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RSAC insights: Software tampering escalates as bad actors take advantage of ‘dependency confusion’

The Last Watchdog

Its function is to record events in a log for a system administrator to review and act upon. Left unpatched, Log4Shell, presents a ripe opportunity for a bad actor to carry out remote code execution attacks, Pericin told me. In the current, operating environment, there’s limitless opportunity to tamper with code.

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How to start your career in cyber security

IT Governance

Technically, you don’t need any cyber security experience to get started, though many people entering the field will come from jobs that have similar skillsets, such as systems administration or information analysis. Where can you learn about the cyber security industry? Do you need industry connections?

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Feds Allege Adconion Employees Hijacked IP Addresses for Spamming

Krebs on Security

That a case of such potential import for the digital marketing industry has escaped any media attention for so long is unusual but not surprising given what’s at stake for the companies involved and for the government’s ongoing investigations. ” A slide from an ARIN presentation in 2016 that referenced Adconion.

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User Conference Attendees Learn How to Maximize their DocuWare Experience

Info Source

Already well known in the content services industry for their annual DocuWorld Partner Conferences, DocuWare’s User Conference differs in that the focus is on educational enrichment and support for customers, not partners. User Conference in Philadelphia this week. Fujitsu, J&H, Inc., Kyocera Document Solutions America, Inc.,

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Only now we known that International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) was hacked in 2016

Security Affairs

“The analyst at Lockheed Martin emphasized that this attack could represent a “significant threat to the aviation industry.”” “Mail server, domain administrator and system administrator accounts were all affected, giving cyberespions access to the past and current passwords of more than 2,000 ICAO system users.

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Georgia Governor Vetoes Broad-Reaching Computer Crime Bill, Highlighting Debate Around Bug Bounty Programs

Data Matters

Specifically, researchers believed that the current version of SB 315 could chill security research—both the purely academic and the “white hats”—ultimately discouraging individuals from identifying vulnerabilities in networks and alerting system administrators of the issues.

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Feds Warn About Critical Infrastructure Ransomware Attacks, Vulnerabilities

eSecurity Planet

Secret Service issued a detailed advisory on the BlackByte Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) group, which has attacked critical infrastructure industries in recent months, among them government, financial and food and agriculture targets. cybersecurity agencies, which highlighted the threats in a pair of warnings issued in recent days.