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DOGE as a National Cyberattack

Schneier on Security

DOGE personnel are also reported to be feeding Education Department data into artificial intelligence software, and they have also started working at the Department of Energy. 8, a federal judge blocked the DOGE team from accessing the Treasury Department systems any further. This story is moving very fast.

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Kaseya Left Customer Portal Vulnerable to 2015 Flaw in its Own Software

Krebs on Security

The attackers exploited a vulnerability in software from Kaseya , a Miami-based company whose products help system administrators manage large networks remotely. “It’s a patch for their own software. “It’s not like they forgot to patch something that Microsoft fixed years ago,” Holden said.

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Microsoft: 6 Zero-Days in March 2025 Patch Tuesday

Krebs on Security

Rapid7’s lead software engineer Adam Barnett said Windows 11 and Server 2019 onwards are not listed as receiving patches, so are presumably not vulnerable. However, ESET notes the vulnerability itself also is present in newer Windows OS versions, including Windows 10 build 1809 and the still-supported Windows Server 2016.

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SolarWinds Detected Six Months Earlier

Schneier on Security

Suspicions were triggered when the department detected unusual traffic emanating from one of its servers that was running a trial version of the Orion software suite made by SolarWinds, according to sources familiar with the incident. The DOJ asked the security firm Mandiant to help determine whether the server had been hacked.

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Latest on the SVR’s SolarWinds Hack

Schneier on Security

Initial estimates were that Russia sent its probes only into a few dozen of the 18,000 government and private networks they gained access to when they inserted code into network management software made by a Texas company named SolarWinds. The October files, distributed to customers on Oct.

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DDoS Mitigation Firm Founder Admits to DDoS

Krebs on Security

Those records showed that several email addresses tied to a domain registered by then 19-year-old Preston had been used to create a vDOS account that was active in attacking a large number of targets, including multiple assaults on networks belonging to the Free Software Foundation (FSF).

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OpenSSL Patching: A Comprehensive Guide for System Administrators

Security Boulevard

LibCare offers automated security patching for the OpenSSL library without having to reboot systems. OpenSSL is a software library that provides an open-source implementation of SSL and TLS […] The post OpenSSL Patching: A Comprehensive Guide for System Administrators appeared first on TuxCare.