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NEW TECH: A couple of tools that deserve wide use — to preserve the integrity of U.S. elections

The Last Watchdog

What this tells me is that the presidential candidates, at least, actually appear to be heeding lessons learned from the hacking John Podesta’s email account – and all of the havoc Russia was able to foment in our 2016 elections. Let’s not forget how Russia targeted elections in 39 states back in 2016. “We

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Vulnerability Recap 4/1/24: Cisco, Fortinet & Windows Server Updates

eSecurity Planet

The fix: Apply the emergency fixes issued by Microsoft for: Windows Server 2022 Windows Server 2019 Windows Server 2016 Windows Server 2012 R2 Attackers Actively Exploit Fortinet Enterprise Management Server SQLi Flaw Type of vulnerability: SQL injection (SQLi) flaw. out of 10), and calls it Shadow Ray.

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Will cryptocurrency mining soon saturate AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud?

The Last Watchdog

However, closer inspection reveals how cryptojacking morphed out of the ransomware plague of 2015 and 2016. In 2011, total cryptocurrency value was about $10 billion. We live in an era of breaches and every breach usually results in data leaks, including a lot of logons and passwords. It was insane. Bilogorskiy.

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Two FTC complaints that over-retention of personal data violates Section 5

Data Protection Report

The FTC’s complaint states: “From 2016 to the present, about 100 million unique devices sent Respondent location data each year.” (Complaint ¶ 5 (emphasis in original)) InMarket would share advertising revenue with developers that incorporated the InMarket SDK into their apps. Complaint ¶10.)

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

As is now traditional, I’ve installed myself in the porter’s chair next to the fire in the library, ready to recap some of the year’s more newsworthy information security events. The NIS Directive was enacted in the UK as the NIS Regulations on 10 May. Users were encouraged to change their passwords. million payment cards and 1.2

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When Security Researchers Pose as Cybercrooks, Who Can Tell the Difference?

Krebs on Security

The contracts laid out how much each speaker makes per event, details about their travel arrangements, and any requirements or obligations stated in advance by both parties to the contract. No secret access or password was needed to view the documents. Again, no authentication or password was needed to access the information.

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Why I'm Not Sold On Machine Learning In Autonomous Security: Some Hard Realities On The Limitations Of Machine Learning In Autonomous NetSec

ForAllSecure

with nmap), script kiddies trying default passwords and a targeted exploit against your system. For example, suppose the rate of real intrusions is only 1 in 1,000,000 events. One rule of thumb used by SOCs [credits: Michael Collins at USC ] is that an analyst can handle about 10 events in an hour.