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Louis Blackburn, operations director at global ethical hacker and red team cybersecurity solutions provider CovertSwarm, commented: “In order to combat this [RMM abuse] tactic, organizations need to focus on endpoint hardening and reducing their attack surface.” “Implementing application control measures, such as Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC) or AppLocker, will act as a primary line…
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Aug 21, 2024Ravie LakshmananWordPress / Cybersecurity A maximum-severity security flaw has been disclosed in the WordPress GiveWP donation and fundraising plugin that exposes more than 100,000 websites to remote code execution attacks. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-5932 (CVSS score: 10.0), impacts all versions of the plugin prior to version 3.14.2, which was released on August…
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‘Sadly, we have made the very difficult decision to say painful goodbyes to some of our team members,’ Five9 CEO Mike Burkland said in an email to employees. Five9 has revealed plans to lay off about 7 percent of its workforce, totaling less than 200 people based on the vendor’s 2,684 full-time employee count as…
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The “very low adoption rate” is “really alarming,” Microsoft program manager Sourish Deb said in a call with partners. Microsoft is warning partners to update their code for new application programming interface by Sept. 30 to avoid service disruption – with a Microsoft representative revealing on a recent call with solution providers that less than…
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Aug 20, 2024The Hacker NewsCybersecurity / Cloud Security As cloud infrastructure becomes the backbone of modern enterprises, ensuring the security of these environments is paramount. With AWS (Amazon Web Services) still being the dominant cloud it is important for any security professional to know where to look for signs of compromise. AWS CloudTrail stands out…
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Six MSP executives share details on how they’re helping customers to stay secure through education and awareness training for their teams. As cyberthreats continue to evolve—and intensify—MSPs are continuing to update and adapt the security training that they facilitate for customers. This week, CRN’s reporting team spoke with executives from numerous solution and service providers…
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Tenable Research discovered a critical information-disclosure vulnerability in Microsoft’s Copilot Studio via a server-side request forgery (SSRF), which allowed researchers access to potentially sensitive information regarding service internals with potential cross-tenant impact. Introduction In this blog, we take a look at a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in Copilot Studio that leveraged Copilot’s ability to…
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“Removing the power to connect equipment to or install program in CCS as this is likely to have a chilling effect on technology investment and Hong Kong digital economy, which will undermine trust in service providers who operate in Hong Kong,” Dr. Eden Wood, president of AmCham wrote in the letter. The HKGCC has raised…
Read MoreHacking Wireless Bicycle Shifters This is yet another insecure Internet-of-things story, this one about wireless gear shifters for bicycles. These gear shifters are used in big-money professional bicycle races like the Tour de France, which provides an incentive to actually implement this attack. Research paper. Another news story. Slashdot thread. Tags: academic papers, firmware, hacking,…
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Aug 20, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Container Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a security flaw impacting Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Services that, if successfully exploited, could allow an attacker to escalate their privileges and access credentials for services used by the cluster. “An attacker with command execution in a Pod running within an affected Azure Kubernetes Services…
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