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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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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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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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AWS Credentials in Boto3 and CLI Debug Output

AWS Credentials in Boto3 and CLI Debug Output — and the AWS Console ACM.68 Do you know where all your credentials and secrets are being output in logs, debug information, or in the AWS console? This is a continuation of my series on Automating Cybersecurity Metrics. I must digress for a moment from the networking topics I’ve been writing […]

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S3 Ep102.5: “ProxyNotShell” Exchange bugs – an expert speaks [Audio + Text]

Who’s affected, what you can do while waiting for Microsoft’s patches, and how to plan your threat hunting…

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Automated Creation of Security Groups on AWS

ACM.67 Creating Zero Trust rulesets or security groups on AWS This is a continuation of my series of posts on Automating Cybersecurity Metrics. Back when I worked on the network team at Capital One, developers had to submit requests outlining the network requirements for their applications which got reviewed by the security team and then implemented. […]

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Pay What You Want for This Collection of White Hat Hacking Courses

Whether you relish a mental challenge or fancy a six-figure paycheck, there are many good reasons to get into white hat hacking. That said, picking up the necessary knowledge to build a new career can seem like a daunting task. There is a lot to learn, after all. To help you get started, The Hacker News Deals is […]

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State-Sponsored Hackers Likely Exploited MS Exchange 0-Days Against ~10 Organizations

Microsoft on Friday disclosed that a single activity group in August 2022 achieved initial access and breached Exchange servers by chaining the two newly disclosed zero-day flaws in a limited set of attacks aimed at less than 10 organizations globally. “These attacks installed the Chopper web shell to facilitate hands-on-keyboard access, which the attackers used to perform […]

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CISA Warns of Hackers Exploiting Critical Atlassian Bitbucket Server Vulnerability

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added a recently disclosed critical flaw impacting Atlassian’s Bitbucket Server and Data Center to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. Tracked as CVE-2022-36804, the issue relates to a command injection vulnerability that could allow malicious actors to gain arbitrary

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