The UK Government takes aim at IoT devices shipping with weak or default passwords, an identity thief spends two years in jail after being mistaken for the person who stole his name, and are you au fait with the latest scams? All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing…
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Cloud storage firm DropBox says hackers breached production systems for its DropBox Sign eSignature platform and gained access to authentication tokens, MFA keys, hashed passwords, and customer information. DropBox Sign (formerly HelloSign) is an eSignature platform allowing customers to send documents online to receive legally binding signatures. The company says they detected unauthorized access to…
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HPE Aruba Networking has issued its April 2024 security advisory detailing critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities impacting multiple versions of ArubaOS, its proprietary network operating system. The advisory lists ten vulnerabilities, four of which are critical-severity (CVSS v3.1: 9.8) unauthenticated buffer overflow problems that can lead to remote code execution (RCE). Products impacted by…
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Google’s new round of layoffs hit developers and engineers working inside Google’s Core business unit. Here’s what you need to know. Just one week after reporting $80.5 billion in sales and $23.7 billion in net income during its first quarter 2024, Google is laying off hundreds of employees—including many in its ‘Core’ team roles—while moving…
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Synthetic Content Risks Today’s first-generation AI systems are capable of maliciously synthesizing images, sound, and video well enough for it to be indistinguishable from genuine content. The guide “Reducing Risks Posed by Synthetic Content” (NIST AI 100-4) examines how developers can authenticate, label, and track the provenance of content using technologies such as watermarking. A…
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The US government is warning that pro-Russian hacktivists are seeking out and hacking into unsecured operational technology (OT) systems used to disrupt critical infrastructure operations. The joint advisory comes from six US govt agencies, including CISA, FBI, NSA, EPA, DOE, USDA, and FDA, as well as the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), Canada’s Centre for…
Read MoreToday, CISA, in collaboration with U.S. and international partners, published a joint fact sheet, Defending OT Operations Against Ongoing Pro-Russia Hacktivist Activity. This fact sheet provides information and mitigations associated with cyber operations conducted by pro-Russia hacktivists who seek to compromise industrial control systems (ICS) and small-scale operational technology (OT) systems in North American and…
Read MoreCERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) has released information on a vulnerability in R programming language implementations (CVE-2024-27322). A cyber threat actor could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system. Users and administrators are encouraged to review the following advisories and apply the necessary updates: Source link lol
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Channel titan Insight Enterprises acquires one of North America’s top ServiceNow partners. Here’s Insight’s merger plans for Infocenter. IT powerhouse Insight Enterprises has acquired one of ServiceNow’s top partners in Infocenter with the goal of boosting its ServiceNow consulting and managed services business to Insight’s automation portfolio. “Workflow automation has become a necessity,” said Joyce…
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‘We’re pretty comfortable with the vision of where we’re taking this. We truly believe that we will continue to lead the market if we just stay focused, we execute and we listen to our partners and deliver the value that they’re asking for, and that’s exactly what we’re going to do,’ says Pax8 CEO Scott…
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