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  • November 19, 2022

Bypassing the User-Specific Restrictions We Created for Cloud VMs

ACM.116 Other security controls and policies to consider for user-specific EC2 instances This is a continuation of my series on Automating Cybersecurity Metrics. Code in the last post automatically stops a VM after deploying it to help save money when resources are created before they are needed for use. https://medium.com/@2ndsightlab/automatically-stop-vms-on-aws-792cded54578 Now that we have deployed our […]

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  • November 19, 2022

Indian Government Publishes Draft of Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2022

The Indian government on Friday released a draft version of the much-awaited data protection regulation, making it the fourth such effort since it was first proposed in July 2018. The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022, as it’s called, aims to secure personal data, while also seeking users’ consent in what the draft claims is “clear and plain […]

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  • November 19, 2022

Microsoft Warns of Hackers Using Google Ads to Distribute Royal Ransomware

A developing threat activity cluster has been found using Google Ads in one of its campaigns to distribute various post-compromise payloads, including the recently discovered Royal ransomware. Microsoft, which spotted the updated malware delivery method in late October 2022, is tracking the group under the name DEV-0569. “Observed DEV-0569 attacks show a pattern of continuous innovation, with

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  • November 19, 2022

Chinese ‘Mustang Panda’ Hackers Actively Targeting Governments Worldwide

A notorious advanced persistent threat actor known as Mustang Panda has been linked to a spate of spear-phishing attacks targeting government, education, and research sectors across the world. The primary targets of the intrusions from May to October 2022 included counties in the Asia Pacific region such as Myanmar, Australia, the Philippines, Japan, and Taiwan, cybersecurity firm […]

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  • November 19, 2022

Atlassian Releases Patches for Critical Flaws Affecting Crowd and Bitbucket Products

Australian software company Atlassian has rolled out security updates to address two critical flaws affecting Bitbucket Server, Data Center, and Crowd products. The issues, tracked as CVE-2022-43781 and CVE-2022-43782, are both rated 9 out of 10 on the CVSS vulnerability scoring system. CVE-2022-43781, which Atlassian said was introduced in version 7.0.0 of Bitbucket Server and Data Center,

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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Brains

Researchers have new evidence of how squid brains develop: Researchers from the FAS Center for Systems Biology describe how they used a new live-imaging technique to watch neurons being created in the embryo in almost real-time. They were then able to track those cells through the development of the nervous system in the retina. What […]

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  • November 18, 2022

Almost half of customers have left a vendor due to poor digital trust: Report

Forty-seven percent of consumers have stopped doing business with a company after losing trust in that company’s digital security, according to new research from certificate authority and cybersecurity vendor DigiCert. The findings, which have been compiled in the company’s 2022 State of Digital Trust Survey, also revealed that 84% of customers would consider switching if […]

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First Review of A Hacker’s Mind

Kirkus reviews A Hacker’s Mind: A cybersecurity expert examines how the powerful game whatever system is put before them, leaving it to others to cover the cost. Schneier, a professor at Harvard Kennedy School and author of such books as Data and Goliath and Click Here To Kill Everybody, regularly challenges his students to write […]

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  • November 18, 2022

India drafts new privacy bill for transfer of personal data internationally

The Indian federal government on Friday published a new draft of data privacy laws that would allow personal data transfer to other nations under certain conditions, and impose fines for breaches of data-transfer and data-collection regulations. The proposed legislation has been in the works for about four years. Up until now, the Reserve Bank of […]

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