Category: AI in news

Computers blue-screen-of-death around the world! The Paris Olympics is at risk of attack! And the FBI pull off the biggest sting operation in history by running a secret end-to-end encrypted messaging app! All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by industry veterans Graham Cluley and…

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Robot Dog Internet Jammer Supposedly the DHS has these: The robot, called “NEO,” is a modified version of the “Quadruped Unmanned Ground Vehicle” (Q-UGV) sold to law enforcement by a company called Ghost Robotics. Benjamine Huffman, the director of DHS’s Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (FLETC), told police at the 2024 Border Security Expo in…

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Once the HTA script, a Windows standalone program written in HTML is executed, it initiates PowerShell code that eventually establishes C2, downloads decoy PDF files for evasion, and a malicious shell injector. “These files aim to inject the final stealer into legitimate processes, initiating malicious activities and sending the stolen data back to a C2…

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Organizations that have used Google Cloud Platform’s Cloud Functions – a serverless execution environment – could be impacted by a privilege escalation vulnerability discovered by Tenable and dubbed as “ConfusedFunction.” Read on to learn all about the vulnerability and what your organization needs to do to protect itself. Tenable Research has discovered a vulnerability in…

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“Based on the testing performed before the initial deployment of the Template Type (on March 05, 2024), trust in the checks performed in the Content Validator, and previous successful IPC Template Instance deployments, these instances were deployed into production,” CrowdStrike explained in its review. “When received by the sensor and loaded into the Content Interpreter,…

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Security questionnaires aren’t just an inconvenience — they’re a recurring problem for security and sales teams. They bleed time from organizations, filling the schedules of professionals with monotonous, automatable work. But what if there were a way to reduce or even altogether eliminate security questionnaires? The root problem isn’t a lack of great questionnaire products…

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Leidos serves prominent clients including the US Department of Defense (DOD), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), NASA, and various other US and foreign agencies, as well as commercial businesses. The leak has raised significant concerns given the sensitive nature of the information involved. The report reviewed some of the leaked files posted on a…

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Jul 24, 2024The Hacker NewsSaaS Management / IT Governance There is one simple driver behind the modern explosion in SaaS adoption: productivity. We have reached an era where purpose-built tools exist for almost every aspect of modern business and it’s incredibly easy (and tempting) for your workforce to adopt these tools without going through the…

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Most companies, however, didn’t extend this to its natural next step. Why do we trust our administrative users and software implicitly? Endpoints — whether laptops held by users, servers in the cloud, or embedded devices powering airport displays — are often heavily laden with remote administrator tools in the unified endpoint management (UEM) space. Asset…

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Jul 24, 2024NewsroomSoftware Update / IT Outage Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike on Wednesday blamed an issue in its validation system for causing millions of Windows devices to crash as part of a widespread outage late last week. “On Friday, July 19, 2024 at 04:09 UTC, as part of regular operations, CrowdStrike released a content configuration update…

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