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Ukraine energy facility hit by two waves of cyberattacks from Russia’s Sandworm group
PRIVACY PRIVACY Ukraine’s Governmental Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) announced that Russia’s state-backed threat group Sandworm launched two waves of cyberattacks against an unnamed Ukrainian energy facility. The attackers tried to decommission several infrastructural components of the facility that span both IT and operational technology, including high-voltage substations, Windows computers, servers running Linux operating systems,…
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First Steps to Overcoming a Lack of Asset Visibility
PRIVACY PRIVACY Asset visibility requires understanding which types of devices exist in your environments and what they mean to your security program. Read More
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How to Quickly Remove Malware in 2022
PRIVACY PRIVACY If you’re like most people, you probably use your computer for most of your online activities. It’s amazing what the internet can do to make our lives easier. But if you’ve spent any time online, you know the internet also comes with some risks. Malware (or malicious software) is one risk of living…
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Axis Security releases security service edge offering Atmos
PRIVACY PRIVACY Axis Security, a security service provider focused on zero trust, has launched Atmos, a cloud-native alternative to data center based, legacy network architectures and security service edge (SSE) platforms. Short for Atmosphere, Atmos will seek to “harmonize the modern workplace connectivity” by syncing authentication, authorization, and connectivity across a company’s workforce, ecosystem partners,…
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Microsoft’s April 2022 Patch Tuesday Addresses 117 CVEs (CVE-2022-24521)
PRIVACY PRIVACY Microsoft’s April 2022 Patch Tuesday Addresses 117 CVEs (CVE-2022-24521) Microsoft addresses 117 CVEs in its April 2022 Patch Tuesday release, including two zero-day vulnerabilities, one of which was exploited in the wild and reported to Microsoft by the National Security Agency. 9Critical 108Important 0Moderate 0Low Microsoft patched 117 CVEs in its April 2022…
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Thoma Bravo’s $6.9B SailPoint deal brings IAM to security portfolio
PRIVACY PRIVACY In a move to put in place a key piece for its portfolio of cybersecurity companies, private equity firm Thoma Bravo has finalized plans to acquire IAM (identity access management) security vendor SailPoint in a go-private deal worth $6.9 billion. When completed, the deal, announced Monday, will be the latest in a string…
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RaidForums Gets Raided, Alleged Admin Arrested
PRIVACY PRIVACY The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said today it seized the website and user database for RaidForums, an extremely popular English-language cybercrime forum that sold access to more than 10 billion consumer records stolen in some of the world’s largest data breaches since 2015. The DOJ also charged the alleged administrator of RaidForums…
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Ethical Hacker Steals $600,000 Worth of Crypto
PRIVACY PRIVACY Daniel Motta reportedly stole elderly client’s Trezor hardware wallet and its password while providing security help Read More
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John Oliver on Data Brokers
PRIVACY PRIVACY John Oliver has an excellent segment on data brokers and surveillance capitalism. Read More
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RaidForums Hacker Marketplace Shut Down in Cross-Border Law Enforcement Operation
PRIVACY PRIVACY RaidForums has been shut down and its infrastructure seized in a joint law enforcement operation coordinated by Europol Read More