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Cybersecurity in the Biden Administration: Experts Weigh In
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Potential Nation-State Actor Targets COVID-19 Vaccine Supply Chain
Jai Vijayan, Contributing WriterNews
Companies involved in technologies for keeping vaccines cold enough for safe storage and transportation are being targeted in a sophisticated spear-phishing campaign, IBM says.
By Jai Vijayan Contributing Writer, 12/3/2020
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TrickBot's New Tactic Threatens Firmware
Kelly Sheridan, Staff Editor, Dark ReadingNews
A newly discovered module checks machines for flaws in the UEFI/BIOS firmware so malware can evade detection and persist on a device.
By Kelly Sheridan Staff Editor, Dark Reading, 12/3/2020
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Researchers Discover New Obfuscation-As-a-Service Platform
Ericka Chickowski, Contributing WriterNews
Researchers detail how a Android APK obfuscation service automates detection evasion for highly malicious apps.
By Ericka Chickowski Contributing Writer, 12/3/2020
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Common Container Manager Is Vulnerable to Dangerous Exploit
Dark Reading Staff, Quick Hits
Container manager vulnerability is one of several weaknesses and vulnerabilities recently disclosed for Docker.
By Dark Reading Staff , 12/3/2020
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Cloud Security Threats for 2021
Or Azarzar, CTO & Co-Founder of LightspinCommentary
Most of these issues can be remediated, but many users and administrators don't find out about them until it's too late.
By Or Azarzar CTO & Co-Founder of Lightspin, 12/3/2020
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US Officials Take Action Against 2,300 Money Mules
Dark Reading Staff, Quick Hits
Eight federal law enforcement agencies participated in the Money Mule Initiative, a global crackdown on money laundering.
By Dark Reading Staff , 12/3/2020
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Researchers Bypass Next-Generation Endpoint Protection
Kelly Jackson Higgins, Executive Editor at Dark ReadingNews
Machine learning-based products can be tricked to classify malware as a legitimate file, new findings show.
By Kelly Jackson Higgins Executive Editor at Dark Reading, 12/3/2020
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From FUD to Fix: Why the CISO-Vendor Partnership Needs to Change Now
Michele Commentary
CISOs and their staffs are up against too many systems, screens, and alerts, with too few solutions to effectively address pain points.
By Michele "MB" Bettencourt Executive Chairperson, Corelight, 12/3/2020
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Google Security Researcher Develops 'Zero-Click' Exploit for iOS Flaw
Jai Vijayan, Contributing WriterNews
A new patched memory corruption vulnerability in Apple's AWDL protocol can be used to take over iOS devices that are in close proximity to an attacker.
By Jai Vijayan Contributing Writer, 12/3/2020
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Open Source Flaws Take Years to Find But Just a Month to Fix
Robert Lemos, Contributing WriterNews
Companies need to embrace automation and dependency tracking to keep software secure, GitHub says in its annual security report.
By Robert Lemos Contributing Writer, 12/2/2020
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Cybersecurity in the Biden Administration: Experts Weigh In
Kelly Sheridan, Staff Editor, Dark ReadingNews
Security pros and former government employees share their expectations and concerns for the new administration – and their hope for a "return to normal."
By Kelly Sheridan Staff Editor, Dark Reading, 12/2/2020
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FBI: BEC Scammers Could Abuse Email Auto-Forwarding
Dark Reading Staff, Quick Hits
Private Industry Notification warns of the role email auto-forwarding could be used in business email compromise attacks.
By Dark Reading Staff , 12/2/2020
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Loyal Employee ... or Cybercriminal Accomplice?
Pam Baker, Contributing Writer
Can the bad guys' insider recruitment methods be reverse-engineered to reveal potential insider threats? Let's take a look.
By Pam Baker Contributing Writer, 12/2/2020
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Automated Pen Testing: Can It Replace Humans?
Alex Haynes, Chief Information Security Officer, CDLCommentary
These tools have come a long way, but are they far enough along to make human pen testers obsolete?
By Alex Haynes Chief Information Security Officer, CDL, 12/2/2020
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Security Slipup Exposes Health Records & Lab Results
Dark Reading Staff, Quick Hits
NTreatment failed to add password protection to a cloud server, exposing thousands of sensitive medical records online.
By Dark Reading Staff , 12/2/2020
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Why I'd Take Good IT Hygiene Over Security's Latest Silver Bullet
Avi Shua, Co-Founder, Orca SecurityCommentary
Bells and whistles are great, but you can stay safer by focusing on correct configurations, posture management, visibility, and patching.
By Avi Shua Co-Founder, Orca Security, 12/2/2020
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Free Mobile App Measures Your Personal Cyber Risk
Steve Zurier, Contributing WriterNews
New app for Android and Apple iOS uses an algorithm co-developed with MIT to gauge security posture on an ongoing basis.
By Steve Zurier Contributing Writer, 12/2/2020
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Unmanaged Devices Heighten Risks for School Networks
Jai Vijayan, Contributing WriterNews
Gaming consoles, Wi-Fi Pineapples, and building management systems are among many devices Armis says it discovered on K–12 school networks.
By Jai Vijayan Contributing Writer, 12/1/2020
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Inside North Korea's Rapid Evolution to Cyber Superpower
Kelly Sheridan, Staff Editor, Dark ReadingNews
Researchers examine North Korea's rapid evolution from destructive campaigns to complex and efficient cyber operations.
By Kelly Sheridan Staff Editor, Dark Reading, 12/1/2020
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Malicious or Vulnerable Docker Images Widespread, Firm Says
Robert Lemos, Contributing WriterNews
A dynamic analysis of the publicly available images on Docker Hub found that 51% had critical vulnerabilities and about 6,500 of the 4 million latest images could be considered malicious.
By Robert Lemos Contributing Writer, 12/1/2020
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CVE-2020-27348
PUBLISHED: 2020-12-04
In some conditions, a snap package built by snapcraft includes the current directory in LD_LIBRARY_PATH, allowing a malicious snap to gain code execution within the context of another snap if both plug the home interface or similar. This issue affects snapcraft versions prior to 4.4.4, prior to 2.43...
CVE-2020-16123
PUBLISHED: 2020-12-04
An Ubuntu-specific patch in PulseAudio created a race condition where the snap policy module would fail to identify a client connection from a snap as coming from a snap if SCM_CREDENTIALS were missing, allowing the snap to connect to PulseAudio without proper confinement. This could be exploited by...
CVE-2018-21270
PUBLISHED: 2020-12-03
Versions less than 0.0.6 of the Node.js stringstream module are vulnerable to an out-of-bounds read because of allocation of uninitialized buffers when a number is passed in the input stream (when using Node.js 4.x).
CVE-2020-26248
PUBLISHED: 2020-12-03
In the PrestaShop module "productcomments" before version 4.2.1, an attacker can use a Blind SQL injection to retrieve data or stop the MySQL service. The problem is fixed in 4.2.1 of the module.
CVE-2020-29529
PUBLISHED: 2020-12-03
HashiCorp go-slug before 0.5.0 does not address attempts at directory traversal involving ../ and symlinks.
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