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  • November 8, 2022

Fortanix unveils free DSM Explorer edition for managed data security

Fortanix is offering a free tier for its data security manager software, aiming squarely at attracting new small- and medium-size businesses into its customer ranks. The Explorer tier, announced Tuesday, offers five separate solutions for businesses to try or implement long-term, as long as they stay within the various usage caps. Those solutions include tokenization […]

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  • November 8, 2022

Silk Road drugs market hacker pleads guilty, faces 20 years inside

Jurisprudence isn’t like arithmetic… two negatives never make a positive!

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SEC Announces ‘Enforcement Action’ For SolarWinds Over 2020 Hack

In a recent 8-K filing with the SEC, the firm said it reached an agreement with shareholders

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Insider Risk on the Rise: 12% of Employees Take IP When Leaving Jobs

The data comes from workforce cyber intelligence and security company Dtex

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Conti Affiliates Black Basta, BlackByte Continue to Attack Critical Infrastructure

Between February and July, 81 victim organizations were listed on the groups’ data leak sites

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Mastodon: What you need to know for your security and privacy

Mastodon is hot right now. After some years of only being used by geeks (yes, I’ve had an account for a while now) it’s at the tipping point of becoming mainstream. If you’re part of the exodus of users leaving Twitter for Mastodon, what are the security and privacy issues that you need to be […]

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  • November 8, 2022

New Laplas Clipper Malware Targeting Cryptocurrency Users via SmokeLoader

Cryptocurrency users are being targeted with a new clipper malware strain dubbed Laplas by means of another malware known as SmokeLoader. SmokeLoader, which is delivered by means of weaponized documents sent through spear-phishing emails, further acts as a conduit for other commodity trojans like SystemBC and Raccoon Stealer 2.0, according to an analysis from Cyble. Observed in

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  • November 8, 2022

Amadey Bot Spotted Deploying LockBit 3.0 Ransomware on Hacked Machines

The Amadey malware is being used to deploy LockBit 3.0 ransomware on compromised systems, researchers have warned. “Amadey bot, the malware that is used to install LockBit, is being distributed through two methods: one using a malicious Word document file, and the other using an executable that takes the disguise of the Word file icon,” AhnLab Security […]

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Creating an AWS Security Group rule to Access GitHub with a Customer-Managed Prefix List

ACM.105 Limiting outbound access to a list of IP addresses represented by a single rule This is a continuation of my series on Automating Cybersecurity Metrics. In the last post we looked at how an EIPAssociation could resolve some dependency issues with deployment and deletion scripts that we ran across trying to deploy a new security […]

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