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Police Arrest Trio in Multimillion-Dollar Extortion Case

Men are accused of stealing data on tens of millions of victims

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The cloud’s worst kept secret? Vulnerabilities

Graham Cluley Security News is sponsored this week by the folks at Sysdig. Thanks to the great team there for their support! The unmanageable number of vulnerabilities in the cloud is the worst-kept secret. The Sysdig 2023 Cloud-Native Security and Usage report found that 87% of container images have high or critical vulnerabilities! Surely not […]

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  • February 27, 2023

AWS Service Control Policy Architecture

ACM.169 Designing maintainable, readable, and secure service control policies Continue reading on Cloud Security »

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  • February 27, 2023

Beware rogue 2FA apps in App Store and Google Play – don’t get hacked!

Even in Apple’s and Google’s “walled gardens”, there are plenty of 2FA apps that are either dangerously incompetent, or unrepentantly malicious. (Or perhaps both.)

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  • February 27, 2023

When Low-Tech Hacks Cause High-Impact Breaches

Web hosting giant GoDaddy made headlines this month when it disclosed that a multi-year breach allowed intruders to steal company source code, siphon customer and employee login credentials, and foist malware on customer websites. Media coverage understandably focused on GoDaddy’s admission that it suffered three different cyberattacks over as many years at the hands of […]

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  • February 27, 2023

Dutch Police Arrest 3 Hackers Involved in Massive Data Theft and Extortion Scheme

The Dutch police announced the arrest of three individuals in connection with a “large-scale” criminal operation involving data theft, extortion, and money laundering. The suspects include two 21-year-old men from Zandvoort and Rotterdam and an 18-year-old man without a permanent residence. The arrests were made on January 23, 2023. It’s estimated that the hackers stole […]

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The cloud’s worst kept secret? Vulnerabilities

Graham Cluley Security News is sponsored this week by the folks at Sysdig. Thanks to the great team there for their support! The unmanageable number of vulnerabilities in the cloud is the worst-kept secret. The Sysdig 2023 Cloud-Native Security and Usage report found that 87% of container images have high or critical vulnerabilities! Surely not […]

Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends

The cloud’s worst kept secret? Vulnerabilities

Graham Cluley Security News is sponsored this week by the folks at Sysdig. Thanks to the great team there for their support! The unmanageable number of vulnerabilities in the cloud is the worst-kept secret. The Sysdig 2023 Cloud-Native Security and Usage report found that 87% of container images have high or critical vulnerabilities! Surely not […]

Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends

The cloud’s worst kept secret? Vulnerabilities

Graham Cluley Security News is sponsored this week by the folks at Sysdig. Thanks to the great team there for their support! The unmanageable number of vulnerabilities in the cloud is the worst-kept secret. The Sysdig 2023 Cloud-Native Security and Usage report found that 87% of container images have high or critical vulnerabilities! Surely not […]

Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends