Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced the seizure of the Tor leak site of the AlphV/Blackcat ransomware group. The FBI seized the Tor leak site of the AlphV/Blackcat ransomware group and replaced the home page with the announcement of the seizure. the fashion giant Moncler , the Swissport , NCR , and Western Digital.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 10, 2020

In July 2018, KrebsOnSecurity published the story Neo-Nazi Swatters Target Dozens of Journalists , which detailed the activities of a loose-knit group of individuals who had targeted hundreds of individuals for swatting attacks, including federal judges, corporate executives and almost three-dozen journalists (myself included). since 2017.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced the seizure of the Tor leak site of the AlphV/Blackcat ransomware group. The FBI seized the Tor leak site of the AlphV/Blackcat ransomware group and replaced the home page with the announcement of the seizure. the fashion giant Moncler , the Swissport , NCR , and Western Digital.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 14, 2021

Proofpoint Describes Campaign That Uses Conference as a Lure The Iranian advanced persistent threat group TA453 has been conducting a series of spear-phishing attacks in an attempt to steal sensitive information from scholars who study the Middle East, according to Proofpoint.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2021

North Korea-linked APT group Kimsuky allegedly breached South Korea’s atomic research agency KAERI by exploiting a VPN vulnerability. South Korean representatives declared on Friday that North Korea-linked APT group Kimsuky is believed to have breached the internal network of the South Korean Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI).

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 18, 2023

Risky Behavior: Just 5% of Security Rules Trigger 80% of All Alerts, Study Finds Important lessons about security and risk management aren't being remembered, learned or applied by defenders amidst organizations' rapid migration to the cloud, as demonstrated by just 5% of security rules, on average, triggering 80% of all alerts, threat intelligence (..)

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2020

A major reason for this is simply the lack of a standard, large-scale, realistic data set that can be easily obtained and tested by a wide range of users, from independent researchers to academic labs to large corporate groups.” ” continues Sophos. ” Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, SoReL-20M).

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 14, 2023

But business leaders are facing a host of talent-related challenges, as a new global study from the IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV) reveals , from the skills gap to shifting employee expectations to the need for new operating models. AI’s impact will vary across employee groups. The global skills gap is real and growing.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 29, 2023

In March 2020, the DOJ unsealed two criminal hacking indictments against Kislitsin, who was then head of security at Group-IB , a cybersecurity company that was founded in Russia in 2003 and operated there for more than a decade before relocating to Singapore. “If that happens, Kazakhstan may have to make some very unpleasant decisions.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Proofpoint researchers have discovered a new Ursnif baking Trojan campaign carried out by a group tracked as TA544 that is targeting organizations in Italy. The TA544 group leverages phishing and social engineering techniques to lure victims into enabling macro included in weaponized documents. Banca Sella UniCredit Group.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Researchers from threat hunting and intelligence firm Group-IB have detected a successful attack by a ransomware gang tracked as OldGremlin. Group-IB , a global threat hunting and intelligence company headquartered in Singapore, has detected a successful attack by a ransomware gang, codenamed OldGremlin. Unsought invoice.

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Which makes all the more welcome last week’s issuance of the long-awaited National Academy of Sciences study , “Decrypting the Encryption Debate: A Framework for Decision Makers.” To that end, the study, among other things, highlights (in section 2.3) device locking, secure messaging, etc.); notes (in section 2.4)

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Collibra

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The importance of getting privacy by design right – and the damage that getting it wrong can do – is illustrated by a new study which looked at how 120 of the most used Android apps in Belgium handle the personal data of their users. . Egelman’s company, AppCensus , provided the analysis of the apps in the study. .

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Study with us to become a certified Cloud Technical Advocate Our new virtual study companion, the daily “Study with Me” blog series , is designed to prepare learners for the IBM Cloud Technical Advocate exam. Each day for 30 days follow a new blog focusing on the IBM Cloud Technical Advocate curriculum and exam.

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CILIP

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

How to write effective travel and study grant proposals. As part of the project, CILIP is making a number of grants and awards available to individual members to enable them to travel and study. As part of the project, CILIP is making a number of grants and awards available to individual members to enable them to travel and study.

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CILIP

JULY 8, 2019

First Museum Studies courses receive CILIP accreditation. The MA in Museums and Gallery Practice at UCL Qatar and the MSc Museum Studies at the University of Glasgow have gained formal CILIP accreditation following recent assessment visits. Over 38,000 students from 150 countries study at UCL. Helen Berry, CILIP?s

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Interesting usability study: “ More Than Just Good Passwords? A Study on Usability and Security Perceptions of Risk-based Authentication “: Abstract : Risk-based Authentication (RBA) is an adaptive security measure to strengthen password-based authentication.

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CILIP

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Our Regional Member Networks, Devolved Nations, Special Interest Groups and Diversity Networks exist to support you and to help expand your knowledge and skills and develop your career. Special Interest Groups provide you with the opportunity to network and learn from people within your sector or specialism. How do I join these groups?

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

That’s according to The Interisle Consulting Group , which gathers phishing data from multiple industry sources and publishes an annual report on the latest trends. Interisle’s newest study examined six million phishing reports between May 1, 2022 and April 30, 2023, and found 30,000.US US phishing domains.US

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 15, 2018

On May 14, 2018, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership (“CIPL”) at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP published a study on how the ePrivacy Regulation will affect the design and user experiences of digital services (the “Study”).

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Dark Reading

MAY 1, 2023

According to the ESG Study, 92% of organizations have experienced at least one security incident related to insecure APIs in the past year.

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Collibra

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The importance of getting privacy by design right – and the damage that getting it wrong can do – is illustrated by a new study which looked at how 120 of the most used Android apps in Belgium handle the personal data of their users. . Egelman’s company, AppCensus , provided the analysis of the apps in the study. .

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

According to a study conducted by Microsoft in collaboration with OpenAI, the two companies identified and disrupted operations conducted by five nation-state actors that abused their AI services to carry out their attacks. ” reads the report published by Microsoft. ” reads the report published by Microsoft.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 31, 2022

Costa Rica’s national health service was hacked sometime earlier this morning by a Russian ransomware group known as Hive. Printers at the Costa Rican government health ministry went crazy this morning after the Hive ransomware group attacked. Image: Esteban Jimenez. A HIVE ransomware chat page for a specific victim (redacted).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Group-IB has estimated that crypto exchanges suffered a total loss of $882 million due to targeted attacks between 2017 and 2018. According to Group-IB experts, at least 14 crypto exchanges were hacked. rimeCon conference. A separate report chapter is dedicated to the analysis of hackers’ and fraudsters’ activity in crypto industry.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MAY 7, 2020

After repeated warnings that the UK will be an outlier if it insists on using its own centralised app rather than relying on Google and Apple’s technology, rights groups and MPs said on Thursday that the lack of privacy and data protections could mean that the app would be illegal.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

According to a new research conducted by Group-IB experts, 74 percent of Russian banks were not ready for cyberattacks. In 2018, Group-IB Incident Response team has detected the use of such vector in Russia and Eastern Europe. The total number of Group-IB incident responses has more than doubled compared to 2017.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 12, 2023

While this problem has classically been studied in security literature, recent advances in generative models have led to a shared interest among security and machine learning researchers in developing scalable steganography techniques.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Take the just released 2024 IBM Institute for Business Value Consumer Study , which gathered insights from 20,000 consumers across 26 countries. This study also highlighted a crucial insight: two-thirds of consumers still prefer shopping in person, with 73% considering physical stores a primary shopping method.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 19, 2022

The group disclosed their findings to these sites, and all 52 instances have since been resolved. Acar, a professor and researcher in Radboud University’s digital security group and one of the leaders of the study. “We were super surprised by these results. ” Research paper.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 27, 2023

A recent IBM study found that global executives cite inadequate data (41%) as the biggest obstacle to their ESG progress, followed by regulatory barriers (39%), inconsistent standards (37%) and inadequate skills (36%). Read the full study to learn how we are helping clients leverage ERP to operationalize sustainability.

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Archive-It

APRIL 12, 2023

by Tanya Ulmer, Web Archivist for Archive-It Seed groups have been around for a while, allowing partners to organize their seeds on their public collections’ pages at archive-it.org. But did you know that seed groups are no longer necessarily displayed publicly? Why would a partner organization want to use internal seed groups?

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Krebs on Security

JULY 24, 2020

But happily, a somewhat unique aspect of cybersecurity is that one can gain a fair degree of mastery of hands-on skills and foundational knowledge through self-directed study and old fashioned trial-and-error. But don’t get discouraged if a given topic of study seems overwhelming at first; just take your time and keep going.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

One of the suspects is a student at Tomsk University, he studied at the Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics and “expressed his commitment to the Ukrainian side.” The man provided its support to Pro-Ukraine hacker groups that operated under the coordination of the security forces of Ukraine.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Or so concludes The Interisle Consulting Group , which gathers phishing data from multiple industry sources and publishes an annual report on the latest trends. Interisle’s newest study examined six million phishing reports between May 1, 2022 and April 30, 2023, and identified approximately 30,000.US and illicit or harmful content.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2023

Ukraine’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) is warning that the Russia-linked APT group Gamaredon (aka Shuckworm, Actinium, Armageddon, Primitive Bear, UAC-0010, and Trident Ursa) use to steal data from victims’ networks in less than an hour after the initial compromise. ” states the alert published by CART-UA.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 31, 2024

A comprehensive study by ESG Research, commissioned by Thales, sheds light on emerging trends, operational challenges, and strategic advancements in this vital field. Strategic Insights at a Glance The ESG Research study offers a trove of insights for all IT professionals and business execs.

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