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. I didn’t know either of them, but I have been writing about cryptography, security, and privacy for decades.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 26, 2020

Now, after more than seven years in prison Hieupc is back in his home country and hoping to convince other would-be cybercrooks to use their computer skills for good. Ten years ago, then 19-year-old hacker Ngo was a regular on the Vietnamese-language computer hacking forums. Hieu Minh Ngo, in his teens. BEGINNINGS.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 26, 2019

A peer-to-peer (P2P) communications technology built into millions of security cameras and other consumer electronics includes several critical security flaws that expose the devices to eavesdropping, credential theft and remote compromise, new research has found. Marrapese documented his findings in more detail here.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 27, 2020

based cyber intelligence firm Hold Security has been monitoring the communications between and among a businesses ID theft gang apparently operating in Georgia and Florida but targeting businesses throughout the United States. Another team member works on revising the business documents and registering them on various sites.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 31, 2023

A pentest report should also outline the vulnerability scans and simulated cybersecurity attacks the pentester used to probe for weaknesses in an organization’s overall security stack or specific systems, such as websites, applications, networks, and cloud infrastructure. To be truly useful, the report must be more than a simple list.

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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. The documents in question were supposedly contained in the zipped files attached, however by uncompressing these files users downloaded Silence.Downloader – the tool used by Silence hackers.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2019

First of all the attacker knew the target organization was protected by a SOC (Security Operation Center) so she sent a well crafted email claiming to deliver a Microsoft document wrapping out the weekly SOC report as a normal activity in order to induce the victim to open-it. SOC report 10 12 2019.doc Technical Analysis.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2019

Security expert Marco Ramilli has analyzed the recently leaked APT34 hacking tool tracked as Jason – Exchange Mail BF. For example it wraps up a file called Year.txt including numbers from 1900 to 2020, a file called numspecial.txt including special numbers patterns and special chars patterns, a file called num4.txt

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AIIM

APRIL 12, 2022

The classic example is the insurer that won’t pay for care that a doctor determines a patient needs. Today, if you have a computer, you have a doctor – videoconference doctor visits routinely complement in-person ones. Electronic Health Record. Almost all hospitals have adopted the Electronic Health Record (EHR).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Yoroi security firm uncovered a targeted attack against one of the most important companies in the Italian Naval Industry leveraging MartyMcFly Malware. The victim was one of the most important leaders in the field of security and defensive military grade Naval ecosystem in Italy. Opening up The Excel File it gets infected.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The malware expert Marco Ramilli collected a small set of VBA Macros widely re-used to “weaponize” Maldoc (Malware Document) in cyber attacks. Nowadays one of the most frequent cybersecurity threat comes from Malicious (office) document shipped over eMail or Instant Messaging. exe " & Environ("TEMP") & "powershdll.dll,main.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 10, 2020

According to the affidavit, Kelley was instrumental in setting up and maintaining the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel called “ Deadnet ” that was used by he and other co-conspirators to plan, carry out and document their swatting attacks.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 21, 2015

On October 8, 2015, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (“CalECPA”). The government also must obtain a warrant before requiring a business to produce an individual’s electronic information.

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IT Governance

JULY 12, 2019

Digital Guardian recently asked a group of cyber security experts what the most important step is following a data breach. This might be, for example,the victim’s computer, a web page or a physical space in which documents were compromised. Several answered with some variation of ‘find out how it happened’.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Attached to the email a suspicious word document was waiting to be opened from the victim. Hash 7ebd1d6fa8c21b0d0c015475ab8c7225f949c13a33d0a39b8c069072a4281392 Threat Macro Dropper Brief Description Document Dropper Ssdeep 384:nFZ5ZtDGGkLmTUrioRPATRn633Dmej0SnJzbmiVywP0jKk:n1oqwT2J633DVgiVy25. Image1: Word Document Content.

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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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Info Source

JULY 13, 2023

I have taken the example of the Brother ADS-4900W (shown below) as being fairly representative of the new emerging design of DMS scanners that are coming to market. Hardwired connections are seen as more secure! The key features of TWAIN DIRECT include: Secure, driverless scanning, multi-platform support.

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The Texas Record

AUGUST 18, 2020

Below are a few recent examples: Andrew’s RIM-Brain. Even if just one document is misfiled, that could lead to serious consequences for your operation if the information held therein is needed for an important business purpose or public information request. K-2SO was then able to login to the computer system in the Scarif base.

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ARMA International

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Those employees joined a growing number of workers in other countries – Belgium, the UK, and Sweden, to name a few – who use microchips for workplace security, convenience, and commuting. Microchips are just one example of the increasing variety of smart devices that are near to, attached to, or reside inside the human body.

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AIIM

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Mitigate Data Privacy and Security Risks with Machine Learning. The Privacy and Security Dichotomy. This may be a time consuming and tedious process which may be streamlined through the use of machine learning technologies that extract meaning from documents much the same way as humans do.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

This means imagining the “art of the possible” for a new future using a cloud computing model to deliver transformative change. This “anytime, anywhere” aspect is possible by merging traditional RIM practices of document and records lifecycle management and DT, but with a focus on how to “package” the content to deliver a product or service.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

Experts at Cisco Talos and other security firms quickly drew parallels between the two mass spam campaigns, pointing to a significant overlap in Russia-based Internet addresses used to send the junk emails. A few months later, Bryant documented the same technique being used to take over more than 120,000 trusted domains for spam campaigns.

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ARMA International

APRIL 28, 2022

These undertakings require planning, communication, documentation, and collaboration to be successful. I have overseen two significant projects: an electronic discovery production and disaster response and recovery effort. Covering all computers and file cabinets in plastic sheeting. .

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 18, 2014

Currently, the CNIL may conduct three types of investigations: On-site inspections – the CNIL may visit a company’s facilities and access anything that stores personal data ( e.g. , servers, computers, applications). Document reviews – these inspections allow the CNIL to require an entity to disclose documents or files (upon written request).

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Cyber Info Veritas

AUGUST 9, 2018

Before we outline the safety hacks, let us briefly discuss why you need to protect yourself from hackers: How Safe Is Your Data: Why You Need To Protect Yourself From Hackers As the internet, computers, and connected devices (smart homes, smart appliances, etc.) become a central part of our lives, so does cybercrime and cyber insecurity.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

This means imaging the “art of the possible” for a new future using a cloud computing model to deliver transformative change. Gartner (2021) has two related definitions: Digital Transformation: “can refer to anything from IT modernization (for example, cloud computing), to digital optimization, to the invention of new digital business models.”

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Data Matters

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Regulators worldwide, including the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong, have issued guidelines for reducing and mitigating hacking risks. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently discovered that 26 percent of U.S. Despite the alarming spike in cybercrimes, the U.S. standard login passwords). what a person has (e.g.,

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Data Matters

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Regulators worldwide, including the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong, have issued guidelines for reducing and mitigating hacking risks. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently discovered that 26 percent of U.S. Despite the alarming spike in cybercrimes, the U.S. standard login passwords). what a person has (e.g.,

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 18, 2018

To see an example of how Early Data Assessment is conducted using our CloudNine platform, click here (requires BrightTalk account, which is free). Email will most often be produced in native format (more on that below) and other documents tend to be rendered in PDF. The first is forensic images of computers and cell phones.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

OCTOBER 7, 2021

For example, an unlawful transfer of personal data outside of KSA can result in a criminal conviction and imprisonment. Official documents must not be photocopied. It is a common practice in the region for official documents such as passports or ID cards to be photocopied.

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AIIM

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The scope of the harmful impacts AI algorithms was documented by the AI Now Institute 2019 Report : “ Litigating Algorithms, New Challenges to Government Use of Algorithmic Decision Systems. ” Other attorneys involved in the matter blamed MiDAS for even worse: “We have, I think, two suicides.”.

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

To pick just two recent examples of the latter, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation1 (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act2 (CCPA) both impose sweeping requirements on businesses with the aim of increasing consumers’ privacy and control over how their personal data is used. For example, in John B.

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eDiscovery Daily

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Join us to hear examples of failures by a major medical center, a major financial institution, a large federal government agency, and a noted presidential advisor. Find out: How they really feel about security? Reviewing Right: Accelerated Legal Document Review. What innovation means to them? What most law firms are overlooking?

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The Schedule

APRIL 20, 2018

The records in which the history of hiring practices, revenue sources, internal policy and decision-making is documented? Importantly, modern institutional archives do not make it a practice of taking things, or blindly capturing online records, without first attempting to secure the rights to do so. noun, “an archives”.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 28, 2021

This office had sort of crawled to a halt, because they were processing kids that had lost their parents and they were trying to find profiles and sponsors for them, sponsors that pay for their schooling and all that stuff, and their network, their computers were so screwed up that they had to like stop. You might not know any real hackers.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 27, 2019

IT Governance is closing out the year by rounding up 2019’s biggest information security stories. Countless office workers were forced to get back to their jobs after Reddit suspended a host of accounts in light of security concerns. Part one covers January to June, and will be followed by part in the coming days.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2022

These can come in a variety of forms we’ll discuss in more detail below, but the most common in a modern office setting is software monitoring, where a piece of software is installed onto employees’ computers, which can then track things such as web activity. Want to Make Sure Remote Workers Can Access Your Network Securely?

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