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Content tagged with Advanced Threats posted in June 2015
4 Ways Cloud Usage Is Putting Health Data At Risk
News  |  6/26/2015  | 
A huge shadow IT problem is just one of the risks of uncontrolled cloud usage in healthcare organizations, new study shows.
Why China Wants Your Sensitive Data
Commentary  |  6/24/2015  | 
Since May 2014, the Chinese government has been amassing a 'Facebook for human intelligence.' Here's what it's doing with the info.
Child Exploitation & Assassins For Hire On The Deep Web
News  |  6/23/2015  | 
'Census report' of the unindexed parts of the Internet unearths everything from Bitcoin-laundering services to assassins for hire.
Report: NSA, GCHQ Actively Targeted Kaspersky Lab, Other Security Vendors
Quick Hits  |  6/22/2015  | 
Snowden documents reveal government intelligence agencies were working to subvert security software. Kaspersky Lab calls nation-states' targeting of security companies 'extremely worrying.'
Is Your Security Operation Hooked On Malware?
Commentary  |  6/16/2015  | 
It may seem counterintuitive, but an overzealous focus on malware may be preventing you from detecting even bigger threats.
OPM Breach Scope Widens, Employee Group Blasts Agency For Not Encrypting Data
News  |  6/12/2015  | 
Lack of encryption 'indefensible' and 'outrageous,' American Federation of Government Employees says.
Hospital Medical Devices Used As Weapons In Cyberattacks
News  |  6/8/2015  | 
Security firm discovered malware-infected medical devices in three hospitals hit by data breaches.
Long Cons: The Next Age of Cyber Attacks
Commentary  |  6/5/2015  | 
When hackers know that a big payday is coming they don’t mind waiting for months for the best moment to strike.
Chinese ISP: China Is Victim Of Foreign State-Backed APT Group
News  |  6/4/2015  | 
Qihoo 360 says that OceanLotus has been stealing information from Chinese government agencies and maritime institutions since 2012.
Report: NSA Secretly Expanded Warrantless Internet Surveillance To Find Hackers
Quick Hits  |  6/4/2015  | 
New York Times: Intelligence agency went looking not for criminal hackers on foreign and American soil.


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I Smell a RAT! New Cybersecurity Threats for the Crypto Industry
David Trepp, Partner, IT Assurance with accounting and advisory firm BPM LLP,  7/9/2021
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Attacks on Kaseya Servers Led to Ransomware in Less Than 2 Hours
Robert Lemos, Contributing Writer,  7/7/2021
Commentary
It's in the Game (but It Shouldn't Be)
Tal Memran, Cybersecurity Expert, CYE,  7/9/2021
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PUBLISHED: 2023-05-26
Django-SES is a drop-in mail backend for Django. The django_ses library implements a mail backend for Django using AWS Simple Email Service. The library exports the `SESEventWebhookView class` intended to receive signed requests from AWS to handle email bounces, subscriptions, etc. These requests ar...
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PUBLISHED: 2023-05-26
Highlight is an open source, full-stack monitoring platform. Highlight may record passwords on customer deployments when a password html input is switched to `type="text"` via a javascript "Show Password" button. This differs from the expected behavior which always obfuscates `ty...
CVE-2023-33194
PUBLISHED: 2023-05-26
Craft is a CMS for creating custom digital experiences on the web.The platform does not filter input and encode output in Quick Post validation error message, which can deliver an XSS payload. Old CVE fixed the XSS in label HTML but didn’t fix it when clicking save. This issue was...
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PUBLISHED: 2023-05-26
GDSDB infinite loop in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.5 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.13 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file