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Month: October 2022

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  • October 29, 2022

Chrome issues urgent zero-day fix – update now!

We’ve said it before/And we’ll say it again/It’s not *if* you should patch/It’s a matter of *when*. (Hint: now!)

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  • October 29, 2022

Twilio Reveals Another Breach from the Same Hackers Behind the August Hack

Communication services provider Twilio this week disclosed that it experienced another “brief security incident” in June 2022 perpetrated by the same threat actor behind the August hack that resulted in unauthorized access of customer information. The security event occurred on June 29, 2022, the company said in an updated advisory shared this week, as part of its […]

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  • October 29, 2022

Cisco Secure Workload: Policy-as-Code Is a Win-Win for Everyone

The last few years have proved to be a catalyst for digital transformation for many of our enterprise customers. Application modernization and adopting multicloud are the foundational building blocks for digitizing business. Customers employ CI/CD (continuous integration, continuous delivery) to modernize their applications, building them on a cloud infrastructure. This evolution has given rise to […]

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  • October 28, 2022

Phishing attacks increase by over 31% in third quarter: Report

Email security and threat detection company Vade has found that phishing emails in the third quarter this year increased by more than 31% quarter on quarter, with the number of emails containing malware in the first three quarters surpassing the 2021 level by 55.8 million. Malware emails in the third quarter of 2022 alone increased […]

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Friday Squid Blogging: Chinese Squid Fishing

China claims that it is “engaging in responsible squid fishing”: Chen Xinjun, dean of the College of Marine Sciences at Shanghai Ocean University, made the remarks in response to recent accusations by foreign reporters and actor Leonardo DiCaprio that China is depleting its own fish stock and that Chinese boats have sailed to other waters […]

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Cranefly uses new communication technique in attack campaigns

A threat actor dubbed “Cranefly” uses a new technique for its communications on infected targets. The post Cranefly uses new communication technique in attack campaigns appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Courts vs. cybercrime – Week in security with Tony Anscombe

A look at a recent string of law enforcement actions directed against (in some cases suspected) perpetrators of various types of cybercrime The post Courts vs. cybercrime – Week in security with Tony Anscombe appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

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What is data migration?

In business and technology, migrating data means moving it from one system or platform to another. Learn the processes and challenges of data migration. The post What is data migration? appeared first on TechRepublic.

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CISA Unveils Cybersecurity Goals For Critical Infrastructure Sectors

The document is the result of a July 2021 security memorandum signed by President Biden

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