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China pushes for network upgrade blitz as IPv6 adoption slows

China pushes for network upgrade blitz as IPv6 adoption slows 2024-07-10 at 08:31 By Simon Sharwood Almost 800 million use the protocol, with more to come as Wi-Fi mandate arrives China’s adoption of IPv6 – a goal the government in Beijing has prioritized – appears to have slowed.… This article is an excerpt from The […]

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Diversifying cyber teams to tackle complex threats

Diversifying cyber teams to tackle complex threats 2024-07-10 at 08:01 By Help Net Security Technologies such as GenAI, ML and IoT are giving threat actors new tools that make it easier to target consumers and organizations. From Savvy Seahorse which lures victims into investment scams, to a self-replicating AI worm that uses the likes of

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Accenture buys Indian chip design firm to expand semiconductor smarts

Accenture buys Indian chip design firm to expand semiconductor smarts 2024-07-10 at 07:31 By Laura Dobberstein 450 Excelmax Technologies employees to get new badges Global professional services company Accenture on Monday announced the acquisition of India-based semiconductor design services provider Excelmax Technologies.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

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How companies increase risk exposure with rushed LLM deployments

How companies increase risk exposure with rushed LLM deployments 2024-07-10 at 07:31 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Jake King, Head of Threat & Security Intelligence at Elastic, discusses companies’ exposure to new security risks and vulnerabilities as they rush to deploy LLMs. King explains how LLMs pose significant risks to data

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New OpenSSH Vulnerability Discovered: Potential Remote Code Execution Risk

New OpenSSH Vulnerability Discovered: Potential Remote Code Execution Risk 2024-07-10 at 07:16 By Select versions of the OpenSSH secure networking suite are susceptible to a new vulnerability that can trigger remote code execution (RCE). The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-6409 (CVSS score: 7.0), is distinct from CVE-2024-6387 (aka RegreSSHion) and relates to a case of code

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BunkerWeb: Open-source Web Application Firewall (WAF)

BunkerWeb: Open-source Web Application Firewall (WAF) 2024-07-10 at 07:01 By Mirko Zorz BunkerWeb is an open-source Web Application Firewall (WAF) distributed under the AGPLv3 free license. The solution’s core code is entirely auditable by a third party and the community. “The genesis of BunkerWeb comes from the following problem: every time someone from my team

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RADIUS networking protocol blasted into submission through MD5-based flaw

RADIUS networking protocol blasted into submission through MD5-based flaw 2024-07-10 at 06:31 By Connor Jones If someone can do a little MITM’ing and hash cracking, they can log in with no valid password needed Cybersecurity experts at universities and Big Tech have disclosed a vulnerability in a common client-server networking protocol that allows snoops to

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Cybersecurity jobs available right now: July 10, 2024

Cybersecurity jobs available right now: July 10, 2024 2024-07-10 at 06:31 By Anamarija Pogorelec CISO HoneyBook | Israel | On-site – View job details As a CISO, you will develop and implement a multi-year security strategy and roadmap to anticipate and address security challenges in alignment with company growth objectives. Ensure that HoneyBook adheres to

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73% of security pros use unauthorized SaaS applications

73% of security pros use unauthorized SaaS applications 2024-07-10 at 06:01 By Help Net Security 73% of security professionals admit to using SaaS applications that had not been provided by their company’s IT team in the past year, according to Next DLP. Unauthorized tool use poses major risks for organizations This is despite the fact

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Critical Windows licensing bugs – plus two others under attack – top Patch Tuesday

Critical Windows licensing bugs – plus two others under attack – top Patch Tuesday 2024-07-10 at 04:16 By Jessica Lyons Citrix, SAP also deserve your attention – because miscreants are already thinking about Exploit Wednesday Patch Tuesday  Clear your Microsoft system administrator’s diary: The bundle of fixes in Redmond’s July Patch Tuesday is a doozy,

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FBI, cyber-cops zap 968 AI-fueled Russian Twitter bots

FBI, cyber-cops zap 968 AI-fueled Russian Twitter bots 2024-07-10 at 02:46 By Matthew Connatser ‘Farming is a beloved pastime for millions of Russians’ says RT News after it’s accused of social nyet-work The FBI and cybersecurity agencies in Canada and the Netherlands have taken down an almost 1,000-strong Twitter bot farm allegedly set up by

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Twitter grew an incredible ‘1.6%’ since Musk’s $44B takeover. Amazing. Wow

Twitter grew an incredible ‘1.6%’ since Musk’s $44B takeover. Amazing. Wow 2024-07-10 at 02:01 By Matthew Connatser No doubt thanks to Vladi5555, KremLinda1776, RealAmericanPat22, etc etc Growth of X’s userbase has reportedly flatlined since Elon Musk took over the thing formerly known as Twitter.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

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America’s new Sentinel nukes balloon 81% in cost. Pentagon says it’s all good

America’s new Sentinel nukes balloon 81% in cost. Pentagon says it’s all good 2024-07-10 at 00:47 By Brandon Vigliarolo Minuteman replacement to hit $141B as officials promise good ol’ ‘restructure’ The price tag for the Pentagon’s next-generation nuclear-tipped Sentinel ICBMs has ballooned by 81 percent in less than four years, triggering a Congressionally-mandated justify-or-die review.…

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Microsoft fixes two zero-days exploited by attackers (CVE-2024-38080, CVE-2024-38112)

Microsoft fixes two zero-days exploited by attackers (CVE-2024-38080, CVE-2024-38112) 2024-07-09 at 22:31 By Zeljka Zorz For July 2024 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released security updates and patches that fix 142 CVEs, including two exploited zero-days (CVE-2024-38080, CVE-2024-38112) in Windows Hyper-V and Windows MSHTML Platform (respectively). Zero-days exploited in the wild (CVE-2024-38080, CVE-2024-38112) CVE-2024-38080 is a

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Microsoft Warns of Windows Hyper-V Zero-Day Being Exploited

Microsoft Warns of Windows Hyper-V Zero-Day Being Exploited 2024-07-09 at 22:04 By Ryan Naraine Patch Tuesday: Microsoft patches more than 140 security vulnerabilities in the Windows ecosystem, including a pair of exploited zero-days. The post Microsoft Warns of Windows Hyper-V Zero-Day Being Exploited appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek RSS

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Backscatter brainwave could make IoT comms even more energy efficient

Backscatter brainwave could make IoT comms even more energy efficient 2024-07-09 at 21:59 By Dan Robinson How does sub-0.6 mW sound? Boffins in South Korea claim to have developed an energy-efficient system for low-power Internet of Things (IoT) applications that uses “backscattering” to harvest energy from a wireless signal for its communications.… This article is

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64% of people not happy about idea of AI-generated customer service

64% of people not happy about idea of AI-generated customer service 2024-07-09 at 21:59 By Richard Speed Not unreasonably, nearly half worried it would give them the ‘wrong answers’ Customers would prefer companies to ignore AI when it comes to providing aftersales service, according to a report published today.… This article is an excerpt from

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