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Cybersecurity Maturity Assessment by International Experts to Inform Bangladesh’s Renewal of National Strategy

Cybersecurity Maturity Assessment by International Experts to Inform Bangladesh’s Renewal of National Strategy

On 26 June 2018, Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC), Information and Communication Technology Division, Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology (MoPTIT), Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh signed a contract with Norway Registers Development AS in joint venture with NRD CS UAB and Algoritmu Sistemos UAB to provide consultancy services for development of cyber security strategy, assessment of critical infrastructure, provision of self-assessment toolkit,...

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BGD e-GOV CIRT has successfully participated on APCERT Cyber Drill 2018

BGD e-GOV CIRT has successfully participated on APCERT Cyber Drill 2018

The Asia Pacific Computer Emergency Response Team (APCERT) today has successfully completed its annual drill to test the response capability of leading Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRT) within the Asia Pacific economies. For the fifth time, APCERT involved the participation of members from the Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation – Computer Emergency Response Team (OIC-CERT) in this annual drill. The theme of this year’s...

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EC Council to train over 100 Top Government Officials of Bangladesh in combating cyber threats

EC Council to train over 100 Top Government Officials of Bangladesh in combating cyber threats

EC Council and BGD e-GOV CIRT have recently signed a MoU, with a joint vision to provide ANSI Certified C|CISO certification to Bangladesh Government’s top security professionals across ministries, that are eligible for the course. The attendees of the course will range from business, police, military, paramilitary forces, telecom and other top government officials at leadership positions. Under the scope of the MoU, the courseware...

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OWASP Releases the Top 10 2017 Security Risks

OWASP Releases the Top 10 2017 Security Risks

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) has officially released its Top 10 most critical web application security risks four years after its last update, in 2013. As in previous years, injection remained the top application security risk, but there has been some shuffling in the ranking, with the appearance of three newcomers — XML External Entities (XXE), Insecure Deserialization and Insufficient Logging & Monitoring....

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Member of the Board of Directors of FIRST.org visits BGD e-GOV CIRT

Member of the Board of Directors of FIRST.org visits BGD e-GOV CIRT

Member of the Board of Directors of FIRST.Org, Inc and Senior Internet Security Specialist of APNIC Mr. Adli Wahid has visited BGD e-GOV CIRT Headquarter situated in ICT Tower, Dhaka today (23 October 2017). During his presence in BGD e-GOV CIRT, he attended in a friendly meeting with CIRT Team, represented by Mr. Tawhidur Rahman, Team Leader, BGD e-GOV CIRT. He also attended in two...

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Key Reinstallation Attacks: Forcing Nonce Reuse in WPA2

Key Reinstallation Attacks: Forcing Nonce Reuse in WPA2

On October 16th, 2017, a research paper with the title of “Key Reinstallation Attacks: Forcing Nonce Reuse in WPA2” was made publicly available. This paper discusses seven vulnerabilities affecting session key negotiation in both the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) and the Wi-Fi Protected Access II (WPA2) protocols. These vulnerabilities may allow the reinstallation of a pairwise transient key, a group key, or an integrity key...

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BGD e-GOV CIRT has successfully participated on OIC CERT Cyber Security Drill 2017

BGD e-GOV CIRT has successfully participated on OIC CERT Cyber Security Drill 2017

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation – Computer Emergency Response Teams (OIC-CERT) CYBER SECURITY DRILL is an annual event for OIC-CERT members to build a better and secure Cybersecurity ecosystem, including the capacity in incident handling with suitable and comprehensive response as well as engaging better collaboration and coordination among CSIRT organizations from different countries. The final goal of this event is to get a more...

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BGD e-GOV CIRT has received operational membership from APCERT

BGD e-GOV CIRT has received operational membership from APCERT

Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) is taking necessary measures to improve Bangladesh’s capability to manage the risks related to digital revolution and deal with fast growing cybercrime. Bangladesh e-Government Computer Incident Response Team (BGD e-GOV CIRT) was established at BCC under the project “Leveraging ICT for Growth, Employment and Governance Project (LICT)”. What is BGD e-GOV CIRT? The Computer Incident Response Team (CIRT) investigates and resolves...

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BGD e-GOV CIRT has received full membership from OIC-CERT

BGD e-GOV CIRT has received full membership from OIC-CERT

Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) is taking necessary measures to improve Bangladesh’s capability to manage the risks related to digital revolution and deal with fast growing cybercrime. Bangladesh e-Government Computer Incident Response Team (BGD e-GOV CIRT) was established at BCC under the project “Leveraging ICT for Growth, Employment and Governance Project (LICT)”. What is BGD e-GOV CIRT? The Computer Incident Response Team (CIRT) investigates and resolves...

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Cross-Platform Malware Adwind RAT !!!

Cross-Platform Malware Adwind RAT !!!

Threat Level Medium Security experts at TrendMicro discovered that the notorious Adwind RAT has resurfaced targeting enterprises in the Aerospace industries worldwide. Adwind is a cross-platform Remote Access Trojan written in Java, it was detected recently in attacks against aerospace enterprises in Switzerland, Austria, Ukraine, and the US. The Adwind RAT was first discovered early 2012, the experts dubbed it Frutas RAT and later it was identified with...

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