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News alert: SquareX’s “Year of Browser Bugs” project exposes critical cybersecurity blind spots

The Last Watchdog

Notable projects included the Month of Browser Bugs (July 2006), Month of Kernel Bugs (November 2006), and Month of Apple Bugs (January 2007). MOB projects played a huge role in improving the gravity at which security and responsible disclosure are taken in these companies.

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The Risk-Conscious, Security-Aware Culture: The Forgotten Critical Security Control

Cisco Security

Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) across the Global 2000 and Fortune 1000 are obsessed with protecting the workforce endpoints as critical vulnerabilities in the cybersecurity and risk management posture of their enterprises. Would a risk-conscious, security-aware workforce become a security enabler rather than a security risk?

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MI5 seized Boris Johnson’s phone over security risk fears

Security Affairs

In April, media reported that Boris Johnson ‘s personal mobile phone number has been freely available on the internet for the past 15 years after it was published in a think tank press release in 2006, but never deleted. The post MI5 seized Boris Johnson’s phone over security risk fears appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Attorney General William Barr on Encryption Policy

Schneier on Security

But, in the world of cybersecurity, we do not deal in absolute guarantees but in relative risks. All systems fall short of optimality and have some residual risk of vulnerability a point which the tech community acknowledges when they propose that law enforcement can satisfy its requirements by exploiting vulnerabilities in their products.

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Attorney General Barr and Encryption

Schneier on Security

But, in the world of cybersecurity, we do not deal in absolute guarantees but in relative risks. All systems fall short of optimality and have some residual risk of vulnerability -- a point which the tech community acknowledges when they propose that law enforcement can satisfy its requirements by exploiting vulnerabilities in their products.

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Chinese Antivirus Firm Was Part of APT41 ‘Supply Chain’ Attack

Krebs on Security

According to iDefense, in 2006 the group was responsible for crafting a rootkit that took advantage of a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Word, and was used in attacks on “a large DoD entity” within the USA. Chengdu404’s offices in China. Image: DOJ.

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The Role of Differential Privacy in Protecting Sensitive Information in the Era of Artificial Intelligence

Security Affairs

Cynthia Dwork (2006) introduced the fundamental idea, established its mathematical basis, and illustrated how privacy guarantees can be attained by adding numerical work. Differential privacy in Finance AI Financial institutions use AI-driven data for fraud detection, segmentation, and risk assessment.