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  • Hacker News: MFA Fatigue: A Growing Headache for Schools

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    Source URL: https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2024/04/mfa-fatigue-growing-headache-healthcare-and-how-combat-it Source: Hacker News Title: MFA Fatigue: A Growing Headache for Schools Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the vulnerability of healthcare workers to cyberattacks, particularly focusing on the challenges posed by multi-factor authentication (MFA) fatigue. It emphasizes the importance of adapting security measures to mitigate risks…

  • Hacker News: Visualizing process trees with marimo and anywidget

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    Source URL: https://blog.cauchy.org/blog/anywidget/ Source: Hacker News Title: Visualizing process trees with marimo and anywidget Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the development of a custom interactive process tree visualization tool designed for incident response within cybersecurity. By leveraging various technologies like marimo, anywidget, and D3, it offers analysts a…

  • Hacker News: AWS Cat Qubits Make Quantum Error Correction Effective, Affordable

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    Source URL: https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/27/aws-cat-qubits-make-quantum-error-correction-effective-affordable/ Source: Hacker News Title: AWS Cat Qubits Make Quantum Error Correction Effective, Affordable Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses recent advancements in quantum computing, particularly highlighting new quantum chips developed by leading tech companies like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). The focus is on…

  • Alerts: CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

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    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/02/25/cisa-adds-two-known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog Source: Alerts Title: CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog Feedly Summary: CISA has added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2024-49035 Microsoft Partner Center Improper Access Control Vulnerability CVE-2023-34192 Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability Users and administrators are also encouraged…

  • The Register: Ghost ransomware crew continues to haunt IT depts with scarily bad infosec

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/20/fbi_beware_of_ghost_ransomware/ Source: The Register Title: Ghost ransomware crew continues to haunt IT depts with scarily bad infosec Feedly Summary: FBI and CISA issue reminder – deep sigh – about the importance of patching and backups The operators of Ghost ransomware continue to claim victims and score payments, but keeping the crooks at bay…

  • The Register: Healthcare outfit that served military personnel settles allegations it faked infosec compliance for $11 million

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/19/decadeold_healthcare_security_snafu_settled/ Source: The Register Title: Healthcare outfit that served military personnel settles allegations it faked infosec compliance for $11 million Feedly Summary: If this makes you feel sick, knowing this happened before ransomware actors started targeting medical info may help An alleged security SNAFU that occurred during the Obama administration has finally been…

  • The Register: US newspaper publisher uses linguistic gymnastics to avoid saying its outage was due to ransomware

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/18/us_newspaper_publisher_exercises_linguistic/ Source: The Register Title: US newspaper publisher uses linguistic gymnastics to avoid saying its outage was due to ransomware Feedly Summary: Called it an ‘incident’ in SEC filing, but encrypted apps and data exfiltration suggest Lee just can’t say the R word US newspaper publisher Lee Enterprises is blaming its recent service…

  • Alerts: CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

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    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/02/13/cisa-adds-one-known-exploited-vulnerability-catalog Source: Alerts Title: CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog Feedly Summary: CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation.     CVE-2024-57727 SimpleHelp Path Traversal Vulnerability These types of vulnerabilities are frequent attack vectors for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risks…