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US dismantled the Russia-linked Cyclops Blink botnet

Security Affairs

government announced the disruption of the Cyclops Blink botnet operated by the Russia-linked Sandworm APT group. government announced that it had dismantled the Cyclops Blink botnet operated by the Russia-linked Sandworm APT group. The malware leverages the firmware update process to achieve persistence. ” reads the DoJ.

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CISA adds WatchGuard flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

Security Affairs

Sandworm (aka BlackEnergy 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). The malware leverages the firmware update process to achieve persistence. Recently, the U.S.

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WizCase Report: Vulnerabilities found in WD My Book, NetGear Stora, SeaGate Home, Medion LifeCloud NAS

Security Affairs

The vulnerabilities allow hackers, governments, or anyone with malicious intention to read files, add/remove users, add/modify existing data, or execute commands with highest privileges on all of the devices. CVE-2018-18472 – XXE and Unauthenticated Remote Command Execution in Axentra Hipserv NAS firmware. . Firmware Analysis.

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Y2k + 20: risk, COVID and "the Internet issue"

Notice Bored

For a long time prior to the year 2000, a significant number of software programmers had taken the same shortcut we all did back in "the 90s". Even the government and defence industries would be very hard pressed to demonstrate leadership in this area. It feels like 'just the other day' to me but do you recall "Y2k" and all that?

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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. Keep all operating systems, software, and firmware up to date.

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Types of Encryption, Methods & Use Cases

eSecurity Planet

While cryptologists develop many different algorithms, this article will focus on the main encryption algorithms adopted for use in IT data encryption: DES 3DES Blowfish Twofish DHM RSA AES ECC Post-quantum DES: The Data Encryption Standard The need for a government-wide standard to encrypt sensitive information became evident as early as 1973.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Voting Systems

ForAllSecure

Vamosi: So, finding registration files and election systems exposed online, this, this after a decade of warnings from security experts, from hackers and state governments warning -- where does that leave us today? Fortunately, we are in a much better place today, yes. Unfortunately, there’s still a lot of gaps. But there’s more.

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