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Runa Sandvik’s new startup Granitt secures at-risk people from hackers and nation states

TechCrunch

Journalists and activists are increasingly targeted by the wealthy and resourceful who seek to keep the truth hidden, from nation-state aligned hackers hacking into journalist’s inboxes to governments deploying mobile spyware to snoop on their most vocal critics. When The New York Times was hacked by China in 2012, that was phishing.

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CVE-2023-41064, CVE-2023-4863, CVE-2023-5129: Frequently Asked Questions for ImageIO and WebP/libwebp Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

Tenable

On September 7, researchers at Citizen Lab published a blog post detailing their discovery of an iPhone zero-click, zero-day exploit chain in Apple iOS used to deploy a spyware known as Pegasus. It is a part of Apple operating systems from iOS and iPadOS to macOS, and watchOS. What is WebP or libwebp?

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Hidden inside Dark Caracal’s espionage apps: Old tech

The Parallax

The hackers hid Trojan malware in legitimate-looking and functioning apps for devices running Google’s Android operating system, promoting their third-party app marketplace installation via links on Facebook and other social platforms. ”—Michael Flossman, senior security researcher, Lookout Mobile Security.

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Radar Trends to Watch: August 2022

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Researchers have used reinforcement learning to build a robotic dog that learns to walk on its own in the real world (i.e., Perhaps the scariest exploit in security would be a rootkit that cannot be detected or removed , even by wiping the disk and reinstalling the operating system. Users can buy additional credits.

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Pros and Cons of Hiring Freelance Cyber Security Consultant

Mobilunity

This gives hackers access to sensitive data on your computer and allows them to use spyware to monitor you in the background. Hackers can exploit known security flaws to gain entry if your operating system or web browsers are not up to date. . Making use of out-of-date software. Using scams involving tech support.

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AI Applications in Cybersecurity with Real-Life Examples

Altexsoft

The same Norton research found that it can take companies, on average, 196 days to identify a data breach. You can use regression to predict system calls of operating systems, and then identify anomalies by comparing the prediction to an actual call. This is a guest post by technology writer Eddie Segal.

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

Kaseya

Those tools also take an inventory of all IT assets, such as servers, desktops, virtual machines, operating systems, applications and active ports, on each machine to scan them for security flaws. The infection can take the form of a virus, Trojan horse, worm, spyware, adware, rootkit or other malware like ransomware.