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New National Cybersecurity Strategy

Last week the Biden Administration released a new National Cybersecurity Strategy (summary here). There is lots of good commentary out there. It’s basically a smart strategy, but the hard parts are always the implementation details. It’s one thing to say that we need to secure our cloud infrastructure, and another to detail what the means […]

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  • March 6, 2023

Core Members of DoppelPaymer Ransomware Gang Targeted in Germany and Ukraine

Law enforcement authorities from Germany and Ukraine have targeted suspected core members of a cybercrime group that has been behind large-scale attacks using DoppelPaymer ransomware. The operation, which took place on February 28, 2023, was carried out with support from the Dutch National Police (Politie) and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), according to […]

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LastPass releases new security incident disclosure and recommendations

LastPass attacks began with a hacked employee’s home computer. The investigation now reveals the password manager company’s data vault was compromised. The post LastPass releases new security incident disclosure and recommendations appeared first on TechRepublic.

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  • March 5, 2023

AWS GetCallerIdentity By My User Wrong IP and User Agent — AWS CloudShell

Saw something curious today in my logs. Continue reading on Bugs That Bite »

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Friday Squid Blogging: We’re Almost at Flying Squid Drones

Researchers are prototyping multi-segment shapeshifter drones, which are “the precursors to flying squid-bots.” As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here.

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  • March 4, 2023

Okta SAML Integration with AWS IAM Step 3: Creating SAML Roles

ACM.174 Determining permissions for an AWS Billing Administrator Role Continue reading on Cloud Security »

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  • March 4, 2023

Rapid7 Brings Threat Intel Data to USF Cybersecurity Lab

The Rapid7 Cyber Threat Intelligence Laboratory at the University of South Florida will provide data on real-world threats for faculty and students to use in their research.

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  • March 4, 2023

Okta SAML Integration with AWS IAM Step 4: Granting Okta Users Access to AWS Roles

ACM.175 Creating a link between Okta Groups and AWS Okta Roles Continue reading on Cloud Security »

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  • March 4, 2023

New FiXS ATM Malware Targeting Mexican Banks

A new ATM malware strain dubbed FiXS has been observed targeting Mexican banks since the start of February 2023. “The ATM malware is hidden inside another not-malicious-looking program,” Latin American cybersecurity firm Metabase Q said in a report shared with The Hacker News. Besides requiring interaction via an external keyboard, the Windows-based ATM malware is also vendor-agnostic and is

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