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Russia-linked Sandworm APT compromised 11 Ukrainian telecommunications providers

Security Affairs

The Sandworm group (aka BlackEnergy , UAC-0082 , Iron Viking , Voodoo Bear , and TeleBots ) has been active since 2000, it operates under the control of Unit 74455 of the Russian GRU’s Main Center for Special Technologies (GTsST). ” reads the advisory published by the CERT-UA. “Note (!)

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SonicWall warns of ‘imminent ransomware’ attacks on its EOL products

Security Affairs

SonicWall also provides recommendations to customers that can’t update their installs, the vendor suggests disconnecting devices immediately and reset their access passwords, and enable account multi-factor authentication, if supported. immediately Reset passwords Enable MFA. The affected end-of-life devices with 8.x

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A bug is about to confuse a lot of computers by turning back time 20 years

Malwarebytes

Before the year 2000, lots of computer programs kept track of the year by remembering the last two digits instead of all four. Authentication mechanisms such as Time-based One-Time Password (TOTP) and Kerberos also rely heavily on time. The same would happen in cases where authentication relies on cookies. through 3.22.

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Why 83 Percent of Large Companies Are Vulnerable to This Basic Domain Hack

Adam Levin

Far from being jealously guarded assets with Fort Knox-level security, a new study of Forbes Global 2000 Companies suggests many domain names are imminently hackable. Hackers posing as Coincheck.com employees contacted the company’s customers and requested their account credentials.

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Second-Guessing the CISO in an Emergency

Duo's Security Blog

Setting Up an Instant Registration Database You don’t know who’s going to sign up and register, and you don’t have time to integrate it with any databases you have with citizen data in order to uniquely identify and authenticate them. This does a bit of authentication by proving possession of the email address that was registered.

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How to Remediate Keys and Certificates After a Data Breach

Security Boulevard

For example, if the breach is confirmed to be exploiting SSH, any system that is accessible via SSH and all SSH keys need to be accounted for in the network. This is true for all types of key and certificate compromises, including those used for SSL, SSH, mobile, and authentication. Validate Remediation. Alexa Hernandez. Data Breach.

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Do cyber regulations actually make K–12 schools safer? Navigating compliance while securing school and student data

Malwarebytes

In fact, an October 2022 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report found that loss of learning following a cyberattack ranged from three days to three weeks, with recovery time taking anywhere from two to nine months. Require all accounts with credentialed logins to comply with NIST standards for password policies.