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  • November 29, 2022

CISA Warns of Actively Exploited Critical Oracle Fusion Middleware Vulnerability

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a critical flaw impacting Oracle Fusion Middleware to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-35587, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 and impacts Oracle Access Manager (OAM) versions 11.1.2.3.0, 12.2.1.3.0, and 12.2.1.4.0. <!-

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  • November 29, 2022

Financial services increasingly targeted for API-based cyberattacks

A report published Monday by cloud services and CDN (content delivery network) platform Akamai said that the financial services industry is an increasingly popular target for a wide range of cyberattacks, with application and API attacks against the vertical more than tripling in the past year. APIs are a core part of how financial services […]

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Best IT asset management software of 2022

An asset management software is a necessary part of every IT department. Find out which one is best for your business. The post Best IT asset management software of 2022 appeared first on TechRepublic.

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AWS re:Invent 2022: Partners on parade

There’s news from Amazon Web Services’ Las Vegas show as a flurry of partnerships and edge computing initiatives have been revealed. The post AWS re:Invent 2022: Partners on parade appeared first on TechRepublic.

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  • November 28, 2022

U.S. Govt. Apps Bundled Russian Code With Ties to Mobile Malware Developer

A recent scoop by Reuters revealed that mobile apps for the U.S. Army and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were integrating software that sends visitor data to a Russian company called Pushwoosh, which claims to be based in the United States. But that story omitted an important historical detail about Pushwoosh: In 2013, […]

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  • November 28, 2022

Website offering spoofing services taken offline after joint operation

Judicial and law enforcement authorities in Europe, Australia, the US, Ukraine, and Canada took down a so-called spoofing website that allowed fraudsters to impersonate trusted corporations or contacts in order to steal more than $120 million from victims. In a coordinated action led by the UK and supported by Europol and EU judicial cooperation agency […]

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  • November 28, 2022

AWS releases Wickr, its encrypted messaging service for enterprises

The release of the enterprise version of the encrypted messaging service, announced at AWS re:Invent, is designed to allow secure collaboration across messaging, voice, video and file sharing.

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Phishing Campaign Impersonating UAE Ministry of Human Resources Grows

New cluster of phishing domains registered using similar naming schemes discovered

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  • November 28, 2022

500 million WhatsApp mobile numbers up for sale on the dark web

A database of 487 million WhatsApp users’ mobile numbers has been put up for sale on a hacking community forum. The data set contains WhatsApp user data from more than 84 countries, the post shows. The story was first reported by Cybernews. The seller of the leaked data is also offering it through the controversial messaging […]

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