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"Microsoft Warns of Exploited Exchange Server Zero-Day"Microsoft recently warned that a newly addressed vulnerability in Exchange Server has been actively exploited in attacks.
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"TUM and Google Strengthen Cooperation: Seven New Research Projects on Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence"With funding from Google, the Technical University of Munich (TUM) is launching seven new research projects to address critical questions at the intersection of cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
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"4 Ways Hackers use Social Engineering to Bypass MFA"Multi-factor authentication (MFA) has been the recommended way to strengthen password access for users. But hackers are finding ways around MFA as well using social engineering. Here are a couple of popular methods used.
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"Hackers Used New Windows Defender Zero-Day to Drop DarkMe Malware"Microsoft has patched a Windows Defender SmartScreen zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild by the financially motivated threat group, tracked as Water Hydra and DarkCasino, to deploy the DarkMe Remote Access Trojan (RAT).
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"Catching The Man-in-the-Middle"Dr. Santosh Ganji, a computer engineering doctoral graduate, and Dr. P.R. Kumar, a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering professor at Texas A&M University, are working on improving wireless network security.
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"Cybersecurity Spending Expected to be Slashed in 41% of SMEs"According to security researchers at JumpCloud, cybersecurity spending is predicted to be cut by 41% of SMEs over the coming year amid the challenging economic environment.
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"How Are State-Sponsored Threat Actors Leveraging AI?"Microsoft and OpenAI have pointed out the different ways in which state-sponsored threat actors have attempted to use Large Language Models (LLMs) to improve their cyber operations.
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12th Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper CompetitionNominations are now open for the 12th Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition.
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"German Battery Maker Varta Halts Production After Cyberattack"Battery maker VARTA AG was recently targeted by a cyberattack that forced it to shut down IT systems, causing production to stop at its plants.
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"Just One Bad Packet Can Bring down a Vulnerable DNS Server Thanks to DNSSEC"Through the exploitation of a 20-year-old design flaw dubbed KeyTrap in the DNSSEC specification, one packet can exhaust a vulnerable DNS server's processing capacity, effectively disabling the machine.
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"NSA Awards Authors of Study of Automated Attacks on New Webservers"The National Security Agency (NSA) Research Directorate selected "Uninvited Guests: Analyzing the Identity and Behavior of Certificate Transparency Bots" as the 11th Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition winner.
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"Zoom Patches Critical Vulnerability in Windows Applications"Video messaging giant Zoom recently announced patches for seven vulnerabilities in its desktop and mobile applications, including a critical severity bug in Windows software.