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Twitter C-Level Resignations Continue As Blue Program Creates New Cyber-Risks

They left quoting concerns about the rollout of new features without an FTC consent decree

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  • November 11, 2022

CISO, your RA method probably has quantitis!

Poor thing…I hope it gets better Continue reading on The CISO Den »

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  • November 11, 2022

Experts Uncover Two Long-Running Android Spyware Campaigns Targeting Uyghurs

Two long-running surveillance campaigns have been found targeting the Uyghur community in China and elsewhere with Android spyware tools designed to harvest sensitive information and track their whereabouts. This encompasses a previously undocumented malware strain called BadBazaar and updated variants of an espionage artifact dubbed MOONSHINE by researchers from the University of Toronto’s

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  • November 11, 2022

VPN vs. DNS Security

When you are trying to get another layer of cyber protection that would not require a lot of resources, you are most likely choosing between a VPN service & a DNS Security solution. Let’s discuss both.  VPN Explained VPN stands for Virtual Private Networks and basically hides your IP and provides an encrypted server by […]

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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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