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Freejacking Campaign By PurpleUrchin Bypasses Captchas

The threat actors also deployed more aggressive techniques for mining CPU resources

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Accelerate XDR Outcomes with NDR and EDR

Cybersecurity attacks complication and damaging impact are always keeping SOC analyst at their edge.

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India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Bill: What works, what it lacks

A new draft of India’s data protection bill is set to be debated in Parliament, but even before discussion begins, privacy and security…

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Governance for DNS on AWS

ACM.125: Strategy for protecting domain names and DNS configurations in your AWS Organization This is a continuation of my series on…

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Russian Turla Hackers Hijack Decade-Old Malware Infrastructure to Deploy New Backdoors

The Russian cyberespionage group known as Turla has been observed piggybacking on attack infrastructure used by a decade-old malware to…

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AWS SSO (IAM Identity Center) for Separation of Duties

ACM.126 Creating a permission set for DNS Administrators in AWS SSO This is a continuation of my series on Automating Cybersecurity…

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Cybercrime investigations in South Africa

are becoming increasingly important as the country experiences a surge in cyber attacks and online crimes.

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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fetish

Seems that about 1.5% of people have a squid fetish. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the…

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How to configure an SMTP server in a self-hosted instance Passbolt

With the self-hosted Passbolt password manager, you must configure an SMTP server to use the collaboration features. Learn how to do it.

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Meta violates GDPR with non-compliant targeted ad practices, earns over $400 million in fines

Meta has violated GDPR with illegal personal data collection practices for targeted ads.

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Attackers use stolen banking data as phishing lure to deploy BitRAT

In a case that highlights how attackers can leverage information from data breaches to enhance their attacks, a group of attackers is using…

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Data of over 200 million Deezer users stolen, leaks on hacking forum

Music-streaming service Deezer has owned up to a data breach, after hackers managed to steal the data of over 200 million of its users.

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PyTorch suffers supply chain attack via dependency confusion

Users who deployed the nightly builds of PyTorch between Christmas and New Year’s Eve likely received a rogue package as part of the…

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Explaining API

An API, or Application Programming Interface, is a set of rules and protocols that specifies how software programs should interact with…

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Ransomware ecosystem becoming more diverse for 2023

The ransomware ecosystem has changed significantly in 2022, with attackers shifting from large groups that dominated the landscape toward…

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Authentication Flow for Batch Jobs

Considering the threat model and attack surface This is a continuation of my series on Automating Cybersecurity Metrics.

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PyTorch Machine Learning Framework Compromised with Malicious Dependency

The maintainers of the PyTorch package have warned users who have installed the nightly builds of the library between December 25, 2022,…

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Why chatGPT does not make you smarter

After a few tests, I can confirm chatGPT does not make me smarter, and I doubt it will help anyone else.

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RedZei Chinese Scammers Targeting Chinese Students in the U.K.

Chinese international students in the U.K. have been targeted by persistent Chinese-speaking scammers for over a year as part of an…

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What is cyber or digital forensics?

Cyber crimes are on the rise, and understanding forensic investigations is a key part of solving them.

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PyTorch: Machine Learning toolkit pwned from Christmas to New Year

The bad news: the crooks have your SSH private keys. The good news: only users of the “nightly” build were affected.

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Friday Squid Blogging: Grounded Fishing Boat Carrying 16,000 Pounds of Squid

Rough seas are hampering efforts to salvage the boat: The Speranza Marie, carrying 16,000 pounds of squid and some 1,000 gallons of diesel…

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Geopolitical Tensions Expected to Further Impact Cybersecurity in 2023

The global political landscape will continue to have an impact on cybersecurity as nation-state backed cyber-attacks continue

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US passes the Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act – and why not?

Cryptographic agility: the ability and the willingness to change quickly when needed.

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