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  • March 26, 2023

Microsoft Warns of Stealthy Outlook Vulnerability Exploited by Russian Hackers

Microsoft on Friday shared guidance to help customers discover indicators of compromise (IoCs) associated with a recently patched Outlook vulnerability. Tracked as CVE-2023-23397 (CVSS score: 9.8), the critical flaw relates to a case of privilege escalation that could be exploited to steal NT Lan Manager (NTLM) hashes and stage a relay attack without requiring any user interaction. “External

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U.K. National Crime Agency Sets Up Fake DDoS-For-Hire Sites to Catch Cybercriminals

In what’s a case of setting a thief to catch a thief, the U.K. National Crime Agency (NCA) revealed that it has created a network of fake DDoS-for-hire websites to infiltrate the online criminal underground. “All of the NCA-run sites, which have so far been accessed by around several thousand people, have been created to […]

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Calculating the size of a TCP Packet Payload

Part of a series on Cybersecurity Math. Also, Network Security. Continue reading on Cloud Security »

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Pasting Code in AWS CloudShell from Mac — Not Pretty

If anyone out there working on AWS CloudShell happens to see this, I’d consider this a bug because it makes CloudShell pretty much… Continue reading on Bugs That Bite »

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AWS Organizations SCPs — Redundant and Extraneous Policies

The design of AWS Organizations is such that accounts and OUs end up having repetitive and redundant FullAWSAccess policies. Continue reading on Bugs That Bite »

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Bug in AWS CloudShell

I have a particular file that has a portion of the code that looks like this when I open it up: Continue reading on Bugs That Bite »

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Resource handler returned message: “The provided policy document does not meet the requirements of…

Error message for AWS CloudFormation with a Service Control Policy is *Not Helpful* (or any IAM-like policy) Continue reading on Bugs That Bite »

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DevSecOps puts security in the software cycle

Addressing cybersecurity can be a challenge when the focus is on speed in software development and production life cycles. The post DevSecOps puts security in the software cycle appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Exploding USB Sticks

In case you don’t have enough to worry about, people are hiding explosives—actual ones—in USB sticks: In the port city of Guayaquil, journalist Lenin Artieda of the Ecuavisa private TV station received an envelope containing a pen drive which exploded when he inserted it into a computer, his employer said. Artieda sustained slight injuries to […]

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