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GUEST ESSAY: Theft of MQ-9 Reaper docs highlights need to better protect ‘high-value assets’

The Last Watchdog

military information for sale on the Dark Web for a nominal sum, in and of itself, is unfortunate and unremarkable. Here is what is known thus far: Team members of the Insikt Group encountered an English-speaking hacker who jumped on a Dark Web forum to pitch the sale of MQ-9 Reaper UAV docs for $150 to $200.

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Their War Too: U.S. Women in the Military During WWII. Part II

Unwritten Record

In part I of this two-part series, we discussed the role women played in the military during World War II by highlighting those who served in the Women’s Army Corps (WAC), the Coast Guard Women’s Reserve (SPARS), and the Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASP) during World War II. In part II, we will discuss female service members of the U.S.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 414 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

Security Affairs

billion rubles. billion rubles.

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Canadian Police Raid ‘Orcus RAT’ Author

Krebs on Security

I tend to have a violent nature, and have both Martial arts and Military training. The sale and marketing of remote administration tools is not illegal in the United States, and indeed there are plenty of such tools sold by legitimate companies to help computer experts remotely administer computers.

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New Leak Shows Business Side of China’s APT Menace

Krebs on Security

A large cache of more than 500 documents published to GitHub last week indicate the records come from i-SOON , a technology company headquartered in Shanghai that is perhaps best known for providing cybersecurity training courses throughout China. i-SOON CEO Wu Haibo, in 2011. i-SOON CEO Wu Haibo, in 2011. Image: nattothoughts.substack.com.

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2022 Cyber Security Review of the Year

IT Governance

Tensions rose throughout February as the Russian military amassed across the Ukrainian border. Although Vladimir Putin and his sympathisers assured the world that they were simply conducting military exercises, the inevitable occurred on 24 February, when troops mobilised and war was declared.

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Ransomware Protection in 2021

eSecurity Planet

With vulnerabilities rooted in unsuspecting users, the task of preventing these attacks means both staff training and a robust email and network security system that includes a strong backup program so you have a recent copy of your data that you can roll back to. Also Read: Best Encryption Tools & Software for 2021. Staff Awareness.