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January 22, 2021

Published by Bradley Barth at January 22, 2021

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New cyber council tackles infosec challenges from a tech perspective

Cybercrime is a plague on all industries, but a technology-borne problem at its core. So it makes sense that leading IT experts and infosec solution providers would step up to provide key advice to the tech community on how to protect customers from prevalent cyberthreats. To that end, the nonprofit IT trade association CompTIA this month officially…

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January 22, 2021

Published by Bradley Barth at January 22, 2021

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Hackers hijacked cloud accounts of high-tech and aviation firms, hid in systems for years

The effectiveness of this operation serves as a reminder of the risks of openly sharing and storing plain-text network credentials or sensitive network access instructions on internet-accessible apps or servers.

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January 20, 2021

Published by Bradley Barth at January 20, 2021

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SolarWinds attack opened up 4 separate paths to a Microsoft 365 cloud breach

Tactics expose the need for organizations to develop cohesive playbooks for breaches affecting hybrid environments.

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January 19, 2021

Published by Derek B. Johnson at January 19, 2021

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7 vulnerabilities in popular DNS forwarding software open door to range of attacks

Researchers at JSOF have discovered distinct spoofing and buffer overflow vulnerabilities associated with DNSMasq, used in networking devices to cache and forward Domain Name System requests.

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January 18, 2021

Published by Bradley Barth at January 18, 2021

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Free cyber career training coursework emerges as a perk in tough times

New complimentary offerings are helping current, aspiring and unemployed infosec professionals gain an upper hand in a down economy, while aiding an industry facing a growing skills gap.

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January 15, 2021

Published by Steve Zurier at January 15, 2021

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NSA urges use of enterprise resolvers to protect DNS traffic on corporate networks

NSA advises security pros to use designated enterprise DNS resolvers to lock down DoH on corporate networks.

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January 14, 2021

Published by Joe Uchill at January 14, 2021

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Apple nixes feature that let its apps skip VPNs and firewalls, after criticism from researchers

The software essentially exempted Apple's own programs from being routed through its Network Extension Framework, which the company created for third-party security products to monitor and filter network traffic.

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January 14, 2021

Published by Steve Zurier at January 14, 2021

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Google: Attacker ‘likely’ had access to Android zero-day vulnerabilities

Google’s Project Zero this week introduced a six-part series that offers an analysis of four zero-day vulnerabilities on Windows and Chrome, and known-day Android exploits it found during the team’s extensive research last year.

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January 12, 2021

Published by Bradley Barth at January 12, 2021

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Complexity and cost chip away at SOCs’ perceived return on investment

51% of 17,200 surveyed IT and security practitioners said that
their SOC’s ROI has gotten worse.

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