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Fixed wireless access (FWA) is a secure networking option

CIO

This shows that many modern cyber security challenges are network-agnostic, which means the most popular cyber attack methods typically don’t focus on the network technology the company uses to access the internet. The need for improved rural internet service has been recognized by both governments and businesses alike.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: EPA Urges Water Plants To Boost Cybersecurity, as OpenSSF Launches Threat Intel Platform for Open Source Software

Tenable

Here are some of the NCSC’s recommendations, aimed specifically at small and medium size businesses: Don’t overshare details about your company’s senior management on social media and public websites. Train staff to detect BEC email characteristics.

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Dealing with MITRE ATT&CK®’s different levels of detail

Lacework

For example, the data source “Internet Scan: Response Content” requires that an organization scan the entirety of the internet searching for suspicious behaviors, like attacker infrastructure (Acquire Infrastructure – T1583). As such, we mark these techniques as ignored.

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

The Parallax

Malware and antivirus software usually go together like tacos and pickles. How Spain is waging Internet war on Catalan separatists. Pretty much any software can be targeted to be ripped off,” says Mark Lechtik, a security researcher on the Check Point Malware Research Team who led the investigation into SiliVaccine.

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Your old router could be a hacking group’s APT pawn

The Parallax

In a newly released Symantec study he led, Grange says the hacker group is now using hijacked Wi-Fi routers, Internet of Things devices, and cloud services to cover its tracks. READ MORE ON ROUTERS AND THE INTERNET OF THINGS. Time for a Department of the Internet of Things? The long reach of Mirai, the Internet of Things botnet.

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Protestware on the rise: Why developers are sabotaging their own code

TechCrunch

His areas of interest include open source software security, malware analysis, data breaches, and scam investigations. Some compared this to the 2016 left-pad incident that briefly broke a large part of the internet after the project’s developer deleted his widely-used code in protest. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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Radar Trends to Watch: May 2024

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JRsdr is an AI product that promises to automate all your corporate social media. While this feature is useful for bug reporting, it has been used by threat actors to insert malware into repos. The malware will then be loaded by software referencing the now-existent package. Do you dare trust it?