisations listed in Stormous’s poll of potential victims was based in the US, whose government has strongly backed Ukraine.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 11, 2023

The malicious file is a type of banking trojan that’s hidden within a macro of an Excel document. You can help educate your staff with IT Governance’s Phishing Staff Awareness Training Programme. The post Catches of the Month: Phishing Scams for January 2023 appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. Get started.

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eDiscovery Daily

MAY 22, 2019

May 10, 2019) , the US Court of Federal Claims, in an opinion issued by Judge Bruggink, “grant[ed] plaintiffs’ motion for sanctions because the government destroyed relevant evidence that it had a duty to preserve.” 15-945C (Fed. Case Background. As discovery wound down, plaintiffs filed a motion for sanctions in November 2018.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

To avoid the disruption caused by not meeting this deadline, organisations need to be aware of the changes that the DSP Toolkit brings compared to its predecessor, the IG (Information Governance) Toolkit. In preparation for the DSP Toolkit, organisations should consider updating their documentation to meet the new standard.

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The Texas Record

DECEMBER 30, 2019

To wrap up our 2019 eRecords blog recaps, we’ll look at two more sessions that discussed how to use software to streamline the management of government records. The requests mainly came from law enforcement and other government entities. Embracing Digitization: How to Innovate Document Processing and Leverage Automation.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 11, 2024

The global AI governance landscape is complex and rapidly evolving. Key themes and concerns are emerging, however government agencies must get ahead of the game by evaluating their agency-specific priorities and processes. The term governance can be slippery.

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IT Governance

MAY 12, 2020

The presentation is free to download from our website, but if you’re in a hurry, we’ve outlined the key takeaways in this blog. Ask employees whether they have everything they need to follow your information security policies and processes, and give them the necessary education to tackle threats. Keep an eye on your offices.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 27, 2020

To prove ownership over the hijacked firms, they hire low-wage image editors online to help fabricate and/or modify a number of official documents tied to the business — including tax records and utility bills. Another team member works on revising the business documents and registering them on various sites.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 16, 2022

The criminal gang posted stolen documents on the dark web supposedly verifying the compromise. A government spokesperson said: “We are aware that South Staffordshire Plc has been the target of a cyber incident. Education is the key to ransomware prevention. An initial probe suggests that this might have been the case here.

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Unwritten Record

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Please Note: Primary source documents used in this post may contain harmful language. To do this, the United States Government employed several strategies to garner the support of the American people. One such tactic the government relied on heavily was the production of public relations materials including propaganda.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

You can find our full list of publicly disclosed data breaches from August in this blog, with incidents affecting UK organisations listed in bold. Meanwhile, you can stay up to date with the latest news by subscribing to our Weekly Round-up or visiting our blog. million records breached appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog.

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eDiscovery Daily

MARCH 18, 2020

Sorokin denied the plaintiff’s Motion to Compel and for Sanctions, calling her accusations “without basis” and pointing out her own “pattern of misconduct and disregard of the governing rules”. Continuing, he noted: “Indeed, to date, Plaintiff—rather than Defendants—has not conformed to the governing rules. Case Background.

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