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Goodbye SHA-1: NIST Retires 27-Year-Old Widely Used Cryptographic Algorithm

The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency within the Department of Commerce, announced Thursday that it’s…

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Senate Approves Bill Banning TikTok From US Government Devices

The bill still needs to receive approval from the US House of Representatives

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S3 Ep113: Pwning the Windows kernel – the crooks who hoodwinked Microsoft [Audio + Text]

Return o’ the rookit, super-sneaky wireless spyware, credit card skimming, and patches galore. Listen and learn!

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NSA, CISA Warn Against Threats to 5G Network Slicing

Improper network slice management may enable attackers to access data from different network slices

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Operation Power Off: 50 DDoS-services taken offline in international crackdown

Law enforcement agencies in the United States, UK, Netherlands, Poland, and Germany have brought down the most popular DDoS-for-hire…

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Smashing Security podcast #302: Lensa AI, and a dog called Bob

Drug dealers come unstuck while using the Encrochat encrypted-messaging app, and we put the Lensa AI’s avatar-generation tool under the…

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A Security Vulnerability in the KmsdBot Botnet

Security researchers found a software bug in the KmsdBot cryptomining botnet: With no error-checking built in, sending KmsdBot a malformed…

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Dark Data: What is it? How can you best utilize it?

The content of this post is solely the responsibility of the author. AT&T does not adopt or endorse any of the views, positions, or…

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Feds Hit DDoS-for-Hire Services with 48 Domain Seizures

Six also charged in connection with booter services

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Platforms Flooded with 144,000 Phishing Packages

NuGet, PyPi and npm inundated with malicious packages

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Hacking Using SVG Files to Smuggle QBot Malware onto Windows Systems

Phishing campaigns involving the Qakbot malware are using Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) images embedded in HTML email attachments.

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FBI Charges 6, Seizes 48 Domains Linked to DDoS-for-Hire Service Platforms

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced the seizure of 48 domains that offered services to conduct distributed…

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Reimagining Democracy

Last week, I hosted a two-day workshop on reimagining democracy. The idea was to bring together people from a variety of disciplines who…

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Six Charged in Mass Takedown of DDoS-for-Hire Sites

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) today seized four-dozen domains that sold “booter” or “stresser” services — businesses that make it…

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Cuba ransomware group used Microsoft developer accounts to sign malicious drivers

Microsoft suspended several accounts on its hardware developer program that signed malicious drivers used by a ransomware group called Cuba…

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Signed Microsoft Drivers Used in Attacks Against Businesses

In some cases, the threat actor’s intent was to ultimately provide SIM-swapping services

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AgentTesla Remains Most Prolific Malware in November, Emotet and Qbot Grow

These are some of the key findings from the latest Check Point Research Most Wanted report

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, December 2022 Edition

Microsoft has released its final monthly batch of security updates for 2022, fixing more than four dozen security holes in its various…

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Ransomware Attackers Use Microsoft-Signed Drivers to Gain Access to Systems

Microsoft on Tuesday disclosed it took steps to suspend accounts that were used to publish malicious drivers that were certified by its…

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Azure Confidential VMs

Hardware boundaries for high-security workloads This post is one of my posts on Azure Security.

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New GoTrim Botnet Attempting to Break into WordPress Sites’ Admin Accounts

A new Go-based botnet has been spotted scanning and brute-forcing self-hosted websites using the WordPress content management system (CMS)…

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Introducing Secure Firewall version 7.3

Introduction to Cisco Secure Firewall 7.3 Cisco’s latest release of Secure Firewall operating system, Secure Firewall Threat Defence…

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Hacking Boston’s CharlieCard

Interesting discussion of vulnerabilities and exploits against Boston’s CharlieCard.

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New Google Tool Helps Devs Root Out Open Source Bugs

Free OSV-Scanner searches transitive dependencies

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