Former White House Cyber Official Jeff Greene to Join CISA

Former White House National Security Council cyber staff member Jeff Greene, the current cybersecurity programs director at the Aspen Institute think tank, is joining the CISA next month, the agency confirmed.

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OpenText Boosts MDR Offering for MSPs With Pillr Acquisition

The MDR business was stood up in 2018 as a standalone unit within Novacoast, and rebranded in September 2022 from novaSOC to Pillr. Novacoast CEO Paul Anderson served as Pillr’s chief executive for most of its existence.

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My 5 must-have extensions for Firefox on Android (and what I use them for)

If you’ve already switched to Firefox on Android, or are considering making the switch, you might be interested in knowing the mobile browser includes extensions to boost the feature set. Here are my favorites.

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Ivanti Patches Critical Remote Code Execution Flaws in Endpoint Manager

Ivanti on Tuesday rolled out fixes to address multiple critical security flaws in Endpoint Manager (EPM) that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution under certain circumstances.
Six of the 10 vulnerabilities – from CVE-2024-29822 through CVE-2024-29827 (CVSS scores: 9.6) – relate to SQL injection flaws that allow an unauthenticated attacker within the same network to

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Scammers are Selling Fake NSO Pegasus Spyware

CloudSEK researchers found the fake spyware after perusing around 25,000 posts of individuals offering Pegasus and other NSO tools via channels on the messaging service Telegram.

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SEC Fines NYSE Owner ICE for Delay in Reporting VPN Breach

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced today that a major player in the U.S. financial system has agreed to pay a $10 million penalty for failing to timely report an April 2021 VPN breach.

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China APT Stole Geopolitical Secrets From Middle East, Africa & Asia

One of China’s biggest espionage operations owes its success to longstanding Microsoft Exchange bugs, open source tools, and old malware.

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Using AI, Mastercard Expects to Find Compromised Cards Quicker, Before They Get Used by Criminals

Mastercard is integrating AI into its fraud-prediction technology that it expects will be able to see patterns in stolen cards faster and allow banks to replace them before they are used by criminals.

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Critical SAML Auth Bypass Vulnerability Found in GitHub Enterprise Server

An authentication bypass vulnerability of maximum severity (CVSS V4 Score: 10.0) tracked as CVE-2024-4985 was recently fixed by GitHub. It impacts GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) instances using SAML single sign-on (SSO) authentication.

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Server-Side Credit Card Skimmer Lodged in Obscure Plugin

There are plenty of widely-used code snippet plugins available but in this case the attackers decided to use a very obscure plugin called Dessky Snippets, with only a few hundred active installations at the time of writing.

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