Meant to provide federal agencies with guidance on securing their networks while ensuring that remote users do have access to internal resources, the document was produced in collaboration with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Federal Chief Information Security Officer Council (FCISO) Trusted Internet Connections (TIC) Subcommittee, and the General Services Administration. The […]
Also known as Black Banshee, Velvet Chollima, and Thallium, the adversary is believed to have been active since at least 2012, mainly targeting think tanks in South Korea, but more recently expanding operations to the United States, Europe, and Russia. Last week, the United States published an alert containing information on the activities of the […]
We have seen a concerning pattern in the recent data breaches, including the breach at the Internal Revenue Services (IRS) and other US government agencies in that the primary target was Social Security Numbers (SSN) and other Personal Identifying Information (PII). Criminals typically started by stealing data from smaller, less protected organizations and then used […]
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