Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2018

The new analysis conducted by ESET revealed that hackers breached Germany’s Federal Foreign Office , Turla infected several computers and used the backdoor to syphon data for almost the whole of 2017. Data exfiltration itself also takes place via PDF files.” Technically, the attachment does not have to be a valid PDF document.

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Unwritten Record

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

This map represents one of the first American attempts to translate census data into a visual representation on a map. Coastal Survey using statistical data from the 1860 census. Boston Public Library. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library. Historic Documentation Programs.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2021

China-linked APT group Cycldek is behind an advanced cyberespionage campaign targeting entities in the government and military sector in Vietnam. China-linked APT group LuckyMouse (aka Cycldek, Goblin Panda , Hellsing, APT 27, and Conimes) is targeting government and military organizations in Vietnam with spear-phishing.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

As is now traditional, I’ve installed myself in the porter’s chair next to the fire in the library, ready to recap some of the year’s more newsworthy information security events. Equifax issued its financial report for the first quarter of 2018, revealing that its huge 2017 data breach had so far cost it $242.7

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 1, 2022

In the book The Art of Invisibility , I challenged my co author Kevin Mitnick to document the steps needed to become invisible online. In the very quiet science fiction section of the Glen Park Public Library in San Francisco. Operational Security is typically a military process. There are a lot. And there are a lot of them.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2019

The flaw is an “Absolute Path Traversal” issue in the library that could be exploited to execute arbitrary code by using a specially-crafted file archive. The issue affects a third-party library, called UNACEV2.DLL DLL that is used by WINRAR, it resides in the way an old third-party library, called UNACEV2.DLL,

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Archiving File names Education Libraries 82

ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

Vamosi: Whenever there's a data breach, a ransomware attack, large security event in general, I would like to learn something about how it happened. This is the practice of concealing messages or information in non secret texts or data, such as an image. You know, peel back the onion to see what steps were used in the exploit chain.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

You might not think of it as a major aspect of security and yet, stolen credentials are really the key to data breaches today. 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. Fact is, we’ve long had passwords as a credential. Lewis: Good.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 13, 2023

Poland’s Military Counterintelligence Service and its Computer Emergency Response Team linked a recent string of attacks targeting NATO and European Union countries to the Russia-linked APT29 group (aka SVR group , Cozy Bear , Nobelium , and The Dukes ). The Military Counterintelligence Service and CERT.PL

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