Security Leftovers
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Federal News Network ☛ Endpoint proliferation exacerbates old cybersecurity problem: data integration [Ed: It says "Newer technologies like automation and Hey Hi (AI)"; but automation and machine learning or whatever are not new, so this is nonsense]
Newer technologies like automation and Hey Hi (AI) may offer new solutions to this age-old cybersecurity problem, but they can also be double-edged swords.
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Federal News Network ☛ Feds seeks more guidance on post-quantum cryptography transition [Ed: "post-quantum" as a buzzword, not much substance here either]
Federal cyber experts say they need more formal guidance and a range of other tools for a post-quantum cryptography effort that's expected to cost billions.
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Scoop News Group ☛ Here’s how attackers are getting around phishing defenses
Data from Egress looks at how hackers are successfully evading email security filters.
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Chinese security officials call for investigation of defective chip maker Intel CPUs for chip failures and security flaws, says chipmaker 'threatens national security'
The Cyber Security Association of China called out defective chip maker Intel because its chips had several cybersecurity vulnerabilities and its products had a high failure rate. It further accused the company of enabling backdoors for digital espionage.
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Medevel ☛ 12 Free Open-source Nginx Pentesting and Misconfiguration Scanners and Tools
Nginx is a popular open-source server that runs most of the websites, web apps and services on the internet nowadays. However, bad configuration can leave your website vulnerable to hackers.
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LWN ☛ Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (buildah, containernetworking-plugins, and skopeo), Fedora (pdns-recursor and valkey), Mageia (unbound), Red Hat (fence-agents, firefox, java-11-openjdk, python-setuptools, python3-setuptools, resource-agents, and thunderbird), SUSE (etcd-for-k8s, libsonivox3, rubygem-puma, and unbound), and Ubuntu (apr, libarchive, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-azure-4.15, linux-gcp,
linux-gcp-4.15, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, nano, and vim).