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Carpet Bombing Attacks on the Rise
2021 saw surge in DDoS attacks targeting multiple IP addresses of an organization in a short timeframe Read More
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McAfee Enterprise SSE: Named a Leader In 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SSE
Companies continue to accelerate their digital transformation and hybrid work strategies with security remaining top of mind. For a growing number of enterprises, the solution has been the deployment of a Security Service Edge (SSE). Introduced as a market category by Gartner, per our view we believe SSE is the consolidation of Secure Web Gateway…
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UK Government Consults on Plans to Restrict Huawei’s Involvement in Telecoms Networks
The consultation will focus on legal mechanisms to restrict the use of Huawei in the UK’s infrastructure due to national security concerns Read More
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Dangerous privilege escalation bugs found in Linux package manager Snap
Researchers found an easy-to-exploit vulnerability in Snap, a universal application packaging and distribution system developed for Ubuntu but available on multiple Linux distributions. The flaw allows a low-privileged user to execute malicious code as root, the highest administrative account on Linux. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-44731, is part of a series of flaws that researchers…
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Trickbot Targets 140,000 Victims in 14 Months
Check Point warns of ongoing campaign Read More
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Security asset management should be buttoned down. It isn’t.
I’ve been writing recently about security hygiene and posture management. In January, I declared that security hygiene and posture management would become a priority in 2022. Earlier this month, I wrote about attack surface management challenges. Why focus on security hygiene and posture management? Because every IT widget represents a potential entry point for cyber-adversaries. …
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High Severity WordPress Plugin Bug Hits Three Million
Vulnerability could enable threat actors to access backups Read More
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Stop pixelating! New tool reveals the secrets of “redacted” documents
A new tool makes crystal clear that it’s a big mistake to redact text by pixelating it.. or indeed blurring it, or even applying a “swirl” filter. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Read More
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FlexBooker Data Leak Impacts Millions of End Customers
Researchers find misconfigured AWS S3 bucket Read More
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Data Privacy Lawsuit Could Cost Meta $90m
Facebook parent agrees to pay $90M to settle decade-old data privacy lawsuit Read More