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Hardware Vulnerability in Apple’s M-Series Chips

Schneier on Security

It’s yet another hardware side-channel attack: The threat resides in the chips’ data memory-dependent prefetcher, a hardware optimization that predicts the memory addresses of data that running code is likely to access in the near future. M-series chips are divided into what are known as clusters.

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No, I Did Not Hack Your MS Exchange Server

Krebs on Security

New data suggests someone has compromised more than 21,000 Microsoft Exchange Server email systems worldwide and infected them with malware that invokes both KrebsOnSecurity and Yours Truly by name. Here are a few of the more notable examples , although all of those events are almost a decade old. krebsonsecurity[.]top

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Application modernization overview

IBM Big Data Hub

Application modernization starts with assessment of current legacy applications, data and infrastructure and applying the right modernization strategy (rehost, re-platform, refactor or rebuild) to achieve the desired result. We will explore key areas of acceleration with an example in this article.

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FTX Collapse Highlights the Cybersecurity Risks of Crypto

eSecurity Planet

This involved using an “unsecured group email account as the root user to access confidential private keys and critically sensitive data for the FTX Group companies around the world…” About $740 million in cryptocurrency has been placed into new cold wallets. FTX is a stark example of this.” The Vulnerabilities.

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Log4j Vulnerability Aftermath

Security Affairs

Xmrig is an open sourced Monero CPU Miner used to mine Monero cryptocurrency. Kinsing is a self-propagating crypto mining malware previously targeting misconfigured open Docker Daemon API ports. The ransomware encrypted the files with the extension ‘.locked’ Coinminers. Figure 1: Shell script downloading and executing Xmrig.

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IoT Unravelled Part 3: Security

Troy Hunt

Another example also from Context Security was the vulnerability in CloudPets talking (and listening ) teddy bears that amounted to no auth on the Bluetooth allowing an attacker to take control of the toy. Are these examples actually risks in IoT? Or are they just the same old risks we've always had with data stored on the internet?

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LastPass: ‘Horse Gone Barn Bolted’ is Strong Password

Krebs on Security

This is significant because in November 2022, LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. The more iterations, the longer it takes an offline attacker to crack your master password.

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