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CISA: Vulnerabilities Discovered in Illumina DNA Sequencing Devices

SecureWorld News

The second vulnerability (CVE-2023-1966) allows an attacker to execute code remotely at the operating system level, potentially enabling them to change settings, configurations, software, or access sensitive data on the affected product. This vulnerability affects instruments with UCS v2.x x and has a CVSS v3 base score of 10.0,

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U.S. Census Bureau Targeted in Cyberattack

SecureWorld News

Census Bureau was the target of a cyberattack in January 2020, but hackers were unsuccessful in maintaining access to the system, according to a watchdog report released this week. The Associated Press says the cyberattack did not involve the 2020 census data.

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Effectively Manage All Endpoints, No Matter Where They Are Located

CIO Business Intelligence

However, employees working outside the corporate firewall and other network protections pose some big security challenges, especially for large enterprises. CIOs and CSOs still have to ensure that employees outside of the corporate firewall can do their work securely. IT admins cannot secure assets that they can’t see.

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Are Bad Bots Unleashing Havoc in the Digital Realm?

SecureWorld News

According to a recent report , bots accounted for a staggering 47.4% Out of the 13 countries examined in the report, seven exhibited levels of bad bot traffic, surpassing the global average of 30.2%. Keep your software up to date: Regularly update your software, including operating systems, applications, and security programs.

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Using Secure Configurations | Standardize Your Security

Linux Academy

This included installing operating system updates, NTP servers, DNS servers, static IPs, audit log options, anti-virus, etc. Ansible can help automate the backup, and you can learn more in this month’s how-to video that covers using Ansible to back up a Cisco ASA firewall.

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Government Agencies Discover New Chinese Malware Strain

SecureWorld News

CISA reports on Chinese malware strain. A recent CISA Malware Analysis Report (with contributions from the FBI and DoD), outlines this new malware variant. Check out the complete report here. CISA includes some mitigation best practices in the report: Maintain up-to-date antivirus signatures and engines.

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How to Choose the Best Vulnerability Scanning Tool for Your Business

Galido

As the name clearly suggests, a vulnerability scanner scans systems and networks to identify and report back on open ports, active IP addresses and log-ons, software, OSs (Operating Systems) etc. You also need to find out how the ones you compare fare as regards accuracy, scalability, reliability, reporting etc.

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