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"DOE Announces $45 Million for Next-Generation Cyber Tools to Protect the Power Grid"The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced a $45 million investment to develop, accelerate, and test technology that will protect the electric grid from cyberattacks. Cybersecurity threats to American energy systems have the potential to disrupt…
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"New Lancaster University Program Will Enable Businesses to Get Ahead on Cyber Security"A new initiative has been launched to help leaders of UK small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) protect their businesses from cyberattacks and to avoid the potentially disastrous consequences of a data breach. According to the Cyber Security Breaches…
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"20 Percent of Developers and IT Pros Say API Security Breaches Happen Monthly"Application Programming Interface (API) security is where many security teams fall short. There are so many apps and services that rely on APIs in today's increasingly remote, modern work environments that analysts struggle to discover and secure them.…
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"Five-Year-Old Slack Bug Transmitted Your Hashed Password After Interacting With a Sharing Feature"Slack disclosed that a five-year-old Slack bug shared users' hashed passwords when they interacted with the vulnerable invitation feature. When users created or revoked a shared invitation link, the bug transmitted their hashed passwords to other group…
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"Just 1 of 25 Apps That Track Reproductive Health Protect Users’ Data: Report"Millions of Americans use mobile apps to track their menstrual cycle, sexual activity, and ovulation windows. Security researchers at the Mozilla Foundation found that the tracked data isn't always protected, and most reproductive health apps have…
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"Microsoft: Cryptojackers Continue to Evolve to be Stealthier And Spread Faster"Security researchers Microsoft’s 365 Defender Research Team have found that trojanized cryptocurrency miners, also known as cryptojackers, continue to spread across computers worldwide while also becoming stealthier and increasingly avoiding detection.…
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"Researchers Find 35 Adware Apps on Google Play"
Security researchers at Bitdefender warn about malicious applications hiding on official mobile app stores after finding dozens of them on Google Play. The researchers identified 35 in total by using behavioral analysis technology to scan the…
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"Threat Group Ramps-Up Attacks on Travel Sector in 2022"Security researchers at Proofpoint have revealed new details of a prolific APT group that has used 15 malware families over the past four years to steal data from travel and hospitality companies. The researchers stated that the financially…
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"Cyber Tops Staff Retention as Biggest Business Risk"Security researchers at PWC found that cybersecurity concerns represent the most serious risk facing organizations, beating inflation, talent acquisition/retention, and rising production costs. During the study, researchers conducted interviews…
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"Apple Warns of Critical Security Risk in Safari For iPhones, iPads and Macs"
Apple has recently released updates to fix security flaws across iPhone, iPad, and Mac devices, after admitting the vulnerabilities may have been "actively exploited" by threat actors. The vulnerability reportedly enabled hackers to infiltrate…
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"China's APT41 Embraces Baffling Approach for Dropping Cobalt Strike Payload"
An investigation into the activities of China-backed Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actor APT41, also known as Winnti, Wicked Panda, Barium, and Blackfly, has revealed that the group employs a unique method for deploying its main Cobalt Strike payload…
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"Google Cloud Blocks Record DDoS attack of 46 Million Requests Per Second"Google's cloud division has announced that it mitigated a series of HTTPS Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks, which peaked at 46 million requests per second (RPS), the highest recorded to date. The June 1 attack, which targeted an unnamed…
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