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The Cyberwar Between the East and the West Goes Through Africa

By working cooperatively, the West and Africa can mobilize to tackle nation-state-backed cyber threats.

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Bug on AWS Batch Jobs Screen

No jobs appear in the list until I refresh the screen Continue reading on Bugs That Bite »

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CloudFormation for AWS Batch Roles and Policies

ACM.333 Creating reusable roles and policies where possible for AWS Batch ECS EC2 compute environment Continue reading on Cloud Security »

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Simpson Manufacturing Launches Investigation After Cyberattack

The company has taken down its systems in an effort to determine the scope of the attack.

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Generative AI is scaring CISOs – but adoption isn’t slowing down

The march of generative AI isn’t short on negative consequences, and CISOs are particularly concerned about the downfalls of an AI-powered…

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Microsoft Set to Retire Grunge-Era VBScript, to Cybercrime’s Chagrin

Popular malware like QakBot and DarkGate rely on VBScript, which dates back to 1996 — but their days are numbered now that Microsoft is…

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High severity flaw patched in widely used curl tool

The developers of the curl open-source software application and library have released patches for two vulnerabilities in the widely used…

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CISOs Receive Smaller Raises and Bonuses in 2023

Most CISOs are considering a job change in the next 12 months

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Vulnerability Exposed in WordPress Plugin User Submitted Posts

With over 20,000 active installations, the plugin is used for user-generated content submissions

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Misleading IAM CloudFormation Error Message — Role Name Is Invalid

I was deploying some new roles and policies using my common code when I got this message: Continue reading on Bugs That Bite »

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Malicious NuGet Package Targeting .NET Developers with SeroXen RAT

A malicious package hosted on the NuGet package manager for the .NET Framework has been found to deliver a remote access trojan called…

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Backdoor Lurks Behind WordPress Caching Plugin to Hijack Websites

Evasive malware disguised as a caching plugin allows attackers to create an admin account on a WordPress site, then take over and monetize…

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Protect Critical Infrastructure With Same Rigor as Classified Networks

Government security processes are often viewed as tedious and burdensome — but applying the lessons learned from them is imperative for…

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Uber’s Ex-CISO Appeals Conviction Over 2016 Data Breach

Joe Sullivan’s lawyers have claimed his conviction on two felony charges is based on tenuous theories and criminalizes the use of bug…

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Chinese APT ToddyCat Targets Asian Telecoms, Governments

A cyber espionage campaign tied to the Chinese group ToddyCat is targeting high-profile organizations in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan,…

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SEC to investigate Progress Software over mass MOVEit hack

Progress Software could be staring at fresh litigations over the explosive zero-day found in its file transfer service, MOVEit, which…

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ShellBot Uses Hex IPs to Evade Detection in Attacks on Linux SSH Servers

The threat actors behind ShellBot are leveraging IP addresses transformed into its hexadecimal notation to infiltrate poorly managed Linux…

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Bounty to Recover NIST’s Elliptic Curve Seeds

This is a fun challenge: The NIST elliptic curves that power much of modern cryptography were generated in the late ’90s by hashing seeds…

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Half of Small Businesses Hit by Cyber-Attack Over the Past Year

A new survey from accounting software provider Sage showed that most SMEs have developed a cybersecurity posture but struggle to keep up…

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Fifth of UK Cybersecurity Pros Work Excessive Hours

Workload is biggest concern for industry professionals

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Two High-Risk Security Flaws Discovered in Curl Library – New Patches Released

Patches have been released for two security flaws impacting the Curl data transfer library, the most severe of which could potentially…

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Smashing Security podcast #343: Four-legged girlfriends, LoveGPT, and a military intelligence failure

Dream girlfriends, AI love scams, and an alleged spy who is said to have made a series of blunders.

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Addressing a Breach Starts With Getting Everyone on the Same Page

The best incident-response plans cover contingencies and are fine-tuned in stress tests to ensure collaboration, remediation, and recovery…

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Magecart Campaign Hijacks 404 Pages to Steal Data

The novel technique helps hide the cybercriminal campaign’s efforts to steal credit card information from visitors to major websites, and…

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