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"Trio of New Vulnerabilities Allow Code Manipulation, Denial of Service (And Worse) For Industrial Controllers"Vedere Labs researchers revealed three new security flaws that can be exploited to attack automated industrial controllers and widely used software applied to program millions of smart devices in critical infrastructure. The vulnerabilities, tracked as…
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"What the Census Bureau Can Learn From the IRS About Detecting Cyberattacks"Separate reports from agency watchdogs revealed the difference proper detection control implementation could make in limiting the impact of attempted cyber intrusions. One report highlighted a foiled ransomware attack against the Internal Revenue Service…
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"Five Principles to Help Secure Technology Supply Chains"Factory fires were once the most common source of supply chain disruption, but the landscape has shifted as globalization has resulted in distributed supply chains. Logistics powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) enable just-in-time component delivery…
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"Attacks Using Encryption Are Successfully Breaching Many Organizations"Vectra AI recently published a report titled "The Evolving Role of Network Detection and Response (NDR)." According to the report, 70 percent of organizations have been the victim of an attack that used encrypted traffic to avoid detection. Almost half (…
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"Cybercriminals Selling Access to Networks Compromised via Recent Fortinet Vulnerability"Security researchers at Cyble have recently observed initial access brokers (IABs) selling access to enterprise networks likely compromised via a recently patched critical vulnerability in Fortinet products. Tracked as CVE-2022-40684 and impacting…
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"Community Health Network Notifies 1.5M of Data Breach Stemming From Tracking Tech"Community Health Network, an Indiana-based integrated healthcare system, notified 1.5 million people about a data breach caused by the use of third-party tracking technologies from companies such as Facebook and Google. Facebook's parent company, Meta,…
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"Virginia County Confirms Personal Information Stolen in Ransomware Attack"Southampton County in Virginia recently started informing individuals that their personal information might have been compromised in a ransomware attack. The incident was identified in September when a threat actor accessed a server at Southampton…
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"Ransomware Gang Takes Credit for Maple Leaf Foods Hack"The Black Basta ransomware group has recently taken credit for the recently disclosed attack on Canadian meat giant Maple Leaf Foods. The cybercriminals have made public several screenshots of technical documents, financial information, and other…
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"Research Institute RISE Engages Ethical Hackers at New Cybersecurity Test Facility"RISE, a Swedish state-owned research institute, is in the pilot phase of establishing what it calls Europe's most advanced cybersecurity hub for vehicles, which has been planned since 2021. The RISE Cyber Test Lab for Automotive facilitates vehicle…
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"New 'Faraday Cage' Research Facility to Help Combat Digital Crime"Specific computer forensic testing procedures for electronic systems require using an isolated environment free of electromagnetic interference, known as a "Faraday Cage." Therefore, a team of digital forensics researchers at the University of…
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"Experts Find 16,000+ Scam FIFA World Cup Domains"Security researchers at Group-IB have warned of a deluge of phishing scams, fake apps, and malicious merchandising sites spoofing the branding of the FIFA World Cup in Qatar to target football fans. The researchers tracked over 16,000 scam domains…
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"Why Microsegmentation is Critical for Securing CI/CD"Cloud-native technology, microservices architectures, and DevOps or DevSecOps teams working in close collaboration throughout the development life cycle represent modern development environments. At the heart of this environment, the Continuous…