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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. How Spain is waging Internet war on Catalan separatists. Jaku is a known spyware-botnet combination, spread over BitTorrent.

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A Brief History of the Internet’s Biggest BGP Incidents

Kentik

In the summer of 2022, I joined a team of BGP experts organized by the Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group (BITAG) to draft a comprehensive report covering the security of the internet’s routing infrastructure. Below is an edited version of my take on the internet’s most notable BGP incidents.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework Gets Major Update, as Advisories on APT29 and ALPHV Blackcat Get Rolled Out

Tenable

came out in 2014. To gain initial access, cybercriminals associated with ALPHV Blackcat employ advanced social engineering techniques and publicly-available information about a company. After a years-long revision process, NIST this week rolled out version 2.0 It’s the first major update to the CSF since version 1.0

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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. Regin, new computer spyware, discovered by Symantec. 2014’s top ten technology buzzwords to learn and to avoid.