🕴 3 Drivers Behind the Increasing Frequency of DDoS Attacks 🕴
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What's causing the uptick? Motivation, opportunity, and new capabilities.📖 Read
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3 Drivers Behind the Increasing Frequency of DDoS Attacks
What's causing the uptick? Motivation, opportunity, and new capabilities.
⚠ Warning issued as Netflix subscribers hit by phishing attack ⚠
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Netflix phishing scammers are at it again, sending emails that try to steal sensitive details from subscribers.📖 Read
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Warning issued as Netflix subscribers hit by phishing attack
Netflix phishing scammers are at it again, sending emails that try to steal sensitive details from subscribers.
⚠ Bitcoin flaw could have allowed dreaded 51% takeover ⚠
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The scenario was always hypothetical but the fact such a thing was even possible until this week has left some in the Bitcoin community feeling alarmed.📖 Read
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Bitcoin flaw could have allowed dreaded 51% takeover
The scenario was always hypothetical but the fact such a thing was even possible until this week has left some in the Bitcoin community feeling alarmed.
🕴 Executive Branch Makes Significant Progress As DMARC Deadline Nears 🕴
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The DHS directive on email security has an approaching deadline that most departments in the executive branch might actually meet.📖 Read
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Executive Branch Makes Significant Progress As DMARC Deadline Nears
The DHS directive on email security has an approaching deadline that most departments in the executive branch might actually meet.
🔐 You can now trade oil and wheat on the blockchain, as commodities hit the platform 🔐
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In an effort to increase transparency and prevent fraud, blockchain may be the next platform for trading goods.📖 Read
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You can now trade oil and wheat on the blockchain, as commodities hit the platform
In an effort to increase transparency and prevent fraud, blockchain may be the next platform for trading goods.
🕴 Data Manipulation: How Security Pros Can Respond to an Emerging Threat 🕴
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Industry leaders are scrambling to address the issue, which will take new thinking to overcome.📖 Read
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Data Manipulation: How Security Pros Can Respond to an Emerging Threat
Industry leaders are scrambling to address the issue, which will take new thinking to overcome.
❌ Unpatched Microsoft Zero-Day in JET Allows Remote Code-Execution ❌
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Microsoft said that it's working on a fix for a zero-day flaw in its JET Database Engine.📖 Read
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Unpatched Microsoft Zero-Day in JET Allows Remote Code-Execution
Microsoft said that it’s working on a fix for a zero-day flaw in its JET Database Engine.
🕴 US Approves Cyber Weapons Against Foreign Enemies 🕴
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The White House is changing the rules on its use of digital weapons to fight adversaries targeting US networks.📖 Read
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🕴 6 Security Training Hacks to Increase Cyber IQ Org-Wide 🕴
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Move beyond generic, annual security awareness training with these important tips.📖 Read
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6 Security Training Hacks to Increase Cyber IQ Org-Wide
Move beyond generic, annual security awareness training with these important tips.
ATENTION‼ New - CVE-2013-7203
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gitolite before commit fa06a34 might allow local users to read arbitrary files in repositories via vectors related to the user umask when running gitolite setup.📖 Read
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ATENTION‼ New - CVE-2013-4451
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gitolite commit fa06a34 through 3.5.3 might allow attackers to have unspecified impact via vectors involving world-writable permissions when creating (1) ~/.gitolite.rc, (2) ~/.gitolite, or (3) ~/repositories/gitolite-admin.git on fresh installs.📖 Read
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🕴 Romanian Hacker Pleads Guilty for Role in Inauguration Surveillance Ransomware 🕴
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Attack against the Metropolitan Police Department was disrupted before malware could be sent to additional systems.📖 Read
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Romanian Hacker Pleads Guilty for Role in Inauguration Surveillance Ransomware
Attack against the Metropolitan Police Department was disrupted before malware could be sent to additional systems.
❌ Delphi Packer Looks for Human Behavior Before Deploying Payload ❌
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Many different threat actors are using this crypting service/tool for their operations, possibly buying it from the developer itself.📖 Read
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Delphi Packer Looks for Human Behavior Before Deploying Payload
Many different threat actors are using this crypting service/tool for their operations, possibly buying it from the developer itself.
❌ Twitter Flaw Exposed Direct Messages To External Developers ❌
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The company said it has issued a patch for the issue, which has been ongoing since May 2017.📖 Read
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Twitter Flaw Exposed Direct Messages To External Developers
The company said it has issued a patch for the issue, which has been ongoing since May 2017.
🔐 10 signs you aren't cut out to be a cybersecurity specialist 🔐
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A career as a cybersecurity specialist requires more than just technical skills. Cybersecurity professionals also tend to have specific personalities. Do you qualify?📖 Read
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10 signs you may not be cut out for a cybersecurity job
A career as a cybersecurity specialist requires more than just technical skills. Cybersecurity professionals also tend to have specific personalities. Do you qualify?
🔐 10 signs you aren't cut out to be a cybersecurity specialist 🔐
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via "Security on TechRepublic".
A career as a cybersecurity specialist requires more than just technical skills. Cybersecurity professionals also tend to have specific personalities. Do you qualify?📖 Read
via "Security on TechRepublic".
TechRepublic
10 signs you may not be cut out for a cybersecurity job
A career as a cybersecurity specialist requires more than just technical skills. Cybersecurity professionals also tend to have specific personalities. Do you qualify?
🕴 The 'Opsec Fail' That Helped Unmask a North Korean State Hacker 🕴
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How Park Jin Hyok - charged by the US government for alleged computer crimes for the Sony, Bank of Bangladesh, WannaCry cyberattacks - inadvertently blew his cover via email accounts.📖 Read
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The 'Opsec Fail' That Helped Unmask a North Korean State Hacker
How Park Jin Hyok - charged by the US government for alleged computer crimes for the Sony, Bank of Bangladesh, WannaCry cyberattacks - inadvertently blew his cover via email accounts.
❌ Critical Vulnerability Found in Cisco Video Surveillance Manager ❌
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Cisco has patched vulnerability in its video surveillance manager software that could give an unauthenticated, remote attacker the ability to execute arbitrary commands on targeted systems.📖 Read
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Critical Vulnerability Found in Cisco Video Surveillance Manager
Cisco has patched vulnerability in its video surveillance manager software that could give an unauthenticated, remote attacker the ability to execute arbitrary commands on targeted systems.
🔐 ProTip: Automate setting a firmware password on Apple computers 🔐
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Securing Mac computers means more than just protecting the data. Limiting the ways a user can gain access to a device--including bypassing the existing OS or resetting account passwords is easily enabled with a simple command.📖 Read
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How to automate setting a firmware password on Apple computers
Securing Mac computers means more than just protecting the data--limiting how a user can gain access to a device is easy to enable with a simple command.
❌ Podcast: Two Billion IoT Devices Still Vulnerable to BlueBorne Bug ❌
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Up to two billion devices are still vulnerable to the BlueBorne IoT attack - and may not ever get a patch.📖 Read
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Podcast: Two Billion IoT Devices Still Vulnerable to BlueBorne Bug
Up to two billion devices are still vulnerable to the BlueBorne IoT attack - and may not ever get a patch.
⚠ Monday review – the hot 19 stories of the week ⚠
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From iOS security updates to Netflix phishing attacks, catch up with everything we've written in the last seven days - it's weekly roundup time.📖 Read
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Monday review – the hot 19 stories of the week
From iOS security updates to Netflix phishing attacks, catch up with everything we’ve written in the last seven days – it’s weekly roundup time.