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Misconfigured Registries: Security Researchers Find 250 Million Artifacts Exposed

eSecurity Planet

Aqua Security staff software engineer Mor Weinberger told eSecurity Planet by email that containers and artifact registries play a crucial role in software development, but they have to be managed correctly. “There will then be a risk to your data, intellectual property, and customer information, as it might end up on the dark web. .”

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Cheap shots: Vaccine phishing scams target employees seeking a return to the office

SC Magazine

Sherrod DeGrippo, senior director of threat research and detection at Proofpoint, said that while she hasn’t seen significant volumes of email threat activity using return-to-work themes just yet, “we have seen references to the vaccine in malicious social engineering, as well as the COVID-19 relief bill recently passed by the Biden administration.

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Thinking About the Future of InfoSec (v2022)

Daniel Miessler

I think security will live within engineering in the future, much like building “secure” bridges isn’t a separate department within civil engineering. This smaller security team will be responsible for analyzing data from the various telemetry sources and ensuring that everything is within tolerance.

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