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Three CISOs Share How to Run an Effective SOC

By The Hacker News — September 6th 2023 at 11:22
The role of the CISO keeps taking center stage as a business enabler: CISOs need to navigate the complex landscape of digital threats while fostering innovation and ensuring business continuity. Three CISOs; Troy Wilkinson, CISO at IPG; Rob Geurtsen, former Deputy CISO at Nike; and Tammy Moskites, Founder of CyAlliance and former CISO at companies like Time Warner and Home Depot – shared their
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NSA Releases Guide to Combat Powerful BlackLotus Bootkit Targeting Windows Systems

By Ravie Lakshmanan — June 23rd 2023 at 09:13
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) on Thursday released guidance to help organizations detect and prevent infections of a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) bootkit called BlackLotus. To that end, the agency is recommending that "infrastructure owners take action by hardening user executable policies and monitoring the integrity of the boot partition." BlackLotus is an advanced 
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Thousands of Citrix Servers Still Unpatched for Critical Vulnerabilities

By Ravie Lakshmanan — December 29th 2022 at 09:43
Thousands of Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Gateway endpoints remain vulnerable to two critical security flaws disclosed by the company over the last few months. The issues in question are CVE-2022-27510 and CVE-2022-27518 (CVSS scores: 9.8), which were addressed by the virtualization services provider on November 8 and December 13, 2022, respectively. While CVE-2022-27510
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Hackers Actively Exploiting Citrix ADC and Gateway Zero-Day Vulnerability

By Ravie Lakshmanan — December 14th 2022 at 04:40
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) on Tuesday said a threat actor tracked as APT5 has been actively exploiting a zero-day flaw in Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Gateway to take over affected systems. The critical remote code execution vulnerability, identified as CVE-2022-27518, could allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute commands remotely on vulnerable devices and
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Google Rolls Out New Chrome Browser Update to Patch Yet Another Zero-Day Vulnerability

By Ravie Lakshmanan — December 3rd 2022 at 04:41
Search giant Google on Friday released an out-of-band security update to fix a new actively exploited zero-day flaw in its Chrome web browser. The high-severity flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-4262, concerns a type confusion bug in the V8 JavaScript engine. Clement Lecigne of Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has been credited with reporting the issue on November 29, 2022. Type confusion
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Ex-NSA Employee Arrested for Trying to Sell U.S. Secrets to a Foreign Government

By Ravie Lakshmanan — October 3rd 2022 at 09:51
A former U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) employee has been arrested on charges of attempting to sell classified information to a foreign spy, who was actually an undercover agent working for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Jareh Sebastian Dalke, 30, was employed at the NSA for less than a month from June 6, 2022, to July 1, 2022, serving as an Information Systems Security Designer
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China Accuses NSA's TAO Unit of Hacking its Military Research University

By Ravie Lakshmanan — September 12th 2022 at 13:39
China has accused the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) of conducting a string of cyberattacks aimed at aeronautical and military research-oriented Northwestern Polytechnical University in the city of Xi'an in June 2022. The National Computer Virus Emergency Response Centre (NCVERC) disclosed its findings last week, and accused the Office of Tailored Access Operations (TAO), a cyber-warfare
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