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Information Stealing Malware on the Rise, Uptycs Study Shows

SecureWorld News

A new study from Uptycs has uncovered an increase in the distribution of information stealing malware. According to the new Uptycs whitepaper, Detecting the Silent Threat: 'Stealers are Organization Killers' (gated link), a variety of new info stealers have emerged this year, preying on Windows, Linux, and macOS systems.

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Technology Short Take 176

Scott Lowe

Ivan Pepelnjak dives deep on DHCP relaying on a Linux host. Rob McBryde shares his story of reviving a 2012 MacBook Pro with Linux. Security In early February a vulnerability was uncovered in a key component of the Linux boot process. Think Linux doesn’t have malware? Falco has graduated within the CNCF.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Scanning the Internet

ForAllSecure

Traditional anti-malware research relies on customer systems but what if a particular malware wasn’t on the same platform as your solution software? éveillé from ESET joins The Hacker Mind podcast to talk about the challenges of building his own internet scanner to scan for elusive malware. Marc-Etienne M.Léveillé

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Cybersecurity for enterprise: 10 essential PAM considerations for modern hybrid enterprises

CIO Business Intelligence

Passwordless authentication A modern PAM cybersecurity solution must support several existing passwordless methods such as PKI, SSH keys and certs, and FIDO2 dongles. Building authentication services and MFA into the PAM platform (see above) enables rapid innovation and support for newer standards such as Passkeys.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hunting The Next Heartbleed

ForAllSecure

Except during that two year window, there was a serious vulnerability in OpenSSL that no one knew about. And if you could initiate a heartbeat before authentication was complete on the site, you could smash and grab the encrypted information before anyone even knew who you were. I’m talking about Heartbleed or CVE 2014-0160.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hunting The Next Heartbleed

ForAllSecure

Except during that two year window, there was a serious vulnerability in OpenSSL that no one knew about. And if you could initiate a heartbeat before authentication was complete on the site, you could smash and grab the encrypted information before anyone even knew who you were. I’m talking about Heartbleed or CVE 2014-0160.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Behavioral Biometrics

ForAllSecure

So we include other telemetry that seeks to authenticate that the entity logging in is who they say they are. Without a basic ability to authenticate these characters, there’d be no drama, no romance, no tragedy. So that’s why you need multi factor authentication. Think about it. And important.