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Hacked Data Broker Accounts Fueled Phony COVID Loans, Unemployment Claims

Krebs on Security

Dubner said all customers are required to use multi-factor authentication, and that everyone applying for access to its services undergoes a rigorous vetting process. . “We identified a handful of legitimate businesses who are customers that may have experienced a breach,” Dubner said.

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Impact Analysis: regreSSHion OpenSSH Vulnerability (CVE-2024-6387) 

NetSpi Executives

OpenSSH is a set of networking tools that provide encrypted communication to ensure secure remote access and data transfer over networks. CVE-2024-6387 details CVE-2024-6387 (“regreSSHion”) reintroduces a previous vulnerability from 2006 ( CVE-2006-5051 ) due to the removal of a critical line of code. What is OpenSSH?

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Identity-based Cryptography

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

out of 5 stars on Chrome web store, 9 out of 10 pairs of participants failed to complete the assigned task of exchanging encrypted emails, i.e. 90% failure rate. The most common mistake that repeatedly occurred in all of these studies [13,14,15] was to encrypt a message with the sender’s public key. This type of scheme (e.g., [8,9])

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Sustaining Digital Certificate Security - Entrust Certificate Distrust

Google Security

Upcoming change in Chrome 127 and higher: TLS server authentication certificates validating to the following Entrust roots whose earliest Signed Certificate Timestamp (SCT) is dated after October 31, 2024, will no longer be trusted by default. . - for authorized use only,O=Entrust, Inc.,C=US limits liab.)+OU=(c) O=Entrust, Inc.,C=US

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Vulnerability Recap 8/12/24 – Old Vulnerabilities Unexpectedly Emerge

eSecurity Planet

The problem: This week, we have not one but two 18-year-old vulnerabilities: researchers at IOActive discovered a flaw in AMD central processing units that has existed in processors made as early as 2006. This affects the safety of OpenSSH’s encryption and transport security features.

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Vulnerability Recap 8/13/24 – Old Vulnerabilities Unexpectedly Emerge

eSecurity Planet

The problem: This week, we have not one but two 18-year-old vulnerabilities: researchers at IOActive discovered a flaw in AMD central processing units that has existed in processors made as early as 2006. This affects the safety of OpenSSH’s encryption and transport security features.

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Top VC Firms in Cybersecurity of 2022

eSecurity Planet

Company Sector Year Status Abnormal Security Cloud email security 2019 Private Sqreen Application security 2019 Acquired: Datadog Demisto SOAR 2018 Acquired by PAN Skyhigh Cloud security 2012 Acquired: McAfee OpenDNS Internet security 2009 Acquired: Cisco Palo Alto Networks Cloud and network security 2006 NYSE: PANW. Insight Partners.