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GUEST ESSAY: Sure steps to achieve a robust employee cybersecurity awareness training regimen

The Last Watchdog

It involves regularly changing passwords and inventorying sensitive data. In addition, educating employees about cybersecurity issues can help to reinforce the security-minded culture of the organization and change employee behaviour. Change passwords regularly. The best practice is to change passwords every 90 days.

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Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

Krebs on Security

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. ” he observed.

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IoT Cybersecurity: 5 Major Vulnerabilities and How to Tackle Them

Security Affairs

A hacker managed to identify a weak spot in a security camera model. The hacker exploited the vulnerability and used these IoT devices to launch a massive attack on social media platforms. Simple or reused passwords are still a problem. Instead, people come up with passwords that are comfortable. Poor credentials.

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Threat actors found a way to bypass mitigation F5 BIG-IP CVE-2020-5902 flaw

Security Affairs

Researchers have found a way to bypass F5 Networks mitigation for the actively exploited BIG-IP vulnerability, and hackers already used it. ” Threat actors exploited the CVE-2020-5902 flaw to obtain passwords, create web shells, and infect systems with various malware.

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US CISA warns of attacks exploiting CVE-2020-5902 flaw in F5 BIG-IP

Security Affairs

Threat actors exploited the CVE-2020-5902 flaw to obtain passwords, create web shells, and infect systems with various malware. According to Bad Packets experts, hackers are scanning the Internet in the attempt to exploit the flaw. threatintel pic.twitter.com/uD07Ok71Qy — Bad Packets (@bad_packets) July 8, 2020.

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Moodle flaw exposed users to account takeover

Security Affairs

Moodle is an open-source educational platform used by 179,000 sites and has 242 million users. When viewing what was posted by a user in the server response, contents of the processed result is placed in a script tag with the type MathJax/TeX to be rendered on the client’s browser. which was released on the 10th of November, 2014.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Surviving Stalkerware

ForAllSecure

Lodrina Cherne and Martijn Grooten join the The Hacker Mind podcast to discuss their Black Hat USA 2021 presentation. In a moment we'll hear from two hackers who spoke at Black Hat USA 2021. Welcome to the hacker mind, in original podcast from for all security. Vamosi: Ever get the feeling that someone is watching you.