Cyber Defense Advisors

Month: January 2023

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at Capricon, a four-day science fiction convention in Chicago. My talk is on “The Coming AI Hackers” and will be held Friday, February 3 at 1:00 PM. The list is maintained on this page.

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Friday Squid Blogging: How to Buy Fresh or Frozen Squid

Good advice on buying squid. I like to buy whole fresh squid and clean it myself. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here.

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  • January 14, 2023

Cisco Issues Warning for Unpatched Vulnerabilities in EoL Business Routers

Cisco has warned of two security vulnerabilities affecting end-of-life (EoL) Small Business RV016, RV042, RV042G, and RV082 routers that it said will not be fixed, even as it acknowledged the public availability of proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit. The issues are rooted in the router’s web-based management interface, enabling a remote adversary to sidestep authentication or execute malicious

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  • January 14, 2023

TikTok Fined $5.4 Million by French Regulator for Violating Cookie Laws

Popular short-form video hosting service TikTok has been fined €5 million (about $5.4 million) by the French data protection watchdog for breaking cookie consent rules, making it the latest platform to face similar penalties after Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft since 2020. “Users of ‘tiktok[.]com’ could not refuse cookies as easily as accepting them and they were not […]

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The Guardian Confirms UK Members’ Data Was Accessed in Ransomware Attack

The updates come from The Guardian’s CEO Anna Bateson and its editor-in-chief Katharine Viner

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Post-ransomware attack, The Guardian warns staff their personal data was accessed

Three weeks after The Guardian newspaper was hit by a ransomware attack, it warns staff members that their personal data was accessed.

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Ransomware attacks are decreasing, but companies remain vulnerable

Only 25% of the organizations surveyed by Delinea were hit by ransomware attacks in 2022, but fewer companies are taking proactive steps to prevent such attacks. The post Ransomware attacks are decreasing, but companies remain vulnerable appeared first on TechRepublic.

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  • January 11, 2023

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, January 2023 Edition

Microsoft today released updates to fix nearly 100 security flaws in its Windows operating systems and other software. Highlights from the first Patch Tuesday of 2023 include a zero-day vulnerability in Windows, printer software flaws reported by the U.S. National Security Agency, and a critical Microsoft SharePoint Server bug that allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker […]

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  • January 11, 2023

Data leak exposes information of 10,000 French social security beneficiaries

[Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on the Le Monde Informatique website.] More than 10,000 beneficiaries of a local branch of the French social security agency CAF, or Family Allowance Fund, saw their data exposed for about 18 months, after a file containing personal information was sent to a service provider. The mistake, discovered by […]

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