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  • January 11, 2023

Data leak exposes information of 10,000 French social security beneficiaries

[Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on the Le Monde Informatique website.] More than 10,000 beneficiaries of a local branch of the French social security agency CAF, or Family Allowance Fund, saw their data exposed for about 18 months, after a file containing personal information was sent to a service provider. The mistake, discovered by […]

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  • January 11, 2023

Microsoft Patch Tuesday: One 0-day; Win 7 and 8.1 get last-ever patches

Get ’em while they’re hot. And get ’em for the very last time, if you still have Windows 7 or 8.1…

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Freejacking Campaign By PurpleUrchin Bypasses Captchas

The threat actors also deployed more aggressive techniques for mining CPU resources

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  • January 10, 2023

Accelerate XDR Outcomes with NDR and EDR

Cybersecurity attacks complication and damaging impact are always keeping SOC analyst at their edge. Extended Detection and Response (XDR) solutions tend to simplify for Sam, a SOC analyst, his job by simplifying the workflow and process that involve the lifecycle of a threat investigation from detection to response. In this post we will explore how […]

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  • January 10, 2023

India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Bill: What works, what it lacks

A new draft of India’s data protection bill is set to be debated in Parliament, but even before discussion begins, privacy and security experts are saying that the proposed legislation lacks clarity on key issues. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has prepared a draft of the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2022 and invited public […]

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Cybercrime investigations in South Africa

Cybercrime investigations in South Africa are becoming increasingly important as the country experiences a surge in cyber attacks and online crimes. The post Cybercrime investigations in South Africa appeared first on Da Vinci Forensics.

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  • January 9, 2023

Governance for DNS on AWS

ACM.125: Strategy for protecting domain names and DNS configurations in your AWS Organization This is a continuation of my series on Automating Cybersecurity Metrics. I wrote the importance of securing your domain names in my last post and why it matters. If someone can take over your domain name or DNS configuration they can potentially […]

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  • January 9, 2023

Russian Turla Hackers Hijack Decade-Old Malware Infrastructure to Deploy New Backdoors

The Russian cyberespionage group known as Turla has been observed piggybacking on attack infrastructure used by a decade-old malware to deliver its own reconnaissance and backdoor tools to targets in Ukraine. Google-owned Mandiant, which is tracking the operation under the uncategorized cluster moniker UNC4210, said the hijacked servers correspond to a variant of a commodity malware […]

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  • January 9, 2023

AWS SSO (IAM Identity Center) for Separation of Duties

ACM.126 Creating a permission set for DNS Administrators in AWS SSO This is a continuation of my series on Automating Cybersecurity Metrics. In my last post I explained how you can have better governance and control the risks associated with DNS configuration changes by segregating your domain names out to a separate account and only giving […]

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