Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

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CILIP

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Asked why he chose the Civil Service above other areas of librarianship, David says: “It is just so interesting… it puts you in the centre of constantly changing challenges while offering unparalleled opportunities to move between librarianship, records management, knowledge management, information governance throughout your career.”

Government 52

Government Libraries Computer and Electronics Information governance 52

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 8, 2024

Speed remains critical to security, but more importantly, patching teams need to make progress with patch and vulnerability management. Here’s a roundup of the week’s major vulnerabilities that security teams should mitigate or patch. No organization should remain vulnerable six months after vendors issue patches!

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Encryption Libraries Cybersecurity Communications 109

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

FritzFrog P2P botnet is back and is targeting servers belonging to entities in the healthcare, education, and government sectors. The bot is written in Golang and implements wormable capabilities, experts reported attacks against entities in the government, education, and finance sectors. ” reads the report published by Akamai.

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The Texas Record

JUNE 28, 2021

In a nutshell, this is information governance. ARMA defines “information governance” as “the overarching and coordinating strategy for all organizational information. ARMA defines “information governance” as “the overarching and coordinating strategy for all organizational information.

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Information governance Government Records Management e-Discovery 98

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2022

The Raspberry Robin worm attacks aimed at telecommunications and government office systems across Latin America, Australia, and Europe. Researchers from Trend Micro have uncovered a Raspberry Robin worm campaign targeting telecommunications and government office systems across Latin America, Australia, and Europe. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Government Communications Ransomware Manufacturing 52

Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2020

CERT France is warning of a new wave of attacks using Pysa ransomware (Mespinoza) that is targeting local governments. CERT France cyber-security agency is warning about a new wave of ransomware attack that is targeting the networks of local government authorities. newversion ” files were generated by another instance of Pysa.”

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Ransomware Government Encryption Passwords 105

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 5, 2023

“In 2022, governments fought wars online, businesses were affected by multiple ransomware gangs, and regular users’ data was constantly on hackers’ radars,” said NordVPN CTO Marijus Briedis. Also read: SANS Outlines Critical Infrastructure Security Steps as Russia, U.S.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2024

Threat actors target government entities in the Middle East with a new backdoor dubbed CR4T as part of an operation tracked as DuneQuixote. The experts identified two versions of the dropper, regular droppers (in the form of an executable or a DLL file) and tampered installer files for a legitimate tool named “Total Commander.”

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Libraries Communications IT Government 96

Data Protection Report

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This is a critical vulnerability of very high significance to government and industry groups. Confirm that your security operations center is monitoring external-facing systems for indicators of compromise. Adjust firewalls and other endpoint tools to prevent outbound connections from systems with log4j.

Libraries 58

Libraries Ransomware Cloud Risk 58

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has announced the release of an open-source scanner for identifying web services impacted by Apache Log4j remote code execution vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2021-44228 and CVE-2021-45046. ” reads the description for the project. Fuzzing for HTTP POST Data parameters.

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2022

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 3, 2022

Security researchers have uncovered a critical vulnerability that could lead to DNS spoofing attacks in two popular C standard libraries that provide functions for common DNS operations. Also read: Best Patch Management Software & Tools. The C Library DNS Vulnerability. Understanding DNS Spoofing Attacks.

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Risk Libraries IoT Security 126

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Quick response (QR) codes are a convenient format for storing all kinds of information in a readable and secure way, at least when correctly implemented. With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, for example, governments have recently implemented QR codes to create Digital COVID Certificates for vaccination, tests status and other reasons.

Security 113

Security Encryption Authentication Phishing 113

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 17, 2021

When It Comes to Software Supply Chain Security, Good Enough Just Isn’t Enough. In a recent example, SolarWinds Orion Software, a network monitoring tool used by many U.S. In a recent example, SolarWinds Orion Software, a network monitoring tool used by many U.S. Beware of “Good Enough” Software Security.

IT 90

IT Security Authentication Cybersecurity 90

The Last Watchdog

JUNE 3, 2022

Findings released this week by ReversingLabs show 87 percent of security and technology professionals view software tampering as a new breach vector of concern, yet only 37 percent say they have a way to detect it across their software supply chain. Implementing SBOM.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

A cyber espionage group targets governments and state-owned organizations in multiple Asian countries since early 2021. Threat actors are targeting government and state-owned organizations in multiple Asian countries as parts of a cyber espionage campaign that remained under the radar since early 2021. ” continues the report.

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Government Access Libraries Education 85

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The Budworm cyber espionage group (aka APT27 , Bronze Union , Emissary Panda , Lucky Mouse , TG-3390 , and Red Phoenix) is behind a series attacks conducted over the past six months against a number of high-profile targets, including the government of a Middle Eastern country, a multinational electronics manufacturer, and a U.S.

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File names Financial Services Manufacturing Libraries 128

Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2022

Cyber Security Specialist Zoziel Pinto Freire shows an example of malicious file analysis presented during his lecture on BSides-Vitória 2022. From a security point of view files of the types DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, and XLSM, have a common issue, they can contain macros which are embedded scripts that are executed inside the file.

Libraries 103

Libraries Metadata Education Security 103

The Last Watchdog

MAY 6, 2019

Related: Memory hacking becomes a go-to tactic These attacks are referred to in the security community as “fileless attacks” or “memory attacks.” Garden-variety threat actors are now leveraging memory hacking tools and techniques to gain footholds, move laterally and achieve persistence deep inside well-defended networks.

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The Texas Record

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Information Governance: Take Control and Succeed. Establishing Information Governance for Local Governments in Microsoft SharePoint and Office 365. Involve your stakeholders in your Information Governance Plan. When moving records between libraries in SharePoint, the integrity of the document could be altered.

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Information governance Government Compliance Metadata 56

eSecurity Planet

JULY 7, 2023

Vulnerability scanning is critically important for identifying security flaws in hardware and software, but vulnerability scanning types are as varied as the IT environments they’re designed to protect. Most enterprises that manage hundreds, if not thousands, of endpoints will discover that standalone tools are not practical.

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Cloud Compliance Authentication Access 92

Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2019

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Croatia government agencies targeted with news SilentTrinity malware. Backdoor mechanism found in Ruby strong_password library. Cyberattack shuts down La Porte County government systems. UK ICO fines British Airways £183 Million under GDPR over 2018 security breach.

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Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2023

The US government announced to have disrupted the peer-to-peer (P2P) network of computers compromised by the Snake malware. The malware has been designed and used by Center 16 of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) in cyber espionage operations on sensitive targets. . ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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Government Libraries Cybersecurity Security 83

Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2023

China-linked threat actor tracked as Alloy Taurus is using a Linux variant of the PingPull backdoor and a new tool dubbed Sword2033. In recent years, the researchers observed the group expanding its operations to include financial institutions and government entities. org over port 8443 for C2. saspecialforces.co[.]za softether[.]net

Communications 94

Communications Military Government Libraries 94

Schneier on Security

MARCH 21, 2022

The application, node-ipc, adds remote interprocess communication and neural networking capabilities to other open source code libraries. As a dependency, node-ipc is automatically downloaded and incorporated into other libraries, including ones like Vue.js CLI, which has more than 1 million weekly downloads. […].

Libraries 102

Libraries Manufacturing Risk Communications 102

Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2019

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. At least 23 Texas local governments targeted by coordinated ransomware attacks. Intel addresses High-Severity flaws in NUC Firmware and other tools. A backdoor mechanism found in tens of Ruby libraries. The gang deploys new tools on its worldwide tour.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 15, 2022

Vulnerabilities in WatchGuard firewalls and Microsoft Windows and Windows Server need to be patched and fixed immediately, security organizations said in alerts this week. Secure management ports (Cyclops Blink modifies allowed ports). Also read: The Top Vulnerability Management Tools for 2022. Update passwords regularly.

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Passwords Libraries Access Cybersecurity 111

Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2023

government. “After it’s installed and launched, WyrmSpy uses known rooting tools to gain escalated privileges to the device and perform surveillance activities specified by commands received from its C2 servers. WyrmSpy uses popular rooting tools such as KingRoot11 and IovyRoot/IvyRoot12. ” continues the report.

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File names Libraries Cybersecurity IT 82

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Security researchers from NCC Group reported an increase in ransomware attacks in November 2021 over the past month, and PYSA (aka Mespinoza) and Lockbit were the most active ransomware gangs. Experts observed a 400% increase in the number of attacks, compared with October, that hit government organizations.

Ransomware 98

Ransomware Encryption Government Retail 98

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 3, 2022

According to a recent BlueVoyant study, an impressive 97 percent of companies surveyed have been negatively impacted by a security breach in their supply chain, and 38 percent said they have no way of knowing about any potential issues with a third-party supplier’s cybersecurity. So it’s a battle that security can’t win.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2023

AhnLab Security Emergency response Center (ASEC) researchers reported that the Lazarus APT Group is targeting vulnerable versions of Microsoft IIS servers in a recent wave of malware-based attacks. Then the library is executed via the Windows IIS web server process. The msvcr100.dll “the functionality of msvcr100.dll

Libraries 84

Libraries Security Cybersecurity Government 84

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Flaws in Able2Extract Professional tool allow hacking targeted machine with malicious image files. Ransomware attack impacted government services in the territory of Nunavut, Canada. A flaw in the Libarchive library impacts major Linux distros. Pierluigi Paganini.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Fowler sent a responsible disclosure notice when he discovered the database and it was secured the following day. Source New Telecoms USA Yes 6,158 Nabholz Construction Company Employee Welfare Health Plan Source 1 ; source 2 New Healthcare USA Yes 5,326 Dawson James Securities, Inc. North Hill Home Health Care, Inc.,

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Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Energy and Utilities 52

Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2022

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), along with the Coast Guard Cyber Command (CGCYBER), published a joint advisory to warn of hacking attempts exploiting the Log4Shell flaw in VMware Horizon servers to compromise target networks. ” reads the advisory. ” reads the joint alert. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Access Libraries Cybersecurity Government 111

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The APT group, recently discovered by ESET, targeted government and private companies in Belarus, Moldova, Russia, Serbia, and Ukraine, including militaries and Ministries of Foreign Affairs. The tools in the arsenal of the XDSpy APT are quite basic, although efficient, their primary tool is a downloader dubbed named XDDown.

Military 137

Military Phishing Passwords Government 137

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

In fact, memory attacks have quietly emerged as a powerful and versatile new class of hacking technique that threat actors in the vanguard are utilizing to subvert conventional IT security systems. Because PowerShell executes in memory, it works out beautifully as a ready-made attack tool. Instead, memory attacks are transient.

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Energy and Utilities Systems administration Access Cybersecurity 212