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Cyber-Threats Top Business Leaders’ Biggest Concerns

Many are operating under a false sense of security

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Alleged Optus Hacker Apologizes, Deletes Customers’ Exposed Data

They claimed responsibility for the attack and said they had deleted the stolen data

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Critical WhatsApp Bugs Could Have Let Attackers Hack Devices Remotely

WhatsApp has released security updates to address two flaws in its messaging app for Android and iOS that could lead to remote code execution on vulnerable devices. One of them concerns CVE-2022-36934 (CVSS score: 9.8), a critical integer overflow vulnerability in WhatsApp that results in the execution of arbitrary code simply by establishing a video call. The issue impacts […]

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Adversaries Continue Cyberattacks with Greater Precision and Innovative Attack Methods According to NETSCOUT Report

TCP-based, DNS water-torture, and carpet-bombing attacks dominate the DDoS threat landscape, while Ireland, India, Taiwan, and Finland are battered by DDoS attacks resulting from the Russia/Ukraine war.

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Malicious Oauth app enables attackers to send spam through corporate cloud tenants

Microsoft investigated a new kind of attack where malicious OAuth applications were deployed on compromised cloud tenants before being used for mass spamming. The post Malicious Oauth app enables attackers to send spam through corporate cloud tenants appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Lazarus Group Targets MacOS Users Seeking Crypto Jobs

The new attacks would be a new instance of a campaign spotted by ESET and Malwarebytes in August

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WhatsApp “zero-day exploit” news scare – what you need to know

Is WhatsApp currently under active attack by cyercriminals? Is this a clear and current danger? How worried should WhatsApp users be?

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4 Data Security Best Practices You Should Know

There are numerous strategies to lessen the possibility and effects of a cyberattack, but doing so takes careful planning and targeted action.

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Lessons From the GitHub Cybersecurity Breach

This Tech Tip outlines three steps security teams should take to protect information stored in Salesforce.

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