Brazilian Conglomerate Suffers 3TB Data Breach: Report

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“Dark Angels” hacking group targets Andrade Gutierrez

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What is zero trust? A model for more effective security

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Security leaders are embracing zero trust, with the vast majority of organizations either implementing or planning to adopt the strategy. The 2022 State of Zero-Trust Security report found that 97% of those surveyed either have or plan to have a zero-trust initiative in place within 18 months.

In fact, the percentage of organizations with zero trust already in place more than doubled in just one year, jumping from 24% in 2021 to 55% in the 2022 survey issued by identity and access management technology provider Okta.

And that 55% is more than three times the figure it was four years ago; when Okta first asked security leaders whether they had a zero-trust initiative in place or were planning one within the following 18 months for its 2018 report, only 16% answered yes.

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USN-5928-1: systemd vulnerabilities

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It was discovered that systemd did not properly validate the time and
accuracy values provided to the format_timespan() function. An attacker
could possibly use this issue to cause a buffer overrun, leading to a
denial of service attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu
16.04 ESM, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
(CVE-2022-3821)

It was discovered that systemd did not properly manage the fs.suid_dumpable
kernel configurations. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to
expose sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS,
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.10. (CVE-2022-4415)

It was discovered that systemd did not properly manage a crash with long
backtrace data. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a
deadlock, leading to a denial of service attack. This issue only affected
Ubuntu 22.10. (CVE-2022-45873)

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