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BlackCat Ransomware gang stole secret military data from an industrial explosives manufacturer

Security Affairs

The BlackCat Ransomware group claims to have hacked SOLAR INDUSTRIES INDIA and to have stolen 2TB of “secret military data.” ” The BlackCat Ransomware gang added SOLAR INDUSTRIES INDIA to the list of victims published on its Tor leak site.

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Employees abused systems at Ukrainian nuclear power plant to mine cryptocurrency

Security Affairs

The Ukrainian Secret Service is investigating the case of employees at a nuclear power plant that connected its system online to mine cryp tocurrency. The Ukrainian Secret Service (SBU) launched an investigation after employees at a local nuclear power plant connected some systems of the internal network to the Internet to mine cryptocurrency. The post Employees abused systems at Ukrainian nuclear power plant to mine cryptocurrency appeared first on Security Affairs.

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USAA to add 1,000 tech jobs in Phoenix by end of 2020

Information Management Resources

Military insurer will predominantly be looking to hire software engineers and applications developers, it says. Recruiting Customer experience Analytics Data management Data mining USAA

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Hy Rothman – Searching for Nazis on the Greenland Patrol

Unwritten Record

Harry is a former Navy photographer himself and came across this story while researching military photographers. During WWII the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations interviewed over 600 servicemen from all branches of the military on their activities and experiences in the war. Rothman and the crew survived the ordeal by using 75 of their 80 mines to break through the ice. The digest can be viewed in full below: Military Photographs U.S.

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Pro-Ukraine attackers compromise Docker images to launch DDoS attacks on Russian sites

Security Affairs

Pro-Ukraine hackers, likely linked to Ukraine IT Army , are using Docker images to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against a dozen websites belonging to government, military, and media.

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A brief history of data and how it helped change the world

Collibra

It involved thousands of workers, each of whom required a daily ration of food, which of course had to be grown, harvested and delivered on schedule. . In short, it required a system—a system tracked, 4,500 years ago, with ink on papyrus.

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Jedediah Hotchkiss: Mapmaker of the Confederacy

Unwritten Record

It includes a label that states it should be returned to “Jed. Hotchkiss, Consulting Mining Engineer, “The Oaks,” 346 East Beverly Street, Staunton, Va.” Cartographic Records Civil War Maps Military Uncategorized Cartographic Branch mapsThe Cartographic Branch holds numerous maps created by noted Civil War mapmaker Jedediah Hotchkiss. Born in Windsor, New York, Hotchkiss moved to the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia prior to the Civil War.

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Cartographic’s Favorites of 2017

Unwritten Record

Originally designed and constructed in 1794, it appears that Charles Ware created an illustration of the vessel sometime later during his tenure at the Boston Navy Yard. These help the viewer to better understand this fort and its design. Additionally, a mine appears in the water near the Nashville, potentially posing a threat to the vessel. . It is difficult to choose a favorite when there are so many. Co-written with Amy Edwards.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 264

Security Affairs

Update it now! Breaking News data breach information security news it security news malware Newsletter Pierluigi Paganini Security Affairs Security NewsA new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived!

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Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. KrebsOnSecurity turns 13 years old today.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 312

Security Affairs

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box.

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

Hello and welcome to the final IT Governance podcast of 2018. Also in January, the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) fined Carphone Warehouse £400,000 – one of the largest fines it issued under the DPA (Data Protection Act) 1998 – for multiple security inadequacies that led to a 2015 data breach in which three million customers’ personal data was compromised. that the crooks were only able to mine a paltry $24 – which Coinhive refused to pay out anyway.

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An Update on Still Picture Catalog Additions

Unwritten Record

Army Signal Corps Photographs Of Military Activity During World War II and The Korean Conflict. This series consists of bound photo albums that document American military activities. It has been fully digitized and made available here. Submarine Mine Explosion.

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Email Is the Biggest Threat to Business, So Why Is Everyone Using It?

Adam Levin

In fact, it pre-dates the Internet by decades. It’s the main communication tool for 95% of businesses. It doesn’t have to be this way, but as Yogi Berra once said, “We made too many wrong mistakes.” ” It’s this familiarity and this reliance on email that has made it the target of choice for hackers, and with that a major liability for businesses and consumers alike. People use it because it’s insecure.

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Ethical Hackers: A Business’s Best Friend?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

As a result, businesses are being forced to take the issue of cybersecurity more seriously, facing it head on and putting in place the necessary steps (e.g., It’s important to note that just because a successful test is conducted, that’s not a 100% guarantee a company is secure, but it does help against automated attacks or unskilled hackers. military and Apple regularly offering rewards to anyone who can find and report vulnerabilities.

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50 Years Makes a Difference! How Film Research Has Changed Since the 1972 Conference on Audiovisual Archives

Unwritten Record

1] Now we have more than half a million reels of film, one of the largest collections of film in the world, and it grows every year. It is easier than ever for researchers to obtain viewing copies of films and make their own copies for further study.

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Jen Easterly Takes Charge of CISA At Black Hack USA 2021

ForAllSecure

She is a daughter of a military father and so she went to West Point Academy, as one of the first female cadets. It’s first directory, Chris Krebs, was fired by then-president Tump for saying that the 2020 election was the most secure election in history.

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The Hacker Mind: Hackers Wanted: Filling the Cybersecurity Skills Gap

ForAllSecure

And frankly, neither did I, but she realized it was going to be a growth area -- for ZDNet and for my own personal career. So I holed up for a week and half and read Shon Harris’ amazing CISSP prep guide-- all 1100 pages of it-- cover to cover. It’s simple things like that.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: A Hacker From Hollywood

ForAllSecure

It's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. The film won some artistic praise, but it was also banned in several countries, including Germany. It also offered her a clean start in Hollywood. But whatever it is, inventions are early for me.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Communities

ForAllSecure

Vamosi: It's July once again, and my thoughts naturally turned to hacker summer camp -- Black Hat, BSides, Fuzzcon, DEF CON. And for a lot of us it's their first time out in more than a year. It's changed a lot of things. And it fits on the roads. It's a tourist area.

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EP 49: LoL

ForAllSecure

Vamosi: Whenever there's a data breach, a ransomware attack, large security event in general, I would like to learn something about how it happened. If you think about it, an image file format has a lot of unused space. Think of it as a Trojan horse. It's fun.

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Federal Agency Data is Under Siege

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Originally Featured in Global Military Communications Magazine’s June/July Issue. Its unique capabilities include the design and deployment of equipment, systems and services to meet complex security requirements. Question: Can you provide an overview of the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report, Federal Edition, and elaborate why it’s needed today more than ever? federal IT leaders about data security, data breaches, spending practices, and a gamut of other security-related issues.

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On Finding Rabindranath Tagore

Unwritten Record

It was included in a draft copy of his letter to be read at the centenary celebrations in New York City. In 1913, Gitanjali was translated and published in England in its entirety. Records created by the War Department, Military Intelligence Division between 1918 and 1947, include biographies of leaders, politicians, and significant people such as Tagore. was not bestowed upon one who was ready to accept it while wallowing in the subsoil sewerage of treason.”

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Healthcare

ForAllSecure

There it was on this black and white monitor, the first grainy images of their baby. It was a sort of like a new horizon for them. It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living. Remember using early versions of it.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Healthcare

ForAllSecure

There it was on this black and white monitor, the first grainy images of their baby. It was a sort of like a new horizon for them. It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living. Remember using early versions of it.

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Web 2 Preview: DigitalGlobe: The World Is The Index

John Battelle's Searchblog

And it's known for having the stalwarts of the Internet industry represented as well - leaders from Google, Twitter, Yahoo, AOL, Newscorp, and Microsoft will also be there. It sends super expensive satellites into space, and takes high resolution, geographic-data tagged pictures of every square foot of the earth. It then makes these images available to anyone willing to pay* (and sometimes to those who can't but really need the data, as it did with the recent LA fires).