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Even North Korea has an antivirus program—but it’s used for spying

The Parallax

Researchers announced on May 1 that when they inspected the ingredients of the North Korean antivirus software for Windows computers, they found a mix of spyware and old code stolen from an antivirus vendor. Jaku is a known spyware-botnet combination, spread over BitTorrent. Image courtesy Check Point.

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A Brief History of the Internet’s Biggest BGP Incidents

Kentik

During both the internet crackdown following the military coup in Myanmar in 2021 and the Russian crackdown of social media following its invasion of Ukraine in 2022, telecoms in each of these countries attempted to block access to Twitter using a BGP hijack to black hole traffic.

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Technology News and Hot Topics

CTOvision

Last week technology news site Re:Code announced that it would stop hosting comments on its own sites as the conversation around stories was already happening on social media. Leaders at the Silicon Valley giant have said they want to get the technology to the public by 2017. Regin, new computer spyware, discovered by Symantec.

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The Future of Security

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

In Zero Trust Networks (O’Reilly, 2017), Evan Gilman and Doug Barth split a ZT network into five fundamental assertions: The network is always assumed to be hostile. Evan Gilman and Doug Barth, Zero Trust Networks (O’Reilly, 2017). External and internal threats exist on the web at all times. Scott Rose et al.,

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Zero-Day: Vulnerabilities, Exploits, Attacks and How to Manage Them

Kaseya

Originally developed by NASA as a cyberattack tool, it was stolen and leaked by the Shadow Brokers hacking group in March 2017. The infection can take the form of a virus, Trojan horse, worm, spyware, adware, rootkit or other malware like ransomware. At the top of the charts is EternalBlue, the most damaging exploit in history.

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5 Ways to Eliminate Comment Spam and Boost Real Conversations

Strategy Driven

If a reader clicks on a link left in your comments that directs them to a malware site, their computer could be infected with spyware. Shift the conversation to social media. So assuming you don’t want to remove comments from your blog or shift the conversation to social media, you should focus on the first three steps.

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Pay Attention to Cybersecurity Warnings

Kaseya

Microsoft issues out-of-band fix for leaked ‘EternalDarkness’ bug SC Media. Since this vulnerability is being touted as ‘wormable’, it can be used by an attacker to quickly move from one victim to another, just like the EternalBlue exploit enabled the rapid spread of WannyCry back in 2017.

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