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Shared Intel Q&A: Can risk-informed patching finally align OT security with real-world threats?

The Last Watchdog

Huff: The NERC security patching standards were written in 2016 when annual vulnerabilities averaged around 6,000. This is not really a viable option because the amount of manually collected data required to justify not patching is almost impossible to obtain. Today, we face over 40,000 vulnerabilities annually.

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Head Mare and Twelve join forces to attack Russian entities

SecureList

Our telemetry data revealed domain controllers still running Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Server Standard x64 or, as in the aforementioned incidents, Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 used for email. Localtonet is a reverse proxy server providing internet access to local services. An example download link is: hxxp://45[.]156[.]21[.]148:8443/winuac.exe

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A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

Krebs on Security

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. THE INTERNET NEVER FORGETS.

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Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram blocked in Turkey as Idlib military crisis escalates

Security Affairs

Network data collected by the NetBlocks internet observatory confirm that Turkey has blocked access to social media as Idlib military crisis escalates. In December 2016 , the Turkish blocked social media in the country to prevent the sharing of a video of the executions of Turkish soldiers by the IS group.

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Browser Guard now flags data breaches and better protects personal data  

Malwarebytes

Two things are true of data online: It will be collected and, just as easily, it will be lost. The notifications will also include direct access to the Malwarebytes Digital Footprint Portal , allowing users to check in real time whether their data was included in any flagged breach.

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IoT Unravelled Part 3: Security

Troy Hunt

Back to the bit about risks impacting data collected by IoT devices and back again to CloudPets, Context Security's piece aligned with my own story about kids' CloudPets messages being left exposed to the internet. Or are they just the same old risks we've always had with data stored on the internet?

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Number of hacktivist attacks declined by 95 percent since 2015

Security Affairs

Even if in Italy the cells of the popular Anonymous collective are very active , the overall number of hacktivist attacks that caused in quantifiable damage to the victim has declined by 95 percent since 2015. Researchers analyzed data collected by IBM’s X-Force threat intelligence unit between 2015 and 2019.