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A Ransomware Group Claims to Have Breached the Foxconn Factory

Hacker Combat

The factory specializes in manufacturing, consumer electronics, medical devices, and industrial operations. Based in Tijuana, Mexico, near the California border, the facility is an electronics manufacturing giant employing 5,000 people. For added account protection, use strong passwords and activate multi-factor authentication.

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Weekly Vulnerability Recap – November 6, 2023 – Windows Drivers and Exchange Flaws

eSecurity Planet

The Problem: Three flaws discovered by the Kubernetes security community carry CVSS severity scores of 7.6 While needing authentication for exploitation decreases their severity, fraudsters may access Exchange credentials in a variety of ways, making these vulnerabilities substantial security threats.

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Vulnerability Recap 3/25/24 – More Ivanti Issues to Patch

eSecurity Planet

The Standalone Security vulnerability affects versions 9.17.0, The vulnerability allows authenticated remote users to perform file writes to the Ivanti Neurons for ITSM server. If a threat actor had successfully exploited the vulnerability, they’d be able to force their victims to authenticate their session. and 9.19.0,

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Weekly Vulnerability Recap – August 14, 2023 – Old or New, Vulnerabilities Need Management

eSecurity Planet

August 7 , 2023 Microsoft Visual Studio Code Flaw Can Lead to Unauthorized Access Cycode researchers discovered that malicious extensions running in Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code (VS Code) can allow attackers to retrieve authentication tokens stored in Windows, Linux, and macOS credentials managers.

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Defining Good: A Strategic Approach to API Risk Reduction

Security Boulevard

Organizations first looked to augment their existing web application security tools and processes to “address” API security. Unfortunately, the security challenges associated with APIs can't be solved by simply updating existing testing tools and edge security defenses to check-the-box technologies that claim to provide "API security."

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2024 State of Cybersecurity: Reports of More Threats & Prioritization Issues

eSecurity Planet

Password manager : Stores passwords securely, enforces quality, permits safe internal and external sharing, and ties into HR software for effective off-boarding of users. Multi-factor authentication : Protects stolen credentials against use by requiring more than a simple username and password combination for access to resources.