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Juvenile Pleads Guilty to 2016 DNS Attack

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Enterprise VulnerabilitiesFrom DHS/US-CERT's National Vulnerability Database CVE-2020-26271PUBLISHED: 2020-12-10 In affected versions of TensorFlow under certain cases, loading a saved model can result in accessing uninitialized memory while building the computation graph....
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Security Incidents Are ‘Tip of the Iceberg,’ Says UK Security Official

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Pete Cooper, deputy director of cyber defense for the UK Cabinet Office, emphasized the importance of security fundamentals, collaboration, and diversity in his Black Hat Europe keynote talk.A resilient...
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Ransomware Makes Up Half of All Major Incidents

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Misconfigurations and lack of visibility allow attackers to compromise networks and monetize their intrusions, according to CrowdStrike's analysis of about 200 incidents.Ransomware attacks made up the majority of serious...
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Microsoft Fixes 58 CVEs for December Patch Tuesday

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The last Patch Tuesday of 2020 brings fixes for Critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint and Exchange.Microsoft today released its final Patch Tuesday fixes of the year, addressing 58 CVEs...
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Nation-State Hackers Breached FireEye, Stole Its Red Team Tools

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"Novel techniques" used by the attackers cheated security tools and forensics, according to FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia.The cybersecurity firm best known for its incident response (IR) chops today said...
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NSA Warns of Exploits Targeting Recently Disclosed VMware Vulnerability

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Agency urges organizations to deploy patch as soon as possible since exploit activity is hard to detect.The US National Security Agency (NSA) Monday warned network administrators at the Department...
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Phishing Campaign Targets 200M Microsoft 365 Accounts

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A well-organized email spoofing campaign has been seen targeting financial services, insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, utilities, and telecom.A large-scale phishing campaign is targeting 200 million Microsoft 365 users around the...
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Intel Doubles Down on Emerging Technologies for Sharing and Using Data Securely

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Homomorphic encryption and federated learning could allow groups to share data and analysis while protecting the actual information.Two technologies — homomorphic encryption and federated learning — could allow companies...
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Microsoft Cloud Security Exec Talks New Tech, WFH, Gamification

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Gunter Ollman explains the benefits of CPSM technology, how IT security teams have evolved, and how the pandemic has shaped security.Organizations have experienced "two years' worth of digital transformation...
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Researchers Discover New Obfuscation-As-a-Service Platform

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Researchers detail how a Android APK obfuscation service automates detection evasion for highly malicious apps.A new obfuscation-as-a-service platform detailed by researchers today during the Botconf 2020 virtual conference offers yet...