CAPTCHA-protected malicious URLs are snowballing lately, researchers said.
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Amazon’s Plan to Track Worker Keystrokes: A Sign of Controls to Come?
Data theft, insider threats and imposters accessing sensitive customer data have apparently gotten so bad inside Amazon, the company is considering rolling out keyboard-stroke monitoring for its customer-service reps. A confidential memo from inside Amazon explained that customer service credential abuse and data theft was on the rise, according to Motherboard which reviewed the document. […]
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Rogue Marketplace AlphaBay Reboots
Illicit underground marketplace relaunches years after takedown.
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Why Purple Teaming Is Wise
The red team plays offense, identifying holes in the security fabric that are caused by a company’s people, processes and technology. The blue team plays defense, attempting to block cyber attacks usi…
Accenture Confirms LockBit Ransomware Attack
LockBit offered Accenture’s purported databases and made a requisite jab at its purportedly sad security. Accenture says it recovered just fine from backups.
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Cyber Security For Data Sovereignty
With the emergence of global data privacy regulations such as GDPR, organizations that collect personal identifiable information (PII) must answer a new question: is data subject to the local laws of…
Actively Exploited Windows Zero-Day Gets a Patch
Microsoft’s August 2021 Patch Tuesday addressed a smaller set of bugs than usual, including more Print Spooler problems, a zero-day and seven critical vulnerabilities.
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Connected Farms Easy Pickings for Global Food Supply-Chain Hack
John Deere security bugs could allow cyberattackers to damage crops, surrounding property or even people; impact harvests; or destroy farmland for years.
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Black Hat: Scaling Automated Disinformation for Misery and Profit
Researchers demonstrated the power deep neural networks enlisted to create a bot army with the firepower to shape public opinion and spark QAnon 2.0.
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Zoom Settlement: An $85M Business Case for Security Investment
Zoom’s security lesson over end-to-end encryption shows the costs of playing cybersecurity catchup.
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