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Targeted operation against Ukraine exploited 7-year-old MS Office bug

Security Affairs

It’s a PPSX file, seemingly an outdated US Army manual for tank mine clearing blades (MCB). The payload includes a dynamic-link library (vpn.sessings) that injects the post-exploitation tool Cobalt Strike Beacon into memory and awaits commands from the C2 server. The PPSX file contains a remote link to an external OLE object.

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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. “Container and cloud-based resources are being abused to deploy disruptive tools. ” reported Crowdstrike.

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CMMS vs. EAM: Two asset management tools that work great together

IBM Big Data Hub

In the oil and gas or mining industries, for example, there is a strong need to bring safety, reliability and compliance information into workflows. Despite some overlap, they are not the same and have key differences in functionality, approach and business context, offering different management tools and resources.

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Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

Several strong themes emerged from 2022’s crop of breaches, including the targeting or impersonating of employees to gain access to internal company tools; multiple intrusions at the same victim company; and less-than-forthcoming statements from victim firms about what actually transpired.

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

Collibra

Cloud storage, text mining and social network analytics are vital 21 st century tools. Collecting data at military hospitals, she realized that infectious disease and poor sanitation were killing more soldiers than war injuries. As a result, military medical care was reformed. . Data collection is what we do.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Healthcare

ForAllSecure

Ahmadi: Solar Winds is a company that makes you know, networking, monitoring tools for. And then the tools are used by government entities and accruals are used by big industries and it's one of the more popular and robust packages out there. Because it's network monitoring tools. Remember using early versions of it.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Healthcare

ForAllSecure

Ahmadi: Solar Winds is a company that makes you know, networking, monitoring tools for. And then the tools are used by government entities and accruals are used by big industries and it's one of the more popular and robust packages out there. Because it's network monitoring tools. Remember using early versions of it.

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