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Pulse Secure: New Deadline for Government to Patch

SecureWorld News

Visit Security Advisory SA44784 (CVE-2021-22893) for more information.". Mandiant is currently tracking 12 malware families associated with the exploitation of Pulse Secure VPN devices. FireEye says the malware families allow attackers to do things like execute MFA bypass attacks, elevate privileges, and install backdoors.

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Scott Lowe

Along those lines, one of their latest articles discusses how to achieve identity-based mutual authentication leveraging eBPF. Servers/Hardware. Vaughan-Nichols writes about the first malware discovered running on AWS Lambda. network virtualization). Attacks that can affect iPhones when they’re turned off ? Virtualization.

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Anyone can fall for online scams — even you. Here’s how to avoid them.

Vox

She blocked her friend’s account, changed her password, and enabled two-factor authentication. “I That’s why most businesses will tell you that they will never ask for your password, and authentication texts will usually say something like “[Company] will never ask you for this code.” I felt pretty stupid when all was said and done.”.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Fuzzing Message Brokers

ForAllSecure

Jonathan Knudsen from Synopsys joins The Hacker Mind to discuss his presentation at SecTor 2021 on fuzzing message brokers such as RabbitMQ and VerneMQ, both written in Erlang, demonstrating that any type of software in any environment can still be vulnerable. So containers, really helped with that as well. Vamosi: So that is a problem.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Crimeware As A Service

ForAllSecure

Vamosi: In the summer of 2021, the Colonial Pipeline in the US. Vamosi: Ransomware is the latest trend in malware. It’s a clever way for malware to be monetized. That’s what a criminal malware enterprise looks like today. This is so antimalware programs will have a harder time finding the actual malware.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Ransomware

ForAllSecure

And he's right Ransomware is malware that blocks access to the data on a computer until a sum of money is paid. Vamosi: Ransomware is malware that copies the contents of your hard drive, then encrypts it then demands a ransom paid before the data can be recovered. Usually a certain amount of Bitcoin.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Ransomware

ForAllSecure

And he's right Ransomware is malware that blocks access to the data on a computer until a sum of money is paid. Vamosi: Ransomware is malware that copies the contents of your hard drive, then encrypts it then demands a ransom paid before the data can be recovered. Usually a certain amount of Bitcoin.

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