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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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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ Critical GitLab Bug Threatens Software Development Pipelines πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ

The company is urging users running vulnerable versions to patch CVE20245655 immediately, to avoid CICD malfeasance.

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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ CISO Corner: The NYSE & the SEC; Ransomware Negotiation Tips πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ

Our collection of the most relevant reporting and industry perspectives for those guiding cybersecurity strategies and focused on SecOps.

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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ CISA's Flags Memory-Unsafe Code in Major Open Source Projects πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ

Despite more than 50 of all open source code being written in memoryunsafe languages like C, we are unlikely to see a massive overhaul to code bases anytime soon.

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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ Hundreds of Thousands Impacted in Children's Hospital Cyberattack πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ

Though the Chicagoarea hospital did not pay a ransom, a host of sensitive medical information is now at risk.

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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ LockBit Attack Targets Evolve Bank, Not Federal Reserve πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ

The ransomware group claimed it had breached the Federal Reserve, but the target now appears to have been an Arkansasbased bank, Evolve.

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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ Unfounded Fears: AI Extinction-Level Threats & the AI Arms Race πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ

There is an extreme lack of evidence of AIrelated danger, and proposing or implementing limits on technological advancement isn't the answer.

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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ 1Touch.io Integrates AI Into Mainframe Security πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ

Just because mainframes are old doesn't mean they're not in use. Mainframe Security Posture Management brings continuous monitoring and vigilance to the platform.

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πŸ–‹οΈ Kimsuky Using TRANSLATEXT Chrome Extension to Steal Sensitive Data πŸ–‹οΈ

The North Korealinked threat actor known as Kimsuky has been linked to the use of a new malicious Google Chrome extension that's designed to steal sensitive information as part of an ongoing intelligence collection effort. Zscaler ThreatLabz, which observed the activity in early March 2024, has codenamed the extension TRANSLATEXT, highlighting its ability to gather email addresses, usernames,.

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πŸ–‹οΈ GitLab Releases Patch for Critical CI/CD Pipeline Vulnerability and 13 Others πŸ–‹οΈ

GitLab has released security updates to address 14 security flaws, including one critical vulnerability that could be exploited to run continuous integration and continuous deployment CICD pipelines as any user. The weaknesses, which affect GitLab Community Edition CE and Enterprise Edition EE, have been addressed in versions 17.1.1, 17.0.3, and 16.11.5. The most severe of the.

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πŸ“” TeamViewer Cyber-Attack Attributed to Russian APT Midnight Blizzard πŸ“”

Remote software provider TeamViewer has revealed it has been hit by a cyberattack that it attributes to Russian state actor Midnight Blizzard.

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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ TeamViewer Credits Network Segmentation for Rebuffing APT29 Attack πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ

Despite warnings from HealthISAC and the NCC Group, the remote access software maker says defenseindepth kept customers' data safe from Midnight Blizzard.

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πŸš€ Key trends shaping the threat landscape in H1 2024 – Week in security with Tony Anscombe πŸš€

Learn about the categories of threats that 'topped the charts' and the kinds of techniques that bad actors leveraged most commonly in the first half of this year.

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πŸ–‹οΈ Google to Block Entrust Certificates in Chrome Starting November 2024 πŸ–‹οΈ

Google has announced that it's going to start blocking websites that use certificates from Entrust starting around November 1, 2024, in its Chrome browser, citing compliance failures and the certificate authority's inability to address security issues in a timely manner. "Over the past several years, publicly disclosed incident reports highlighted a pattern of concerning behaviors by Entrust.

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πŸ–‹οΈ Juniper Networks Releases Critical Security Update for Routers πŸ–‹οΈ

Juniper Networks has released outofband security updates to address a critical security flaw that could lead to an authentication bypass in some of its routers. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE20242973, carries a CVSS score of 10.0, indicating maximum severity. An Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel vulnerability in Juniper Networks Session Smart Router or Conductor.

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