Tag: information security professionals
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Alerts: CISA Adds Three Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog
Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/01/07/cisa-adds-three-known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog Source: Alerts Title: CISA Adds Three Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog Feedly Summary: CISA has added three new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2024-41713 Mitel MiCollab Path Traversal Vulnerability CVE-2024-55550 Mitel MiCollab Path Traversal Vulnerability CVE-2020-2883 Oracle WebLogic Server Unspecified Vulnerability Users and administrators are also encouraged to…
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Krebs on Security: Web Hacking Service ‘Araneida’ Tied to Turkish IT Firm
Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/12/web-hacking-service-araneida-tied-to-turkish-it-firm/ Source: Krebs on Security Title: Web Hacking Service ‘Araneida’ Tied to Turkish IT Firm Feedly Summary: Cybercriminals are selling hundreds of thousands of credential sets stolen with the help of a cracked version of Acunetix, a powerful commercial web app vulnerability scanner, new research finds. The cracked software is being resold as…
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The Register: Lights out for 18 more DDoS booters in pre-Christmas Operation PowerOFF push
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/12/operation_poweroff_ddos_takedowns/ Source: The Register Title: Lights out for 18 more DDoS booters in pre-Christmas Operation PowerOFF push Feedly Summary: Holiday cheer comes in the form of three arrests and 27 shuttered domains The Europol-coordinated Operation PowerOFF struck again this week as cross-border cops pulled the plug on 27 more domains tied to distributed…
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Krebs on Security: Why Phishers Love New TLDs Like .shop, .top and .xyz
Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/12/why-phishers-love-new-tlds-like-shop-top-and-xyz/ Source: Krebs on Security Title: Why Phishers Love New TLDs Like .shop, .top and .xyz Feedly Summary: Phishing attacks increased nearly 40 percent in the year ending August 2024, with much of that growth concentrated at a small number of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) — such as .shop, .top, .xyz —…
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Schneier on Security: Good Essay on the History of Bad Password Policies
Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/11/good-essay-on-the-history-of-bad-password-policies.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Good Essay on the History of Bad Password Policies Feedly Summary: Stuart Schechter makes some good points on the history of bad password policies: Morris and Thompson’s work brought much-needed data to highlight a problem that lots of people suspected was bad, but that had not been…