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  • November 11, 2022

Validating VPC Endpoint Connections Occur Via the Private Network

ACM.108 How to inspecting traffic flows and troubleshoot VPC Endpoint connections This is a continuation of my series on Automating Cybersecurity Metrics. This post is long and detailed. You are really going to get your money’s worth! If you want a summary of what we discover in this post, jump to the end. If you […]

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#IRISSCON: Social Engineering Testers Warned Not to Cross Ethical and Legal Boundaries

Sharon Conheady discusses the ethical and legal dilemmas often faced by social engineering testers

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These Two Google Play Store Apps Spotted Distributing Xenomorph Banking Trojan

Google has removed two new malicious dropper apps that have been detected on the Play Store for Android, one of which posed as a lifestyle app and was caught distributing the Xenomorph banking malware. “Xenomorph is a trojan that steals credentials from banking applications on users’ devices,” Zscaler ThreatLabz researchers Himanshu Sharma and Viral Gandhi said in […]

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NSA Over-surveillance

Here in 2022, we have a newly declassified 2016 Inspector General report—”Misuse of Sigint Systems”—about a 2013 NSA program that resulted in the unauthorized (that is, illegal) targeting of Americans. Given all we learned from Edward Snowden, this feels like a minor coda. There’s nothing really interesting in the IG document, which is heavily redacted. […]

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CISA Says Midterm Voting Uncompromised By Cyber-attacks

Election workers will continue to work in the days ahead to certify the election results

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The blockchain & data privacy (GDPR)

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Alleged LockBit ransomware operator arrested in Canada

A man with dual Russian and Canadian nationality has been arrested in connection with his alleged part in the LockBit ransomware conspiracy that has demanded more than $100 million from its victims. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

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Ukrainian Cyber Cops Bust $200m Fraud Ring

Two-year pan-European operation ends in arrests

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