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Black Hat insights: Getting bombarded by multiple ransomware attacks has become commonplace

The Last Watchdog

This grim outlook is shared in a new white paper from Sophos. In one of Sophos’ case studies, three prominent ransomware gangs — Hive, LockBit and BlackCat — attacked the same network, one after the other. Thus, some of the victim company’s assets got triple encrypted.

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‘Trojan Source’ Bug Threatens the Security of All Code

Krebs on Security

” The research paper, which dubbed the vulnerability “ Trojan Source ,” notes that while both comments and strings will have syntax-specific semantics indicating their start and end, these bounds are not respected by Bidi overrides. The Trojan Source research paper is available here (PDF).

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Network Scanning Is Here to Save You Time and Money

Info Source

So TWAIN Direct itself is just a scanner protocol, but you’ve got to add authentication and encryption and often all kinds of other storage to it and stuff. I literally did a follow up on what I thought would be an interesting case study and they were like sorry we can’t do it. So you can go get it. Thank you Kevin.

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