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Malware loader lowdown: The big 3 responsible for 80% of attacks so far this year 28/08/2023 at 19:32 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Top of the list to trip sensors Three malware loaders — QBot, SocGholish, and Raspberry Robin — are responsible for 80 percent of observed attacks on computers and networks so far this year.… […]

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Developers Beware: Malicious Rust Libraries Caught Transmitting OS Info to Telegram Channel 28/08/2023 at 19:02 By In yet another sign that developers continue to be targets of software supply chain attacks, a number of malicious packages have been discovered on the Rust programming language’s crate registry. The libraries, uploaded between August 14 and 16, 2023,

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UK flights disrupted by ‘technical issue’ with air traffic computer system 28/08/2023 at 18:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo British Bank Holiday blues as flight plans have to be filed by hand The UK’s National Air Traffic Service (NATS) is spending a bank holiday Monday dealing with an unspecified “technical issue” that has disrupted flights across the

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University of Tulsa opens cyber research institute 28/08/2023 at 17:46 By The growing significance of cybercrime and the deficit of cybersecurity workforce fuel the launch of the Oklahoma Cyber Innovation Institute. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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WordPress selling 100-year domain and hosting plan for $38,000 28/08/2023 at 16:32 By Laura Dobberstein This assumes MySQL, PHP, the web – and humanity – will be around that long Poll  Content management and hosting outfit WordPress wants to sell you some legacy technology: a domain name and website it will keep alive for 100

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Michigan school district implements AI gun detection technology 28/08/2023 at 15:32 By A Michigan school district has selected an artificial intelligence (AI)-based gun detection platform as a way to proactively protect its students and faculty against gun-related violence. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to

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How companies can prepare for holiday weekend cyber threats 28/08/2023 at 15:16 By The Labor Day weekend may be a perfect time for threat actors to take advantage of companies that have let their guard down for three or four days. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original

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Cyberattacks Targeting E-commerce Applications 28/08/2023 at 15:16 By Cyber attacks on e-commerce applications are a common trend in 2023 as e-commerce businesses become more omnichannel, they build and deploy increasingly more API interfaces, with threat actors constantly exploring more ways to exploit vulnerabilities. This is why regular testing and ongoing monitoring are necessary to fully

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Aerial cable tangles are still being strung up, but carriers are slowly burying the problem 28/08/2023 at 12:32 By Laura Dobberstein ‘Sky spaghetti’ remains on the menu for Asian carriers, and tourists Unruly telecom cables may seem an unlikely tourist attraction, but in the Vietnamese town of Hoi An you can buy t—shirts that celebrate

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Foxconn founder Terry Gou to run for Taiwan’s presidency 28/08/2023 at 11:32 By Simon Sharwood Billionaire claims being a political outsider means he can fix border, avert wars, make Taiwan great again … which sounds rather familiar Terry Gou, who founded contract manufacturer to the stars Foxconn, has delivered on his previous promise to stand

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KmsdBot Malware Gets an Upgrade: Now Targets IoT Devices with Enhanced Capabilities 28/08/2023 at 09:02 By An updated version of a botnet malware called KmsdBot is now targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices, simultaneously branching out its capabilities and the attack surface. “The binary now includes support for Telnet scanning and support for more CPU architectures,” Akamai security researcher

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Linus Torvalds couldn’t find an excuse to hold back Linux 6.5, so here it is 28/08/2023 at 04:06 By Simon Sharwood Summer push proved less disruptive than feared Linus Torvalds has decided the time is right to give the world a new version of the Linux kernel, announcing its delivery in a brief Sunday afternoon

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LockBit 3.0 Ransomware Builder Leak Gives Rise to Hundreds of New Variants 26/08/2023 at 14:01 By The leak of the LockBit 3.0 ransomware builder last year has led to threat actors abusing the tool to spawn new variants. Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky said it detected a ransomware intrusion that deployed a version of LockBit but with a

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Tor turns to proof-of-work puzzles to defend onion network from DDoS attacks 26/08/2023 at 11:46 By Thomas Claburn No miners were involved in this story Tor, which stands for The Onion Router, weathered a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) storm from June last year through to May.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

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Kroll Suffers Data Breach: Employee Falls Victim to SIM Swapping Attack 26/08/2023 at 07:31 By Risk and financial advisory solutions provider Kroll on Friday disclosed that one of its employees fell victim to a “highly sophisticated” SIM swapping attack. The incident, which took place on August 19, 2023, targeted the employee’s T-Mobile account, the company

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MariaDB’s revenue grows as new CEO settles in, but bank loan discussions continue 26/08/2023 at 00:50 By Lindsay Clark New exec works on ‘strategic, operational and financial reviews’ as existing loan maturity nears MariaDB has yet to conclude its discussion with a “large commercial bank” as it nears the maturity of an existing loan.… This

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Amazon Linux 2023 virtual machine images still MIA 25/08/2023 at 23:48 By Thomas Claburn Enterprise Linux users question web giant’s commitment to hybrid cloud When Amazon Linux 2023 was released on March 15, it was supposed to be offered as a virtual machine image that organizations could run on their own servers.… This article is

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There was a 387% increase in attack activity from Q1 to Q2 2023 25/08/2023 at 23:32 By Global Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks during the first half of 2023 were analyzed in a recent report by Zayo Group Holdings. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

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Profits just keep rolling in at T-Mobile US. So only thing to do is axe 5,000 workers 25/08/2023 at 22:31 By Tobias Mann From Un-carrier to Un-employed T-Mobile US will lay off roughly 5,000 employees, or about seven percent of its workforce, over the next five weeks, the wireless carrier revealed in a recent regulatory

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32% of security leaders struggle with prioritizing improvements 25/08/2023 at 21:33 By According to a Cloud Security Alliance report, 32% of respondents disclosed that they’re struggling with prioritizing security improvements. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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