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@ Bruce, ALL, Re : Black out comming to get you all? This “OMG we’re Doomed” story about US Power infrastructure has just been rekindled for the XXXth time this decade, https://thelibertydaily.com/grid-down-alert-north-america-risk-blackouts-during/ In part because we are aproaching Solar Maximum, in part because of political unrest and economic uncertainty. And yes what it says is […]
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Graham CLULEY November 10, 2023 Promo Protect all your devices, without slowing them down. Free 30-day trial The US trading arm of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) has been hit by a ransomware attack that reportedly forced it to handle trades via messengers carrying USB thumb drives across Manhattan. A notice on […]
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The notorious Russian hackers known as Sandworm targeted an electrical substation in Ukraine last year, causing a brief power outage in October 2022. The findings come from Google’s Mandiant, which described the hack as a “multi-event cyber attack” leveraging a novel technique for impacting industrial control systems (ICS). “The actor first used OT-level living-off-the-land (LotL) […]
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Privacy International warns UK is “sleepwalking into public mass surveillance”
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What’s the deal with CherryBlos? CherryBlos is a rather interesting family of Android malware that can plunder your cryptocurrency accounts – with a little help from your photos. Wait. I’ve heard of hackers stealing photos before, but what do you mean by malware stealing cryptocurrency via my photos? How does it do that? Well, imagine […]
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There is a seemingly never-ending quest to find the right security tools that offer the right capabilities for your organization. SOC teams tend to spend about a third of their day on events that don’t pose any threat to their organization, and this has accelerated the adoption of automated solutions to take the place of […]
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Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a stealthy backdoor named Effluence that’s deployed following the successful exploitation of a recently disclosed security flaw in Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server. “The malware acts as a persistent backdoor and is not remediated by applying patches to Confluence,” Aon’s Stroz Friedberg Incident Response Services said in an analysis published […]
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