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SPNEGO Extended Negotiation Security Vulnerability
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Dec
2022

Microsoft Reclassifies SPNEGO Extended Negotiation Security Vulnerability as ‘Critical’

Dec 15, 2022Ravie LakshmananWindows Security / Network Security Microsoft has revised the severity of a security vulnerability it originally patched…

Cyber attack targeting Japanese Political Entities
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Dec
2022

Researchers Uncover MirrorFace Cyber Attacks Targeting Japanese Political Entities

Dec 15, 2022Ravie LakshmananAdvanced Persistent Threat A Chinese-speaking advanced persistent threat (APT) actor codenamed MirrorFace has been attributed to a…

Veeam Backup and Replication
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Dec
2022

Veeam Backup and Replication Vulnerabilities Being Exploited in Attacks

Dec 16, 2022Ravie LakshmananBackup & Recovery / Zero-Day The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added two vulnerabilities…

Cross-Platform DDoS Botnet
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Dec
2022

Microsoft Warns About Cross-Platform DDoS Botnet

Dec 16, 2022Ravie LakshmananServer Security / Botnet Microsoft on Thursday flagged a cross-platform botnet that’s primarily designed to launch distributed…

SHA-1 Cryptographic Algorithm
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Dec
2022

NIST Retires 27-Year-Old Widely Used Cryptographic Algorithm

Dec 16, 2022Ravie LakshmananEncryption / Data Security The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency within the…

GitHub Secret Scanning
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Dec
2022

GitHub Announces Free Secret Scanning for All Public Repositories

Dec 16, 2022Ravie LakshmananSecure Coding / Code Hosting GitHub on Thursday said it is making available its secret scanning service…

Bypass Windows MotW Protection
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Dec
2022

BlueNoroff APT Hackers Using New Ways to Bypass Windows MotW Protection

Dec 27, 2022Ravie LakshmananCyber Attack / Windows Security BlueNoroff, a subcluster of the notorious Lazarus Group, has been observed adopting…

server-security
27
Dec
2022

Cyber Security Is Not a Losing Game – If You Start Right Now

Reality has a way of asserting itself, irrespective of any personal or commercial choices we make, good or bad. For…

Twitter
27
Dec
2022

Ex-Twitter employee Gets 3.5 Years Jail for Spying on Behalf of Saudi Arabia

Dec 16, 2022Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Privacy A former Twitter employee who was found guilty of spying on behalf of…

Windows 10 Installer
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Dec
2022

Trojanized Windows 10 Installer Used in Cyberattacks Against Ukrainian Government Entities

Government entities in Ukraine have been breached as part of a new campaign that leveraged trojanized versions of Windows 10…

27
Dec
2022

Samba Issues Security Updates to Patch Multiple High-Severity Vulnerabilities

Samba has released software updates to remediate multiple vulnerabilities that, if successfully exploited, could allow an attacker to take control…

gmail Client-Side Encryption
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Dec
2022

Google Takes Gmail Security to the Next Level with Client-Side Encryption

Dec 18, 2022Ravie LakshmananEncryption / Email Security Google on Friday announced that its client-side encryption for Gmail is in beta…