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Jun 21, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Data Protection A recently patched high-severity flaw impacting SolarWinds Serv-U file transfer software is being actively exploited by malicious actors in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-28995 (CVSS score: 8.6), concerns a directory transversal bug that could allow attackers to read sensitive files on the host machine. Affecting all versions…
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Jun 21, 2024NewsroomSoftware Security / Threat Intelligence The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) on Thursday announced a “first of its kind” ban that prohibits Kaspersky Lab’s U.S. subsidiary from directly or indirectly offering its security software in the country. The blockade also extends to the cybersecurity company’s affiliates, subsidiaries and…
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Swatting definition Swattingis a form of criminal harassment in which attackers try to trick police forces into sending a heavily armed strike force to a victim’s home or business. The term takes its name from SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics), a highly trained police unit that is called on to respond to active shooting scenes.…
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How do you ensure that your remote access is secure? Do you consider your servers protected as long as you have in place a virtual private network (VPN), virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), Azure Virtual Desktop, desktop-as-a-service (DaaS), VDI-as-a-service (VDIaaS), or other forms of secure jump hosts? There is a misconception that having a secured intermediary…
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On March 8, 2024, KrebsOnSecurity published a deep dive on the consumer data broker Radaris, showing how the original owners are two men in Massachusetts who operated multiple Russian language dating services and affiliate programs, in addition to a dizzying array of people-search websites. The subjects of that piece are threatening to sue KrebsOnSecurity for…
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CDK Global, the provider of a software platform for auto dealerships, has had to shut down most of its systems due to what it described as “a cyber incident.” This had serious consequences for car dealers in the US, with reports saying that thousands of dealerships there were largely paralyzed for several hours on Wednesday.…
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What is Qilin? Qilin (also known as Agenda) is a ransomware-as-a-service criminal operation that works with affiliates, encrypting and exfiltrating the data of hacked organisations and then demanding a ransom be paid. Qilin seems like a strange name. Where does it come from? The Qilin is a creature from Chinese mythology that combines the features…
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A Dutch appellate court has ruled that Oracle and Salesforce must continue defending a class-action lawsuit relating to the use of cookies to gather and track personal information for their Data Management Platforms (DMPs). The case raises issues about who is responsible when websites use third-party data platforms to track users, and relies on the…
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From the editors of CSO, this enterprise buyer’s guide helps security IT staff understand what cloud security posture management (CSPM) can do for their organizations and how to choose the right solution. Source link lol
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Graham Cluley is an award-winning cybersecurity public speaker, podcaster, blogger, and analyst. He has been a well-known figure in the cybersecurity industry since the early 1990s when he worked as a programmer, writing the first ever version of Dr Solomon’s Anti-Virus Toolkit for Windows. Since then he has been employed in senior roles by computer…
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