Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

For example, in 2010 Spamdot and its spam affiliate program Spamit were hacked, and its user database shows Sal and Icamis often accessed the forum from the same Internet address — usually from Cherepovets , an industrial town situated approximately 230 miles north of Moscow. And there were many good reasons to support this conclusion.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 21, 2021

But there's also a lot of consistency, for example, here's a piece on whether it's legal to access an employee's email account in Australia : The short answer is yes. There are, of course, many nuances to the discussion. Thirdly and finally, it's up to organisations to self-govern.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JUNE 6, 2023

He has a deep background in consumer and enterprise products used by hundreds of millions of people, as well as exposure to government policy, across technology areas including security, identity, privacy, and e-commerce.” Imagine, for example, that a third-party developer has created “the ultimate music recommendation app.”

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IT Governance

JUNE 16, 2022

For example, the actor Adrian Lester appears on screen credited as Prime Minister Andrew Makinde, while Simon Pegg also appears as the head of operations at GCHQ. Of course, the verisimilitude of the advert is exactly why Channel 4 chose this stunt. Channel 4 believes that it met those requirements.

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Unwritten Record

JULY 12, 2023

This time we will look at And Of Course You , a 1968 film about the global benefits of the Apollo space program. It was also easy to see that the rockets and other technology developed for space exploration could have military applications. And Of Course You ( Local ID: 306.8083 ) is a perfect example of this strategy.

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Unwritten Record

JANUARY 10, 2023

Original Caption: Mountain Obstacle Course at Camp Hale, Colorado. Obstacle courses are nothing new to U.S. The Camp Hale, Colorado course would be arduous enough anywhere, but when it is coupled with an altitude of almost 10,000 feet, the record of 10 3/4 minutes for the complete round is remarkable. May 8, 1943.

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AIIM

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Wider and more profitable opportunities exist for organizations to bridge the gap between paper and digital media, especially in traditionally paper-intensive fields such as financial services, healthcare, or government. For example, the top right corner of a form may be a consistently structured customer address block. Scan on demand.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 30, 2022

The governments of the world wanted the quick and agile minds of children who could think three dimensional -- and without all that moralizing about killing, you know, space aliens. And it could be somebody like a target, it could be a bank, it could be a municipality, like the city of New York, or it could be the US military.

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Unwritten Record

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Why We Fight stands among the most ambitious and successful film projects ever undertaken by the United States government. The National Archives holds several examples of such works, two of which can be seen at [link] and [link]. Some of the scenes in the film are recreations, which the film does not indicate. Smith Goes to Washington.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Experts say the leak illustrates how Chinese government agencies increasingly are contracting out foreign espionage campaigns to the nation’s burgeoning and highly competitive cybersecurity industry. In 2021, the Sichuan provincial government named i-SOON as one of “the top 30 information security companies.”

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Unwritten Record

MAY 18, 2021

Recently, as part of an online course about newsreels, I took a deep dive into other newsreels domestic and foreign, which are frequently interfiled in other series. NARA holds a staggering variety of newsreel films seized, collected, or produced by agencies across the United States government.

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AIIM

MARCH 13, 2018

Of course, this was all back around 1995 -- about the time I joined AIIM -- and family research was a far different kettle of fish than it is now. In 1995, if I was going to find this Civil War fellow, it meant a personal trip to the National Archives through the microfilmed military records. Give our new course a look.

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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. Could we hack into an airplane, for example. And of course, when you say things like that you get a lot of press. Or a satellite in space? Turns out we can.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

For example, in March of 2016, two researchers, Mike Ahmadi and Billy Rios independently reported an astounding fourteen hundred vulnerabilities to CareFusion's Pyxis SupplyStation, an automated, networked, supply cabinet used to store and dispense supplies. And of course they've had to deal with issues that have arisen through that.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

For example, in March of 2016, two researchers, Mike Ahmadi and Billy Rios independently reported an astounding fourteen hundred vulnerabilities to CareFusion's Pyxis SupplyStation, an automated, networked, supply cabinet used to store and dispense supplies. And of course they've had to deal with issues that have arisen through that.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

But perhaps in response to the public outcry over the HSE disruption, Conti reversed course and gave the HSE the decryption keys without requiring payment. The HSE ultimately enlisted members of the Irish military to bring in laptops and PCs to help restore computer systems by hand.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 21, 2017

The nonprofit GDI Foundation has tracked close to 175,000 examples of misconfigured software and services on the cloud this year. And of course, we can’t forget about Uber, who was in the news twice for major data breaches. As more and more organizations are moving to the cloud, the number of leaky servers is increasing.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

After Merck filed its $700 million claim, the pharmaceutical giant’s insurers argued that they were not required to cover the malware’s damage because the cyberattack was widely attributed to the Russian government and therefore was excluded from standard property and casualty insurance coverage as a “hostile or warlike act.”

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 12, 2022

As a journalist, I, of course, had experienced all of the relevant domains, but my knowledge in each was only so deep. Vamosi: Since 1989, the SANS Institute has attracted some of the best infosec talent in the world to teach their courses. We recruit military veterans, women, and minorities. So on and so forth.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 4, 2022

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. He told her he really wanted to create faster planes so that he could sell them to the US military. I suppose that wouldn't be too surprising. I decided that's not right.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

Examples of services security include: AD security : Adds layers of security to Active Directory to eliminate unneeded access or permission levels, detect unauthorized changes, and block other attacks on AD. Basic cybersecurity training uses cybersecurity training courses to educate about common issues such as phishing and ransomware.

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Info Source

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The sanctions weaken Russia’s ability to finance the war and specifically target the political, military and economic elite responsible for the invasion. Pressure is growing on the Russian economy as imports increase faster than exports and military spending grows. The restrictive measures do not target Russian society primarily.

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Info Source

AUGUST 29, 2022

However, due to the Russian military invasion of Ukraine, and resulting economic sanctions, draining of foreign investments (but of course also because of other perennial problems plaguing the Russian economy), the market has been in fundamental confusion ever since, which will undoubtedly continue for some time.

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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. ” But of course I didn’t. DF: Here [above] is an example of two nearly identical photos that I took and you can plainly see why one was selected to be sent forward and the other was culled. “These are my men!”

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

State-of-the-art telepresence gear, supplied by Merit Network , funnels everything from capture-the-flag exercises to full course work and certification testing to earn 42 different professional designations. Today Merit supplies IT infrastructure to schools, universities, government and other entities across the state.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

For example, here’s Jerry Lewis in a scene from a 1950s film, where he’s trying to break into a Nazi German military base. Of course, there were some guesses and backward steps there too, as well. There's a caveat to this of course because they essentially elongate the use of passwords still. Lewis: Good.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

Vamosi: With the Colonial Pipeline criminal attack, we’ve seen that ransomware is an urgent national security risk that threatens schools, hospitals, businesses, and governments across the globe. Of course I was nine, I knew nothing about how it worked, I would just watch him do it, and really want to get more into it.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

Vamosi: With the Colonial Pipeline criminal attack, we’ve seen that ransomware is an urgent national security risk that threatens schools, hospitals, businesses, and governments across the globe. Of course I was nine, I knew nothing about how it worked, I would just watch him do it, and really want to get more into it.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

Vamosi: Perhaps Kyle can give us an example of how this works in the real world. My favorite example of how this works is it's not always additive, meaning they need to bring in their own complex payloads. Kyle was doing this for the government, doing this for the good of a nation. Vamosi: So it's interesting. So interesting.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 19, 2021

There is of course a lot of security around these digital releases, for example, there's watermarks, digital certificates, and even keys at the code, the encrypted copies of the films in specific theaters for specific periods of time. For example, Black Widow was not slated to run in China, at least not on the main screen.

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Adam Shostack

JULY 4, 2019

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 6, 2022

Mikko Hypponen joins The Hacker Mind to discuss cybercrime unicorns, the fog of cyber war that surrounds the Ukrainian war with its much larger neighbor, and of course Mikko’s new book, If it’s Smart, it’s Vulnerable. Vamosi: So this is an example of what’s news and what’s not. Dog bites man, not news.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Strategic investments made on behalf of the Chinese government to the technology industry, in the form of annual 7% increases and billion-dollar loans, will move China closer to their goals of technological independence and global influence. For example, Latin America and Greece, both recipients of substantial Chinese investment and trade.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

While I produced this episode, a 21 year old Massachusetts National Guard airman is alleged to have photographed and distributed copies of classified US Military material on Discord, a social media site. Daniel provides an example. You do the same, find clues, only the breadcrumbs that lead you to an arrest are digital.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2021

In response, President Biden last week issued an executive order requiring more rigorous cybersecurity practices for federal agencies and contractors that develop software for the federal government. government. government should provide and curate a catalog of resources, such as configuration, tools, etc.,

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 26, 2019

Iran pushes back This, of course, has pushed Iran into a corner, and forced Iran to push back. cybersecurity vendors CrowdStrike and FireEye point to Iran-backed hacking collectives targeting US government agencies, as well as finance and energy companies with spear-phishing emails. An offensive cyber strike by the U.S.

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KnowBe4

MAY 2, 2023

A cardplayer yawns when they're about to bluff, for example, or someone's pupils dilate when they've successfully drawn a winning card. In 2018, the UK government stated that they believed the Kremlin was responsible for a hoax call made to the Foreign Secretary at the time, Boris Johnson. the CyberWire reports.

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