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Agencies Warn of Pro-Russia Hackers Targeting OT Control Systems

SecureWorld News

and allied cybersecurity agencies are sounding the alarm over an ongoing campaign by pro-Russia hacktivist groups to target and compromise operational technology (OT) systems across critical infrastructure sectors in North America and Europe. Mandate multifactor authentication for privileged users. Multiple U.S.

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Four of the Biggest Financial Data Breaches of 2019

Galido

What caused the security failure is not yet known, but the exposed documents were viewable to anyone without the need for authentication. The hacker was able to breach Capital One’s servers through a misconfigured web application firewall. The Desjardins Group Breach. First American Financial Corp. The Westpac/PayID Breach.

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Juniper expands AI management features for wired, wireless networks

Network World

The platform works by gathering telemetry and user state data from Juniper’s routers, switches, access points, firewalls, and applications to offer actionable insights and automated workflows for proactive issue detection and resolution, Juniper says. There are two main aspects of the AI opportunity in networking this acquisition supports.

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DDoS Attacks Causing Microsoft Outages Match Russia's MO

SecureWorld News

The tech giant blamed the ongoing DDoS activity on a threat actor it tracks as Storm-1359, believed to be the responsibility of—though not confirmed—a group known as Anonymous Sudan. The group is responsible for DDoS attacks against Swedish, Dutch, Australian, and German organizations since early 2023.

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Troubleshooting TLS Certificates

Scott Lowe

I was recently working on a blog post involving the use of TLS certificates for encryption and authentication, and was running into errors. This time the connection succeeded, and the output of the curl command showed that TLS encryption and authentication were in place and successful. key /path/to/client/certificate/key.

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Advisory: Malicious North Korean Cyber Activity

SecureWorld News

Here's what Blindingcan has accomplished so far: "A threat group with a nexus to North Korea targeted government contractors early this year to gather intelligence surrounding key military and energy technologies. If these services are required, use strong passwords or Active Directory authentication.

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A COE for Zero Trust

SecureWorld News

That is, our primary security controls of firewalls, intrusion prevention, network segmentation, and wired network security are no longer the primary method to manage technology in a COE. Dynamic authentication and authorization are strictly enforced before granting access to any resource.