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ATENTIONβ€Ό New - CVE-2020-12441

Denial-of-Service (DoS) in Ivanti Service Manager HEAT Remote Control 7.4 due to a buffer overflow in the protocol parser of the Ò€˜HEATRemoteServiceÒ€ℒ agent. The DoS can be triggered by sending a specially crafted network packet.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
❌ Canon Admits Ransomware Attack in Employee Note, Report ❌

The consumer-electronics giant has suffered partial outages across its U.S. website and internal systems, reportedly thanks to the Maze gang.

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via "Threatpost".
πŸ•΄ OpenText Blends Security, Data Protection for Greater Cyber Resilience πŸ•΄

SPONSORED CONTENT: Infosec professionals are taking advantage of technology hybrids to keep users, data, and their networks more safe, according to Hal Lonas of OpenText's Webroot division. And they're also finding new ways to use artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve security management and reduce risk.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ Office 365's Vast Attack Surface & All the Ways You Don't Know You're Being Exploited Through It πŸ•΄

Mandiant incident response managers Josh Madeley and Doug Bienstock describe how thoroughly Microsoft 365 (formerly known as Office 365) extends into corporate networks, describe both sophisticated and simple attacks they've detected, and suggest mitigations as businesses rely more heavily on the cloud.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ Information Operations Spotlighted at Black Hat as Election Worries Rise πŸ•΄

From Russia's "best-in-class" efforts at widening social divides in Western democracies to China's blunt attacks on dissidents, information operations are becoming a greater threat, says a Stanford researcher.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ Exploiting Google Cloud Platform With Ease πŸ•΄

Security engineer Dylan Ayrey and Cruise senior infrastructure security engineer Allison Donovan describe fundamental weaknesses in GCP identity management that enable privilege escalation and lateral movement.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ On 'Invisible Salamanders' and Insecure Messages πŸ•΄

Cornell researcher Paul Grubbs discusses how vulnerabilities found in Facebook Messenger encryption could mean trouble for your secure messages.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ” What Does a Data Breach Cost in 2020? πŸ”

Ponemon Institute's annual Cost of a Data Breach report tracks how industry data breach costs have changed over time.

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via "Subscriber Blog RSS Feed ".
❌ Black Hat 2020: Mercedes-Benz E-Series Rife with 19 Bugs ❌

Researchers went into detail about the discovery and disclosure of 19 security flaws they found in Mercedes-Benz vehicles, which have all been fixed.

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via "Threatpost".
πŸ•΄ Where Dark Reading Goes Next πŸ•΄

Dark Reading Editor-in-Chief gives a complete rundown of all the Dark Reading projects you might not even know about, his insight into the future of the security industry, and how we plan to cover it.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ A Mix of Optimism and Pessimism for Security of the 2020 Election πŸ•΄

DHS CISA's Christopher Krebs and Georgetown University's Matt Blaze at Black Hat USA give the lowdown on where things stand and what still needs to happen to protect the integrity of November's election.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ Researchers Create New Framework to Evaluate User Security Awareness πŸ•΄

Approaches based on questionnaires and self-evaluation are not always a good indicator of how well a user can mitigate social engineering threats.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
ATENTIONβ€Ό New - CVE-2020-15114

In etcd before versions 3.3.23 and 3.4.10, the etcd gateway is a simple TCP proxy to allow for basic service discovery and access. However, it is possible to include the gateway address as an endpoint. This results in a denial of service, since the endpoint can become stuck in a loop of requesting itself until there are no more available file descriptors to accept connections on the gateway.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
ATENTIONβ€Ό New - CVE-2020-11937

In whoopsie, parse_report() from whoopsie.c allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted file. The DoS is caused by resource exhaustion due to a memory leak. Fixed in 0.2.52.5ubuntu0.5, 0.2.62ubuntu0.5 and 0.2.69ubuntu0.1.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
❌ Black Hat 2020: Influence Campaigns Are a Cybersecurity Problem ❌

An inside look at how nation-states use social media to influence, confuse and divide -- and why cybersecurity researchers should be involved.

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via "Threatpost".
πŸ•΄ Getting to the Root: How Researchers Identify Zero-Days in the Wild πŸ•΄

Google Project Zero researcher Maddie Stone explains the importance of identifying flaws exploited in the wild and techniques used to do it.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
❌ Augmenting AWS Security Controls ❌

Appropriate use of native security controls in AWS and other CSPs is fundamental to managing cloud risk and avoiding costly breaches.

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via "Threatpost".
⚠ Business Email Compromise – fighting back with machine learning ⚠

Machine learning models are immune to blandishments, threats, flattery and so - so why not set them against social engineers?

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via "Naked Security".
❌ Hackers Dump 20GB of Intel’s Confidential Data Online ❌

Chipmaker investigates a leak of intellectual property from its partner and customer resource center.

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via "Threatpost".
πŸ•΄ IoT Security During COVID-19: What We've Learned & Where We're Going πŸ•΄

Vigilance and ongoing training combined with an integrated security framework are key aspects of a successful strategy in the fight against the latest crop of pandemic opportunists.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ” Report: Two new encryption standards will soon sweep away security controls πŸ”

Security professionals must act before TLS 1.3 and DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) are implemented or they won't be able to analyze network traffic and detect cyberthreats, warns Forrester Research.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".