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Hidden Anti-Cryptography Provisions in Internet Anti-Trust Bills

Schneier on Security

Two bills attempting to reduce the power of Internet monopolies are currently being debated in Congress: S. Reducing the power to tech monopolies would do more to “fix” the Internet than any other single action, and I am generally in favor of them both. 2992, the American Innovation and Choice Online Act ; and S.

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Black Hat Fireside Chat: The impactful role crowdsourced security intelligence must play

The Last Watchdog

Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW With AI speeding everything up, triaging risks makes a lot of sense. I’ll keep watch and keep reporting. Acohido Pulitzer Prize-winning business journalist Byron V.

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Experts warn of mass exploitation of critical PHP flaw CVE-2024-4577

Security Affairs

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the the vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. In June, the U.S. In February, a coordinated spike in global exploitation suggested increased automated scanning for vulnerable systems. ” concludes GreyNoise.

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A new Mirai botnet variant targets DigiEver DS-2105 Pro DVRs

Security Affairs

In November 2024, the Akamai Security Intelligence Research Team (SIRT) observed increased activity targeting the URI /cgi-bin/cgi_main.cgi , linked to a Mirai-based malware campaign exploiting an unassigned RCE vulnerability in DVR devices, including DigiEver DS-2105 Pro. ” reads the analysis published by Akamai.

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Night Sky ransomware operators exploit Log4Shell to target hack VMware Horizon servers

Security Affairs

In early January, threat actors started targeting VMware Horizon systems exposed on the Internet. On Monday, Microsoft posted a warning about a new campaign from a China-based actor it tracks as DEV-0401 to exploit the Log4Shell vulnerability on VMware Horizon systems exposed on the internet, and deploy Night Sky ransomware.

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Report Unveils Cybersecurity Leaks in U.S. Drinking Water Systems

SecureWorld News

Fairbrother added, "Teams that continue to acquire security solutions that only consider a subset of infrastructure, assets, or entity types, that only offered a siloed viewpoint on security intelligence, often mean critical risks to ICS systems are often overlooked. Water is no exception."

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NEW TECH: Exabeam positions SIEM technology to help protect IoT, OT systems

The Last Watchdog

Their capacity to ingest threat feeds is becoming more relevant with the rise of IoT (Internet of Things) systems and the vulnerabilities of old and new OT (operational technology). Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW

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