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Scams Scammers gonna scam scam scam, so before hunting for your tickets to a Taylor Swift gig or other in-demand events, learn how to stop fraudsters from leaving a blank space in your bank account 09 Jul 2024 • , 5 min. read Thanks to advances in technology, buying tickets to your favorite show has…
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Despite the SBOM’s conceptual attractiveness as a simple tool for spotting potentially problematic software components, its value is still too limited to be helpful. “What I’m seeing is that SBOM is too nascent for department and agency proactive use,” Rebecca McWhite, cyber supply chain risk management technical Lead at NIST, said during the CISA conference.…
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Jul 10, 2024NewsroomEndpoint Security / Threat Intelligence The sophisticated malware known as ViperSoftX has been observed being distributed as eBooks over torrents. “A notable aspect of the current variant of ViperSoftX is that it uses the Common Language Runtime (CLR) to dynamically load and run PowerShell commands, thereby creating a PowerShell environment within AutoIt for…
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He believes these dual-title roles can provide a more direct reporting line to the CEO or board, which is important for risk reporting. It gives the CISO greater autonomy to report to the board and helps them understand business risk because the CISO is looking across all the different parts of the organization. “It’s not…
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Jul 10, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Network Security Select versions of the OpenSSH secure networking suite are susceptible to a new vulnerability that can trigger remote code execution (RCE). The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-6409 (CVSS score: 7.0), is distinct from CVE-2024-6387 (aka RegreSSHion) and relates to a case of code execution in the privsep child process due…
Read MoreApply the stable channel update provided by Mozilla to vulnerable systems immediately after appropriate testing. (M1051: Update Software)o Safeguard 7.1 : Establish and Maintain a Vulnerability Management Process: Establish and maintain a documented vulnerability management process for enterprise assets. Review and update documentation annually, or when significant enterprise changes occur that could impact this Safeguard.o…
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The second year of Gartner rankings for single-vendor SASE (secure access service edge) featured nine vendors in total. Cato Networks moved up and Netskope appeared for the first time as Gartner released its latest Magic Quadrant ranking of single-vendor SASE vendors — with the two companies joining Palo Alto Networks in the sought-after “leaders” quadrant…
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“Prior to our work, there was no publicly-known attack exploiting MD5 to violate the integrity of the RADIUS/UDP traffic,” the researchers wrote in a blog post. “However, attacks continue to get faster, cheaper, become more widely available, and become more practical against real protocols. Protocols that we thought might be ‘secure enough,’ in spite of…
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Almost a thousand Twitter accounts controlled by a large bot farm pushing Russian propaganda and domains used to register the bots were taken down in a joint international law enforcement operation led by the U.S. Justice Department. Organized and managed by a deputy editor-in-chief at Russian state-run news organization Russia Today (RT) and a Russian…
Read MoreCISA has added three new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2024-23692 Rejetto HTTP File Server Improper Neutralization of Special Elements Used in a Template Engine Vulnerability CVE-2024-38080 Microsoft Windows Hyper-V Privilege Escalation Vulnerability CVE-2024-38112 Microsoft Windows MSHTML Platform Spoofing Vulnerability These types of vulnerabilities are frequent attack vectors…
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