Cyber Defense Advisors

Month: October 2022

OT Cybersecurity Leader Paul Brager Passes Away

The IT security executive led ICS/OT, IT/OT integration, and other security programs, as well as diversity and inclusion efforts in the industry.

Cyber News

BazarCall Callback Phishing Attacks Constantly Evolving Its Social Engineering Tactics

The operators behind the BazaCall call back phishing method have continued to evolve with updated social engineering tactics to deploy malware on targeted networks. The scheme eventually acts as an entry point to conduct financial fraud or the delivery of next-stage payloads such as ransomware, cybersecurity company Trellix said in a report published last week. Primary targets […]

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While parsing a block mapping…expected , but found ‘’

Cryptic error message for a one character problem in AWS CloudFormation I’m trying to deploy an AWS CloudFormation template getting this error: while parsing a block mapping in “<unicode string>”, line 18, column 9: Version: “2012-10-17” ^ (line: 18)expected <block end>, but found ‘<block sequence start>’ in “<unicode string>”, line 31, column 10: – Effect: Allow […]

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Toyota Reveals Data Leak of 300,000 Customers

The leak was caused by an access key being made publicly available on GitHub for almost five years

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Proposed SEC Disclosure Rules Could Transform Cyber-Incident Response

It’s not too early for firms to start preparing for change.

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High-Value Targets: String of Aussie Telco Breaches Continues

Australian IT services provider Dialog has announced a breach, making it the third telecom company in the area compromised in less than a month.

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Outpost24 Announces Expansion of Penetration Testing Offerings to North America

Pen testing solutions to empower businesses to proactively address application security vulnerabilities amid surging threats.

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Stairwell Announces $45M Series B Funding Round

Investment led by Section 32 will be used to scale the product and team.

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