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After Corporate Tech Layoffs, Can Governments Benefit?

Lohrman on Security

Almost every day, online media sources proclaim new layoffs for tech workers. So how are federal, state and local governments trying to attract these talented pros now?

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Cyber Attack news trending on Google

CyberSecurity Insiders

First is the news related to China. However, this time it’s different and is interesting. To go on with, all these days we have N number of stories about Chinese hackers infiltrating networks across the world. But the current news piece is related to a new hacking group that has been assigned the duty to target government servers of the Xi Jinping led nation.

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Royal Ransomware Expands Attacks by Targeting Linux ESXi Servers

Trend Micro

Ransomware actors have been observed to expand their targets by increasingly developing Linux-based versions. Royal ransomware is following in the same path, a new variant targeting Linux systems emerged and we will provide a technical analysis on this variant in this blog.

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After Corporate Tech Layoffs, Can Governments Benefit?

Security Boulevard

Almost every day, online media sources proclaim new layoffs for tech workers. So how are federal, state and local governments trying to attract these talented pros now? The post After Corporate Tech Layoffs, Can Governments Benefit? appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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IDC Analyst Report: The Open Source Blind Spot Putting Businesses at Risk

In a recent study, IDC found that 64% of organizations said they were already using open source in software development with a further 25% planning to in the next year. Most organizations are unaware of just how much open-source code is used and underestimate their dependency on it. As enterprises grow the use of open-source software, they face a new challenge: understanding the scope of open-source software that's being used throughout the organization and the corresponding exposure.

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Windows 11 will let you end tasks directly from the taskbar

Bleeping Computer

Microsoft will soon add a new way to end unresponsive processes in Windows 11 in the form of a new option that will show up when right-clicking an app's taskbar icon. [.

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Frebniis malware abuses Microsoft IIS feature to create a backdoor

Security Affairs

Experts spotted a malware dubbed Frebniis that abuses a Microsoft IIS feature to deploy a backdoor and monitor all HTTP traffic to the system. Broadcom Symantec researchers have spotted a new malware, tracked as Frebniis, that abuses Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) to deploy a backdoor and monitor all HTTP traffic to the infected system, Symantec reports.

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What Is SSO? Single Sign-On Explained

Heimadal Security

Single Sign-On (SSO) is an authentication method that allows a user to securely authenticate with multiple applications and websites by using solely one set of login information (eg. username & password). In a nutshell, SSO simplifies the user authentication process. It happens when a user signs in to an app and is automatically authenticated with […] The post What Is SSO?

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GoDaddy admits: Crooks hit us with malware, poisoned customer websites

Naked Security

New report admits that attackers were detected in the network about three months ago, and may have been attacking for about three years.

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GoDaddy says it's a victim of multi-year cyberattack campaign

Malwarebytes

Hosting and domain name company GoDaddy says it believes a "sophisticated threat actor group" has been subjecting the company to a multi-year attack campaign, the most recent of which occurred in December 2022. In December, it received complaints about customer websites being periodically redirected to malicious sites. It turned out malware caused the redirection after threat actors compromised GoDaddy's cPanel shared hosting servers.

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Hackers disclose Atlassian data after the theft of an employee’s credentials

Security Affairs

Atlassian discloses a data leak that was caused by the theft of employee credentials which was used to steal data from a third-party vendor. A group of hackers called SiegedSec recently published on its Telegram channel a JSON file containing data belonging to thousands of Atlassian employees and floor plans for two of the company’s offices. “The employee file posted online Wednesday contains more than 13,200 entries and a cursory review of the file appears to show multiple current e

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Beware of Pixels & Trackers on U.S. Healthcare Websites

The healthcare industry has massively adopted web tracking tools, including pixels and trackers. Tracking tools on user-authenticated and unauthenticated web pages can access personal health information (PHI) such as IP addresses, medical record numbers, home and email addresses, appointment dates, or other info provided by users on pages and thus can violate HIPAA Rules that govern the Use of Online Tracking Technologies by HIPAA Covered Entities and Business Associates.

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GoAnywhere zero-day opened door to Clop ransomware

Malwarebytes

A semi-active ransomware group has claimed it is behind a string of attacks which have taken advantage of a zero-day vulnerability in GoAywhere MFT. The Russian-linked Clop ransomware group says it was able to remotely attack private systems using exposed GoAnywhere MFT administration consoles accessible on the public internet. BleepingComputer reports the group claimed they gained access and stole data from the GoAnywhere servers of at least 130 organizations.

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Twitter gets rid of SMS 2FA for non-Blue members — What you need to do

Bleeping Computer

Twitter has announced that it will no longer support SMS two-factor authentication unless you pay for a Twitter Blue subscription. However, there are more secure options for multi-factor authentication, which we describe below. [.

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ENISA and CERT-EU warns Chinese APTs targeting EU organizations

Security Affairs

A joint report published by ENISA and CERT-EU warns of Chinese APTs targeting businesses and government organizations in the European Union. The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) and CERT-EU warn of multiple China-linked threat actors targeting businesses and government organizations in the EU. The joint report focus on cyber activities conducted by multiple Chinese Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups, including APT27 , APT30 , APT31 , Ke3chang , GALLIUM and Mustang Panda. R

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Samsung Introduces New Feature to Protect Users from Zero-Click Malware Attacks

The Hacker News

Samsung has announced a new feature called Message Guard that comes with safeguards to protect users from malware and spyware via what's referred to as zero-click attacks. The South Korean chaebol said the solution "preemptively" secures users' devices by "limiting exposure to invisible threats disguised as image attachments.

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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Private 5G Networks: Thales and Celona Collaborate to Bring Security and Performance to a Modern World

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Private 5G Networks: Thales and Celona Collaborate to Bring Security and Performance to a Modern World divya Mon, 02/20/2023 - 06:03 Rapid growth of mobility and business essential applications is driving enterprises to demand more deterministic wireless solutions that address critical performance, reliability, security and coverage problems inherent in conventional enterprise wireless.

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A week in security (February 13 - 19)

Malwarebytes

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: What is AI good at (and what the heck is it, actually), with Josh Saxe: Lock and Code S04E04 Malwarebytes recognized as endpoint security leader by G2 CISA issues alert with South Korean government about DPRK's ransomware antics Jailbreaking ChatGPT and other large language models while we can French law to report cyberincidents within 3 days to become effective soon Consent to gather data is a "misguided" solution, study reveals Should you share passwords with yo

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The Importance of Selfie Verification API for Digital Identity Verification

Security Boulevard

Selfie verification API Identity fraud is on the rise, and con artists are getting more skilled. 52% of businesses reported experiencing fraud in the previous 24 months, according to a PwC-commissioned poll. 10% of them even claimed that their most disruptive occurrence cost them more than $50 million in financial terms. Personal data is being […] The post The Importance of Selfie Verification API for Digital Identity Verification appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Down the Cloudflare / Stripe / OWASP Rabbit Hole: A Tale of 6 Rabbits Deep ? ? ? ? ? ?

Troy Hunt

I found myself going down a previously unexplored rabbit hole recently, or more specifically, what I thought was "a" rabbit hole but in actual fact was an ever-expanding series of them that led me to what I refer to in the title of this post as "6 rabbits deep" It's a tale of firewalls, APIs and sifting through layers and layers of different services to sniff out the root cause of something that seemed very benign, but actually turned out to be highly impactful.

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From Complexity to Clarity: Strategies for Effective Compliance and Security Measures

Speaker: Erika R. Bales, Esq.

When we talk about “compliance and security," most companies want to ensure that steps are being taken to protect what they value most – people, data, real or personal property, intellectual property, digital assets, or any other number of other things - and it’s more important than ever that safeguards are in place. Let’s step back and focus on the idea that no matter how complicated the compliance and security regime, it should be able to be distilled down to a checklist.

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Reddit Hacked, Preventing Accidental Location Sharing, Developer Hacks His Own Company

Security Boulevard

Reddit announced that it was the victim of a phishing attack aimed at its employees, resulting in unauthorized access to internal documents, code, and some unspecified business systems. Advice on managing device location-tracking settings to ensure you’re not sharing your location inadvertently. The case of former Ubiquiti employee, Nickolas Sharp, who pled guilty to multiple […] The post Reddit Hacked, Preventing Accidental Location Sharing, Developer Hacks His Own Company appeared first on The

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How to Unlock Your iPhone With a Security Key

WIRED Threat Level

Passcodes are out.

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USENIX Security ’22 – Flavien Solt, Ben Gras, Kaveh Razavi – ‘CellIFT: Leveraging Cells for Scalable and Precise Dynamic Information Flow Tracking In RTL’

Security Boulevard

Our thanks to USENIX for publishing their Presenter’s outstanding USENIX Security ’22 Conference content on the organization’s’ YouTube channel. Permalink The post USENIX Security ’22 – Flavien Solt, Ben Gras, Kaveh Razavi – ‘CellIFT: Leveraging Cells for Scalable and Precise Dynamic Information Flow Tracking In RTL’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 407 by Pierluigi Paganini

Security Affairs

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. Twitter will allow using the SMS-based two-factor authentication (2FA) only to its Blue subscribers GoDaddy discloses a new data breach Fortinet fixes critical vulnerabilities in FortiNAC and FortiWeb German airport websites hit by DDos attacks

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Successful Change Management with Enterprise Risk Management

Speaker: William Hord, Vice President of ERM Services

A well-defined change management process is critical to minimizing the impact that change has on your organization. Leveraging the data that your ERM program already contains is an effective way to help create and manage the overall change management process within your organization. Your ERM program generally assesses and maintains detailed information related to strategy, operations, and the remediation plans needed to mitigate the impact on the organization.