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Buggy CrowdStrike EDR Update Crashes Windows Systems Worldwide
This is a breaking news story and will be updated as new developments occur. This morning, Microsoft servers across the world displayed the dreaded "blue screen of death," leading to mass IT outages ...
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Ransomware Has Outsized Impact on Gas, Energy & Utility Firms
When ransomware targeted the city of Dallas, Texas last year, it took down city services, the municipal water utility's ability to bill and read meters, and emergency services. The city required more ...
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In Cybersecurity, Mitigating Human Risk Goes Far Beyond Training
As the stakes of cyberattacks continue to rise, organizations are throwing more and more money at innovative new services and equipment to thwart them. But, at the same time, many are still taking a ...
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CSA Updates Cloud Security Certificate, Training CSA Updates Cloud Security Certificate, Training
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has released the Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK) v5, the latest version of its vendor-neutral, cloud security training and certificate. Designed for ...
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AI Remains a Wild Card in the War Against Disinformation
Disinformation — information created and shared to mislead opinion or understanding — isn't a new phenomenon. However, digital media and the proliferation of open source generative artificial ...
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Microsoft-Signed Chinese Adware Opens the Door to Kernel Privileges
Researchers have stumbled upon a fake ad blocker marketed to Internet cafés in China that, in fact, conceals sophisticated, multifaceted, kernel-level malware. "HotPage.exe," present on VirusTotal ...
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Snowflake Account Attacks Driven by Exposed Legitimate Credentials
Threat actors just pulled off one of the largest data breaches of 2024, and they didn't even have to hack into the company's ...
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20 Million Trusted Domains Vulnerable to Email Hosting Exploits
Three novel attack techniques that chain together vulnerabilities found in numerous email-hosting platforms are allowing threat actors to spoof emails from more than 20 million domains of trusted ...
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Iranian Cyber-Threat Group Drops New Backdoor, 'BugSleep'
Iranian cyber-espionage group MuddyWater is pivoting from controlling infected systems with legitimate remote-management software to instead dropping a custom-made backdoor implant. As recently as ...
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Name That Toon: Near Miss
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Threat Actors Ramp Up Use of Encoded URLs to Bypass Secure Email
Secure email gateways (SEG) do a lot to protect organizations from malware, spam, and phishing email. For some threat actors though, they also offer an attractive option for sneaking malicious mail ...
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CISA Publishes Resiliency Playbook for Critical Infrastructure
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published a supplemental manual to its infrastructure resilience planning framework, providing guidance on improving critical ...