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Friday Squid Blogging: Peru Trying to Protect its Squid Fisheries Peru is trying to protect its territorial waters from Chinese squid-fishing boats. Blog moderation policy. Tags: squid Posted on July 19, 2024 at 5:03 PM • Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis. Source link lol

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Brett Solomon on Digital Rights Brett Solomon is retiring from AccessNow after fifteen years as its Executive Director. He’s written a blog post about what he’s learned and what comes next. Tags: history of security, human rights Posted on July 19, 2024 at 12:02 PM • 0 Comments Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe…

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‘We’re helping by offering community support, helping with recovery plans, offering up our staff to augment the MSSPs and helping wherever we can,’ says Marc Menzies, president and CTO of Overview Technology Solutions. ‘We’re saying, “Hey, I know that everyone’s morning is messed up, ours is now messed up too but we’re here to help…

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US software development company Solarwinds has sent out important security fixes that close a number of critical vulnerabilities in its Access Rights Manager software. Six of the vulnerabilities scored 9.6 out of 10 on the Common Vulnerability Scoring Scale (CVSS), which means hackers can attack unprotected systems without having to gain administrator rights to gain…

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A faulty software update from cybersecurity vendor Crowdstrike crippled countless Microsoft Windows computers across the globe today, disrupting everything from airline travel and financial institutions to hospitals and businesses online. Crowdstrike said a fix has been deployed, but experts say the recovery from this outage could take some time, as Crowdstrike’s solution needs to be…

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The massive Microsoft Azure and CrowdStrike outage reportedly was caused by a recent update to CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor software. Here’s where everything stands as of Friday morning. From emergency 911 call centers to national health-care services to the largest airlines, the Microsoft Azure and CrowdStrike outage is causing chaos around the world. As of Friday…

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Businesses across the world have been hit by widespread disruptions to their Windows workstations stemming from a faulty update pushed out by cybersecurity company CrowdStrike. “CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts,” the company’s CEO George Kurtz said in a statement. “Mac and…

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CISA’s red team acted like a nation-state attacker in its assessment of a federal agency’s cybersecurity. Plus, the Cloud Security Alliance has given its cloud security guidance a major revamping. Meanwhile, a Google report puts a spotlight on insecure credentials. And the latest on open source security, CIS Benchmarks and much more! Dive into six…

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CrowdStrike has admitted to pushing out a bad software update, causing many Windows machines running the affected software to crash. The problem, apparently affecting its Falcon platform, brought down servers at airlines, locked up computers at banks, and hurt healthcare services. “CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single…

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