16 Aug

Microsoft’s macOS Tamper Protection hits general availability

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint’s Tamper Protection in macOS has entered general availability. The update is important for administrators having to deal with Apple hardware while

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16 Aug

1,900 Signal users exposed: Twilio attacker ‘explicitly’ looked for certain numbers

The security breach at Twilio earlier this month affected at least one high-value customer, Signal, and led to the exposure of the phone number and

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16 Aug

DEF CON – “don’t worry, the elections are safe” edition

Don’t worry, elections are safe. Our Security Researcher Cameron Camp provide us highlights from the DEF CON 30 conference. Scattered around a bevy of tables

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16 Aug

Reckon Russian spies are lurking in your inbox? Check for these IOCs, Microsoft says

Microsoft said it disabled accounts used by Russian-linked Seaborgium troupe to phish and steal credentials from its customers as part of the cybercrime gang’s illicit

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16 Aug

How a spoofed email passed the SPF check and landed in my inbox

The Sender Policy Framework can’t help prevent spam and phishing if you allow billions of IP addresses to send as your domain Twenty years ago,

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16 Aug

Digital Ocean dumps Mailchimp after attack leaked customer email addresses

Junior cloud Digital Ocean has revealed that some of its clients’ email addresses were exposed to attackers, thanks to an attack on email marketing service

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16 Aug

It’s 2022 and there are still thousands of public systems using password-less VNC

Thousands of machines on the public internet can be remotely controlled via VNC without any authentication, a cybersecurity vendor has reminded us this month. These

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16 Aug

Oh Deere: Farm hardware jailbroken to run Doom

At DEF CON 30 on Saturday, an Australian who goes by the handle “Sick Codes” showed off a way to fully take control of some

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15 Aug

CIA accused of illegally spying on Americans visiting Assange in embassy

The CIA illegally spied on US citizens while they visited WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, a lawsuit filed today has

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15 Aug

Dutch authorities arrest 29-year-old dev with suspected ties to Tornado Cash

Dutch authorities have arrested a software developer suspected of working with Tornado Cash, a cryptocurrency mixing service that only two days earlier was sanctioned by

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15 Aug

Black Hat USA 2022: Burnout, a significant issue

The digital skills gap, especially in cybersecurity, is not a new phenomenon. This problematic is now exacerbate by the prevalence of burnout, which was presented

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15 Aug

Black Hat – Windows isn’t the only mass casualty platform anymore

Windows used to be the big talking point when it came to exploits resulting in mass casualties. Nowadays, talks turned to other massive attack platforms

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15 Aug

Indian military ready to put long-range quantum key distribution on the line

India’s military has celebrated the nation’s Independence Day by announcing it will adopt locally developed quantum key distribution (QKD)technology that can operate across distances of

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15 Aug

Black Hat and DEF CON visitors differ on physical risk management

Black Hat As last week’s hacker summer camps would down it’s clear that attendee numbers are still well down on the pre-COVID days, although things

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14 Aug

Elon Musk wrote article for China’s internet regulator, hinted at aged care robots

Asia in Brief Elon Musk has written an article for the Cyberspace Administration of China’s flagship magazine. A translation of the article published by Beijing

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13 Aug

Ukraine’s cyber chief comes to Black Hat in surprise visit

Black Hat In Brief Victor Zhora, Ukraine’s lead cybersecurity official, made an unannounced visit to Black Hat in Las Vegas this week, where he spoke

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13 Aug

Let there be ambient light sensing, without fear of data theft

Six years after web security and privacy concerns surfaced about ambient light sensors in mobile phones and notebooks, browser boffins have finally implemented defenses. The

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12 Aug

Palo Alto bug used for DDoS attacks and there’s no fix yet

A high-severity Palo Alto Networks denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability has been exploited by miscreants looking to launch DDoS attacks, and several of the affected products won’t

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