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Ransomware Gangs Seek Pen Testers to Boost Quality
/in General NewsQualified applicants must be able to test ransomware encryption and find bugs that might enable defenders to jailbreak the malware.
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Application Security 101: Understanding DevSecOps – A Developer’s Guide
/in General NewsKnown easily as DevSecOps, the definition is pretty much straightforward: integrating security practices into DevOps pipelines. A more complicated answer is: integrating security practices in each of the DevOps steps: Plan, Code, Build, Review, Test, Release, Monitor, Deploy, Operations. And what complicates it further is actually what to integrate in each of the step so that you don’t just…
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In Other News: OPPC Breach Impacts 1.7M, US Soldier Suspected in Snowflake Hack, Cloudflare Loses Logs
/in General NewsNoteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: OnePoint Patient Care data breach impact doubles, a US soldier may have been involved in the Snowflake hack, Cloudflare lost customer logs.
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Protecting Tomorrow’s World: Shaping the Cyber-Physical Future
/in General NewsThe lines between digital and physical realms increasingly blur. While this opens countless opportunities for businesses, it also brings numerous challenges. In our recent webinar, Shaping the Cyber-Physical Future: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities for 2025, we explored the different factors shaping the cyber-physical future. In an insightful conversation with industry experts, we discussed
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Microsoft Fixes AI, Cloud, and ERP Security Flaws; One Exploited in Active Attacks
/in General NewsMicrosoft has addressed four security flaws impacting its artificial intelligence (AI), cloud, enterprise resource planning, and Partner Center offerings, including one that it said has been exploited in the wild.
The vulnerability that has been tagged with an “Exploitation Detected” assessment is CVE-2024-49035 (CVSS score: 8.7), a privilege escalation flaw in partner.microsoft[.]com.
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The US Army’s Vision of Soldiers in Exoskeletons Lives On
/in General NewsFollowing decades of failed attempts and dashed dreams, the US Army is once again trying out powered exoskeletons to help soldiers haul munitions and equipment in the field.
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Phishing-as-a-Service “Rockstar 2FA” Targets Microsoft 365 Users with AiTM Attacks
/in General NewsCybersecurity researchers are warning about malicious email campaigns leveraging a phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) toolkit called Rockstar 2FA with an aim to steal Microsoft 365 account credentials.
“This campaign employs an AitM [adversary-in-the-middle] attack, allowing attackers to intercept user credentials and session cookies, which means that even users with multi-factor authentication (MFA)
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U.S. Citizen Sentenced for Spying on Behalf of China’s Intelligence Agency
/in General NewsA 59-year-old U.S. citizen who immigrated from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has been sentenced to four years in prison for conspiring to act as a spy for the country and sharing sensitive information about his employer with China’s principal civilian intelligence agency.
Ping Li, 59, of Wesley Chapel, Florida, is said to have served as a cooperative contact for the Ministry of State
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Over Two Dozen Flaws Identified in Advantech Industrial Wi-Fi Access Points – Patch ASAP
/in General NewsNearly two dozen security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in Advantech EKI industrial-grade wireless access point devices, some of which could be weaponized to bypass authentication and execute code with elevated privileges.
“These vulnerabilities pose significant risks, allowing unauthenticated remote code execution with root privileges, thereby fully compromising the confidentiality,
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11 arrested in Europol shutdown of illegal IPTV streaming networks
/in General NewsIn the takedown announced on Wednesday, Europol said it investigated 102 suspects and arrested 11 of them on accusations they were distributing content from streaming services illegally.
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