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Arnold Clark Confirms Customer Data Compromised in Breach

Affected data includes names, contact details, vehicle details and ID documents, among others

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Google Fi Confirms Data Breach, Hints At Link to T-Mobile Hack

The company uses a combination of T-Mobile and US Cellular for network connectivity

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  • February 1, 2023

Ubuntu on AWS ARM EC2

Posts by Teri Radichel about using Ubuntu on AWS ARM EC2 Continue reading on Cloud Security »

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NanoLock Addresses Global Industrial & OT Cyber Demand with Expansions into Europe and North America

To meet a pressing demand for industrial and OT security, zero-trust, device-level cybersecurity provider expands with strategic hires in new and established markets.

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Devs on Dark Web Forums Paid Up to $20,000 For Illicit Activities

The data comes from 155 dark web forums analyzed between January 2020 and June 2022

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  • January 30, 2023

RSS Feed Scraper Websites and How They Affect Blog Authors

I sent a note to my customers yesterday saying that I’m going to try to temporarily put my blog behind a paywall to fend off RSS scrapers. These are sites that blatantly copy all your content instead of displaying a portion of the article and then redirecting to the blog to read the full article. This […]

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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid-Inspired Hydrogel

Scientists have created a hydrogel “using squid mantle and creative chemistry.” 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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  • January 29, 2023

Ukraine Hit with New Golang-based ‘SwiftSlicer’ Wiper Malware in Latest Cyber Attack

Ukraine has come under a fresh cyber onslaught from Russia that involved the deployment of a previously undocumented Golang-based data wiper dubbed SwiftSlicer. ESET attributed the attack to Sandworm, a nation-state group linked to Military Unit 74455 of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (GRU). “Once […]

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  • January 29, 2023

ISC Releases Security Patches for New BIND DNS Software Vulnerabilities

The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has released patches to address multiple security vulnerabilities in the Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) 9 Domain Name System (DNS) software suite that could lead to a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. “A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to potentially cause denial-of-service conditions and system failures,” the U.S. Cybersecurity

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