Month: August 2024

Matthew Green on Telegram’s Encryption Matthew Green wrote a really good blog post on what Telegram’s encryption is and is not. Tags: cryptanalysis, encryption, Telegram Posted on August 28, 2024 at 7:00 AM • 0 Comments Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis. Source link lol

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CISOs looking for new IT hires already struggle with talent market shortages and bridging cybersecurity skills gaps. But now they face a growing challenge from an unexpected source: sanctions-busting North Korean software developers posing as potential hires. North Korea is actively infiltrating Western companies using skilled IT workers who use fake identities to pose as…

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A phishing exercise conducted by the IT department of the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) has backfired, after causing unnecessary panic amongst students and staff. On the morning of Sunday August 18 2024, an email was sent out by the University’s IT team in what its Student Health Center described as an attempt to…

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Aug 28, 2024Ravie LakshmananSoftware Security / Vulnerability The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a critical security flaw affecting the Apache OFBiz open-source enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, known as CVE-2024-38856, carries a CVSS…

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To deal with this issue, the OWASP Foundation was launched in 2001. “The initial goal of OWASP was to create a platform where security experts could share knowledge, tools, and best practices to improve web application security,” says Jim Mercer, program vice president, software development, DevOps, and DevSecOps at IDC. And as cyber practitioners scramble…

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Aug 28, 2024Ravie LakshmananWordPress Security / Website Protection A critical security flaw has been disclosed in the WPML WordPress multilingual plugin that could allow authenticated users to execute arbitrary code remotely under certain circumstances. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-6386 (CVSS score: 9.9), impacts all versions of the plugin before 4.6.13, which was released on August…

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Broadcom CEO Hock Tan was a guest at VMware Explore in Las Vegas last year, but one year and $69 billion dollars later, it is his party as the newly acquired VMware By Broadcom showed off new cloud foundations, Tanzu, and AI products designed to simplify cloud deployments and deliver private, virtualized AI infrastructure. Paul…

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After the massive CrowdStrike-caused Windows outage last month, SentinelOne CEO Tomer Weingarten says the incident revealed that cybersecurity ‘is not a winner-takes-all market.’ SentinelOne CEO Tomer Weingarten said Tuesday that the massive Microsoft Windows outage caused by a faulty CrowdStrike update last month signals the dangers of consolidating too heavily on certain technology vendors. “The…

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HP will “modernize and expand our facility” with the funds, CEO Enrique Lores said in a statement. HP has inked preliminary terms for a $50 million award from the U.S. federal government that would support its microfluids semiconductor fab in Oregon. Should HP receive the funds, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based computer maker will “modernize and…

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