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New DNS Spoofing Threat Puts Millions of Devices at Risk

eSecurity Planet

Security researchers have uncovered a critical vulnerability that could lead to DNS spoofing attacks in two popular C standard libraries that provide functions for common DNS operations. The C Library DNS Vulnerability. Nozomi Labs found a pattern in the DNS lookups made with the C libraries (see screenshot below).

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 364 by Pierluigi Paganini

Security Affairs

Russia-linked APT29 targets diplomatic and government organizations Synology and QNAP warn of critical Netatalk flaws in some of their products Hackers stole +80M from DeFi platforms Rari Capital and Fei Protocol Apr 24 – Apr 30 Ukraine – Russia the silent cyber conflict.

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6,009,014 MovieBoxPro Accounts Breached in Another Data Scraping Incident

IT Governance

This week, it turns out at least 191 further Australian organisations, including government entities, were affected by this breach, highlighting the risks of supply chain attacks. Most notably, it’s banning bad default passwords on IoT (Internet of Things) devices, becoming the first country to do so. Data breached: 395 GB.

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Types of cyberthreats

IBM Big Data Hub

One of the best-known zero-day vulnerabilities is Log4Shell , a flaw in the widely-used Apache Log4j logging library. For example, some hackers—called ethical hackers—essentially impersonate cybercriminals to help organizations and government agencies test their computer systems for vulnerabilities to cyberattacks.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 248

Security Affairs

Bot list with Telnet credentials for more than 500,000 servers and IoT devices leaked online. Malware attack took down 600 computers at Volusia County Public Library. For the second time in a few days, Greek Government websites hit by DDoS attacks. A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! Yomi Hunter Catches the CurveBall.

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Book Recommendation: Tomorrow’s Jobs Today authored by Rafael and Abby Moscatel via IG GURU

IG Guru

Rafael is a well-respected Information Governance Professional (IGP), Certified Records Manager (CRM), and Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM). Tomorrow’s Jobs Today is written by Rafael Moscatel and his spouse Abby Moscatel. Abby is a California trial attorney for State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company.

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MY TAKE: Memory hacking arises as a go-to tactic to carry out deep, persistent incursions

The Last Watchdog

For instance, major vulnerability was discovered lurking in the GNU C Library, or GLIBC, an open source component that runs deep inside of Linux operating systems used widely in enterprise settings. These are issues that are coming into play in all other major OSs, as well as at the processing chip level of computer hardware.