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Q&A: The drivers behind the stark rise — and security implications — of ‘memory attacks’

The Last Watchdog

Related: Memory hacking becomes a go-to tactic These attacks are referred to in the security community as “fileless attacks” or “memory attacks.” Garden-variety threat actors are now leveraging memory hacking tools and techniques to gain footholds, move laterally and achieve persistence deep inside well-defended networks.

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Chronicle experts spotted a Linux variant of the Winnti backdoor

Security Affairs

Security researchers from Chronicle, Alphabet’s cyber-security division, have spotted a Linux variant of the Winnti backdoor. Security experts from Chronicle, the Alphabet’s cyber-security division, have discovered a Linux variant of the Winnti backdoor. ” reads the analysis published by Chronicle.

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The Weeks in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 18 – 31 December 2023

IT Governance

billion records The security researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered an unprotected database exposing more than 1.5 Fowler contacted the company, which secured the database. The security researcher Bob Diachenko identified the leak in September and contacted TuneFab, which fixed the misconfiguration within 24 hours.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Behavioral Biometrics

ForAllSecure

I’m just not convinced that a fingerprint or an image of my face is secure enough. In security we traditionally define the different factors of authentication as something you know, so that could be the username and password, or an answer to a security question. I'm a cyber security professional, I guess.

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IG: The Whole Is More Than the Sum of Its Parts

Positively RIM

IT, Legal, Records, Privacy, Security, Compliance Finance, Audit and other areas can manage their information alone. Some organizations lack adequate security expertise to counter outside hacking and internal pilfering of proprietary data. Attorneys may consider an “archive” to be the reference library of legal matters or cases.

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