Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

French President Emmanuel Macron announced that his government will not exclude Chinese telecom giant Huawei from the building of the upcoming 5G telecommunication networks. The Macron’s announcement comes after the meeting, held in Paris last week, with visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2023

Mint Sandstorm targets both private and public organizations, including political dissidents, journalists, activists, the Defense Industrial Base (DIB), and employees from multiple government agencies, including individuals protesting oppressive regimes in the Middle East. ” reads the report published by Microsoft.

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Data Protector

AUGUST 3, 2015

Some have altered their communication methods, while others have taken advantage of new encryption tools. Despite the Snowden allegations, US and UK intelligence agencies are legally intercepting communications on order to prevent attacks from terrorists, cyber criminals and a host of other state and non-state actors.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2020

Earlier versions of Agent.BTZ were used to compromise US military networks in the Middle East in 2008. a communication module (a DLL), which is injected into the default browser by the orchestrator. It communicates with the orchestrator using a named pipe. The comRAT backdoor downloads the attachments (e.g.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 3, 2020

Four military schools in Canada targeted in ‘mysterious’ cyber attack (unknown). Western Australia government hacked, with COVID-19 communications intercepted (unknown). Las Cruces school meeting zoom-bombed (unknown). Brazilian health insurer Hapvida discloses cyber attack (unknown).

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

I paged through weekly reports, presentation slides from status meetings, and general briefings to educate visitors. Management is management, even inside the NSA Reading the documents, I felt as though I were sitting through some of those endless meetings. The meeting presenters try to spice things up. Answer: your name.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The Operation Transparent Tribe was first spotted by Proofpoint Researchers in Feb 2016, in a series of espionages operations against Indian diplomats and military personnel in some embassies in Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan. The method used to send the information to the C2 is the following: Figure 11: C2 communication routine.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 24, 2019

Systems engineering is the interdisciplinary approach to realizing systems that meet desired goals. It was developed over the 20th century to enable the successful realization of more complex engineering projects; from telephony to military, space and automotive domains. Systems engineering and software.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2023

The US government believes that China has deployed malware in key US power and communications networks that can be activated in case of a conflict. American intelligence officials believe China has implanted malware in key US power and communications networks that can be used in case of conflict, reported The New York Times.

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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

It doesn’t quite meet the standard of extreme revenge that the Supreme Leader has called for, and which has been echoed by several Middle East players in response to the U.S. drone attack that killed Iranian military commander Qassem Suleimani. This immediately caused a mini panic. It may look just like the real thing.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 4, 2022

This is the story of a film star who connected the simple concept behind a player piano to complex communication technology in use in our devices today. A lot of modern communications, for example, have their origins in the 19th century, such as the telegraph, which required wires to be strung around the world.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 24, 2018

Originally Featured in Global Military Communications Magazine’s June/July Issue. Its unique capabilities include the design and deployment of equipment, systems and services to meet complex security requirements. More so than commercial enterprises, government agencies are making a massive shift to the cloud.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 14, 2022

Steve Luczynski and Matt Mayes join The Hacker Mind to talk about the importance of getting hackers, vendors, and the government to get together and work through problems. Back in 2015 there really wasn't a way for hackers and aerospace vendors to meet in the middle. And that, too, doesn’t always work.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

One of those is Mark Sokolovsky , a 26-year-old Ukrainian man who operated the popular “ Raccoon ” malware-as-a-service offering; Sokolovsky was busted in March after fleeing Ukraine’s mandatory military service orders. Penchukov was arrested after leaving Ukraine to meet up with his wife in Switzerland.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

Port knocking : Closes ports for communication (including detection) until provided with a code using multiple specific packets or a special single-packet authorization (SPA). Proxies: Replace direct communication with a software or hardware intermediary that hides the discovery of assets (servers, endpoints, segments, etc.)

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JUNE 6, 2023

It was with all those caveats – and honestly pretty low expectations – that I took a meeting with Sumit Agarwal and his team at Palo Alto, CA-based Gather , an early stage startup still in its first year of operation. Sure, having a copy of all my personal data sounds great, but in the end, what can it do for me?

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

I remember starting a new job, and for my first day, the company flew me to Auburn Hills, Michigan to meet with representatives of several automotive companies. A network monitoring company for the federal government and other large companies, Solar Winds, had been breached. Mike is a legend. “Hi, Rob.”

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

I remember starting a new job, and for my first day, the company flew me to Auburn Hills, Michigan to meet with representatives of several automotive companies. A network monitoring company for the federal government and other large companies, Solar Winds, had been breached. Mike is a legend. “Hi, Rob.”

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KnowBe4

APRIL 18, 2023

Thus, a fraudster might claim a common religion, a shared military background, membership in a profession, or a common ethnicity, all with the goal of convincing the victim that they can be trusted. Criminals may also communicate through online applications." What follows all too often one can readily imagine.

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IT Governance

MARCH 11, 2024

Enforcement ICO takes action against five public authorities under FOI Act The ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) has taken action against five public authorities for failing to meet their obligations under the Freedom of Information Act. Source (New) Professional services Netherlands Yes 28.3

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KnowBe4

JULY 5, 2023

Government. It is safer to end such communication and contact your financial institution right away. "Do You responded to my email in less than 3 mins and made time for a meeting the same day to show me how to get what we needed and to best use the tool. Date/Time: Wednesday, July 12, @ 2:00 PM (ET) Save My Spot! OK, but.why?:

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Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

Increasingly, thought leaders, professional organizations, and government agencies are beginning to provide answers. Creating an enterprise-wide governance structure. More and more, directors are viewing cyber-risk under the broader umbrella of corporate strategy and searching for ways to help mitigate that risk. Principle 3.

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Unwritten Record

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Upon graduation everyone was assigned a Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) and sent off to train for it. After his retirement from that publication he had been brought on board at the U of M to bring his photojournalism and editorial talents to bear in a number of different visual communications disciplines. Thank you, Dennis.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 12, 2022

We recruit military veterans, women, and minorities. Any person that meets our general requirements to apply for one of our programs they all have to take an online assessment. So we have that dual channel communication with them. This was a military veteran I spoke to a couple of years ago. What would be the next step.

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KnowBe4

MARCH 7, 2023

This is an excellent article that exposes the vulnerabilities when communications systems are not secure by design. They started out with: "As Putin began his invasion of Ukraine, a network used throughout Europe—and by the Ukrainian military—faced an unprecedented cyberattack that doubled as an industrywide wake-up call. government.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 6, 2022

” What Schmidt was referring to was an incident when a common backhoe severed a strategic Sprint communications line in the United States. I remember meeting Mikko in 2006. BBC: Well as Ukrainian military battles Russian troops on the ground there's another battle taking place. This is just on a larger level.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Should law enforcement and military officials have access to a digital backdoor enabling them to bypass any and all types of encryption that exist today? The disturbing thing is that in North America and Europe more and more arguments are being raised in support of creating and maintaining encryption backdoors for government use.

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