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What is the CIA triad? The CIA triad components, defined The CIA triad, which stands for confidentiality, integrity, and availability,is a widely used information security model for guiding an organization’s efforts and policies aimed at keeping its data secure. The model has nothing to do with the US Central Intelligence Agency; rather, the initials evoke the…
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The OWASP Top 10 was originally created by Endor Labs, a software supply chain and application security company focused on the secure consumption of OSS, CI/CD pipelines, and vulnerability management. The project also included support from industry leaders such as Palo Alto, HashiCorp, and Citibank. While traditionally vulnerability management has looked at known vulnerabilities, often…
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Additionally, the threat actor deploys cryptominers to profit from compromised systems, the cloud security intelligence and solutions provider added. CRYSTALRAY leverages existing vulnerability proof of concepts (PoCs) and uses OSS penetration testing tools to scan a list of targets against these vulnerabilities. Once detected, they modify the existing PoCs for their payload and drop them…
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said it seized two internet domains and searched nearly 1,000 social media accounts that Russian threat actors allegedly used to covertly spread pro-Kremlin disinformation in the country and abroad on a large scale. “The social media bot farm used elements of AI to create fictitious social media profiles —…
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He went on to speculate about the origin of the nude pictures: “Were they obtained from compromised devices without the knowledge or consent of the owner? They certainly don’t look like anything that would be loaded into a ticketing system.” CSOonline approached mSpy for comment on the breach and to ask what advice it had…
Read MoreThe NSA Has a Long-Lost Lecture by Adm. Grace Hopper The NSA has a video recording of a 1982 lecture by Adm. Grace Hopper titled “Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People.” The agency is (so far) refusing to release it. Basically, the recording is in an obscure video format. People at the NSA can’t…
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Jul 12, 2024NewsroomCyber Crime / Online Safety Two Russian-born Australian citizens have been arrested and charged in the country for spying on behalf of Russia as part of a “complex” law enforcement operation codenamed BURGAZADA. This includes a 40-year-old woman, an Australian Defence Force (ADF) Army Private, and her husband, a 62-year-old self-employed laborer. Media…
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When confirming details of a massive data breach of about 110 million customers, AT&T on Friday also revealed that it became apparently the first enterprise to be given permission to initially keep breach details secret, and then was cleared to publish. The incident itself — which AT&T said stemmed from a series of Snowflake attacks…
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What’s RansomHub? Despite first appearing earlier this year, RansomHub is already considered one of the most prolific ransomware groups in existence. It operates a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation, meaning that a central core of the group creates and maintains the ransomware code and infrastructure, and rents it out to other cybercriminals who act as affiliates. How…
Read MoreFriday Squid Blogging: 1994 Lair of Squid Game I didn’t know: In 1994, Hewlett-Packard released a miracle machine: the HP 200LX pocket-size PC. In the depths of the device, among the MS-DOS productivity apps built into its fixed memory, there lurked a first-person maze game called Lair of Squid. […] In Lair of Squid, you’re…
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