Know Your Audience When Speaking to Security Practitioners

How can security practitioners make sense of the vendor landscape and separate those who talk a good game from those who can execute, perform, and solve real problems for enterprises?

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The Mystery of ‘Jia Tan,’ the XZ Backdoor Mastermind

The thwarted XZ Utils supply chain attack was years in the making. Now, clues suggest nation-state hackers were behind the persona that inserted the malicious code.

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IntelBroker Leaks Alleged National Security Data Tied to US Contractor Acuity Inc.

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The leaked data was previously being sold by the IntelBroker hacker for just $3,000 in Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency.

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CVE and NVD – A Weak and Fractured Source of Vulnerability Truth

MITRE is unable to compile a list of all new vulnerabilities, and NIST is unable to subsequently, and consequently, provide an enriched database of all vulnerabilities. What went wrong, and what can be done?

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Highly sensitive files mysteriously disappeared from EUROPOL headquarters

The disappearance of the personal files of EUROPOL officials poses a serious risk to the impacted individuals and the agency’s operations, including its investigations. EUROPOL notified the impacted individuals and the EDPS.

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Why Cybersecurity Is a Whole-of-Society Issue

Working together and integrating cybersecurity as part of our corporate and individual thinking can make life harder for hackers and safer for ourselves.

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Threat Actors Deliver Malware via YouTube Video Game Cracks

Many types of video games appear to be targeted to younger users including games popular with children, a group that is less likely to be able to identify malicious content and risky online behaviors.

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Critical Vulnerability Found in LayerSlider Plugin Installed on a Million WordPress Sites

A critical SQL injection vulnerability in the LayerSlider WordPress plugin allows attackers to extract sensitive information.

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Scathing Federal Report Rips Microsoft for Shoddy Security, Insincerity in Response to Chinese Hack

Cyber Safety Review Board, said “a cascade of errors” by Microsoft let state-backed Chinese cyber operators break into email accounts of senior U.S. officials.

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Earth Freybug Uses UNAPIMON for Unhooking Critical APIs

The adversarial collective is known to rely on a combination of living-off-the-land binaries (LOLBins) and custom malware to realize its goals. Also adopted are techniques like DLL hijacking and API unhooking.

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