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Beyond Compliance: The Advantage of Year-Round Network Pen Testing
IT leaders know the drill—regulators and cyber insurers demand regular network penetration testing to keep the bad guys out. But here’s the thing: hackers don’t wait around for compliance schedules.
Most companies approach network penetration testing on a set schedule, with the most common frequency being twice a year (29%), followed by three to four times per year (23%) and once per year (20%),
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Fake Discount Sites Exploit Black Friday to Hijack Shopper Information
A new phishing campaign is targeting e-commerce shoppers in Europe and the United States with bogus pages that mimic legitimate brands with the goal of stealing their personal information ahead of the Black Friday shopping season.
“The campaign leveraged the heightened online shopping activity in November, the peak season for Black Friday discounts. The threat actor used fake discounted products
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T-Mobile Also Targeted in Chinese Telecom Hacking Campaign
T-Mobile has also been targeted by the Chinese group Salt Typhoon in a major espionage campaign targeting US telecom companies.
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Urgent: Critical WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Exposes Over 4 Million Sites
A critical authentication bypass vulnerability has been disclosed in the Really Simple Security (formerly Really Simple SSL) plugin for WordPress that, if successfully exploited, could grant an attacker to remotely gain full administrative access to a susceptible site.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-10924 (CVSS score: 9.8), impacts both free and premium versions of the plugin. The
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NSO Group Exploited WhatsApp to Install Pegasus Spyware Even After Meta’s Lawsuit
Legal documents released as part of an ongoing legal tussle between Meta’s WhatsApp and NSO Group have revealed that the Israeli spyware vendor used multiple exploits targeting the messaging app to deliver Pegasus, including one even after it was sued by Meta for doing so.
They also show that NSO Group repeatedly found ways to install the invasive surveillance tool on the target’s devices as
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Microsoft Pulls Exchange Patches Amid Mail Flow Issues
Email at many organizations has stopped working; the tech giant has advised users who are facing the issue to uninstall the updates so that it can address flaw.
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Ohio man behind Helix cryptocurrency mixer gets 3-year sentence
Larry Harmon ran the mixer from 2014 to 2017, facilitating more than $300 million worth of cryptocurrency transactions.
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