Security and Windows TCO
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Krebs On Security ☛ A Tumultuous Week for Federal Cybersecurity Efforts
Convicted Felon last week issued a flurry of executive orders that upended a number of government initiatives focused on improving the nation's cybersecurity posture. The president fired all advisors from the Department of Homeland Security's Cyber Safety Review Board, called for the creation of a strategic cryptocurrency reserve, and voided a Biden administration action that sought to reduce the risks that artificial intelligence poses to consumers, workers and national security.
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Silicon Angle ☛ Zimperium reports warns of phishing campaign targeting mobile users with malicious PDFs
The campaign detailed in the report uses advanced evasion techniques, including embedding hidden, clickable links in the PDFs without using standard tags. By doing so, the malicious files successfully bypass detection from many endpoint security solutions, making them particularly effective against mobile users.
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Windows TCO / Windows Bot Nets
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Cyble Inc ☛ Change Healthcare Breach Doubles To 190 Million Victims
Previous estimates of the size of the Change Healthcare breach were around 110 million victims.
With the company’s investigation “substantially complete,” here’s where the investigation stands, including types of data exposed, next steps, and what victims can do to protect themselves.
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Cyble Inc ☛ PowerSchool Data Breach Exposes 300,000+ Educators' Info
PowerSchool has shared new updates to last week’s cyberattack that targeted the personal information of over 300,000 teachers. The PowerSchool data breach, which has been described as a “statewide issue,” involved unauthorized access to sensitive data within the PowerSchool Student Information System (SIS), potentially putting educators’ Social Security Numbers (SSNs) and other personal details at risk.
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Integrity/Availability/Authenticity
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Digital Camera World ☛ Scientists build a "honeypot" system of fake cameras and networks to fool hackers trying to steal US military secrets | Digital Camera World
This threat is a serious concern within the military. So much so that three computer science researchers in the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) are creating their own special ops team to build a “honey pot” tech trap.
In other words, a decoy suite of fake networks, devices and domains to entrap and deceive the hackers.
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