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CVE-2024-7971, which also received a CVSS rating of 8.8 out of 10, was fixed by Google last week in the same release that also patched CVE-2024-7965. Both the flaws were fixed in Chrome version 128.0.6613.84/.85 for Windows/macOS systems and version 128.0.6613.84 Linux users. The other eight vulnerabilities that make up the list of zero-days Google…
Read MoreThe Present and Future of TV Surveillance Ars Technica has a good article on what’s happening in the world of television surveillance. More than even I realized. Tags: privacy, surveillance, television, tracking Posted on August 27, 2024 at 7:08 AM • 0 Comments Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis. Source link lol
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A handful of Russian government institutions have partnered up with Standoff 365 and BI.ZONE, which indicates a change in the perception bug bounty programs and the Russian hacking community, which until recently was seen as a threat to security rather than a means of enhancing it. In February 2023, the Ministry of Digital Development enrolled 10 of…
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How to protect your business against phishing A big part of protecting your business, employees, and customers from phishing attacks is by leveraging industry standards and implementing best practices whenever possible. Standards like Sender Policy Framework (SPF), DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), and Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC) are all intended to fight the…
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Aug 27, 2024Ravie LakshmananAI Security / Vulnerability Details have emerged about a now-patched vulnerability in Microsoft 365 Copilot that could enable the theft of sensitive user information using a technique called ASCII smuggling. “ASCII Smuggling is a novel technique that uses special Unicode characters that mirror ASCII but are actually not visible in the user…
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Risks from exposed documents In his report Fowler noted that the potential risks of invoice fraud from stolen documents affect both business-to-customer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) transactions. “Exposed invoices and internal business documents can potentially serve as a template for criminals to target victims using internal information that only the business and the customer would…
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Aug 26, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Enterprise Security SonicWall has released security updates to address a critical flaw impacting its firewalls that, if successfully exploited, could grant malicious actors unauthorized access to the devices. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-40766 (CVSS score: 9.3), has been described as an improper access control bug. “An improper access control vulnerability…
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New cloud research sheds light on the top six cloud providers in the U.S., Europe, China, Asia-Pacific and the rest of the world as Oracle, Salesforce and IBM try to compete with AWS, Microsoft and Google. Across the U.S., Europe and most of Asia-Pacific, the three global leaders—Google, Amazon and Microsoft—hold a large cloud market-share…
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Conventional wisdom suggests the keys to protect critical infrastructure against cyberattacks are network segmentation and OT security. But continued breaches imply those methods alone fall short. In fact, a CISA probe of 121 critical infrastructure networks found that their weakest link is identity compromise. Learn how to leverage an attacker’s perspective to better secure critical…
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Cybersecurity researchers are warning about the security risks in the machine learning (ML) software supply chain following the discovery of more than 20 vulnerabilities that could be exploited to target MLOps platforms. These vulnerabilities, which are described as inherent- and implementation-based flaws, could have severe consequences, ranging from arbitrary code execution to loading malicious datasets.…
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