November 2023

Datacenter would spoil beautiful view … of former industrial waste dump 10/11/2023 at 13:47 By Dan Robinson Not in my backyard, says Buckinghamshire Council Plans to build a datacenter campus on a landfill site overlooking the M25 motorway near London have been rejected on grounds it would significantly alter the character and appearance of the

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The New 80/20 Rule for SecOps: Customize Where it Matters, Automate the Rest 10/11/2023 at 12:16 By There is a seemingly never-ending quest to find the right security tools that offer the right capabilities for your organization. SOC teams tend to spend about a third of their day on events that don’t pose any threat to their

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Alert: ‘Effluence’ Backdoor Persists Despite Patching Atlassian Confluence Servers 10/11/2023 at 12:16 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a stealthy backdoor named Effluence that’s deployed following the successful exploitation of a recently disclosed security flaw in Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server. “The malware acts as a persistent backdoor and is not remediated by applying patches to Confluence,”

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Canonical shows how to use Snaps without the Snap Store 10/11/2023 at 11:32 By Liam Proven Despite what you may have heard, it’s not as proprietary as the trolls think Ubuntu Summit  One of the most common bits of FUD about Ubuntu’s Snap packaging format is that it’s proprietary – but exploring the documentation shows

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Iran-Linked Imperial Kitten Cyber Group Targeting Middle East’s Tech Sectors 10/11/2023 at 11:31 By A group with links to Iran targeted transportation, logistics, and technology sectors in the Middle East, including Israel, in October 2023 amid a surge in Iranian cyber activity since the onset of the Israel-Hamas war. The attacks have been attributed by

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ICBC hit by ransomware impacting global trades 10/11/2023 at 11:02 By Laura Dobberstein CitrixBleed patch has been available for around a month China’s largest bank, ICBC, was hit by ransomware that resulted in disruption of financial services (FS) systems on Thursday Beijing time, according to a notice on its website.… This article is an excerpt

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Stealthy Kamran Spyware Targeting Urdu-speaking Users in Gilgit-Baltistan 10/11/2023 at 08:47 By Urdu-speaking readers of a regional news website that caters to the Gilgit-Baltistan region have likely emerged as a target of a watering hole attack designed to deliver a previously undocumented Android spyware dubbed Kamran. The campaign, ESET has discovered, leverages Hunza News (urdu.hunzanews[.]net), which, when

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