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End-to-End Secrets Security: Making a Plan to Secure Your Machine Identities
/in General NewsAt the heart of every application are secrets. Credentials that allow human-to-machine and machine-to-machine communication. Machine identities outnumber human identities by a factor of 45-to-1 and represent the majority of secrets we need to worry about. According to CyberArk’s recent research, 93% of organizations had two or more identity-related breaches in the past year. It is clear that we
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New OpenSSH Vulnerability Could Lead to RCE as Root on Linux Systems
/in General NewsOpenSSH maintainers have released security updates to contain a critical security flaw that could result in unauthenticated remote code execution with root privileges in glibc-based Linux systems.
The vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-6387. It resides in the OpenSSH server component, also known as sshd, which is designed to listen for connections from any of the client
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AI Transcript, Fake School Website: Student’s US Scholarship Scam Exposed on Reddit
/in General NewsYou reap what you sow!
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Hackers Target Vulnerability Found Recently in Long-Discontinued D-Link Routers
/in General NewsGreyNoise observes the first attempts to exploit a path traversal vulnerability in discontinued D-Link DIR-859 WiFi routers.
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New ‘regreSSHion’ Remote Unauthenticated Code Execution Vulnerability Discovered in OpenSSH Server
/in General NewsApproximately 700,000 external internet-facing instances are vulnerable, accounting for 31% of global instances with OpenSSH. Additionally, a small percentage of vulnerable instances are running an End-Of-Life/End-Of-Support version of OpenSSH.
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Web Scraping is Not Just a Security or Fraud Problem
/in General NewsScraper bots have a negative impact on various aspects of an organization, including revenue, competitive advantage, brand identity, customer experience, infrastructure costs, and digital experience.
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Fake IT Support Sites Push Malicious PowerShell Scripts as Windows Fixes
/in General NewsThese sites are promoted through compromised YouTube channels, lending them credibility. One particular error, the 0x80070643 error, which appeared after a Microsoft security update, has been exploited by threat actors.
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AVG Secure VPN vs Surfshark (2024): Which VPN Is Better?
/in General NewsIs Surfshark better than AVG? Is AVG Secure VPN worth it? Find out which VPN is better with our guide.
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Prudential Financial Data Breach Impacts 2.5 Million
/in General NewsPrudential Financial has updated the February data breach impact estimate to 2.5 million individuals.
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Update: Polyfill.io, BootCDN, Bootcss, Staticfile Attack Traced to one Operator
/in General NewsResearchers found a public GitHub repo where the operators of Polyfill.io accidentally exposed their Cloudflare secret keys. By using these leaked API keys, they were able to confirm that a single entity was behind the attack on all four domains.
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