Now North Korea Using Fake IT Workers to Extort Employers Scams evolve. Now that the scam concept is public, North Korea is pivoting. They are extorting the companies that hire these North Koreans as IT employees after the employees steal corporate secrets. Read the details here. SURPRISE! (Not) – OpenAI Confirms Attackers use ChatGPT to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to a report that cloud security vendor Tenable released this week: In the first half of this year, 38% of organizations had at least one cloud workload that was critically vulnerable, highly privileged, and publicly exposed, according to a study of telemetry from customers of cloud security vendor Tenable released this week. Overall, the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Microsoft Confirms MMC Bug Being Exploited – No Patch I could tell you to patch the bug but, for the 23rd time this year, the bug is being exploited in the wild and there is no patch. The bug, rated 7.8/10, is in the Microsoft Management Console tool and it was not among the 119 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]An American diplomat that helped negotiate a UN cybercrime treaty pushed by Russia and China said it is likely to be approved by the UN. Administration officials have acknowledged concerns about the treaty in its current form. Human rights advocates say it would enable surveillance on a massive scale and do so in complete secrecy. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Passwords. Everyone loves passwords, right? Lets have a big round of applause for complex passwords. No? You are not a fan of those crazy passwords like &*(Y45(*]}mMh@+. Me either. NIST sets the rules for the federal government and has a big influence on private industry. They have what they call a special publication or SP […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is not what I want to hear and certainly not all or even most cops are crooked, but there is no way to know which ones are on the take. Of course, this is not new. Going back to prohibition and earlier, there were cops that were willing to look away in exchange for […]
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