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Key takeaways from the Open Cybersecurity Schema Format
PRIVACY PRIVACY One of the most pervasive challenges in the current cybersecurity environment is an overabundance of tooling vendors, all of which produce telemetry or data, often in their own native or nuanced schema or format. As cybersecurity’s visibility has risen in organizations, so has the number of cybersecurity vendors and tools that teams need…
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UK Spies Fund New Course for Female Coders
PRIVACY PRIVACY GCHQ wants to improve diversity for better results Read More
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Malicious Cookie Stuffing Chrome Extensions with 1.4 Million Users
PRIVACY PRIVACY Authored by Oliver Devane and Vallabh Chole A few months ago, we blogged about malicious extensions redirecting users to phishing sites and inserting affiliate IDs into cookies of eCommerce sites. Since that time, we have investigated several other malicious extensions and discovered 5 extensions with a total install base of over 1,400,000 The…
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Levels of Assurance for DoD Microelectronics
PRIVACY PRIVACY The NSA has has published criteria for evaluating levels of assurance required for DoD microelectronics. The introductory report in a DoD microelectronics series outlines the process for determining levels of hardware assurance for systems and custom microelectronic components, which include application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and other devices containing…
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Global Ransomware Damages to Exceed $30bn by 2023
PRIVACY PRIVACY Six hundred malicious email campaigns made their way across the internet in the first half of 2022 Read More
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US Cyber Command and NSA Partner On Defence Efforts For Midterms Elections
PRIVACY PRIVACY The group’s main goal is to monitor foreign adversaries who may interfere with elections Read More
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Facebook agrees to settle class action lawsuit related to Cambridge Analytica data breach
PRIVACY PRIVACY Facebook parent Meta Platforms agreed Friday to settle a class action lawsuit seeking damages for allowing British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica access to the private data of tens of millions of Facebook users. The settlement will spare CEO Marc Zuckerberg an embarrassing court appearance to defend his company. Lawyers acting for the…
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Crypto miners’ latest techniques
PRIVACY PRIVACY Executive summary Crypto miners are determined in their objective of mining in other people’s resources. Proof of this is one of the latest samples identified with AT&T Alien Labs, with at least 100 different loaders and at least 4 different stages to ensure their miner and backdoor run smoothly in the infected systems.…
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Sorting zero-trust hype from reality
PRIVACY PRIVACY It seems as if everyone is playing “buzzword bingo” when it comes to zero trust and its implementation, and it starts with government guidance. The White House’s comments in January on the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB’s) Federal Zero Trust Strategy for all federal agencies and departments were both pragmatic and aspirational. Their…
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Friday Squid Blogging: 14-foot Giant Squid Washes Ashore in Cape Town
PRIVACY PRIVACY It’s an Architeuthis dux, the second this year. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here. Read More