Month: July 2024
CISA released seven Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on July 2, 2024. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the newly released ICS advisories for technical details and mitigations. Source link lol
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CRN rounds up the 10 hottest IoT startups of 2024 so far, which range from Artisight and AssetWatch to TXOne Networks and Xage Security. While the Internet of Things may have lost its sheen as a top buzzword to the tech world’s fevered discussions around generative AI, there remains ample opportunity for companies to grow…
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First, the agents were able to discover new vulnerabilities in a test environment — but that doesn’t mean that they can find all kinds of vulnerabilities in all kinds of environments. In the simulations that the researchers ran, the AI agents were basically shooting fish in a barrel. These might have been new species of…
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Multiple owners of Google Pixel 6 series phones (6, 6a, 6 Pro) have been reporting in the past week that their devices were “bricked” after they performed a factory reset. Factory resets wipe the device of all personal data, apps, and settings and are typically performed when the device owner prepares it for resale. The Pixel…
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Google Chrome is set to prevent the use of SSL certificates issued by Entrust. Google Chrome specifically blocks SSL certificates issued by Entrust starting from November 2024. This news shows the importance of certificate security compliance and customers’ digital privacy, which a Certificate Authority must understand. Google announced that all SSL certificates from Entrust will…
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Based on the origin of the analyzed samples, the research concluded that the campaign is mostly targeting the US, Germany, and Russia. Malware nest for maximum impact “In this campaign, our threat intelligence team has observed what seems to be an obvious course to follow when trying to maximize benefit in a malware distribution campaign,”…
Read MorePublic Surveillance of Bars This article about an app that lets people remotely view bars to see if they’re crowded or not is filled with commentary—on both sides—about privacy and openness. Tags: privacy, surveillance Posted on July 2, 2024 at 7:06 AM • 0 Comments Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis. Source link…
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Jul 02, 2024NewsroomHardware Security / Vulnerability Modern CPUs from Intel, including Raptor Lake and Alder Lake, have been found vulnerable to a new side-channel attack that could be exploited to leak sensitive information from the processors. The attack, codenamed Indirector by security researchers Luyi Li, Hosein Yavarzadeh, and Dean Tullsen, leverages shortcomings identified in Indirect…
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The cybersecurity threat landscape has witnessed a dramatic and alarming rise in the average ransomware payment, an increase exceeding 500%. Sophos, a global leader in cybersecurity, revealed in its annual “State of Ransomware 2024” report that the average ransom payment has increased 500% in the last year with organizations that paid a ransom reporting an…
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CISOs and other security execs often find themselves in a difficult position. Attackers are always getting better, and now they can use genAI to help craft ransomware emails or create deepfakes. At the same time, security practitioners are bombarded by vendors with an alphabet soup of solutions: SSE, SASE, ZTNA, DLP, CASB, SWG, SOAR, DEM,…
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