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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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  • February 20, 2023

Twitter Limits SMS-Based 2-Factor Authentication to Blue Subscribers Only

Twitter has announced that it’s limiting the use of SMS-based two-factor authentication (2FA) to its Blue subscribers. “While historically a popular form of 2FA, unfortunately we have seen phone-number based 2FA be used – and abused – by bad actors,” the company said. “We will no longer allow accounts to enroll in the text message/SMS method […]

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  • February 20, 2023

Assessing Okta’s Protection of Customer’s AWS Credentials and User Directory

ACM.161 How does Okta protect our AWS credentials, configuration, system integration, and directory data? Continue reading on Cloud Security »

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  • February 20, 2023

Fortinet Issues Patches for 40 Flaws Affecting FortiWeb, FortiOS, FortiNAC, and FortiProxy

Fortinet has released security updates to address 40 vulnerabilities in its software lineup, including FortiWeb, FortiOS, FortiNAC, and FortiProxy, among others. Two of the 40 flaws are rated Critical, 15 are rated High, 22 are rated Medium, and one is rated Low in severity. Top of the list is a severe bug residing in the FortiNAC network […]

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  • February 20, 2023

CSPM vs. SSPM

ACM.166 Security posture management products for cloud security — do they work? Continue reading on Cloud Security »

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  • February 20, 2023

GoDaddy admits: Crooks hit us with malware, poisoned customer websites

New report admits that attackers were detected in the network about three months ago, and may have been attacking for about three years.

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Friday Squid Blogging: Thermal Batteries from Squid Proteins

Researchers are making thermal batteries from “a synthetic material that’s derived from squid ring teeth protein.” 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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Friday Squid Blogging: Thermal Batteries from Squid Proteins

Researchers are making thermal batteries from “a synthetic material that’s derived from squid ring teeth protein.” 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.

Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends

Friday Squid Blogging: Thermal Batteries from Squid Proteins

Researchers are making thermal batteries from “a synthetic material that’s derived from squid ring teeth protein.” 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.

Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends