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Ghost Ransomware a Persistent Global Threat to Critical Infrastructure

SecureWorld News

Experts warn that organizations must act decisively to protect against this growing threat by implementing Zero Trust architectures, patching vulnerabilities, and strengthening identity security.

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Today, You Really Want a SaaS SIEM!

Security Boulevard

Anton’s old SIEM presentation from 2009. source , date: 2009). The vendors were touting the fact that anybody with a screwdriver can install their SIEM right into a rack?—?and and then magic happens. But what happened instead was reality. So, yes, even today’s SIEM tools produce the customer reactions I mentioned above.

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Today, You Really Want a SaaS SIEM!

Anton on Security

Anton’s old SIEM presentation from 2009 ( source , date: 2009) So, yes, even today’s SIEM tools produce the customer reactions I mentioned above. The vendors were touting the fact that anybody with a screwdriver can install their SIEM right into a rack?—?and and then magic happens. But what happened instead was reality.

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Newly Discovered Malware Evades Detection by Hijacking Communications

eSecurity Planet

This approach may significantly lower the chance of detection, according to Symantec: The multi-node architecture makes it possible to compromise computers recursively by relaying commands across the network and hiding communication channels deeply, which also extends the dwell period for malicious activities. Codebase Dates to 2009.

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PwnKit: Local Privilege Escalation bug affects major Linux distros

Security Affairs

The flaw, dubbed PwnKit, was introduced more than 12 years ago (May 2009) since the initial commit of pkexec, this means that all the versions are affected. The good news is that this issue is not remotely exploitable, but if an attacker can log in as any unprivileged user, it can allow to gain root privileges.

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WordCamp New Orleans 2016 – A Small Camp with Big Impact

SiteLock

After a hiatus since 2009, #WCNOLA was held at the Lavin-Bernick Center on the beautiful and historic Tulane University campus. Bringing Order to a Content Hoarder (an Information Architecture primer). This past weekend I represented SiteLock at WordCamp New Orleans. Photo Credit: StudioWTA.

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Experts discovered a Kernel Level Privilege Escalation in Oracle Solaris

Security Affairs

.” The experts discovered that the flaw was first discovered in 2007 and it was publicly disclosed in 2009 during the CanSecWest security conference. “The original issue was disclosed on stage at CanSec 2009 ( [link] ).” ” reads the analysis published by Trustwave. ” continues Trustwave.