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Social Security Numbers were exposed in 69% of breaches in 2023 24/08/2023 at 16:33 By According to a recent TransUnion report, Social Security Number has passed date of birth as second most often exposed credential in data breaches. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to […]

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BEC Trends: Payroll Diversion Dominates and Sneaky Multi-Persona Attacks Emerge 24/08/2023 at 16:04 By Maria Katrina Udquin Business Email Compromise (BEC) remains a lucrative threat vector for attackers. The FBI’s IC3 reported that in 2022, they received 21,832 complaints with adjusted losses of over $2.7 billion. When it comes to targeted attacks, threat actor sophistication

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Rocky Linux backer CIQ rejects lawsuit’s claims it was founded on stolen IP 24/08/2023 at 15:47 By Dan Robinson Brands allegations as ‘meritless’ after being sued by HPC software provider Sylabs A recently unsealed lawsuit filed in the US by HPC software provider Sylabs accuses rival outfit Ctrl IQ (CIQ) and its founder Greg Kurtzer

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New Telegram Bot “Telekopye” Powering Large-scale Phishing Scams from Russia 24/08/2023 at 15:47 By A new financially motivated operation is leveraging a malicious Telegram bot to help threat actors scam their victims. Dubbed Telekopye, a portmanteau of Telegram and kopye (meaning “spear” in Russian), the toolkit functions as an automated means to create a phishing web page from

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UK health service has £1.5B to put toward Digital Workplace Solutions 2: Electric Boogaloo 24/08/2023 at 15:17 By Lindsay Clark Four-year deal set to start next summer The UK’s National Health Service is on the hunt for tech suppliers to become part of a commercial agreement that could be worth up to £1.5 billion over

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Kimberly Cheatle to deliver keynote at SECURITY 500 Conference 24/08/2023 at 15:16 By Kimberly Cheatle, the 27th Director of the U.S. Secret Service, will deliver the keynote address at the SECURITY 500 Conference in Washington, D.C. this November. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to

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91% of security pros say cybercriminals are using AI in email attacks 24/08/2023 at 15:16 By A recent report reveals that the majority of organizations believe cybercriminals are already using artificial intelligence (AI) in email attacks targeting their organizations. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React

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4 steps to defend against cyber attack risk 24/08/2023 at 15:16 By Organizations should fortify their cybersecurity strategies as threats targeting OT assets and operations increase in volume and sophistication. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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New “Whiffy Recon” Malware Triangulates Infected Device Location via Wi-Fi Every Minute 24/08/2023 at 14:46 By The SmokeLoader malware is being used to deliver a new Wi-Fi scanning malware strain called Whiffy Recon on compromised Windows machines. “The new malware strain has only one operation. Every 60 seconds it triangulates the infected systems’ positions by scanning nearby

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The Hidden Dangers of Public Wi-Fi 24/08/2023 at 14:46 By Public Wi-Fi, which has long since become the norm, poses threats to not only individual users but also businesses. With the rise of remote work, people can now work from virtually anywhere: a cafe close to home, a hotel in a different city, or even

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WinRAR Security Flaw Exploited in Zero-Day Attacks to Target Traders 24/08/2023 at 14:46 By A recently patched security flaw in the popular WinRAR archiving software has been exploited as a zero-day since April 2023, new findings from Group-IB reveal. The vulnerability, cataloged as CVE-2023-38831, allows threat actors to spoof file extensions, thereby making it possible to

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Xebian is the Marie Kondo of Linux distros – it’s here to declutter 24/08/2023 at 13:25 By Liam Proven Clean, simple, quick, and an example of how less can give you more There are legions of Ubuntu and Debian remixes out there, but most try to add stuff to the basic distro. Xebian is a

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Thousands of Unpatched Openfire XMPP Servers Still Exposed to High-Severity Flaw 24/08/2023 at 12:20 By Thousands of Openfire XMPP servers are unpatched against a recently disclosed high-severity flaw and are susceptible to a new exploit, according to a new report from VulnCheck. Tracked as CVE-2023-32315 (CVSS score: 7.5), the vulnerability relates to a path traversal vulnerability in Openfire’s administrative console that

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Why these cloud-connected 3D printers started making junk all by themselves 24/08/2023 at 11:48 By Thomas Claburn Message brokering software blamed for dumping backed-up print jobs on idle devices On August 15, 2023, 3D printer maker Bambu Lab experienced a service outage caused by what it’s described as “abnormal network traffic” that caused some customers’

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Tornado Cash Founders Charged in Billion-Dollar Crypto Laundering Scandal 24/08/2023 at 11:16 By The U.S. Justice Department (DoJ) on Wednesday unsealed an indictment against two founders of the now-sanctioned Tornado Cash cryptocurrency mixer service, charging them with laundering more than $1 billion in criminal proceeds. Both the individuals, Roman Storm and Roman Semenov, have been charged with

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Two teens were among those behind the Lapsus$ cyber-crime spree, jury finds 24/08/2023 at 10:47 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle From BT and Nvidia to Grand Theft Auto 6, pair were on a total tear Two teenage members of the chaotic Lapsus$ cyber-crime gang helped compromise computer systems of Uber and Nvidia, and also blackmailed Grand

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SmartNICs haven’t soared so VMware will allow retrofits in old servers 24/08/2023 at 09:46 By Simon Sharwood vSphere to also add support for PCIe cards packed with CXL RAM to give boxes a boost, faster vCenter upgrades, and more Explore  Buyers have not rushed to adopt SmartNICs in their VMware environments, but the virtualization giant

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Neighbours angry as North Korea’s latest ‘satellite’ launch attempt fails 24/08/2023 at 08:49 By Laura Dobberstein US, Japan, and South Korea are well and truly over this sham North Korea’s Thursday attempt to launch a “military reconnaissance satellite” failed, state media has reported.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React

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China’s top EV battery maker announced a breakthrough, but top boffin isn’t convinced 24/08/2023 at 07:32 By Laura Dobberstein 400km range after 10 minutes charging sounds great. Shame the details are thin The world’s top battery maker for electric vehicles, China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited (CATL), claimed last week that it had developed a

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Hollywood studios agree AI-generated content should not reduce humans’ pay or credit 24/08/2023 at 05:32 By Katyanna Quach Proposed trade rules offer substantial pay rises in the hope they halt writers’ strike The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) has offered not to credit generative AI as a co-author of scripts in its

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