Friday, 28 November 2025

Rolling Meadows, Illinois, USA: ISACA, a non-profit association of 100,000 IT professionals in 180 countries, today released further insights from its 2012 IT Risk/Reward Barometer. The results from this study confirm an understanding of the risk posed by employee activities with both work and personal devices. For example, a consistently high percentage of respondents across all regions cited the storing of passwords in a file on a personal device as posing a high risk to the enterprise (ranging from 72% in Asia Pacific to 81% in the US). This fluctuated more dramatically when referring to the same habit, but on a work-supplied device (ranging from 44% in the UK to 74% in Africa).

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In a recent public disclosure via pastebin.com TeamGhostShell claimed to have stolen 1.6 million records off public websites such as NASA, FBI and more under a project named “Project White Fox.”

An open letter that TeamGhostShell published states that the campaign is more of an effort to encourage Hacktivism rather than focus on a target like other groups usually do. Below is an analysis of the hack that occurred and how it was carried out by Imperva:

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Data vulnerability announcements have been rising steadily for both enterprise and government organisations for years. By some accounts, there are as many as 22,000 new malware threats unleashed per day.

Attackers are improving their exploitation tactics greatly, whether to display pop-up advertisements, install spyware to spy on users’ Web browsing habits, insert Trojans or, in this case, use cleverly crafted queries designed to steal passwords and log-in information.

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