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It’s Time to Prepare for a Rise in Insider Threats

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Anurag Kahol, CTO at Bitglass, discusses options for detecting malicious or dangerous activity from within an organization. Earlier this year, Tesla discovered that an employee had stolen more than 6,000...

Microsoft, Adobe Exploits Top List of Crooks’ Wish List

You can’t possibly patch all CVEs, so focus on the exploits crooks are willing to pay for, as tracked in a study of the underground exploit market. A year-long study...

Stalkerware Apps Riddled with Security Bugs

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Attackers can take advantage of the fact these apps access, gather, store and transmit more information than any other app their victims have installed. Android stalkerware apps – used...
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Name That Toon: Road Trip

Enterprise VulnerabilitiesFrom DHS/US-CERT's National Vulnerability Database CVE-2020-21830PUBLISHED: 2021-05-17A heap based buffer overflow vulneraibility exists in GNU LibreDWG 0.10 via bit_calc_CRC ../../src/bits.c:2213. CVE-2020-21832PUBLISHED: 2021-05-17A heap based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in GNU...
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DDoS Attacks Up 31% in Q1 2021: Report

If pace continues, DDoS attack activity could surpass last year's 10-million attack threshold.Researchers recorded approximately 2.9 million DDoS attacks in the first quarter of 2021, marking a 31% increase...
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47% of Criminals Buying Exploits Target Microsoft Products

Researchers examine English- and Russian-language underground exploits to track how exploits are advertised and sold.RSA CONFERENCE 2021 – Microsoft products accounted for 47% of the CVEs that cybercriminals request across...
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DarkSide Ransomware Variant Targets Disk Partitions

A newly discovered DarkSide ransomware variant can detect and compromise partitioned hard drives, researchers report.Researchers have discovered a DarkSide variant capable of seeking out partition information and compromising multiple...