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The cybersecurity vendor says Delta did not accept offers of help amid the multi-day outage that impacted the airline. CrowdStrike is contending that Delta did not accept offers of help amid the multi-day outage that impacted the airline, following the cybersecurity vendor’s defective July 19 update. In a letter sent to an attorney who is…
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Aug 05, 2024Ravie LakshmananNetwork Security / Threat Intelligence Organizations in Kazakhstan are the target of a threat activity cluster dubbed Bloody Wolf that delivers a commodity malware called STRRAT (aka Strigoi Master). “The program selling for as little as $80 on underground resources allows the adversaries to take control of corporate computers and hijack restricted…
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Aug 05, 2024Ravie LakshmananThreat Intelligence / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered design weaknesses in Microsoft’s Windows Smart App Control and SmartScreen that could enable threat actors to gain initial access to target environments without raising any warnings. Smart App Control (SAC) is a cloud-powered security feature introduced by Microsoft in Windows 11 to block malicious,…
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By employing a timing side channel while exploiting the heap vulnerabilities, which essentially allow attackers to manipulate the kernel’s memory allocation process, the researchers were able to pinpoint the exact moment of memory allocation and de-allocation, making the determination of frequently used caches extremely accurate. These caches are then shown to be reallocated to allow…
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At Tenable, our mission is to manage and reduce cyber risk, because cyber risk is business risk. Feedback from dozens of top CISOs is reflected in our latest brand evolution. Tenable is the exposure management company that helps customers know where their weaknesses lie, expose their risk and close the gaps. Welcome to Tenable. Your…
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Tenable®, the exposure management company, today announced the release of Vulnerability Intelligence and Exposure Response, two powerful context-driven prioritization and response features available in Tenable Vulnerability Management, Tenable One and Tenable Cloud Security. The combined power of these features contextualizes vulnerability data from internal and external sources, enabling organizations to close the exposures that pose…
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This “agreement with Google … will allow us to accelerate our progress,” Character.AI said in a blog post. In a deal that might remind some of Microsoft’s March hiring of Inflection CEO and DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman, Google will hire the co-founders and members of the research team for Character.AI in exchange for an undisclosed…
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Prioritizing vulnerabilities with context has always been a challenge for vulnerability management teams – and this task isn’t getting easier as published CVEs continue to grow. To remedy this, many enterprises are forced to invest in products and services to protect their environments with various intelligence data and tools. In this blog, we explain how…
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Aug 05, 2024The Hacker NewsCybersecurity Law / Data Privacy The Loper Bright decision has yielded impactful results: the Supreme Court has overturned forty years of administrative law, leading to potential litigation over the interpretation of ambiguous laws previously decided by federal agencies. This article explores key questions for cybersecurity professionals and leaders as we enter…
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“I found a collection of different documents, including voting records, ballot templates, and voter registrations, all from a single county in Illinois,” Fowler said in the report. “Further investigation revealed a total of 13 open databases and 15 others that exist but are not publicly accessible.” The exposed 13 non-password-protected databases contained lists of active…
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