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Inside the Massive Alleged AT&T Data Breach

Troy Hunt

The Dropbox and LinkedIn breaches, for example, occurred in 2012 before being broadly distributed in 2016 and just like those incidents, the alleged AT&T data is now in very broad circulation. It is undoubtedly in the hands of thousands of internet randos. For my part, I've got 4.8M

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Microsoft Exchange ProxyNotShell vulnerability explained and how to mitigate it

CSO Magazine

Last year, two high severity, easily exploitable Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities dubbed ProxyLogon and ProxyShell made waves in the infosec sphere. Both vulnerabilities impact Microsoft Exchange Server on-premises and hybrid setups running Exchange versions 2013, 2016, and 2019 with an internet-exposed Outlook Web App (OWA) component.

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I'm Testifying in Front of Congress in Washington DC about Data Breaches - What Should I Say?

Troy Hunt

Obviously, the work I've been doing with Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) has given me a heap of insight into this specific area of infosec over the last 4 years and the folks from DC felt my views on things might be helpful. That was all great and I was happy to share my thoughts from the other side of the world.

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CloudWizard APT: the bad magic story goes on

SecureList

Over the years, the infosec community has discovered multiple APTs operating in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict region – Gamaredon, CloudAtlas , BlackEnergy and many others. Some of these APTs have long been forgotten in the past – such as Prikormka ( Operation Groundbait ), discovered by ESET in 2016.

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Security Ledger Podcast: Security Automation Is (And Isn't) The Future Of InfoSec

ForAllSecure

How exactly will artificial intelligence help bridge the infosec skills gap and what kinds of security work are still best left to humans? In 2016, Professor Brumley and a team of students from CMU were victorious in DARPA's first ever Cyber Grand Challenge that pitted automated cyber defense technologies against one another.

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The ‘AVE_MARIA’ Malware

Security Affairs

Similar packing of AutoIT code have been observed even by Juniper back in 2016, where SFX files were abused this way to deliver scripts used as first stage of the malware. It abuses a vulnerability of the “ pkgmgr.exe” Windows tool; many resources related to this exploit are publicly available on the internet. uaf.icm’s structure.

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Security Ledger Podcast: Security Automation Is (And Isn't) The Future Of InfoSec

ForAllSecure

How exactly will artificial intelligence help bridge the infosec skills gap and what kinds of security work are still best left to humans? In 2016, Professor Brumley and a team of students from CMU were victorious in DARPA's first ever Cyber Grand Challenge that pitted automated cyber defense technologies against one another.

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