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

The Last Watchdog

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. These threat actors aren’t playful hackers just testing their abilities. Prevalence. million in adjusted losses. million in adjusted losses. High-stakes threat actors.

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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

According to Bad Packets experts, hackers are scanning the Internet in the attempt to exploit the flaw. Query our API for "tags=CVE-2020-5902" for a full list of unique payloads and relevant indicators. F5 Networks says the BIG-IP devices are used on the networks of 48 companies included in the Fortune 50 list.

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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. Megan Kerns of Carnegie-Mellon University joins The Hacker Mind to talk about the early days and the continued evolution of this popular online infosec competition site. It's an online resource built by hackers for hackers.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Diversity

ForAllSecure

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. 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.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Diversity

ForAllSecure

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. 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.

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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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