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  • The Register: China’s Volt Typhoon crew and its botnet surge back with a vengeance

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/13/china_volt_typhoon_back/ Source: The Register Title: China’s Volt Typhoon crew and its botnet surge back with a vengeance Feedly Summary: Ohm, for flux sake China’s Volt Typhoon crew and its botnet are back, compromising old Cisco routers once again to break into critical infrastructure networks and kick off cyberattacks, according to security researchers.… AI…

  • The Register: Washington courts grapple with statewide outage after ‘unauthorized activity’

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/05/washington_courts_outage/ Source: The Register Title: Washington courts grapple with statewide outage after ‘unauthorized activity’ Feedly Summary: Justice still being served, but many systems are down A statewide IT outage attributed to “unauthorized activity" is affecting the availability of services provided by all courts in Washington.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: A statewide…

  • Schneier on Security: AIs Discovering Vulnerabilities

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/11/ais-discovering-vulnerabilities.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: AIs Discovering Vulnerabilities Feedly Summary: I’ve been writing about the possibility of AIs automatically discovering code vulnerabilities since at least 2018. This is an ongoing area of research: AIs doing source code scanning, AIs finding zero-days in the wild, and everything in between. The AIs aren’t very…

  • CSA: Zero Standing Privileges: The Essentials

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    Source URL: https://www.cyberark.com/resources/blog/zero-standing-privileges-the-essentials Source: CSA Title: Zero Standing Privileges: The Essentials Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text details the concept of Zero Standing Privileges (ZSP) and its implementation as a crucial security mechanism for enhancing privileged access management (PAM). It posits ZSP as a more effective alternative to traditional Just-In-Time (JIT)…

  • Alerts: CISA Releases Four Industrial Control Systems Advisories

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    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2024/10/31/cisa-releases-four-industrial-control-systems-advisories Source: Alerts Title: CISA Releases Four Industrial Control Systems Advisories Feedly Summary: CISA released four Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on October 31, 2024. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS. ICSA-24-305-01 Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk ThinManager ICSA-24-030-02 Mitsubishi Electric FA Engineering Software Products (Update A)…

  • Hacker News: Fuzzing between the lines in popular barcode software

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    Source URL: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2024/10/31/fuzzing-between-the-lines-in-popular-barcode-software/ Source: Hacker News Title: Fuzzing between the lines in popular barcode software Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: This text provides an in-depth analysis of fuzz testing applied to the ZBar barcode scanning library, highlighting the discovery of critical security vulnerabilities. The article emphasizes the importance of fuzzing in…

  • The Register: Chinese attackers accessed Canadian government networks – for five years

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/31/canada_cybersec_threats/ Source: The Register Title: Chinese attackers accessed Canadian government networks – for five years Feedly Summary: India makes it onto list of likely threats for the first time A report by Canada’s Communications Security Establishment (CSE) revealed that state-backed actors have collected valuable information from government networks for five years.… AI Summary…

  • Alerts: Fortinet Updates Guidance and Indicators of Compromise following FortiManager Vulnerability Exploitation

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    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2024/10/30/fortinet-updates-guidance-and-indicators-compromise-following-fortimanager-vulnerability Source: Alerts Title: Fortinet Updates Guidance and Indicators of Compromise following FortiManager Vulnerability Exploitation Feedly Summary: Fortinet has updated their security advisory addressing a critical FortiManager vulnerability (CVE-2024-47575) to include additional workarounds and indicators of compromise (IOCs). A remote, unauthenticated cyber threat actor could exploit this vulnerability to gain access to sensitive…

  • Cloud Blog: Cloud CISO Perspectives: 10 ways to make cyber-physical systems more resilient

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/cloud-ciso-perspectives-10-ways-to-make-cyber-physical-systems-more-resilient/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Cloud CISO Perspectives: 10 ways to make cyber-physical systems more resilient Feedly Summary: Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for October 2024. Today, Anton Chuvakin, senior security consultant for our Office of the CISO, offers 10 leading indicators to improve cyber-physical systems, guided by our analysis of…