🔏 Sweeping Federal Cybersecurity Upgrades Needed to Defend US 🔏
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A new report says the federal government and the private sector needs to better defend the United States in cyberspace.📖 Read
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Sweeping Federal Cybersecurity Upgrades Needed to Defend US
A new report says the federal government and the private sector needs to better defend the United States in cyberspace.
🔐 February sees huge jump in exploits designed to spread Mirai botnet 🔐
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The Mirai botnet is known for targeting Internet of Things devices and conducting massive DDoS attacks, as described by cyberthreat researcher Check Point Research.📖 Read
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February sees huge jump in exploits designed to spread Mirai botnet
The Mirai botnet is known for targeting Internet of Things devices and conducting massive DDoS attacks, as described by cyberthreat researcher Check Point Research.
🔐 Cybersecurity pros are using artificial intelligence but still prefer the human touch 🔐
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More than half of organizations have adopted AI for security efforts, but a majority are more confident in results verified by humans, according to WhiteHat Security.📖 Read
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❌ Flaws Riddle Zyxel’s Network Management Software ❌
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Over 16 security flaws, including multiple backdoors and hardcoded SSH server keys, plague the software.📖 Read
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Flaws Riddle Zyxel’s Network Management Software
Over 16 security flaws, including multiple backdoors and hardcoded SSH server keys, plague the software.
🕴 COVID-19 Drives Rush to Remote Work. Is Your Security Team Ready? 🕴
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A rapid transition to remote work puts pressure on security teams to understand and address a wave of potential security risks.📖 Read
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COVID-19 Drives Rush to Remote Work. Is Your Security Team Ready?
A rapid transition to remote work puts pressure on security teams to understand and address a wave of potential security risks.
🕴 Microsoft Discloses New Remote Execution Flaw in SMBv3 🕴
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A patch for the flaw is not yet available, but there are no known exploits -- so far.📖 Read
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🕴 Ransomware Increasingly Targeting Small Governments 🕴
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To get back up and running quickly, and because it's cheaper, city and county governments often pay the ransom, especially if insurance companies are footing the bill. The result: More ransomware.📖 Read
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Ransomware Increasingly Targeting Small Governments
To get back up and running quickly, and because it's cheaper, city and county governments often pay the ransom, especially if insurance companies are footing the bill. The result: More ransomware.
🕴 Cyberspace Solarium Commission Slams US Cybersecurity Readiness 🕴
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The federal commission outlined more than 60 recommendations to remedy major security problems.📖 Read
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Cyberspace Solarium Commission Slams US Cybersecurity Readiness
The federal commission outlined more than 60 recommendations to remedy major security problems.
ATENTION‼ New - CVE-2016-1000111
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Twisted before 16.3.1 does not attempt to address RFC 3875 section 4.1.18 namespace conflicts and therefore does not protect CGI applications from the presence of untrusted client data in the HTTP_PROXY environment variable, which might allow remote attackers to redirect a CGI application's outbound HTTP traffic to an arbitrary proxy server via a crafted Proxy header in an HTTP request, aka an "httpoxy" issue.📖 Read
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⚠ Necurs zombie botnet disrupted by Microsoft ⚠
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Necurs, one of the world's biggest botnets, infected over 9 million computers worldwide.📖 Read
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⚠ Analytics firm’s VPN and ad-blocking apps are secretly grabbing user data ⚠
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Both Google and Apple have removed at least some of the apps from the company, Sensor Tower.📖 Read
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Analytics firm’s VPN and ad-blocking apps are secretly grabbing user data
Both Google and Apple have removed at least some of the apps from the company, Sensor Tower.
🔐 Dell: Cost of data loss per organization surpassed $1M in the past year 🔐
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Businesses now manage an average of 13.53 petabytes of data, but struggle to keep it secure.📖 Read
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Dell: Cost of data loss per organization surpassed $1M in the past year
Businesses now manage an average of 13.53 petabytes of data, but struggle to keep it secure.
⚠ Intel patches graphics drivers and offers new LVI flaw mitigations ⚠
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Intel’s March security updates reached its customers this week and the dominant theme is the bundle of flaws affecting Graphics drivers.📖 Read
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Intel patches graphics drivers and offers new LVI flaw mitigations
Intel’s March security updates reached its customers this week and the dominant theme is the bundle of flaws affecting Graphics drivers.
❌ Akamai Talks Massive Uptick in Credential-Stuffing Attacks Against Bank APIs ❌
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Researchers with Akamai say that 75 percent of all credential abuse attacks against the financial services industry were targeting APIs.📖 Read
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Akamai Talks Massive Uptick in Credential-Stuffing Attacks Against Bank APIs
Researchers with Akamai say that 75 percent of all credential abuse attacks against the financial services industry were targeting APIs.
🕴 Back to the Future: A Threat Intelligence Journey 🕴
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Threat intelligence needs the problem solvers, the curious ones, the mission seekers, the analytical minds, the defenders, and the fierce -- whatever their gender.📖 Read
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Back to the Future: A Threat Intelligence Journey
Threat intelligence needs the problem solvers, the curious ones, the mission seekers, the analytical minds, the defenders, and the fierce -- whatever their gender.
❌ $100K Paid Out for Google Cloud Shell Root Compromise ❌
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A Dutch researcher claimed Google's very first annual Cloud Platform bug-bounty prize, for a clever container escape exploit.📖 Read
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$100K Paid Out for Google Cloud Shell Root Compromise
A Dutch researcher claimed Google's very firstl annual Cloud Platform bug-bounty prize, for a clever container escape exploit.
⚠ Firefox 74 offers privacy and security updates ⚠
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A month after shipping version 73 of its Firefox browser, Mozilla has released version 74 with a range of privacy and security enhancements.📖 Read
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Firefox 74 offers privacy and security updates
A month after shipping version 73 of its Firefox browser, Mozilla has released version 74 with a range of privacy and security enhancements.
⚠ Data of millions of eBay and Amazon shoppers exposed ⚠
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Eight million customer records belonging to companies including Amazon, eBay, Shopify, PayPal, and Stripe were collected.📖 Read
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🔐 Cybercriminals raking in $1.5 trillion every year 🔐
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Research from Atlas VPN found that criminals' net proceeds outpace the revenue made by tech giants each year.📖 Read
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Cybercriminals raking in $1.5 trillion every year | TechRepublic
Research from Atlas VPN found that criminals' net proceeds outpace the revenue made by tech giants each year.
🕴 Microsoft Patches Leaked Remote Code Execution Flaw 🕴
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A vulnerability in Microsoft's Server Message Block protocol prompted concerns of wormable exploits when it was disclosed this week.📖 Read
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🕴 Working from Home? These Tips Can Help You Adapt 🕴
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COVID-19 means many people are doing their jobs from outside the confines of the office. That may not be as easy as it sounds.📖 Read
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Working from Home? These Tips Can Help You Adapt
COVID-19 means many people are doing their jobs from outside the confines of the office. That may not be as easy as it sounds.