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  • July 12, 2023

Apple & Microsoft Patch Tuesday, July 2023 Edition

Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to quash 130 security bugs in its Windows operating systems and related software, including at least five flaws that are already seeing active exploitation. Meanwhile, Apple customers have their own zero-day woes again this month: On Monday, Apple issued (and then quickly pulled) an emergency update to fix a […]

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  • July 12, 2023

Validate A TLS Certificate Deployed With CloudFormation

ACM.246 Adding the DNS records required to complete a TLS certificate deployment with CloudFormation Continue reading on Cloud Security »

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  • July 12, 2023

Microsoft Releases Patches for 132 Vulnerabilities, Including 6 Under Active Attack

Microsoft on Tuesday released updates to address a total of 132 new security flaws spanning its software, including six zero-day flaws that it said have been actively exploited in the wild. Of the 132 vulnerabilities, nine are rated Critical, 122 are rated Important in severity, and one has been assigned a severity rating of “None.” This is […]

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Honeywell to Acquire SCADAfence, Strengthening its Cybersecurity Software Portfolio

SCADAfence will integrate into the Honeywell Forge Cybersecurity+ suite providing expanded asset discovery, threat detection, and compliance management capabilities.

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  • July 11, 2023

Serious Security: Rowhammer returns to gaslight your computer

Gaslights produce a telltale flicker when nearby lamps are lit; DRAM values do something similar when nearby memory cells are accessed.

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  • July 11, 2023

NIST Launches Generative AI Working Group

The public working group will develop guidance around the special risks of AI technologies that generate content.

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  • July 11, 2023

Analysts: Cybersecurity Funding Set for Rebound

Analysts seem bullish about funding and M&A activity for the second half of the year, though transaction volumes and values dipped again in Q2.

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  • July 11, 2023

Updating the NS Records for a Subdomain on AWS with the AWS CLI

ACM.244 Adding NS records to the primary domain in Route 53 for a subdomain used in a separate account Continue reading on Cloud Security »

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  • July 11, 2023

Urgent! Apple fixes critical zero-day hole in iPhones, iPads and Macs

Don’t delay, do it today. This is a code-implantation bug in WebKit that attackers already know how to exploit.

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