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Social Dominates as Victims Take $2.7bn Fraud Hit
PRIVACY PRIVACY Social media is number one channel for fraud, says FTC Read More
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DBIR 2023: SME Cyber Defense Begins with the CIS Controls
PRIVACY PRIVACY Verizon’s DBIR 2023 references the CIS Controls throughout as effective mitigation tactics for SMEs to defend against top attack patterns. Read More
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Revealed! The top 10 cybersecurity misconfigurations, as determined by CISA and the NSA
PRIVACY PRIVACY A joint advisory from the United States’s National Security Agency (NSA) and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has shone a light on the top ten most common cybersecurity misconfigurations found in large private and public organisations. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog. Read More
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AWS to Mandate Multi-Factor Authentication from 2024
PRIVACY PRIVACY Move is designed to mitigate risk of account takeover Read More
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Qakbot Gang Still Active Despite FBI Takedown
PRIVACY PRIVACY Cisco Talos found new evidence that Qakbot-affiliated actors were still distributing ransomware despite the August FBI takedown of the threat group Read More
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CISA and NSA Publish Top 10 Misconfigurations
PRIVACY PRIVACY Data was compiled from real-world read and blue team engagements Read More
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Apple Issues Emergency Patches for More Zero-Day Bugs
PRIVACY PRIVACY One is being exploited in the wild Read More
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Deepfake Election Interference in Slovokia
PRIVACY PRIVACY Well designed and well timed deepfake or two Slovokian politicians discussing how to rig the election: Šimečka and Denník N immediately denounced the audio as fake. The fact-checking department of news agency AFP said the audio showed signs of being manipulated using AI. But the recording was posted during a 48-hour moratorium ahead…
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Smashing Security podcast #342: Royal family attacked, keyless car theft, and a deepfake Tom Hanks
PRIVACY PRIVACY Is a deepfake Tom Hanks better than the real thing? Who has been attacking the British Royal Family’s website, and why? And how can you protect your vehicle from the spate of keyless car thefts? All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by…
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CISA and NSA Tackle IAM Security Challenges in New Report
PRIVACY PRIVACY The document is authored by the Enduring Security Framework Read More