Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2022 10:22:29 +0000
The most important and interesting computer security stories from the last week.
The post A week in security (July 11 – July 17) appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2022 13:00:00 +0000
Plus: A wild Indian cricket scam, an elite CIA hacker is found guilty of passing secrets to WikiLeaks, and more of the week’s top security news.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2022 19:43:05 +0000
The latest Jan. 6 committee hearing on Tuesday examined the role of conspiracy theory communities like 8kun[.]top and TheDonald[.]win in helping to organize and galvanize supporters who responded to former President Trump’s invitation to “be wild” in Washington, D.C. on that chaotic day. At the same time the committee was hearing video testimony from 8kun founder Jim Watkins, 8kun and a slew of similar websites were suddenly yanked offline. Watkins suggested the outage was somehow related to the work of the committee, but the truth is KrebsOnSecurity was responsible and the timing was pure coincidence.
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Credit to Author: Greg Lambert| Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2022 12:04:00 -0700
Though we get a reprieve from Exchange updates in this month’s Patch Tuesday update, more printer updates are on the way. Even with no updates for Microsoft Exchange or Visual Studio, Adobe is back with 15 critical updates for Adobe Reader. And Microsoft’s new patch deployment tool Auto-Patch is now live. (I always thought application testing was the main problem here, but actually getting patches deployed is still tough.)
Though the numbers are still quite high (with 86+ reported vulnerabilities), the testing and deployment profile for July should be fairly moderate. We suggest taking the time to harden your Exchange Server defenses and mitigation processes, and invest in your testing processes.
Credit to Author: Michael Langford| Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000
Learn how to counteract the top five challenges of IaC and discover how these obstacles pose a threat to security and gain valuable insight in how to mitigate these risks.
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Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2022 16:23:26 +0000
Here you go – seven thoughtful cybersecurity tips to help you travel safely…
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In the final chapter of our blog series, we discuss mitigating strategies and recommendations to keep DDS protected from malicious actors.
In part two of our series, we’ll highlight both known and new DDS vulnerabilities and what they mean for mission critical operations.
Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2022 16:47:47 +0000
Latest episode – listen now! Great discussion, technical content, solid advice… all covered in plain English.
Read moreCredit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2022 16:09:41 +0000
We take a look at a major ransomware attack impacting video game giant Bandai Namco, laced with the potential threat of data leakage.
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