Eight Charged with $30m Unemployment Benefits Fraud
Defendants allegedly used insider to obtain personal information
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsLastPass Reveals Another Customer Data Breach
Incident is second this year, although company says passwords are safe
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsSmashing 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 at least interplanetary file systems). All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsTwitter 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 misleading content related to COVID-19 worldwide. Today? It’s not doing anything. As an update on the company’s COVID-19 misinformation report webpage notes: Effective November 23, 2022, Twitter is no longer enforcing the COVID-19 misleading information policy. […]
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- November 30, 2022
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, adding another major public cloud vendor to the list of those supported for the company’s key management system. With this week’s update, Fortanix, which already supports this type of cloud key management system in Azure […]
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- November 30, 2022
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 Inspector, and a new automated sensitive data discovery capability in its machine learning security and privacy service, Amazon Macie. Both announcements were made during the AWS Re:Invent 2022 conference in Las Vegas this week. They follow other security-focused […]
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- November 30, 2022
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 used against targets located in its southern counterpart. “The backdoor […] has a wide range of spying capabilities, including monitoring drives and portable devices and exfiltrating files of interest, keylogging and taking screenshots, and stealing
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsMajority 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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- November 30, 2022
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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