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A New Wave of PayPal Invoice Scams Using Crypto Disguise

Trend Micro found evidence of new PayPal scammers impersonating crypto-related businesses

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Stairwell Announces $45M Series B Funding Round

Investment led by Section 32 will be used to scale the product and team.

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Outpost24 Announces Expansion of Penetration Testing Offerings to North America

Pen testing solutions to empower businesses to proactively address application security vulnerabilities amid surging threats.

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High-Value Targets: String of Aussie Telco Breaches Continues

Australian IT services provider Dialog has announced a breach, making it the third telecom company in the area compromised in less than a month.

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Proposed SEC Disclosure Rules Could Transform Cyber-Incident Response

It’s not too early for firms to start preparing for change.

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Mechanisms of Authenticating to a Linux VM (EC2 Instance) on AWS

ACM.77 Considerations for how you access virtual machines in a cloud environment and the importance of non-repudiation This is a continuation of my series on Automating Cybersecurity Metrics. We want to test using Private Link with CloudFormation in the developer VPC we created earlier, but in order to do that we need to first deploy […]

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Inserting a Backdoor into a Machine-Learning System

Interesting research: “ImpNet: Imperceptible and blackbox-undetectable backdoors in compiled neural networks, by Tim Clifford, Ilia Shumailov, Yiren Zhao, Ross Anderson, and Robert Mullins: Abstract: Early backdoor attacks against machine learning set off an arms race in attack and defence development. Defences have since appeared demonstrating some ability to detect backdoors in models or even remove […]

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Data Transparency and its Impact on Customer Trust

How do organizations earn and build trust when it comes to the personal data that customers share with them? Customers certainly expect these organizations to comply with all privacy laws that are now in place in more than 130 countries. Customers also expect them not to sell personal data without consent and to try to […]

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