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FYI: There’s another BlackCat ransomware variant on the prowl 19/08/2023 at 00:47 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Bad kitty, no catnip for you Here’s a heads up. Another version of BlackCat ransomware has been spotted extorting victims. This variant embeds two tools, we’re told: the network toolkit Impacket for lateral movement within compromised environments, and Remcom […]

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Google ‘wiretapped’ tax websites with visitor traffic trackers, lawsuit claims 18/08/2023 at 23:47 By Thomas Claburn And this wiretap, is it in the room with us right now? Google was sued on Thursday for allegedly “wiretapping” several tax preparation websites and gathering people’s sensitive personal data.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

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New phishing campaign recognized in Europe and South America 18/08/2023 at 23:47 By A phishing campaign designed to collect Zimbra user credentials was uncovered by ESET. The campaign has been active since at least April 2023. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Hold the Moon – NASA’s buildings are crumbling amid 200-year upgrade cycles 18/08/2023 at 22:48 By Brandon Vigliarolo If a facility falls down, ‘the microscope inside it is useless to you’ While NASA prepares to journey through the unforgiving vacuum of space to the Moon and Mars, it faces a terrestrial threat in the meantime.

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Germany to cut Huawei from networks ‘irrespective of costs’ 18/08/2023 at 21:33 By Dan Robinson What a difference four years makes Germany is determined to remove any systems from its telecoms networks that might pose a security threat, regardless of cost, in a remarkable reversal of the country’s stance from just a few years ago.…

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Intel’s Tower bid has shuffled off this mortal coil – so what about foundry plans? 18/08/2023 at 20:19 By Tobias Mann Maybe Pat dodged a bullet – mature process nodes aren’t the kind of thing shareholders get excited about Analysis  With its $5.4 billion bid to acquire Tower Semiconductor in ruins, Intel Foundry Services’ (IFS)

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Synthetic identity fraud fastest growing financial crime in U.S. 18/08/2023 at 20:02 By A Deloitte report found that synthetic identity fraud such as deepfakes could trigger the need for more sophisticated biometric security systems. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Meta to use work badge and Status Tool to snoop on staff 18/08/2023 at 18:47 By Paul Kunert Not in office three days a week? Repeated ‘violations’ could lead to termination Tough times loom for Meta engineers and the wider workforce that refuse to return to the office for at least three days a week

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A closer look at Harvard and Google’s HPC heart research project 18/08/2023 at 17:31 By Dan Robinson That’s a massive workload you’ve got there – how much does it cost? Google is working with Harvard University on a medical research program using public cloud resources rather than a supercomputer to run very large scale simulations..…

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Railway company agrees to new safety measures following derailment 18/08/2023 at 17:17 By Following a train derailment in February 2023, Norfolk Southern Corp has settled with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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CISA hosts nation’s largest annual election security exercise 18/08/2023 at 15:49 By This week, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) hosted the nation’s largest annual election security exercise. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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14 Suspected Cybercriminals Arrested Across Africa in Coordinated Crackdown 18/08/2023 at 15:49 By A coordinated law enforcement operation across 25 African countries has led to the arrest of 14 suspected cybercriminals, INTERPOL announced Friday. The exercise, conducted in partnership with AFRIPOL, enabled investigators to identify 20,674 cyber networks that were linked to financial losses of more than

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New Wave of Attack Campaign Targeting Zimbra Email Users for Credential Theft 18/08/2023 at 15:49 By A new “mass-spreading” social engineering campaign is targeting users of the Zimbra Collaboration email server with an aim to collect their login credentials for use in follow-on operations. The activity, active since April 2023 and still ongoing, targets a

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