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Typing Incriminating Evidence in the Memo Field
PRIVACY PRIVACY Don’t do it: Recently, the manager of the Harvard Med School morgue was accused of stealing and selling human body parts. Cedric Lodge and his wife Denise were among a half-dozen people arrested for some pretty grotesque crimes. This part is also at least a little bit funny though: Over a three-year period,…
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U.K. Cyber Thug “PlugwalkJoe” Gets 5 Years in Prison
PRIVACY PRIVACY Joseph James “PlugwalkJoe” O’Connor, a 24-year-old from the United Kingdom who earned his 15 minutes of fame by participating in the July 2020 hack of Twitter, has been sentenced to five years in a U.S. prison. That may seem like harsh punishment for a brief and very public cyber joy ride. But O’Connor…
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SEC notice to SolarWinds CISO and CFO roils cybersecurity industry
PRIVACY PRIVACY The US Securities and Exchange Commission has roiled the cybersecurity industry by putting executives of SolarWind on notice that it may pursue legal action for violations of federal law in connection with their response to the 2020 attack on the company’s infrastructure that affected thousands of customers in government agencies and companies globally.…
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Anatsa Banking Trojan Targets Banks in US, UK and DACH Region
PRIVACY PRIVACY ThreatFabric said the ongoing campaign started in March and has witnessed over 30,000 installations Read More
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Third-Party Vendor Hack Exposes Data at American, Southwest Airlines
PRIVACY PRIVACY American Airlines reported 5745 pilots and applicants affected, Southwest Airlines reported 3009 Read More
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Study Reveals Alarming Gap in SIEM Detection of Adversary Techniques
PRIVACY PRIVACY CardinalOps examined 4000 detection rules, one million log sources and many unique log source types Read More
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Submarine Cables at Growing Risk of Cyber-Attacks
PRIVACY PRIVACY A report from Recorded Future highlights how digital cable management systems are vulnerable to nation-state attacks Read More
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DNS can speed up response to threats and make security operations more productive
PRIVACY PRIVACY Graham Cluley Security News is sponsored this week by the folks at Infoblox. Thanks to the great team there for their support! At Infoblox, we know that the most important thing to prevent potential attacks against DNS is to understand it and get the right tools and techniques to defend DNS infrastructure. Assembled…
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Bionic integrations offer context-based vulnerability management
PRIVACY PRIVACY Application security posture management (ASPM) company Bionic has added two new capabilities — Bionic Signals and Bionic Business Risk Scoring — to its namesake cybersecurity platform to help its customers detect, prioritize and remediate vulnerabilities and threats in their applications. The idea is to collate signals from multiple threat intelligence platforms and add…
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Fortanix adds confidential data search for encrypted enterprise data
PRIVACY PRIVACY Cloud data security company Fortanix has announced Fortanix Confidential Data Search, a search offering for encrypted databases within enterprise cloud workflows. “Confidential Data Search allows data analysts to use off-the-shelf, unmodified databases in a standard, unrestricted SQL environment,” said Richard Searle, vice president of Confidential Computing, Fortanix. “Users do not need to convert…