January 5, 2023

Valeo and C2A Security partner to improve security for customers and modern vehicles

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Valeo and C2A Security have unveiled a strategic collaboration to enhance Valeo’s cybersecurity offerings on their products in development and continuous operations. The new partnership addresses the industry’s need for streamlined and efficient cybersecurity. As cars become more software-centric and new automotive cyber regulations emerge, security increases in priority. Inefficient and manual cybersecurity can become …

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Keysight collaborates with Qualcomm to accelerate 5G non-terrestrial network communication

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Keysight Technologies has collaborated with Qualcomm Technologies to establish an end-to-end 5G non-terrestrial network (NTN) connection. Based on this successful demonstration of call signaling and data transfer using orbit trajectory emulation, Keysight and Qualcomm Technologies aim to accelerate 5G NTN technology to provide affordable broadband connectivity in remote areas. NTNs based on 5G satellite-to-ground communication …

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GuardKnox and Wind River join forces to bring new vehicle features to market

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GuardKnox is collaborating with Wind River to enable developers to build secure containerized applications for software-defined vehicles of the future. The combination of GuardKnox’s SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) core framework and corresponding tools suite with Wind River’s VxWorks real-time operating system (RTOS) that is part of Wind River Studio will provide OEMs with another layer …

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SANS Institute proudly welcomes professor Ciaran Martin, founder of the UK National Cyber Security Centre, to its ranks

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SANS Institute is thrilled to announce that per January 1st 2023, Professor Ciaran Martin joins our organisation as Director of the global SANS CISO Network. Professor Martin is most well known in our industry for founding the UK’s world-leading National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and helping to manage the response to thousands of cyber-attacks against …

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Rackspace Sunsets Email Service Downed in Ransomware Attack

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Rackspace has completed its forensic investigation into the Dec. 2 ransomware attack that took down its Hosted Exchange Email service and announced that it will discontinue that offering and transition it to cloud-based Microsoft 365. The company said it has no plans to rebuild the hosted Exchange server environment, which has been down since the …

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New tool that can detect faces in distorted images help identify pedophile after 13 year international hunt

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Share this… A man from Pembrokeshire who sexually attacked and raped young children and then shared graphic photographs of the abuse with other pedophiles on the dark web has been sentenced to life in prison for his crimes. Investigators from the National Crime Agency were able to identify Martyn Armstrong after reversing the distortion filters …

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3 Ways to Defend a Cybersecurity Budget with Cyber Risk Quantification

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Deloitte’s “CFO Signals” Q4 2022 survey of chief financial officers found 41% feeling pessimistic about their companies’ financial outlook. Survey participants named “cost management” their number one priority for 2023. On the other hand, 79% said they intend to make new investments in the new year in “digital transformation.” For CISOs and other cybersecurity leaders, …

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Distribution of NetSupport RAT Malware Disguised as a Pokemon Game

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NetSupport Manager is a remote control tool that can be installed and used by ordinary or corporate users for the purpose of remotely controlling systems. However, it is being abused by many threat actors because it allows external control over specific systems. Unlike backdoors and RATs (Remote Access Trojans), which are mostly based on command …

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ASEC Weekly Malware Statistics (December 26th, 2022 – January 1st, 2023)

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The ASEC analysis team uses the ASEC automatic analysis system RAPIT to categorize and respond to known malware. This post will list weekly statistics collected from December 26th, 2022 (Monday) to January 1st, 2023 (Sunday). For the main category, downloader ranked top with 48.8%, followed by backdoor with 24.2%, Infostealer with 18.4%, CoinMiner with 4.8%, …

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Ransomware gangs are exploiting Fortinet Devices vulnerabilities. Patch these high-severity command injection flaws

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Share this… Fortinet, a company that develops next-generation firewalls, VPNs, antivirus, and endpoint solutions, among other products, issued a public security advisory on October 10, 2022, disclosing that there was a critical vulnerability (CVE-2022-40684) impacting several of their products. The advisory also disclosed that the vulnerability could have been exploited by malicious actors. The security …

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Five Guys Burglary: Hackers Take a Bite Out of Burger Chain

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Popular hamburger chain Five Guys recently announced in a consumer notification letter that the company experienced a security incident possibly impacting personal information of employees and customers. The letter says the company discovered the incident on September 17, 2022, which involved unauthorized access to some files on a server. Five Guys Enterprises immediately implemented its …

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Now you can set up a proxy server to connect to WhatsApp if its blocked in a country

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Share this… Internet shutdowns are deliberate disturbances to internet access and digital communications. These disruptions are often carried out by governments in an effort to stifle the online speech of dissidents. After demonstrations broke out throughout Iran in September over the execution of Mahsa Amini, the Iranian authorities shut down the internet in order to …

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How Confidential Computing Can Change Cybersecurity

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Digital transformation initiatives, spurred by COVID-19, are helping companies scale new heights in efficiency and productivity. However, they have also highlighted to enterprise leaders the need for tighter cybersecurity measures — especially as attackers continue to ride the wave of new technologies to launch sophisticated attacks. The number of records exposed in data breaches consistently …

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$11M Deal In Insurance Software Breach Fight Gets Final Nod

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By Allison Grande (January 5, 2023, 10:01 PM EST) — A Texas federal judge has granted final approval to an $11 million deal, including $3 million in attorney fees, to end a proposed class action alleging that insurance software provider Zywave Inc. failed to protect more than four million customers’ personal data during a 2021 security …

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Lesley Kayser-Sprouse

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Meet Lesley Kayser-Sprouse, Archer’s talented Compliance Engineer, in this month’s The Archer Experience spotlight. Learn why inspiring customer happiness is her top priority. As a Compliance Engineer, Lesley brings significant knowledge and expertise in Operation and Transmission Planning (O&P) to Team Archer. Currently, she is administering transient, short-circuit, and Geomagnetic Disturbance (GMD) planning assessments and …

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Threat actors stole Slack private source code repositories

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Enterprise collaboration platform Slack disclosed a data breach, hackers stole some of its private source code repositories. The enterprise collaboration platform Slack has announced to have suffered a security breach, threat actors have stolen some of its private source code repositories. The company pointed out that its customers were not affected. “We recently became aware …

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Apple Fined 8 Million Euros for Privacy Violations in France

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Governance & Risk Management , Privacy French Data Protection Agency Says Apple Lacked Consent for Ad Personalization Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • January 5, 2023     (Image: Shutterstock) The French data privacy agency has fined Apple 8 million euros for an ad personalization tracker that violated the country’s privacy laws. The agency says the fine …

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CircleCI Warns Customers to Rotate Secrets After Security Incident

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CircleCI, a provider of continuous integration and continuous delivery services for a wide range of organizations, is warning customers to rotate any secrets they have stored in the CircelCI service after an unspecified security incident at the company. In a short message posted Wednesday, CircleCI CTO Rob Zuber said that the company is investigating an …

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Twitter data dump: 200m+ account database now free to download

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More than 200 million Twitter users’ information is now available for anyone to download for free. This latest data dump, which includes account names, handles, creation dates, follower counts, and email addresses, turns out to the be same — albeit cleaned up — leak reported last month that affected more than 400 million Twitter accounts, …

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