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Malvertising Is a Cybercrime Heavyweight, Not an Underdog

SecureWorld News

Just to illustrate the scope of the issue, the Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence team spotted more than 800 malvertising campaigns in only the first six months of 2023, noting that the number of attacks that flew under researchers' radar was likely much higher. Here's some evidence for those who consider the risk far-fetched.

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What is Virtual Network Computing (VNC)?

Dataconomy

A Virtual Network Computing port is a network port that is used by VNC servers and clients to establish a connection over a network The VNC technology was developed by the British company Olivetti Research Laboratory in the late 1990s and is currently maintained and extended by RealVNC Ltd. and the open-source community.

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Data Security and its Importance on the Internet

Galido

Hacking and data breaches are a common thing today, especially with the rise of open source platforms and electronic transactions. Juniper research predicted that the rapid rise of digital devices will increase the cost of data breaches to $2.1 Anti-virus programs can catch most malicious bugs that enter your system.

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

How could open source software be vulnerable for so long? That meant I tested the release candidates -- not the final product you’d buy in the stores - for consumer-grade antivirus programs, desktop firewalls, and desktop Intrusion detection systems. How did this happen?

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

How could open source software be vulnerable for so long? That meant I tested the release candidates -- not the final product you’d buy in the stores - for consumer-grade antivirus programs, desktop firewalls, and desktop Intrusion detection systems. How did this happen?

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Technology Short Take 132

Scott Lowe

I think a fair number of folks may not be aware that the Nginx ingress controller for Kubernetes—both the community version and the Nginx-maintained open source version—do suffer from timeouts and errors resulting from changes in the back-end application’s list of endpoints (think pods being added or removed).

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The Hacker Mind: Follow The Rabbit

ForAllSecure

Researchers Nir Ohfeld and Sagi Tzadik join The Hacker Mind to talk about their presentation at Black Hat Europe 2021 on the ChaosDB vulnerability. In this episode I’ll talk with two security researchers who simply followed the rabbit. Recently, though, another set of researchers found another vulnerability in Azure.