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Year: 2022

Inserting a Backdoor into a Machine-Learning System

Interesting research: “ImpNet: Imperceptible and blackbox-undetectable backdoors in compiled neural networks, by Tim Clifford, Ilia Shumailov, Yiren Zhao, Ross Anderson, and Robert Mullins: Abstract: Early backdoor attacks against machine learning set off an arms race in attack and defence development. Defences have since appeared demonstrating some ability to detect backdoors in models or even remove […]

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How legacy tech impedes zero trust and what to do about it

As organizations embrace the zero-trust security model, legacy tech has created some roadblocks. In fact, replacing or rebuilding existing legacy infrastructures is the biggest challenge to implementing zero trust, according to a recent study. General Dynamics’ 2022 Zero Trust Research Report surveyed 300 IT and program managers across US federal, civilian, and defense agencies, which […]

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#ISC2Congress: Cybersecurity Pros Must Prepare for Emerging Deepfake Threats

The security risks posed by deepfake technology are increasing

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Pro-Russian Group KillNet Claims Responsibility for 14 US Airport DDoS Attacks

The websites of several major US airports were disrupted on October 10, 2022

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Kolide gives you real-time fleet visibility across Mac, Windows, and Linux, answering questions MDMs can’t

Graham Cluley Security News is sponsored this week by the folks at Kolide. Thanks to the great team there for their support! Device security is a lot like Mount Everest: it’s tough to scale. When you’re a small company dominated by engineers, you can keep up with fleet management with nothing more than trust and […]

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PCI DSS v4.0

2022 is the year that much of the world managed, to varying degrees of success, to get back to normal.  People ramped up traveling, returned to in-person activities and many returned to the office.  The pandemic changed most aspects of day-to-day life, but hackers and other bad actors generally continued making life difficult for businesses, […]

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Calls for Better Microsoft Teams Backup as Confidential Info Sent on the Platform

Many admitted to sending messages on Teams they should not have

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Proud to be 5! Thank you for being with us! What a journey it has been

We began in 2017 as a small business aiming to make a difference in the cybersecurity and cryptography industry…. The post Proud to be 5! Thank you for being with us! What a journey it has been appeared first on JISA Softech Pvt Ltd.

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Fortinet Warns of Active Exploitation of Newly Discovered Critical Auth Bypass Bug

Fortinet on Monday revealed that the newly patched critical security vulnerability impacting its firewall and proxy products is being actively exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2022-40684 (CVSS score: 9.6), the flaw relates to an authentication bypass in FortiOS, FortiProxy, and FortiSwitchManager that could allow a remote attacker to perform unauthorized operations on the administrative

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