Information Management Resources

AUGUST 1, 2019

Careful steps to protect data are an example of how the DoD and VA are cooperating and engaging in joint decision-making.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 28, 2019

In his keynote address at the International Conference on Cybersecurity, Attorney General William Barr argued that companies should weaken encryption systems to gain access to consumer devices for criminal investigations. The thing is, that distinction between military and consumer products largely doesn't exist.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The Dutch government will not tolerate ransomware attacks that could threaten national security, it will use intelligence or military services to curb them. The Dutch government announced that it will not tolerate cyberattacks that pose a risk to its national security and will employ intelligence or military services to counter them.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2024

Industrial and enterprise IoT cybersecurity firm Claroty reported that the Ukrainian Blackjack hacking group claims to have damaged emergency detection and response capabilities in Moscow and beyond the Russian capital using a destructive ICS malware dubbed Fuxnet. ” reads the analysis published by Claroty.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 10, 2018

From the summary: Automation and connectivity are fundamental enablers of DOD's modern military capabilities. Although GAO and others have warned of cyber risks for decades, until recently, DOD did not prioritize weapon systems cybersecurity. Finally, DOD is still determining how best to address weapon systems cybersecurity.

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Security Affairs

MAY 16, 2021

The Operation Transparent Tribe (Operation C-Major, APT36, and Mythic Leopard) was first spotted by Proofpoint Researchers in Feb 2016, in a series of cyber espionage operations against Indian diplomats and military personnel in some embassies in Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan. ” read the analysis published Cisco Talos.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2023

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The post was written by Yegor Aushev, co-founder of the Ukrainian cybersecurity firm Cyber Unit Technologies. The cybersecurity expert told Reuters he wrote the post at the request of a senior Defense Ministry official who contacted him on Thursday. ” reported the Reuters. How to interpret these signals? Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2022

In mere seconds, a hacker remotely accessed a computer belonging to a regional Russian Ministry of Health, taking advantage of sloppy cybersecurity practices to expose its entire network. However, his experiment is a perfect example of how poor cyber hygiene can leave organizations vulnerable to cyber attacks. Original post at [link].

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2021

Experts from cybersecurity firm Volexity reported that North Korea-linked InkySquid group (aka ScarCruft , APT37 , Group123 , and Reaper ) leverages two Internet Explorer exploits to deliver a custom backdoor in watering hole attacks aimed at the Daily NK South Korean online newspaper (www.dailynk[.]com). services. . hxxps://www.dailynk[.]com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery-migrate.min.js?

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 23, 2022

Linux has an extensive range of open-source distributions that pentesters, ethical hackers and network defenders can use in their work, whether for pentesting , digital forensics or other cybersecurity uses. For example, Kali Linux, one of the most popular pentesting OSs, is Debian-based, which means it’s based on the Debian Project.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2022

The Donot Team has been active since 2016, it focuses on government and military organizations, ministries of foreign affairs, and embassies in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and other South Asian countries. The Donot Team threat actor, aka APT-C-35 , has added new capabilities to its Jaca Windows malware framework.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

This escalation of reconnaissance is being closely monitored by the global cybersecurity and intelligence communities. Here are a few key things everyone should understand about the cybersecurity ramifications spinning out of the Soleimani assassination. Grimes, a data defense expert at cybersecurity training vendor KnowBe4.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2022

Cybersecurity researchers last week revealed that a new ransomware gang called Onyx is simply destroying larger files rather than encrypting them. Coming the same week that the REvil ransomware group apparently returned , these are tough times for cybersecurity pros. Ransomware just keeps getting worse, it seems.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 7, 2022

reported that hackers – some linked to Russian GRU military intelligence – breached computers at nearly two dozen U.S. With the average number of SaaS apps at 89 per organization, according to Okta, those apps have become one of the most critical cybersecurity challenges – and the SaaS Alerts report underscores how vulnerable they are.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 14, 2023

A new report from the Bipartisan Policy Center ( BPC ) lays out — in stark terms – the prominent cybersecurity risks of the moment. Biden’s impact on cybersecurity. The BPC’s Top Risks in Cybersecurity 2023 analysis calls out eight “top macro risks” that frame what’s wrong and what’s at stake in the cyber realm.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Basic cybersecurity defenses still apply: next generation firewalls (NGFW) , endpoint detection and response (EDR) platforms, employee cybersecurity training , patching. Training of employees to prevent phishing from both email and social media, as well endpoint protection and other cybersecurity safeguards to prevent future attacks.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2022

RCS Lab was providing its software to military and intelligence agencies in Pakistan , Chile , Mongolia , Bangladesh , Vietnam , Myanmar and Turkmenistan. “For example, a current Tykelab employee’s LinkedIn profile indicates that they also work at RCS Lab. However, we found various publicly-available clues that suggest otherwise.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

To defend critical military and national interests, our forces must operate against our enemies on their virtual territory as well. The recent midterm elections is an example of how we enabled our partners. Let me offer an example regarding the need for rapid change in technologies. The same logic applies in cyberspace.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

For example, China-linked nation-state actors are more focused on cyberespionage aimed at stealing intellectual property, while Russia-linked Advanced Persistent Threat groups often operate to destabilize the political contest of foreign states, carry out cyber espionage activities, and conduct disinformation campaigns.

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Adam Levin

OCTOBER 31, 2018

This action is yet another example of criminal efforts by the (Ministry of State Security) to facilitate the theft of private data for China’s commercial gain,” said U.S. Attorney Adam Braverman.

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The Security Ledger

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

and other militaries have always been at the top of the target list for so-called “advanced persistent threat” cyber adversaries. In fact, the term “advanced persistent threat” (or APT) was concocted by U.S. Eighteen years later, the situation hasn’t improved all that much.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Investors thought they were financially supporting efforts to develop radiation protection products that would eventually get marketed to the medical and military industries and generate substantial returns. For example, those parties are often the first to notice that seniors may be part of a scheme that adversely affects their finances.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

Outlook NTLM exploit “Additionally, Microsoft confirmed that the flaw had been exploited as a zero day as part of limited attacks against government, transportation, energy, and military targets organizations in Europe by a Russia-based threat actor,” Narang said.

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2021

NOBELIUM focuses on government organizations, non-government organizations (NGOs), think tanks, military, IT service providers, health technology and research, and telecommunications providers. ” continues the report.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 13, 2021

Cybersecurity Ventures predicts that the number of zero- day exploits (which doesn’t include known vulnerability exploits) will rise from one-per-week to one-per-day by next year. In the Federal space, military software systems, for example, need to last decades out in the field. Take the F-15, for example.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2019

The group calls the agents and the military to stand against the corrupt policies. They should all follow our example, and that should do anything that could reveal disgusting abuses that politics do, as you say said before. The Anonymous expresses resentment for the arrests of alleged members of the collective. me@matricedigitale.it

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Data Matters

APRIL 11, 2022

other data that may affect the security of national politics, territory, military affairs, economy, culture, society, science and technology, ecology, resources, nuclear facilities, overseas interests, biology, outer space, polar regions, deep sea etc. The MIIT is a traditional regulator for telecommunications and Internet matters.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 25, 2021

The reality is that cybersecurity is a matter of survival. DARPA is responsible for the development of emerging military technologies. DARPA’s influence transcends military use cases. For example, deploying a patch sometimes degraded system performance. Well, this is later).

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ForAllSecure

MAY 25, 2021

The reality is that cybersecurity is a matter of survival. DARPA is responsible for the development of emerging military technologies. DARPA’s influence transcends military use cases. For example, deploying a patch sometimes degraded system performance. Well, this is later).

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 30, 2022

Rossi: So we're a cybersecurity company that started seven years ago we do. So the threats that we look after are ones that you would see popular in the wild and against the customers that work large financial institutions, militaries, the US military, foreign militaries, NATO partners, how well do they defend and react against these threats?

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 12, 2022

In this episode, Sonny Sandelius , Assistant Director of the SANS workforce programs, talks about programs that recruit people from outside computer sciences, encouraging those from diverse backgrounds who share the curiosity and the basic aptitude necessary to become hired cybersecurity professionals in as little as six months.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 21, 2020

In the inaugural episode, The Hacker Mind looks at why the West Point Military Academy, and other organizations within the DoD, is training its young cadets to hack. Or maybe, just maybe back in 2014, West Point and other military service academies, are on to something really important. The military has these massive computer networks.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 21, 2020

In the inaugural episode, The Hacker Mind looks at why the West Point Military Academy, and other organizations within the DoD, is training its young cadets to hack. Or maybe, just maybe back in 2014, West Point and other military service academies, are on to something really important. The military has these massive computer networks.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 21, 2020

In the inaugural episode, The Hacker Mind looks at why the West Point Military Academy, and other organizations within the DoD, is training its young cadets to hack. Or maybe, just maybe back in 2014, West Point and other military service academies, are on to something really important. The military has these massive computer networks.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Cybersecurity and cyber recovery are types of disaster recovery (DR) practices that focus on attempts to steal, expose, alter, disable or destroy critical data. DR itself typically targets a wider range of threats than just those that are cyber in nature. What is cyber recovery?

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The Texas Record

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Also research the impact of the information’s proximity to potential man-made hazards, for example the airport, military bases, plants or factories that handle hazardous or flammable material. Also, assess infrastructure that if faulty would cause lose of information.

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