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🛠 Zeek 3.2.1 🛠

Zeek is a powerful network analysis framework that is much different from the typical IDS you may know. While focusing on network security monitoring, Zeek provides a comprehensive platform for more general network traffic analysis as well. Well grounded in more than 15 years of research, Zeek has successfully bridged the traditional gap between academia and operations since its inception. Today, it is relied upon operationally in particular by many scientific environments for securing their cyber-infrastructure. Zeek's user community includes major universities, research labs, supercomputing centers, and open-science communities.

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via "Security Tool Files ≈ Packet Storm".
Bluetooth Bug Opens Devices to Man-in-the-Middle Attacks

The "BLURtooth" flaw allows attackers within wireless range to bypass authentication keys and snoop on devices utilizing implementations of Bluetooth 4.0 through 5.0.

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via "Threatpost".
🔐 How ransomware attacks are growing in severity 🔐

Demands are sharply higher, and the complexity and costs of addressing an attack are increasing, according to cyber insurance provider Coalition.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
🕴 Managed IT Providers: The Cyber-Threat Actors' Gateway to SMBs 🕴

Criminals have made MSPs a big target of their attacks. That should concern small and midsize businesses a great deal.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
🕴 Think You're Spending Enough on Security? 🕴

While the amount will vary from organization to organization, here are four ways for everyone to evaluate whether they're allocating the right amount of money and resources.

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🔏 How to Mitigate a DDoS Attack 🔏

Following a rash of targeted denial-of-service (DoS) and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks worldwide, countries are offering guidance.

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ATENTION New - CVE-2018-17145

Bitcoin Core 0.16.x before 0.16.2 and Bitcoin Knots 0.16.x before 0.16.2 allow remote denial of service via a flood of multiple transaction inv messages with random hashes, aka INVDoS. NOTE: this can also affect other cryptocurrencies, e.g., if they were forked from Bitcoin Core after 2017-11-15.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
🕴 Zoom Brings Two-Factor Authentication to All Users 🕴

This marks the latest step Zoom has taken to improve user security as more employees work from home.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
🔐 How to manage app permissions in Android 11 🔐

With your Android device upgraded to version 11, you'll want to get control of app permissions. Jack Wallen shows you how.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
Razer Gaming Fans Caught Up in Data Leak

A cloud misconfiguration at the gaming-gear merchant potentially exposed 100,000 customers to phishing and fraud.

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via "Threatpost".
Microsoft Warns of Cyberattacks on Trump, Biden Election Campaigns

Just months before the U.S. presidential election, hackers from Russia, China and Iran are ramping up phishing and malware attacks against campaign staffers.

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via "Threatpost".
🕴 ThreatConnect Buys Nehemiah Security 🕴

Threat intelligence firm adds Nehemiah's Risk Quantifier to its platform.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
🕴 6 Lessons IT Security Can Learn From DevOps 🕴

DevOps has taken over enterprise software development. The discipline has lessons for IT security -- here are a quick half-dozen.

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🕴 Two Years on from GDPR: Has It Driven Growth in Cybersecurity Insurance? 🕴

Whilst GDPR has put the spotlight on data privacy and cyber issues, there are other more prominent trends that are driving a greater take-up of cyber insurance, says Ben Maidment, Class Underwriter - Cyber, Physical & Technology at Brit Insurance.

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🕴 US Sanctions Russian Attackers for 2020 Election Interference 🕴

The move comes as Microsoft publishes research on attack groups and activity attempting to target the Biden and Trump campaigns.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
🕴 Cyber-Risks Explode With Move to Telehealth Services 🕴

The hasty shift to online delivery of primary care services since the COVID-19 outbreak has attracted significant attacker interest.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
ATENTION New - CVE-2014-1420

On desktop, Ubuntu UI Toolkit's StateSaver would serialise data on tmp/ files which an attacker could use to expose potentially sensitive data. StateSaver would also open files without the O_EXCL flag. An attacker could exploit this to launch a symlink attack, though this is partially mitigated by symlink and hardlink restrictions in Ubuntu. Fixed in 1.1.1188+14.10.20140813.4-0ubuntu1.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
🕴 Fraud Prevention During the Pandemic 🕴

When the economy is disrupted, fraud goes up, so let's not ignore the lessons we can learn from previous downturns.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
🔏 Friday Five 9/11 🔏

Initial access brokers, scam domain names, and Brazil's new data protection law - catch up on the week's news with the Friday Five.

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Serious Security: Hacking Windows passwords via your wallpaper

Themes and wallpapers - how dangerous can they really be?

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via "Naked Security".
🕴 Spear-Phishers Leverage Office 365 Ecosystem to Validate Stolen Creds in Real Time 🕴

New attack technique uses Office 365 APIs to cross-check credentials against Azure Active Directory as victim types them in.

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via "Dark Reading: ".