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Black Hat USA 2024 – Summary of Vendor Announcements SecurityWeek News
Hundreds of companies and organizations showcased their products and services last week at the 2024 edition of the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. The post Black Hat USA 2024 – Summary of Vendor Announcements appeared first on SecurityWeek. Read More
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How Phishing Attacks Adapt Quickly to Capitalize on Current Events [email protected] (The Hacker News)
In 2023, no fewer than 94 percent of businesses were impacted by phishing attacks, a 40 percent increase compared to the previous year, according to research from Egress. What’s behind the surge in phishing? One popular answer is AI – particularly generative AI, which has made it trivially easier for threat actors to craft content…
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EDR testing: How to validate EDR tools
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How invisible MFA works to reduce UX friction
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Bipartisan Bill to Tighten Vulnerability Disclosure Rules for Federal Contractors Ionut Arghire
The Federal Contractor Cybersecurity Vulnerability Reduction Act of 2024 would require federal contractors to adhere to NIST’s vulnerability disclosure guidelines. The post Bipartisan Bill to Tighten Vulnerability Disclosure Rules for Federal Contractors appeared first on SecurityWeek. Read More
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Researchers Uncover Vulnerabilities in Solarman and Deye Solar Systems [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Cybersecurity researchers have identified a number of security shortcomings in photovoltaic system management platforms operated by Chinese companies Solarman and Deye that could enable malicious actors to cause disruption and power blackouts. “If exploited, these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to control inverter settings that could take parts of the grid down, potentially causingRead More
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The AI Hangover is Here – The End of the Beginning [email protected] (The Hacker News)
After a good year of sustained exuberance, the hangover is finally here. It’s a gentle one (for now), as the market corrects the share price of the major players (like Nvidia, Microsoft, and Google), while other players reassess the market and adjust priorities. Gartner calls it the trough of disillusionment, when interest wanes and implementations…
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FreeBSD Releases Urgent Patch for High-Severity OpenSSH Vulnerability [email protected] (The Hacker News)
The maintainers of the FreeBSD Project have released security updates to address a high-severity flaw in OpenSSH that attackers could potentially exploit to execute arbitrary code remotely with elevated privileges. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-7589, carries a CVSS score of 7.4 out of a maximum of 10.0, indicating high severity. “A signal handler in sshd(8)…
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The UN Is Moving to Fight Cybercrime but Privacy Groups Say Human Rights Will Be Violated Associated Press
A global deal on the criminal use of computer technology is moving ahead despite worries it will let governments around the world violate human rights. The post The UN Is Moving to Fight Cybercrime but Privacy Groups Say Human Rights Will Be Violated appeared first on SecurityWeek. Read More
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Industrial Remote Access Tool Ewon Cosy+ Vulnerable to Root Access Attacks [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the industrial remote access solution Ewon Cosy+ that could be abused to gain root privileges to the devices and stage follow-on attacks. The elevated access could then be weaponized to decrypt encrypted firmware files and encrypted data such as passwords in configuration files, and even get correctly signed X.509…
