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RaidForums Gets Raided, Alleged Admin Arrested

Krebs on Security

Department of Justice (DOJ) said today it seized the website and user database for RaidForums , an extremely popular English-language cybercrime forum that sold access to more than 10 billion consumer records stolen in some of the world’s largest data breaches since 2015. Coelho landed on the radar of U.S.

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A Serial Tech Investment Scammer Takes Up Coding?

Krebs on Security

John Clifton Davies , a 60-year-old con man from the United Kingdom who fled the country in 2015 before being sentenced to 12 years in prison for fraud, has enjoyed a successful life abroad swindling technology startups by pretending to be a billionaire investor. ” The team from CodesToYou. Official incorporation documents from the U.K.’s

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 16–22 October 2023

IT Governance

Breached organisation: BHI Energy, providing staffing solutions to the nuclear, fossil, wind, hydro and government energy markets. Incident details: Successful phishing attack, breaching records on a server that reached end of life in 2015, though the information itself was “of low-sensitivity and semi-public”.

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Predictions 2021: Disinformation, SPACs, Africa, Facebook, and a Return to Tech Optimism

John Battelle's Searchblog

The company’s own employees are increasingly uncomfortable with their leadership, and its consumers and marketing partners are increasingly looking for alternatives to a platform they see as toxic and unwilling to change. I’m generally inclined to be optimistic, but rose-colored glasses stretch time. AI has a mid-life crisis.

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Cloud, Intelligent Content Services, and Digital Fragility: What’s on the RIM Horizon for 2020

ARMA International

Government topped the list of vertical industries at 23%. Information Governance Programs Still a Work-In-Progress. In 2015, Forrester first posed the question “Have you restructured or re-organized your RIM and/or IT programs to support an information governance strategy?” participants at 77% and Canada at 17%.

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Trojan Lampion is back after 3 months

Security Affairs

Trojan Lampion is a malware observed at the end of the year 2019 impacting Portuguese users using template emails from the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax and EDP. Figure 4: Malicious MSI file downloaded from AWS S3 bucket and using COVID-19 theme that impersonates the Portuguese Government. Lampion email templates – May 2020.

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Predictions 2021: How’d I Do? Pretty Damn Well.

John Battelle's Searchblog

A significant percentage of the US population has become unmoored from truth – and an equally significant group of us have simply thrown our hands up about it. Trust is at an all time low. My next prediction: Facebook’s chickens come home to roost…2021 will be a dismal year for Facebook. Oh my, was it ever. May: Plans for Zuck & Co.