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StickmanCyber Report: A Look Inside Australia’s Cybersecurity Skills Crisis
/in General NewsA StickmanCyber report reveals a critical cybersecurity skills shortage in Australia, which can have both short- and long-term business implications
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Microsoft Warns of Six Windows Zero-Days Being Actively Exploited
/in General NewsMicrosoft’s security response team pushed out documentation for almost 90 vulnerabilities across Windows and OS components and marked several flaws in the actively exploited category.
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Adobe Calls Attention to Massive Batch of Code Execution Flaws
/in General NewsPatch Tuesday: Adobe patches 72 security vulnerabilities and warns that Windows and macOS users are at risk of code execution, memory leaks, and denial-of-service attacks.
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GhostWrite: New T-Head CPU Bugs Expose Devices to Unrestricted Attacks
/in General NewsA team of researchers from the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Germany has disclosed an architectural bug impacting Chinese chip company T-Head’s XuanTie C910 and C920 RISC-V CPUs that could allow attackers to gain unrestricted access to susceptible devices.
The vulnerability has been codenamed GhostWrite. It has been described as a direct CPU bug embedded in the hardware, as
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Researchers Uncover Vulnerabilities in AI-Powered Azure Health Bot Service
/in General NewsCybersecurity researchers have discovered two security flaws in Microsoft’s Azure Health Bot Service that, if exploited, could permit a malicious actor to achieve lateral movement within customer environments and access sensitive patient data.
The critical issues, now patched by Microsoft, could have allowed access to cross-tenant resources within the service, Tenable said in a new report shared
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US Unseals Charges Against Three Eastern Europeans Over Ransomware, Malvertising
/in General NewsMaksim Silnikau was extradited to the US to face charges for roles in the distribution of the Angler exploit kit, malware, and the Ransom Cartel ransomware.
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National Public Data Breach: 2.7bn Records Leaked on Dark Web
/in General NewsIn August, 2.7 billion records from National Public Data, including social security numbers, were leaked on a dark web forum.
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SAP Patches Critical Vulnerabilities in BusinessObjects, Build Apps
/in General NewsSAP has released 25 security notes on August 2024 Security Patch Day, including for critical vulnerabilities in BusinessObjects and Build Apps.
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The Changing Expectations for Developers in an AI-Coding Future
/in General NewsAI’s proficiency at creating software code won’t put developers out of a job, but the job will change to one focused on security, collaboration, and “mentoring” AI models.
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DARPA Aims to Ditch C Code, Move to Rust
/in General NewsThe Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency launches TRACTOR program to work with university and industry researchers on creating a translation system that can turn C code into secure, idiomatic Rust code.
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