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· Cyber News

LastPass Reveals Another Customer Data Breach

Incident is second this year, although company says passwords are safe

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· Cyber News

Smashing Security podcast #300: Interplanetary file systems, iSpoof, and don’t delete Twitter

Why deleting your Twitter account may be a very bad idea, how the police unravelled the iSpoof fraud gang, and a trip into outer space (or…

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Twitter isn’t going to stop people posting COVID-19 misinformation anymore

As of September 2022, Twitter had challenged 11.72 million accounts, suspended 11,230 accounts, and removed over 97,674 pieces of…

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Fortanix unveils AWS integration for centralized key management

Cloud security vendor Fortanix has updated its Data Security Manager to incorporate support for AWS’ external encryption key store system,…

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· Cyber News

AWS’ Inspector offers vulnerability management for Lambda serverless functions

Amazon Web Services has announced AWS Lambda serverless function support for its automated vulnerability management service, Amazon…

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· Cyber News

Majority of US Defense Contractors Not Meeting Basic Cybersecurity Requirements

87% of DoD contractors are failing to meet the basic level of compliance ahead of CMMC coming into force next year

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North Korea Hackers Using New “Dolphin” Backdoor to Spy on South Korean Targets

The North Korea-linked ScarCruft group has been attributed to a previously undocumented backdoor called Dolphin that the threat actor has…

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· Cyber News

Australian Parliament Passes Privacy Penalty Bill

The higher penalties and extended powers will become effective after the bill receives royal assent

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· Cyber News

Serious Security: MD5 considered harmful – to the tune of $600,000

It’s not just the hashing, by the way. It’s the salting and the stretching, too!

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· Cyber News

Who’s swimming in South Korean waters? Meet ScarCruft’s Dolphin

ESET researchers uncover Dolphin, a sophisticated backdoor extending the arsenal of the ScarCruft APT group The post Who’s swimming in…

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· Cyber News

Zero-Day Flaw Discovered in Quarkus Java Framework

The flaw has a CVSS v3 base score rating of 9.8 and can be found in the Dev UI Config Editor

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· Cyber News

China-Based Hackers Target Southeast Asia With USB-Based Malware

UNC4191 operations have affected several entities in Southeast Asia but also in the US, Europe and Asia Pacific Japan

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· Cyber News

AWS launches new cybersecurity service Amazon Security Lake

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a new cybersecurity service, Amazon Security Lake, which automatically centralizes security data…

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Researchers Find a Way Malicious NPM Libraries Can Evade Vulnerability Detection

New findings from cybersecurity firm JFrog show that malware targeting the npm ecosystem can evade security checks by taking advantage of…

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· Cyber News

French Electricity Provider Fined for Storing Users’ Passwords with Weak MD5 Algorithm

The French data protection watchdog on Tuesday fined electricity provider Électricité de France €600,000 for violating the European Union…

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· Cyber News

Facebook Fined $276M under GDPR

Facebook—Meta—was just fined $276 million (USD) for a data leak that included full names, birth dates, phone numbers, and location.

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· Cyber News

This Malicious App Abused Hacked Devices to Create Fake Accounts on Multiple Platforms

A malicious Android SMS application found on the Google Play Store has been found to stealthily harvest text messages with the goal of…

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· Cyber News

5 top qualities you need to become a next-gen CISO

Ransomware and data breaches pose a massive risk to organizations, resulting in loss of customer trust and shareholder value, reputation…

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What is Ransom Cartel? A ransomware gang focused on reputational damage

Ransom Cartel, a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation, has stepped up its attacks over the past year after the disbanding of prominent…

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· Cyber News

Businesses Increasing Cyber Spend Without Clear Strategy, Fastly Finds

As businesses aim to spend more on cybersecurity, Fastly warns that many do so without a clear strategy

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· Cyber News

Australia Passes Bill to Fine Companies up to $50 Million for Data Breaches

The Australian government has passed a bill that markedly increases the penalty for companies suffering from serious or repeated data…

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· Cyber News

Flaw allowed man to access private information of other Brinks Home Security customers

A Canadian man has revealed that the company he chose to provide security for his home was carelessly exposing the private information for…

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· Cyber News

Let’s Encrypt Issues Three Billionth Certificate

Free certificate authority serves over 300 million websites

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· Cyber News

Most Small Biz IaaS Users Seeing Surge in Attacks

A further 67% were hit by ransomware in past year

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