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Cryptocurrencies and cybercrime: A critical intermingling

Security Affairs

They may also use tumbling services ([link] to mix cryptocurrencies from different sources and cryptocurrencies designed to provide greater anonymity, such as Monero or Zcash, which implement advanced techniques to hide transactions. Prevention comes through educating users and taking robust security measures to protect their digital assets.

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LW ROUNDTABLE: Cybersecurity takeaways of 2023 — and what’s ahead in 2024 ( part 3)

The Last Watchdog

Rebecca Krauthamer , Co-founder and CPO, QuSecure Krauthamer As new standards for quantum-resilient cryptography come into effect, many government agencies will move toward quantum-readiness. The federal government, specifically the Defense Industrial Base (DIB,) which consists of 300,000 contractors, is struggling to keep up.

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Cybersecurity Resources for Texas Local Governments

The Texas Record

On Friday, August 16, over twenty local government entities in Texas were targeted by a coordinated ransomware attack. This incident is the most recent in a year marked by cyberattacks on state and local governments across the country. In the wake of the attack, Texas local governments have been asking for help.

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What Are You Doing for Cyber Security Awareness Month?

IT Governance

This October is Cyber Security Awareness Month, an event designed to educate people about information security and the steps they can take to stay safe online. Now in its nineteenth year, the campaign provides tools and resources to help people learn more about the cyber security industry and the ways they can get involved.

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Thousands of publicly-exposed Apache Superset installs exposed to RCE attacks

Security Affairs

Installations that have not altered the default configured SECRET_KEY according to installation instructions allow for an attacker to authenticate and access unauthorized resources.” The application then validates the signature on the cookie to re-authenticate the user prior to processing the request. on April 5, 2023.

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Catches of the Month: Phishing Scams for March 2023

IT Governance

The much-discussed language model boasts the power to create conversational prose that passes for authentic human writing. Not only can it be given a prompt to deliver a convincing message that encourages users to click a link, but it can also write the malware to hide within those messages.

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Catches of the Month: Phishing Scams for September 2022

IT Governance

The SMS contained a link to a login page that faithfully recreated Okta’s legitimate site. Writing on Cloudflare’s blog , CEO Matthew Prince and engineers Daniel Stinson-Diess and Sourov Zaman said that at least 76 employees were targeted and three were duped into clicking the bogus link. Get started.

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