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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ New FCC Pilot Shores Up Security for K-12, Libraries πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ

Datarich and resourcepoor, schools and libraries around the country make attractive targets for cybercriminals looking for an easy score, but a new federal program is looking to aid their defenses by providing muchneeded financial support.

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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ Authenticator for X, TikTok Exposes Personal User Info for 18 Months πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ

With many popular apps, users must hand over personal information to prove their identity, and the big downside is they have no control over how that information gets processed and stored.

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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ Beazley Security Launches With MXDR Offering πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ

The combined skills from Beazley's cybersecurity services team and Lodestone will go into the company's new managed extended detection and response MXDR service.

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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ Dark Reading Confidential: Meet the Ransomware Negotiators πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ

Episode 2 Incident response expertsturnedransomware negotiators Ed Dubrovsky, COO and managing partner of CYPFER, and Joe Tarraf, chief delivery officer of Surefire Cyber, explain how they interact with cyber threat actors who hold victim organizations' systems and data for ransom. Among their fascinating stories how they negotiated with cybercriminals to restore operations in a hospital NICU where lives were at stake, and how they helped a church, where the attackers themselves "got a little religion.".

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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ MOVEit Transfer Flaws Push Security Defense Into a Race With Attackers πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ

While Progress has released patches for the vulnerabilities, attackers are trying to exploit them before organizations have a chance to remediate.

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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ Your Phone's 5G Connection is Vulnerable to Bypass, DoS Attacks πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ

Wireless service providers prioritize uptime and lag time, occasionally at the cost of security, allowing attackers to take advantage, steal data, and worse.

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🦿 AI Is Changing the Way Enterprises Look at Trust: Deloitte & SAP Weigh In 🦿

Generative AI for enterprises can help or hurt. Heres how to maintain trust in the age of AI.

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πŸ–‹οΈ Researchers Warn of Flaws in Widely Used Industrial Gas Analysis Equipment πŸ–‹οΈ

Multiple security flaws have been disclosed in Emerson Rosemount gas chromatographs that could be exploited by malicious actors to obtain sensitive information, induce a denialofservice DoS condition, and even execute arbitrary commands. The flaws impact GC370XA, GC700XA, and GC1500XA and reside in versions 4.1.5 and prior. According to operational technology OT security firm Claroty, the.

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πŸ–‹οΈ TeamViewer Detects Security Breach in Corporate IT Environment πŸ–‹οΈ

TeamViewer on Thursday disclosed it detected an "irregularity" in its internal corporate IT environment on June 26, 2024. "We immediately activated our response team and procedures, started investigations together with a team of globally renowned cyber security experts and implemented necessary remediation measures," the company said in a statement. It further noted that its corporate IT.

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πŸš€ ESET Threat Report H1 2024 πŸš€

A view of the H1 2024 threat landscape as seen by ESET telemetry and from the perspective of ESET threat detection and research experts.

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πŸ“” Google Thwarts Over 10,000 Attempts by Chinese Influence Operator πŸ“”

Google warned of high levels of activity from Chinese influence operator Dragon Bridge, which is increasingly experimenting with generative AI tools to create content.

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πŸ¦… Cyble Recognized in Forrester’s Attack Surface Management Solutions Landscape Q2 2024 Report πŸ¦…

Organizations need to eliminate digital risks, blind spots, and potential threats, and ensure effective detection and response. This is where Attack Surface Management ASM comes into play.  Understanding Attack Surface Management  ASM as a solution has evolved in the past 4 5 years with an aim to help security teams gain visibility into unknown technology assets. Initially, it focused into two areas  External Attack Surface Management EASM Focusing on externally facing assets from an attackers perspective.  Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management CAASM Concentrates on internal assets from a defenders viewpoint.  Today, the capabilities EASM and CASM have converged  to provide a unified approach to managing an organizations entire attack surface and help organizations priorit...

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πŸ“’ Microsoft confirms customer emails were stolen during Midnight Blizzard breach πŸ“’

Microsoft has begun notifying certain customers that there emails were accessed by threat actors in a breach.

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πŸ–‹οΈ New SnailLoad Attack Exploits Network Latency to Spy on Users' Web Activities πŸ–‹οΈ

A group of security researchers from the Graz University of Technology have demonstrated a new sidechannel attack known as SnailLoad that could be used to remotely infer a user's web activity. "SnailLoad exploits a bottleneck present on all Internet connections," the researchers said in a study released this week. "This bottleneck influences the latency of network packets, allowing an attacker.

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πŸ“’ This is why you need backups: A cyber attack on an Indonesian data center caused havoc for public services – and its forcing a national rethink on data security πŸ“’

The disastrous data center breach has prompted a national audit to bolster cyber resilience.

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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ Don't Forget to Report a Breach: A Cautionary Tale πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ

Responding to an incident quickly is important, but it shouldn't come at the expense of reporting it to the appropriate regulatory bodies.

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🧠 Vulnerability management empowered by AI 🧠

Vulnerability management involves an ongoing cycle of identifying, prioritizing and mitigating vulnerabilities within software applications, networks and computer systems. This proactive strategy is essential for safeguarding an organizations digital assets and maintaining its security and integrity. To make the process simpler and easier, we need to involve artificial intelligence AI. Lets examine how AI is The post Vulnerability management empowered by AI appeared first on Security Intelligence.

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πŸ–‹οΈ 8220 Gang Exploits Oracle WebLogic Server Flaws for Cryptocurrency Mining πŸ–‹οΈ

Security researchers have shed more light on the cryptocurrency mining operation conducted by the 8220 Gang by exploiting known security flaws in the Oracle WebLogic Server. "The threat actor employs fileless execution techniques, using DLL reflective and process injection, allowing the malware code to run solely in memory and avoid diskbased detection mechanisms," Trend Micro researchers Ahmed.

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πŸ–‹οΈ Combatting the Evolving SaaS Kill Chain: How to Stay Ahead of Threat Actors πŸ–‹οΈ

The modern kill chain is eluding enterprises because they arent protecting the infrastructure of modern business SaaS.  SaaS continues to dominate software adoption, and it accounts for the greatest share of public cloud spending. But enterprises and SMBs alike havent revised their security programs or adopted security tooling built for SaaS.  Security teams keep jamming onprem.

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πŸ“” Cyber Workforce Grows 15% at Large Organizations as Security is Prioritized πŸ“”

From an average of one cybersecurity expert for 1285 employees in 2023, large organizations now have one for every 1086 employees, according to Wavestone.

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πŸ“’ CISOs plan to start downsizing security teams because of AI – but experts warn it’s a β€œshortsighted and dangerous" path to take πŸ“’

CISOs around the world are planning on reducing headcounts as they continue to adopt AI tools, but experts warn this could be a shortsighted strategy.

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