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"AT&T Says the Outage to Its US Cellphone Network Was Not Caused by a Cyberattack"AT&T recently announced Thursday's hourslong outage to its U.S.
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"230k Individuals Impacted by Data Breach at Australian Telco Tangerine"Australian telecommunications provider Tangerine recently announced that the personal information of 230,000 individuals was stolen in a recent cyberattack. The incident occurred on February 18 but was not discovered until two days later.
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"Cybersecurity Fears Drive a Return to On-Premise Infrastructure From Cloud Computing"Citrix reports that 42 percent of organizations surveyed in the US are considering or have already moved at least half of their cloud-based workloads back to on-premises infrastructures due to unexpected security issues, high project expectations, and
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"What's the Chat About Global Cybersecurity? - Cybersecurity and Data Protection in the European Union, the USA, and China: Does ChatGPT Really Make a Difference?"A team of researchers examined the different approaches to cybersecurity and data protection taken by the EU, the US, and China.
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"Distributed Energy Resource Cybersecurity Framework Tool Shines in Solar Cybersecurity Assessment"A new paper by National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) researchers, presented at the 2023 IEEE Power and Energy Society's Innovative Smart Grid Technologies conference, emphasizes the importance of solar energy cybersecurity.
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"US Offering $10M for LockBit Leaders as Law Enforcement Taunts Cybercriminals"The United States recently announced that it is offering big rewards for information on cybercriminals linked to the recently disrupted LockBit ransomware operation.
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"'Critical ConnectWise RMM Bug Poised for Exploitation Avalanche"Those who use the ConnectWise ScreenConnect remote desktop management tool are being attacked following the release of a Proof-of-Concept (PoC) exploit for a critical security vulnerability in the platform.
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"Collegiate Cyber Defenders Shine in CyberForce Program's Inaugural Conquer the Hill — Command Edition Competition"The US Department of Energy's (DOE) CyberForce Program aims to help build a workforce of skilled cyber defenders for the energy sector by offering engaging competitions, webinars, career fairs, and skill-building resources.
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"Cybercriminals Weaponizing Open-Source SSH-Snake Tool for Network Attacks"Threat actors have repurposed SSH-Snake, a recently open-sourced network mapping tool, to perform malicious activities. SSH-Snake is a self-modifying worm that uses SSH credentials found on a compromised system to spread itself across the network.
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VI Kickoff Meeting SummaryOn January 11, 2024, the Science of Security (SoS) initiative held the kickoff meeting for its newest iteration of
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"Hackers Abuse Google Cloud Run in Massive Banking Trojan Campaign"According to Cisco Talos researchers, hackers are abusing the Google Cloud Run service to spread massive amounts of banking Trojans such as Astaroth, Mekotio, and Ousaban.
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"LockBit Ransomware Secretly Building Next-Gen Encryptor Before Takedown"According to security researchers at Trend Micro, LockBit ransomware developers were secretly building a new version of their file encrypting malware, dubbed LockBit-NG-Dev, likely to become LockBit 4.0, when law enforcement took down the cybercriminal