Cyber Defense Advisors

Month: September 2023

An Easy Guide to CCPA Compliance

An Easy Guide to CCPA Compliance The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is a groundbreaking privacy law that gives consumers more control over their personal information. It requires businesses to be more transparent about the data they collect and to give consumers the ability to opt out of the sale of their personal information. If […]

CCPA Compliance

Friday Squid Blogging: Cleaning Squid

Two links on how to properly clean squid. I learned a few years ago, in Spain, and got pretty good at it. 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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  • September 17, 2023

Microsoft Flushes Out ‘Ncurses’ Gremlins

The maintainers of the widely used library recently patched multiple memory corruption vulnerabilities that attackers could have abused to, ahem, curse targets with malicious code and escalate privileges.

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  • September 17, 2023

DoD: China’s ICS Cyber Onslaught Aimed at Gaining Kinetic Warfare Advantage

Escalating incursions into military base infrastructure, telecom networks, utilities, and more signal that Beijing is laying the groundwork for mass disruption.

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  • September 17, 2023

Using the Lambda Runtime Interface Emulator With a Custom Bash Runtime

ACM.307 Revisiting the RIE with a revamped Arm container for Lambda Continue reading on Cloud Security »

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  • September 17, 2023

TikTok Faces Massive €345 Million Fine Over Child Data Violations in E.U.

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) slapped TikTok with a €345 million (about $368 million) fine for violating the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in relation to its handling of children’s data. The investigation, initiated in September 2021, examined how the popular short-form video platform processed personal data relating to child users (those between the

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  • September 17, 2023

Troubleshooting Lambda Networking

ACM.308 Validating private network access and troubleshooting issues access from a private VPC through a NAT Continue reading on Cloud Security »

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  • September 17, 2023

Tips to Reduce Network Noise via AWS Subnet NACL

ACM.309 Have you looked at all the traffic reflecting off your public facing systems? Continue reading on Cloud Security »

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  • September 17, 2023

North Korea’s Lazarus Group Suspected in $31 Million CoinEx Heist

The North Korea-affiliated Lazarus Group has stolen nearly $240 million in cryptocurrency since June 2023, marking a significant escalation of its hacks. According to multiple reports from Certik, Elliptic, and ZachXBT, the infamous hacking group is said to be suspected behind the theft of $31 million in digital assets from the CoinEx exchange on September 12, 2023. The crypto heist […]

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