Are VPNs Legal To Use?
Are virtual private networks legal to use? Discover if VPNs are legal, restricted or banned in your geolocation and what activities are legal vs. illegal when using a VPN.
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CISO Conversations: Talking Cybersecurity With LinkedIn’s Geoff Belknap and Meta’s Guy Rosen
SecurityWeek interviews Geoff Belknap, CISO at LinkedIn, and Guy Rosen, CISO at Facebook parent company Meta.
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Wpeeper Android Trojan Uses Compromised WordPress Sites to Shield Command-and-Control Server
The new Wpeeper Android trojan ceased operations after a week and has zero detections in VirusTotal.
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ZLoader Malware Evolves with Anti-Analysis Trick from Zeus Banking Trojan
The authors behind the resurfaced ZLoader malware have added a feature that was originally present in the Zeus banking trojan that it’s based on, indicating that it’s being actively developed.
“The latest version, 2.4.1.0, introduces a feature to prevent execution on machines that differ from the original infection,” Zscaler ThreatLabz researcher Santiago
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TechRepublic Premium Editorial Calendar: Policies, Checklists, Hiring Kits and Glossaries for Download
TechRepublic Premium content helps you solve your toughest IT issues and jump-start your career or next project.
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Everyone’s an Expert: How to Empower Your Employees for Cybersecurity Success
There’s a natural human desire to avoid threatening scenarios. The irony, of course, is if you hope to attain any semblance of security, you’ve got to remain prepared to confront those very same threats.
As a decision-maker for your organization, you know this well. But no matter how many experts or trusted cybersecurity tools your organization has a standing guard,
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Programming Language R Patches Code Execution Security Flaw
The vulnerability, tagged CVE-2024-27322, can be exploited by tricking someone into loading a maliciously crafted RDS (R Data Serialization) file into an R-based project, or by fooling them into integrating a poisoned R package into a code base.
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Patched Deserialization Flaw in Siemens Product Allows RCE
Researchers detailed a deserialization vulnerability in Siemens software used to monitor industrial energy consumption and attributed the flaw to the German conglomerate’s decision to use a programming method that has known security risks.
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New Latrodectus Malware Attacks Use Microsoft, Cloudflare Themes
Latrodectus malware is now being distributed in phishing campaigns using Microsoft Azure and Cloudflare lures to appear legitimate while making it harder for email security platforms to detect the emails as malicious.
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Ex-NSA Employee Sentenced to 22 Years for Trying to Sell U.S. Secrets to Russia
A former employee of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has been sentenced to nearly 22 years (262 months) in prison for attempting to transfer classified documents to Russia.
“This sentence should serve as a stark warning to all those entrusted with protecting national defense information that there are consequences to betraying that trust,” said FBI Director Christopher Wray.
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