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9 top Dropbox alternatives: Free and premium tools

If you’re tired of Dropbox’s hidden costs, here are some of the best alternatives to Dropbox that you can use today. The post 9 top Dropbox alternatives: Free and premium tools appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, October 2022 Edition

Microsoft today released updates to fix at least 85 security holes in its Windows operating systems and related software, including a new zero-day vulnerability in all supported versions of Windows that is being actively exploited. However, noticeably absent from this month’s Patch Tuesday are any updates to address a pair of zero-day flaws being exploited […]

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Researchers extract master encryption key from Siemens PLCs

Security researchers have found a way to extract a global encryption key that was hardcoded in the CPUs of several Siemens programmable logic controller (PLC) product lines, allowing them to compromise their secure communications and authentication. Siemens advises all customers to upgrade both the firmware of the impacted devices as well as the TIA Portal […]

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Facebook warns of 400 malicious apps that tried to steal your account credentials

Previously available on Apple’s App Store and Google Play, the phony apps impersonated photo editors, games, VPN services and utilities to trick users into sharing their Facebook credentials. The post Facebook warns of 400 malicious apps that tried to steal your account credentials appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Microsoft Addresses Zero-Days, but Exchange Server Exploit Chain Remains Unpatched

The computing giant didn’t fix ProxyNotLogon in October’s Patch Tuesday, but it disclosed a rare 10-out-of-10 bug and patched two other zero-days, including one being exploited.

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The 2020-2022 ATM/PoS malware landscape

Attacks using ATM or PoS malware are on the rise again in 2022 after the COVID-19 lockdowns. The post The 2020-2022 ATM/PoS malware landscape appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Critical Open Source vm2 Sandbox Escape Bug Affects Millions

Attackers could exploit the “Sandbreak” security bug, which has earned a 10 out of 10 on the CVSS scale, to execute a sandbox escape, achieve RCE, and run shell commands on a hosting machine.

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OT Cybersecurity Leader Paul Brager Passes Away

The IT security executive led ICS/OT, IT/OT integration, and other security programs, as well as diversity and inclusion efforts in the industry.

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While parsing a block mapping…expected , but found ‘’

Cryptic error message for a one character problem in AWS CloudFormation I’m trying to deploy an AWS CloudFormation template getting this error: while parsing a block mapping in “<unicode string>”, line 18, column 9: Version: “2012-10-17” ^ (line: 18)expected <block end>, but found ‘<block sequence start>’ in “<unicode string>”, line 31, column 10: – Effect: Allow […]

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