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6h ago
Sponsored Post Check out the SANS CISO Primer for tips on hardening your organisation’s security posture in 2024
Ever get nostalgic for the good old days of cybersecurity protection? When attacks were for the most part amateurish and infrequent, and perhaps more in the nature of an occasional nuisance rather than a daily existential threat ..read more
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6h ago
Huawei is OK, but Xiaomi, OPPO, and Samsung are in strife. And Honor isn't living its name
Many Chinese keyboard apps, some from major handset manufacturers, can leak keystrokes to determined snoopers, leaving perhaps three quarters of a billion people at risk according to research from the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab ..read more
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1d ago
Systems Approach Machine learning has its place, just not in ways that suits today's hypesters
Full disclosure: I have a history with AI, having flirted with it in the 1980s (remember expert systems?) and then having safely avoided the AI winter of the late 1980s by veering off into formal verification before finally landing on networking as my specialty in 1988 ..read more
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1d ago
Don't get too comfortable: 'Line Dancer' malware may be targeting other vendors, too
A previously unknown and "sophisticated" nation-state group compromised Cisco firewalls as early as November 2023 for espionage purposes — and possibly attacked network devices made by other vendors including Microsoft, according to warnings from the networking giant and three Western governments ..read more
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1d ago
Their holiday options are now far more restricted
The US has charged and sanctioned four Iranian nationals for their alleged roles in various attacks on US companies and government departments, all of whom are claimed to have worked for fake companies linked to Iran's military ..read more
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1d ago
The 'big victory for the good guys' shouldn't be celebrated too much, though
The average time taken by global organizations to detect cyberattacks has dropped to its lowest-ever level of ten days, Mandiant revealed today ..read more
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4d ago
Putin's pals use 'GooseEgg' malware to launch attacks you can defeat with patches or deletion
Russian spies are exploiting a years-old Windows print spooler vulnerability and using a custom tool called GooseEgg to elevate privileges and steal credentials across compromised networks, according to Microsoft Threat Intelligence ..read more
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4d ago
BLACK HAT ASIA Two rounds of reports and patches may not have completely closed this hole
Researchers at US/Israeli infosec outfit SafeBreach last Friday discussed flaws in Microsoft and Kaspersky security products that can potentially allow the remote deletion of files. And, they asserted, the hole could remain exploitable – even after both vendors claim to have patched the problem ..read more
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1w ago
Source blames BlackSuit infection – as ISP Frontier confirms cyberattack
Octapharma Plasma has blamed IT "network issues" for the ongoing closure of its 150-plus centers across the US. It's feared a ransomware infection may be the root cause of the medical firm's ailment ..read more
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1w ago
'I want to buy a car. That's all'
Crooks are exploiting month-old OpenMetadata vulnerabilities in Kubernetes environments to mine cryptocurrency using victims' resources, according to Microsoft ..read more