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GUEST ESSAY: Where we stand on mitigating software risks associated with fly-by-wire jetliners

The Last Watchdog

Related: Pushing the fly-by-wire envelope This is especially true because systems are more interconnected and use more complex commercial software than ever before, meaning a vulnerability in one system could lead to a malicious actor gaining access to more important systems. Risks delineated Still, there have been many other incidents since.

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Feds, AHA Urge Hospitals to Mitigate Citrix Bleed Threats

Data Breach Today

Urgent Action Needed to Prevent Ransomware Attacks Involving Vulnerability Exploit A recent spike in ransomware attacks has prompted federal regulators and the American Hospital Association to issue urgent warnings to hospitals and other healthcare firms to prevent potential exploitation of the Citrix Bleed software flaw affecting some NetScaler ADC (..)

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Black Hat Fireside Chat: Why using ‘Clean Code’ is paramount in speedy software development

The Last Watchdog

This software writing principle cropped up some 50 years ago and might seem quaint in today’s era of speedy software development. Caring for source code when developing and deploying applications at breakneck speed mitigates technical debt – the snowballing problems associated with fixing bugs. The transformation progresses.

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Using Google Search to Find Software Can Be Risky

Krebs on Security

Google continues to struggle with cybercriminals running malicious ads on its search platform to trick people into downloading booby-trapped copies of popular free software applications. And by most accounts, the threat from bad ads leading to backdoored software has subsided significantly compared to a year ago. com , filezillasoft[.]com

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How to Package and Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, application owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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Calendar Meeting Links Used to Spread Mac Malware

Krebs on Security

“A financially motivated threat actor closely connected with Lazarus that targets banks, casinos, fin-tech companies, POST software and cryptocurrency businesses, and ATMs,” Kaspersky wrote of BlueNoroff in Dec. The North Korean regime is known to use stolen cryptocurrencies to fund its military and other state projects.

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Using Legitimate GitHub URLs for Malware

Schneier on Security

The attacker is exploiting a property of GitHub: comments to a particular repo can contain files, and those files will be associated with the project in the URL. What this means is that someone can upload malware and “attach” it to a legitimate and trusted project.

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