Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2021

Chinese military unit PLA Unit 61419 is suspected to be involved in cyber-espionage campaigns against multiple antivirus companies. Experts speculate the cyberspies have purchased the security software to study them and find zero-day vulnerabilities that could be exploited in an attack or to test the detection of new malware.

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The Security Ledger

MAY 3, 2022

The very same features and capabilities that enabled John Deere and its dealers to disable the stolen hardware could lay the groundwork for a disastrous cyber attack on the agricultural sector, in which state sponsored actors or even cyber criminal groups brick critical farm equipment at crucial moments in the planting or harvesting season.

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Unwritten Record

OCTOBER 3, 2019

A special edition of “Air Force Television News” distributed the press conference to members of the military. After World War II, more women expressed interest in serving in the military and the act enabled them to serve as permanent, regular members of the armed forces during times of peace.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2020

The Islamic hacker Ardit Ferizi, who is serving 20 years for giving his support to Islamic State group has been granted compassionate release. Ardit Ferizi , aka Th3Dir3ctorY, is the hacker that supported the ISIS organization by handing over data for 1,351 US government and military personnel.

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Unwritten Record

MARCH 25, 2021

You may have heard that the National Archives is partnering with the University of Maryland Cinema and Media Studies Program to present Films of State , an online conference on government-produced moving images (if not, check out my last blog post for more background).

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Unwritten Record

APRIL 27, 2023

The earliest charts depicting the Moon I unearthed in our collection hail from Record Group 77: Records of the Office of the Chief of Engineers. Compiled under the direction of the Military Geology Branch, U.S. The charts, alongside a table of data, comprise “The Engineer Special Study of the Surface of the Moon.”

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Archives Blogs

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Recently, we welcomed two student groups to the Innovation Hub who were interested in learning more about the work of the National Archives, how to conduct research, and ways to participate in scanning documents to make them more accessible online. During their visit, they scanned 1,627 pages of Compiled Military Service Records!

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Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2019

“According to the data received, the majority of non-public projects of Sytech were commissioned by military unit No. On July 13, a hacker group named 0v1ru$ hacked into SyTech’s Active Directory server then compromised the entire infrastructure of the company, including JIRA instance.

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Unwritten Record

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

The images broadcast in America’s living rooms during the war were often captured by military combat photographers. The military increased their production of photographs and moving images and because of this, NARA’s motion picture holdings relating to the Vietnam war are quite expansive. Medal of Honor SP/6 Lawrence Joel.

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Unwritten Record

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

9981 signed by President Truman, all branches of the military were desegregated and Montford Point was decommissioned on September 9, 1949. WRITE AND STUDY–Marines take time out to write home and study in the pleasant atmosphere of the Reference and Writing Room of Montford’s man library. Camp Lejeune, N.C.

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The Security Ledger

AUGUST 20, 2018

In the wake of the 2016 Presidential election, studying social media activity has gone from a niche obsession for a few social scientists to something akin to a national security priority. survivalist groups. Cybereason joins us to talk about the cyber criminals hacking into industrial control systems. . Want to join the Freedom Army?

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Unwritten Record

APRIL 17, 2018

Of all the record groups in the Cartographic Department’s holdings, one of the most interesting and varied is RG 77. Generally speaking, this huge record group holds some really interesting and beautiful documents. Record Group 64: Records of the National Archives and Records Administration, 1789 – ca. Pp 95-97. [iv]

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A new data leak that appears to have come from one of China’s top private cybersecurity firms provides a rare glimpse into the commercial side of China’s many state-sponsored hacking groups. APT stands for Advanced Persistent Threat, a term that generally refers to state-sponsored hacking groups.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Over the past 12 months, MSTIC experts observed increasingly sophisticated attacks orchestrated by Iranian APT groups. The analysis focuses on six Iranian hacking groups that are increasingly utilizing ransomware to either fundraise or disrupt the computer networks of the targets.

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AIIM

MARCH 13, 2018

And to boot, after years of training in studying this silver, my wife could rattle off a pretty sweet litany documenting her mother’s side of the family at the drop of a hat. “My In 1995, if I was going to find this Civil War fellow, it meant a personal trip to the National Archives through the microfilmed military records.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 14, 2023

Here’s the exchange, edited for clarity and length: LW: Should we be more concerned about cyber exposures than classic military threats? Romanoff: Classic military threats will always merit significant concern due to their direct impact on life. Last Watchdog queried Tom Romanoff, BPC’s technology project director about this analysis.

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Unwritten Record

JULY 3, 2018

All of the maps featured in this post are from Record Group (RG) 77, Civil Works Map File series, although the Cartographic Branch also holds maps showing Gettysburg in other record groups and series. He spent the rest of his life mapping, studying, and writing about the battle of Gettysburg. ” Part 1.

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Archives Blogs

APRIL 20, 2020

As someone who studies the history of texts, I try to avoid commenting on the portrayal of textual history or librarianship in popular media (don’t get me started on Jocasta Nu in Attack of the Clones ) in casual settings. History of Texts and Popular Media. FSU Ostraka 23: List of guards. Ostraka are found in strange places.

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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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ForAllSecure

MARCH 14, 2022

That’s why the Aerospace Village at DEF CON exists, to expose various groups of people to each other, and to collectively start to work on solving these problems before they negatively impact our lives. Steve Grobman, CTO with Intel’s security group had this to say: CNBC: Yeah, so I think that nothing is ever impossible.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2024

Private Plane Owners’ Data Linked to LA Intl. Private Plane Owners’ Data Linked to LA Intl.

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Unwritten Record

MAY 23, 2018

where Tagore Societies soon sprung up to study his work. Records created by the War Department, Military Intelligence Division between 1918 and 1947, include biographies of leaders, politicians, and significant people such as Tagore. Finding mention of Tagore in the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service was a surprise.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 14, 2021

It was also designed under President Eisenhower to move military troops and vehicles from point A to point B, but that's another story. There's a couple of neighborhood groups down in my little town and if you lose a dog or you find a stranger. And I've done so with mixed success. If you get it.

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KnowBe4

MAY 9, 2023

Parent groups expressed concerns when Sage was introduced to Snapchat+, as they feared younger children might not realize they are communicating with a chatbot. Additionally, it can serve as a constant virtual assistant suggesting amusing videos and providing clever ideas on what to say in group chats.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 12, 2022

I studied English and Film Making in college; I did not get a traditional CS degree. We recruit military veterans, women, and minorities. study those who live in it, come back and apply again in four months from now and have another shot. This was a military veteran I spoke to a couple of years ago. That's livable.

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IT Governance

APRIL 9, 2024

million patients’ data via unsecured database According to DataBreaches.net, EyeCare Services Partners – a group of eye care providers based in Dallas, Texas – left 50 TB of data exposed via an unsecured blob. Data breached: at least 456,000 records. EyeCare Services Partners exposes more 3.5 The biggest database in the blob contained 3.1

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

The Russia Ukraine scenario, although let's not downplay the lies, that it's affecting the strife, it's causing economic damage and everything else but it is, amazingly enough, staying in this one little localized area, and everyone almost has the ability to treat this like it's a case study. What effect does that have? China invaded Taiwan.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

To no one’s surprise, the study of cryptography and advancements in encryption are essential to developing cybersecurity. Cryptology is the overarching field of study related to writing and solving codes, whereas encryption and decryption are the central processes driving the computer science discipline. The Move to HTTPS.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Observers do, however, have a pretty good idea who was behind the NotPetya attack because several governments, including the United States and the United Kingdom, issued coordinated statements blaming the Russian military. Insurers could do it through their claims databases and then aggregate that data across carriers to policymakers.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 30, 2023

VAMOSI: Four days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, on February 28, 2022, members of the Conti ransomware group began leaking information about the internal operations. And criminal groups are typically going to be monetarily motivated. Conti, with ties to Russia, came out in support of Russia.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

I’ve always enjoyed organizing people, so this is an opportunity for me to manage a group of students to try to create something useful.”. Meanwhile, Pinckney’s Darga has taken the initiative to spearhead efforts to cater to military veterans and to disabled individuals, as well, particularly persons with autism.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Some, like Adam Van Prooyan, just kind of wandered into that path, in part because he was interested in computers, and also because the West Point Military Academy just happened to have a CTF team that competes in the annual Cyberstakes competition. Vamosi: So, not everyone is in a military academy. Cyber 600 and that was.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 12, 2020

As a young professor, I spent 4 weeks every summer visiting these sites as part of the (unremarkably named) Computer Science Study Group , a research program run by DARPA and the Institute for Defense Analysis. Did I also mention that they let me take MILAIR (Military Aircraft Transportation)? This is unthinkable today.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 12, 2020

As a young professor, I spent 4 weeks every summer visiting these sites as part of the (unremarkably named) Computer Science Study Group , a research program run by DARPA and the Institute for Defense Analysis. Did I also mention that they let me take MILAIR (Military Aircraft Transportation)? This is unthinkable today.

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Marketing Cybersecurity Computer and Electronics e-Discovery 52

ForAllSecure

MAY 12, 2020

As a young professor, I spent 4 weeks every summer visiting these sites as part of the (unremarkably named) Computer Science Study Group , a research program run by DARPA and the Institute for Defense Analysis. Did I also mention that they let me take MILAIR (Military Aircraft Transportation)? This is unthinkable today.

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