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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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"LockBit Alleges Ransomware Attack Against Digital Security Company Entrust"
The LockBit ransomware group is suspected of having been responsible for the June ransomware attack against Entrust, a leading provider of digital security. The security company found no evidence that the incident had harmed the performance or security…
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"NY Billing Company Suffers Ransomware Attack, 942K Impacted"Practice Resources, LLC (PRL), a New York-based medical billing and practice management company, has begun notifying 942,138 people of a ransomware attack that affected 26 of its healthcare organization clients. According to a notice posted on the…
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"Exploiting Stolen Session Cookies to Bypass Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)"According to Sophos, active adversaries are increasingly using stolen session cookies to circumvent multi-factor authentication (MFA) and gain access to corporate resources. In some cases, cookie theft is a highly targeted attack, with adversaries…
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"AI-Designed Camera Only Records Objects of Interest While Being Blind to Others"Digital cameras have been widely adopted in various aspects of society and are now widely used in mobile phones, security surveillance, autonomous vehicles, and facial recognition. Huge amounts of image data are generated by these cameras, thus raising…
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"Universal Database of Device Vulnerability Information Launched"A universal database of agentless devices currently being used on enterprise networks has been announced by DeviceTotal. The new repository allows the company's customers to identify the accurate security posture for each device in their…
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"Creating the Culture: Professor's Fulbright Research Examines Cybersecurity Threats Through the Lens of Newly Tech-Reliant Countries"
Maurice Dawson, assistant professor of information technology and management at the Illinois Institute of Technology, used his award from the US Fulbright Scholar Program to investigate cybersecurity issues in developing countries and their global impact…
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"Cyberattacks a Growing Threat to Farm, Food Security, Warn U of G Researchers"According to Dr. Ali Dehghantanha, a University of Guelph (UG) computer scientist, the threat of cyberattacks against Canadian farmers is growing as they adopt more on-farm smart technologies. His lab is the only Canadian university research center…
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"Which Security Bugs Will Be Exploited? Researchers Create an ML Model to Find Out"The University of Maryland at College Park and Arizona State University researchers are attempting to give companies additional information on which vulnerabilities could be or are likely to be exploited. Using machine learning trained on data from…
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"U.S. Cyber Command Completes Defensive Cyber Mission in Croatia"
A U.S. Cyber Command team of defensive cyber experts returned from Croatia last month, where they were dispatched on a so-called “hunt forward” operation. This mission is the 35th proactive cyber defense mission to be undertaken by the command as…
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"Software Developer Cracks Hyundai Car Security with Google Search"Daniel Feldman, a software engineer, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, wanted to customize the in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) system in his 2021 Hyundai Ioniq SEL. He discovered that the car's manufacturer had secured its system using keys that were not…
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"A Janet Jackson Song Could Crash Windows XP Laptops"
According to a Microsoft software engineer, a sound frequency in Janet Jackson's famous Rhythm Nation song could disrupt a laptop hard drive used in a number of Windows XP notebook models. In a blog post, Microsoft software engineer Raymond Chen…
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