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Remote bricking of Ukrainian tractors raises agriculture security concerns
PRIVACY PRIVACY Against the backdrop of horrific reports from Russia’s Ukraine invasion, an encouraging story emerged earlier this month when unidentified Ukrainians remotely disabled tractors worth $5 million that Russian soldiers in the occupied city of Melitopol stole from Agrotek-Invest, an authorized John Deere dealer. The soldiers stole 27 pieces of farm machinery and shipped…
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7 top privileged access management tools
PRIVACY PRIVACY One of the main objectives of the bad guys is to escalate to privileged account access wherever possible. The more unfettered access they can gain to administrative, superuser and infrastructure accounts, the freer rein they have to tap into sensitive data stores, tamper with critical systems, quietly gain carte blanche to do whatever…
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State of Cybersecurity Report 2022 Names Ransomware and Nation-State Attacks As Biggest Threats
PRIVACY PRIVACY Ransomware, nation-state attacks, and supply chains were cited as the biggest threats in the Infosecurity Group’s annual report Read More
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Crypto Scammers Exploit: Elon Musk Speaks on Cryptocurrency
PRIVACY PRIVACY By Oliver Devane Update: In the past 24 hours (from time of publication) McAfee has identified 15 more scam sites bringing the total to 26. The combined value of the wallets shared on these sites is over $1,300,000 which is an increase of roughly $1,000,000 since this blog was last published. This highlights…
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Smashing Security podcast #276: Webcam extortion, Michael Fish, and food foul-ups
PRIVACY PRIVACY A browser extension bug let malicious websites spy on webcams, hackers threaten the global food supply chain, and Michael Fish (not that one…) hacked into his female classmates’ online accounts, hunting for nude photos and videos. All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast…
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Microsoft security vulnerabilities drop after five-year rise
PRIVACY PRIVACY The total number of Microsoft vulnerabilities reported in 2021 dropped by 5%, reversing a five-year trend that saw such vulnerabilities rising sharply, according to a new report from identity management and security vendor BeyondTrust. A total of 1,212 new vulnerabilities were discovered in 2021, but their severity, as well as their location in…
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Advancing our Secure Home Platform with DNS over HTTPS
PRIVACY PRIVACY On the internet, the Domain Name System (DNS) is the way regular people access websites such as ESPN.com or BBC.com. However, the internet uses a unique series of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to access websites which are tricky for humans to remember. Web browsers typically interact with websites through IP addresses, and DNS…
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Security Improvements for Our Ecommerce Customers
PRIVACY PRIVACY We were recently informed of a design flaw in our third-party ecommerce fulfillment system, cleverbridge, that could have potentially allowed customers to accidentally disclose their purchasing information (i.e., last 4 digits of credit card used, credit card expiration date, business contact information, product purchased and taxpayer ID, if provided) by sharing a private…
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PIXM releases new computer vision solution for mobile phishing
PRIVACY PRIVACY Computer vision cybersecurity startup PIXM has expanded its line of antiphishing products with the launch of PIXM Mobile, a solution to protect individuals and enterprises from targeted and unknown phishing attacks on mobile devices. The cloud-based mobile product is aimed at identifying phishing attacks on mobile devices in real time, as a user…
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What SLTTs Should Know About the FREE CIS SecureSuite Membership
PRIVACY PRIVACY CIS has made CIS SecureSuite Membership free to SLTT governments in the United States. Learn how this can help you revamp your organization’s cybersecurity […] Read More