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GUEST ESSAY: The drivers behind persistent ransomware — and defense tactics to deploy

The Last Watchdog

Related: It’s all about ‘ attack surface management ‘ However, today’s perpetrator isn’t standing in front of you brandishing a weapon. The technology industry has met the dramatic rise in ransomware and other cyber attacks with an impressive set of tools to help companies mitigate the risks. Prevalence.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 416 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

Security Affairs

Abandoned Eval PHP WordPress plugin abused to backdoor websites CISA adds MinIO, PaperCut, and Chrome bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog At least 2 critical infrastructure orgs breached by North Korea-linked hackers behind 3CX attack American Bar Association (ABA) suffered a data breach,1.4

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

Security Affairs

The alert includes additional mitigations and detection measures to determine if a system may have been compromised and include info recover after attacks that exploited the vulnerability. A few days after the disclosure of the vulnerability in the F5 Networks BIG-IP product threat actors started exploiting it in attacks in the wild.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Learn Competitive Hacking with picoCTF

ForAllSecure

PPP wanted to give their past high school selves the infosec education they didn’t have. It seems that preparing for, or even playing a game of capture the flag, might be a great way to expose any educational gaps, if not generally improve and deepen the security skills, you might already possess. But what about the basics?

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Moodle flaw exposed users to account takeover

Security Affairs

At the beginning of October 2020, the Wizcase cyber research team, led by Ata Hakcil, discovered a security vulnerability in the open-source learning platform Moodle. Moodle is an open-source educational platform used by 179,000 sites and has 242 million users. It allows universities to distribute content to students and teachers.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Diversity

ForAllSecure

When I look at my resume, like it's pretty strong, you know, both in terms of my education. In a moment we'll meet a woman who has four graduate degrees in it, plus an MBA. Welcome to the hacker mind and original podcast from for all secure, it's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. Apparently plenty.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Diversity

ForAllSecure

When I look at my resume, like it's pretty strong, you know, both in terms of my education. In a moment we'll meet a woman who has four graduate degrees in it, plus an MBA. Welcome to the hacker mind and original podcast from for all secure, it's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. Apparently plenty.