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  • Hacker News: US employee screening giant DISA says hackers accessed data of 3M people

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    Source URL: https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/25/us-employee-screening-giant-disa-says-hackers-accessed-data-of-more-than-3m-people/ Source: Hacker News Title: US employee screening giant DISA says hackers accessed data of 3M people Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** DISA Global Solutions has confirmed a significant data breach affecting over 3.3 million individuals, involving sensitive personal and financial information. The breach highlights vulnerabilities in the organization’s…

  • The Register: Why is my Mitel phone DDoSing strangers? Oh, it was roped into a new Mirai botnet

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/29/ddos_attacks_aquabot_mitel/ Source: The Register Title: Why is my Mitel phone DDoSing strangers? Oh, it was roped into a new Mirai botnet Feedly Summary: And now you won’t stop calling me, I’m kinda busy A new variant of the Mirai-based malware Aquabot is actively exploiting a vulnerability in Mitel phones to build a remote-controlled…

  • Cloud Blog: Backscatter: Automated Configuration Extraction

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/backscatter-automated-configuration-extraction/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Backscatter: Automated Configuration Extraction Feedly Summary: Written by: Josh Triplett Executive Summary Backscatter is a tool developed by the Mandiant FLARE team that aims to automatically extract malware configurations. It relies on static signatures and emulation to extract this information without dynamic execution, bypassing anti-analysis logic present in…

  • Slashdot: White House Launches ‘Cyber Trust’ Safety Label For Smart Devices

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/01/08/2225255/white-house-launches-cyber-trust-safety-label-for-smart-devices?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: White House Launches ‘Cyber Trust’ Safety Label For Smart Devices Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The U.S. Cyber Trust Mark has been introduced as a cybersecurity safety label for internet-connected consumer devices, allowing consumers to assess the security features of products before purchasing. The initiative, backed…

  • Alerts: CISA Requests Public Comment for Draft National Cyber Incident Response Plan Update

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    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2024/12/16/cisa-requests-public-comment-draft-national-cyber-incident-response-plan-update Source: Alerts Title: CISA Requests Public Comment for Draft National Cyber Incident Response Plan Update Feedly Summary: Today, CISA—through the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative and in coordination with the Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD)—released the National Cyber Incident Response Plan Update Public Comment Draft. The draft requests public comment on…

  • The Register: Cloudflare broke its logging-a-service service, causing customer data loss

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/27/cloudflare_logs_data_loss_incident/ Source: The Register Title: Cloudflare broke its logging-a-service service, causing customer data loss Feedly Summary: Software snafu took five minutes to roll back. The mess it made took hours to clean up Cloudflare has admitted that it broke its own logging-as-a-service service with a bad software update, and that customer data was…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: Writing a BugSleep C2 server and detecting its traffic with Snort

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    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/writing-a-bugsleep-c2-server/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Writing a BugSleep C2 server and detecting its traffic with Snort Feedly Summary: This blog will demonstrate the practice and methodology of reversing BugSleep’s protocol, writing a functional C2 server, and detecting this traffic with Snort.  AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides an in-depth…

  • Schneier on Security: Perfectl Malware

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/10/perfectl-malware.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Perfectl Malware Feedly Summary: Perfectl in an impressive piece of malware: The malware has been circulating since at least 2021. It gets installed by exploiting more than 20,000 common misconfigurations, a capability that may make millions of machines connected to the Internet potential targets, researchers from Aqua…

  • CSA: What is the EU’s NIS 2 Directive? Key Changes & Steps

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    Source URL: https://www.schellman.com/blog/cybersecurity/what-is-the-nis-2-directive Source: CSA Title: What is the EU’s NIS 2 Directive? Key Changes & Steps Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides an overview of the NIS 2 Directive in the EU, detailing its importance for enhancing cybersecurity across various sectors. It outlines significant changes from NIS 1, including…