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iOS 13.5.1 Fixes Kernel Zero Day
Apple has patched, for the second time, a vulnerability in the iOS kernel that has been used in jailbreak tools.
NSA Warns Russian Attackers are Exploiting Old Exim Flaw
The Sandworm team, associated with the Russian GRU, is exploiting a flaw in the Exim mail transfer agent, the NSA warned in a new advisory.
Decipher Podcast: Alex Pinto
Alex Pinto from Verizon Enterprise joins Dennis Fisher to discuss the findings of the 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report.
Malware Infects NetBeans Projects In Software Supply Chain Attack
The Octopus Scanner malware compromised 26 open source projects hosted on GitHub in a new supply chain attack targeting NetBeans projects, GitHub Security Lab said.
OpenSSH Will Deprecate SHA-1
OpenSSH will soon deprecate the use of SHA-1 because of the risk of specific attacks against the algorithm.
Analysis of DNS Traffic Uncovers DDoS Attacks
Internet usage in 2020 is shaping up to be very different from how it was at the end of 2019. New DNS research from Farsight Security shows where people have been spending their time online and uncovered previously unknown distributed denial of service attacks.
Stolen Credentials Behind Supercomputing Attacks
Compromised credentials and empty SSH passphrases led to the string of attacks on academic supercomputing sites in recent weeks.
Two Years of GDPR Changed Privacy Landscape
Two years may have passed since enforcement of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation began, but regulators are just wrapping up the first wave of investigations. Change comes slowly in the realm of data privacy, and it is still too soon to try to improve the regulation.
Hacker Allegedly Connected to Collection 1 Credential Dump Arrested
Authorities in Ukraine arrested a suspect they say is Sanix, a hacker connected to the sale of the huge Collection 1 credential database.
Most Applications Contain Vulnerable Open Source Libraries
Modern software development relies on open source libraries, even for those applications that are sold commercially and aren’t open source. A pair of reports from Veracode and Synopsys illustrate how these components are introducing vulnerabilities into these applications.
Decipher Podcast: Ping Look
Ping Look, senior director of Microsoft's Detection and Response Team, joins Dennis Fisher to talk about her team's work helping enterprises recover from intrusions, the spike in ransomware infections, and understanding attacker behavior.
Google Makes DNS Over HTTPS Default in Chrome
Chrome 83 introduces default support for DNS over HTTPS to protects users' DNS queries from surveillance.
Attacks Based on Credential Theft On The Rise, DBIR Says
In the 13th Data Breach Investigations Report, Verizon researchers found that attackers are relying less on malware and more on stolen or lost credentials to carry out their attacks.
Supercomputer Sites Still Struggling After Attacks
The attacks that hit numerous academic supercomputing sites have kept the powerful clusters offline for a week.
Attacks Knock Supercomputing Sites Offline
A series of possibly related incidents has forced supercomputing site ARCHER in the UK and several others in Germany offline in the past few days.