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Chinese Antivirus Firm Was Part of APT41 ‘Supply Chain’ Attack

Krebs on Security

The government alleges the men used malware-laced phishing emails and “supply chain” attacks to steal data from companies and their customers. But in the days that followed, several antivirus products began flagging it for bundling at least two trojan horse programs designed to steal passwords from various online gaming platforms.

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Why & Where You Should You Plant Your Flag

Krebs on Security

For those who can’t be convinced to use a password manager, even writing down all of the account details and passwords on a slip of paper can be helpful, provided the document is secured in a safe place. YOUR GOVERNMENT. Perhaps the most important place to enable MFA is with your email accounts.

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Catches of the Month: Phishing Scams for September 2023

IT Governance

The ZIP file, titled “Changes to the vacation schedule”, contains a malicious link masquerading as a PDF document hosted on a SharePoint site. According to Fortinet, the document is sent as an attachment, which is presented as “a deliberately blurred image and a counterfeit reCAPTCHA”.

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Data of Indian defence contractor Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML) available online

Security Affairs

A threat actor is offering for sale in a darkweb black-market internal documents of the Indian defence contractor Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML). As part of the regular monitoring of cybercrime forums and markets in the deep-web and darkweb , Cyble researchers spotted a threat actor named as R3dr0x who leaked (BEML) internal documents.

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Information Literacy and Records Management

Brandeis Records Manager

A keen sense of info literacy is required to execute records management and info governance functions with ethical outcomes. Should info literacy exclude emailing a link to one copy of a document rather than sending a two-MB attachment to twenty people? Should it exclude avoiding rogue apps, weak passwords, and phishing attempts?

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

Hello and welcome to the final IT Governance podcast of 2018. Even government and public bodies’ websites – including, ironically, the ICO – were found to be running cryptomining software after a third-party plug-in was compromised, but it transpired. Users were encouraged to change their passwords.

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Cryptography use cases: From secure communication to data security 

IBM Big Data Hub

From top-secret government intelligence to everyday personal messages, cryptography makes it possible to obscure our most sensitive information from unwanted onlookers. Hash functions are also frequently used to verify user passwords without needing to create a vulnerable client-side database of private passwords.