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How Hackers Use Reconnaissance – and How to Protect Against It

eSecurity Planet

MITRE ATT&CK , a popular knowledge base for beginners and security professionals, defines reconnaissance as a fundamental tactic that leverages the “techniques that involve adversaries actively or passively gathering information that can be used to support targeting.”. Purchased data from reputable sources or black markets.

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MY TAKE: Sophos X-Ops advances internal, external threat intelligence sharing to the next level

The Last Watchdog

And the entire mitigation effort gets added to the overall knowledge base. The joint task force unraveled how the attackers were able to leverage a fake downloading site and grey-market remote access tools to distribute multiple ransomware families. Budd Overcoming inertia remains a big challenge, Budd adds.

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Ripcord announces standalone IDP software 

Info Source

Ralph Gammon, Senior Analyst at Infosource May 2024 Ripcord first came onto our radar in 2017, most notably for innovative high-volume scanners, but it also had some early artificial intelligence (AI) powered technology for providing cloud-based Capture, Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) and Content Services to its outsourcing customers.

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News alert: Badge expands availability of ‘Enroll Once and Authenticate on Any Device’ software

The Last Watchdog

We are thrilled to be working with Badge, enabling a best-in-class authentication solution that builds on top of our market-leading identity data management and identity analytics capabilities to provide greater privacy and security to our customers,” said Wade Ellery , Field CTO, Radiant Logic. San Francisco, Calif.,

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Collibra a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Data Governance Solutions, Q3 2023

Collibra

According to the Forrester report, “The data governance solution market has shifted from an emerging space to an established and significantly more mature one…” “Organizations seek data governance solutions to accelerate business insights and value creation … today, [data governance] helps businesses realize the true potential of their data.”

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Hacked Data Broker Accounts Fueled Phony COVID Loans, Unemployment Claims

Krebs on Security

KrebsOnSecurity reviewed dozens of emails the fraud group exchanged, and noticed that a great many consumer records they shared carried a notation indicating they were cut and pasted from the output of queries made at Interactive Data LLC , a Florida-based data analytics company.

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Software Converges with Hardware: Infosource Acquires HSA

Info Source

November 19, 2019 (Geneva, Switzerland) – Document hardware market research firm Infosource today announced the acquisition of Harvey Spencer Associates Inc. HSA), the premier market analyst company for the worldwide Capture Software market. HSA is recognized as an authority in business process input software research.