Cyber Defense Advisors

Month: January 2023

SimSpace CEO brings dogfight mentality to terra firma for IT cybersecurity training

William “Hutch” Hutchison, founder and CEO of SimSpace, speaks with Karl Greenberg about the virtues of cyber ranges in training IT teams, and SimSpace’s own specialty: Digital-twin based ranges that the firm provides to NATO governments worldwide, including security teams in Ukraine. The post SimSpace CEO brings dogfight mentality to terra firma for IT cybersecurity […]

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SimSpace CEO brings dogfight mentality to terra firma for IT cybersecurity training

William “Hutch” Hutchison, founder and CEO of SimSpace, speaks with Karl Greenberg about the virtues of cyber ranges in training IT teams, and SimSpace’s own specialty: Digital-twin based ranges that the firm provides to NATO governments worldwide, including security teams in Ukraine. The post SimSpace CEO brings dogfight mentality to terra firma for IT cybersecurity […]

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Vice Society Claims Ransomware Attack Against University of Duisburg-Essen

The threat actor has also reportedly published some stolen data on the dark web

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Researchers Warn Against Zoho ManageEngine Exploit Attacks

Horizon3.ai researcher James Horseman said the team has successfully reproduced the exploit

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Researchers Warn Against Zoho ManageEngine Exploit Attacks

Horizon3.ai researcher James Horseman said the team has successfully reproduced the exploit

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The FBI Identified a Tor User

No details, though: According to the complaint against him, Al-Azhari allegedly visited a dark web site that hosts “unofficial propaganda and photographs related to ISIS” multiple times on May 14, 2019. In virtue of being a dark web site—­that is, one hosted on the Tor anonymity network—­it should have been difficult for the site owner’s […]

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  • January 17, 2023

US Maritime Administrator to study port crane cybersecurity concerns

The 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) passed by Congress and signed by President Biden in late December 2022 was filled with a host of military-related cybersecurity provisions. One little-noticed provision in the bill called for a study of cybersecurity and national security threats posed by foreign-manufactured cranes at United States ports. Under this provision, […]

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  • January 17, 2023

Hackers Can Abuse Legitimate GitHub Codespaces Feature to Deliver Malware

New research has found that it is possible for threat actors to abuse a legitimate feature in GitHub Codespaces to deliver malware to victim systems. GitHub Codespaces is a cloud-based configurable development environment that allows users to debug, maintain, and commit changes to a given codebase from a web browser or via an integration in Visual […]

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  • January 17, 2023

European data protection authorities issue record €2.92 billion in GDPR fines

European data regulators issued a record €2.92 billion in fines last year, a 168% increase from 2021. That’s according to the latest GDPR and Data Breach survey from international law firm DLA Piper, which covers all 27 Member States of the European Union, plus the UK, Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein. This year’s biggest fine of […]

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