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VMware Explore 2023: Keynote Highlights

Explore enterprise applications and infrastructure, AI, tools for the remote workforce, machine learning, and more from VMware Explore 2023.

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US Space Industry Under Threat from Foreign Cyber Espionage

An advisory by US intelligence provides guidance for space firms on how to identify an espionage campaign, report and mitigate it

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  • August 21, 2023

DEF CON’s AI Village Pits Hackers Against LLMs to Find Flaws

Touted as the largest red teaming exercise against LLMs in history, the AI Village attracted more than 2,000 hackers and throngs of media.

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  • August 21, 2023

New WinRAR Vulnerability Could Allow Hackers to Take Control of Your PC

A high-severity security flaw has been disclosed in the WinRAR utility that could be potentially exploited by a threat actor to achieve remote code execution on Windows systems. Tracked as CVE-2023-40477 (CVSS score: 7.8), the vulnerability has been described as a case of improper validation while processing recovery volumes. “The issue results from the lack of proper […]

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  • August 21, 2023

Generative AI Is Scraping Your Data. So, Now What?

AI innovation is moving faster than our laws and regulations, making it hard to decide whether Web or content scraping activity is good or bad, and what (if anything) you should do about it.

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ExpressVPN Review (2023): Features, Pricing and Alternatives

This is a comprehensive ExpressVPN Review, covering features, pricing, and more. Use this guide to find out if it is the best VPN for you.

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  • August 20, 2023

Thousands of Android Malware Apps Using Stealthy APK Compression to Evade Detection

Threat actors are using Android Package (APK) files with unknown or unsupported compression methods to elude malware analysis. That’s according to findings from Zimperium, which found 3,300 artifacts leveraging such compression algorithms in the wild. 71 of the identified samples can be loaded on the operating system without any problems. There is no evidence that […]

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  • August 20, 2023

New Juniper Junos OS Flaws Expose Devices to Remote Attacks – Patch Now

Networking hardware company Juniper Networks has released an “out-of-cycle” security update to address multiple flaws in the J-Web component of Junos OS that could be combined to achieve remote code execution on susceptible installations. The four vulnerabilities have a cumulative CVSS rating of 9.8, making them Critical in severity. They affect all versions of Junos […]

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  • August 20, 2023

WoofLocker Toolkit Hides Malicious Codes in Images to Run Tech Support Scams

Cybersecurity researchers have detailed an updated version of an advanced fingerprinting and redirection toolkit called WoofLocker that’s engineered to conduct tech support scams. The sophisticated traffic redirection scheme was first documented by Malwarebytes in January 2020, leveraging JavaScript embedded in compromised websites to perform anti-bot and web traffic filtering checks to serve

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