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MY TAKE: Why speedy innovation requires much improved cyber hygiene, cloud security

The Last Watchdog

Organizations are increasingly outsourcing IT workloads to cloud service providers and looking to leverage IoT systems. I spoke with Greg Young, Cybersecurity Vice President at Trend Micro about this. To demonstrate this, Trend Micro set up a honeypot, imitating an industrial factory, to see how quickly and often it would get attacked.

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TeamTNT is back and targets servers to run Bitcoin encryption solvers

Security Affairs

In the first week of September, AquaSec researchers identified at least three different attacks targeting their honeypots, the experts associated them with the cybercrime gang TeamTNT. We are still assessing if these three attacks are a sign that they have resumed their campaigns against cloud native environments or not.”

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Abcbot and Xanthe botnets have the same origin, experts discovered

Security Affairs

In December, Cado Security experts found a new version of a malicious shell script targeting insecure cloud instances running under the above Chinese cloud hosting providers. The list of targeted providers includes Alibaba Cloud, Baidu, Tencent, and Huawei Cloud. ” reads the analysis published by Cado Security.

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Cryptojacking campaign uses Shodan to scan for Docker hosts to hack

Security Affairs

A new cryptojacking campaign was spotted by experts at Trend Micro, crooks are using Shodan to scan for Docker hosts with exposed APIs. ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro. The same malicious campaign was also analyzed by the Alibaba Cloud Security team that tracked it as Xulu. ” concludes Trend Micro.

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5 Best Bot Protection Solutions and Software for 2023

eSecurity Planet

Cloud-based protection: Imperva’s bot management solution is cloud-based, which means it can scale to meet the needs of any sized business. Cloud-based protection: Cloudflare Bot Management is cloud-based and can scale to meet the needs of any size business.

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Episode 255: EDM, Meet CDM – Cyber Dance Music with Niels Provos

The Security Ledger

Niels Provos has a storied, two decade career on the forefront of cybersecurity, starting in the late 1990s with his work as a graduate student on phenomena like steganography and honeypots. He’s now at Lacework, a cloud security firm, where he serves as the Head of Security Efficacy.

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EUROPE: Data protection regulators publish myth-busting guidance on machine learning

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

For example, the ML system could be used to determine likely trends of categories of persons to default on loan agreements through the processing of financial default information. It is instead better to have a focused dataset that accurately reflects the trend being investigated.