Cyber Defense Advisors

Year: 2022

Former NSA Employee Faces Death Penalty for Selling Secrets

Suspect allegedly thought he was swapping secrets with a foreign government for crypto — but the contact turned out to be an FBI agent.

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Aussie Telco Telstra Breached, Reportedly Exposing 30,000 Employees’ Data

The Telstra cyber incident comes just weeks after its main rival Optus suffered a major compromise of its customer database.

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Russian Hacker Arrested in India for Reportedly Helping Students Cheat in JEE-Main Exam

India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday disclosed that it has detained a Russian national for allegedly hacking into a software platform used to conduct engineering entrance assessments in the country in 2021. “The said accused was detained by the Bureau of Immigration at Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi while arriving in India from […]

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Tenable aims to unify your cybersecurity with exposure management platform

Tenable today announced the general availability of Tenable One, a unified exposure management platform designed to meet the changing needs of the modern cybersecurity professional by offering a holistic view of both on-premises and cloud-based attack surfaces. The modern cybersecurity attack surface is complex, fast-changing, and involves a panoply of different target systems and users […]

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How a deepfake Mark Ruffalo scammed half a million dollars from a lonely heart

A 74-year-old Manga artist received an unsolicited Facebook message from somebody claiming to be Incredible Hulk actor Mark Ruffalo. You can probably guess where this is heading…

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Microsoft Updates Mitigation for Exchange Server Zero-Days

Researchers had discovered that Microsoft’s original mitigation steps for the so-called “ProxyNotShell” flaws was easily bypassed.

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Aryaka rolls out cloud-based web gateway for SASE-focused WAN offering

Aryaka’s Secure Web Gateway and Firewall-as-a-Service adds cloud-based security services to its Zero Trust WAN platform, as it moves toward providing SASE capabilities for its users.

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Exposure Management? Understanding the Attacker Takes Center Stage

Announcing its exposure management platform, Tenable joins other companies in offering ways — such as attack surface management — to look at business networks through the eyes of attackers.

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The Insecurities of Cybersecurity Success

Becoming a big wheel doesn’t have to cost your happiness, but grind culture makes that likely.

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