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  • February 23, 2023

Cyberattacks hit data centers to steal information from global companies

Cyberattacks targeting multiple data centers in several regions globally have been observed over the past year and a half, resulting in exfiltration of information pertaining to some of the world’s biggest companies and the publishing of access credentials on the dark web, according to cybersecurity company Resecurity. “Malicious cyber activity targeting data center organizations creates […]

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  • February 23, 2023

Okta MFA

ACM.165 Additional MFA options (like Yubikey with no seed) and enforcing MFA policies Continue reading on Cloud Security »

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Samsung Launches Message Guard to Protect Users From Cyber-Threats

The feature provides a sandbox layer isolating some image files from the rest of the device

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  • February 21, 2023

Okta Networking

ACM.163 How to limit network access and thereby limit possible attacks on our Okta User Directory Continue reading on Cloud Security »

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  • February 20, 2023

Is OWASP at Risk of Irrelevance?

A growing group of OWASP members and board leaders are calling for the AppSec group to make big changes to stay apace with modern development.

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  • February 20, 2023

EU parliamentary committee says ‘no’ to EU-US data privacy framework

Progress on ratifying the Trans-Atlantic Data Policy Framework hit a snag, as a parliamentary committee rejected a draft decision to adopt the pact, saying it did not comply with the EU’s GDPR privacy regulations.

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  • February 20, 2023

Bug Deleting AWS Identity Provider from CloudFormation

Scenario: Deleting an IDP with a dynamic Secrets Manager reference Continue reading on Bugs That Bite »

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  • February 20, 2023

Federating AWS Authentication to Okta with SAML

ACM.160 A high level walkthrough of integrating Okta with AWS Continue reading on Cloud Security »

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  • February 20, 2023

GoDaddy Discloses Multi-Year Security Breach Causing Malware Installations and Source Code Theft

Web hosting services provider GoDaddy on Friday disclosed a multi-year security breach that enabled unknown threat actors to install malware and siphon source code related to some of its services. The company attributed the campaign to a “sophisticated and organized group targeting hosting services.” GoDaddy said in December 2022, it received an unspecified number of […]

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