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Weekend Update

A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.

Privacy Law Update: Colorado Privacy Bill Becomes Law: How Does it Stack Up Against California and Virginia?

By Alysa Zeltzer Hutnik, Aaron Burstein & Lauren Myers on July 8, 2021

The Colorado Legislature recently passed the Colorado Privacy Act (“ColoPA”), joining Virginia and California as states with comprehensive privacy legislation. Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed the bill (SB 21-190) ...

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Weekend Update

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The Security Risks Associated with Cookies

Cookies are a common target for hackers because they represent a major vulnerability in web applications. Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a traditional approach to solving this problem, but it’s becoming less effective as attackers devise ways of defeating it. Web developers are using new methods like Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) to ...

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Is Your Company Using a FortiOS SSL VPN? Make Sure It Is Updated

Virtual private networks (VPNs) let remote employees securely connect to their companies’ networks. However, companies using Fortinet’s FortiOS SSL VPNs might be putting their networks at risk. Discover why using FortiOS SSL VPNs can be risky and what all companies need to do to ...

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Weekend Update

A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.

AA21-200B: Chinese State-Sponsored Cyber Operations: Observed TTPs

Original release date: July 19, 2021

Summary

This advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK®) framework, Version 9, and MITRE D3FEND™ framework, version 0.9.2-BETA-3. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise for all referenced threat actor tactics and techniques and the D3FEND framework for referenced defensive tactics ...

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Weekend Update

A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.

Many of these articles are from Bruce Schneier’s blog

New edition of The Internet Protocol Journal available for download

I’ve been reading this journal since 2002. If you are into networking, this is a must read, and is free of charge and free of advertising.

CISA Insights: Guidance for MSPs and Small- ...

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Schneier on Security, VPN

Weekend Update

A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.

The real reason for Windows 11

It’s all about security, and it’s going to be a costly upgrade — because most of us will need to buy new PCs to make it work.

Kaseya Provides Security Updates for VSA On-Premises Software Vulnerabilities

Original release date: July 12, 2021

Kaseya has released VSA version 9.5.7a for their ...

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Weekend Update

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Windows 11: Understanding the system requirements and the security benefits

Security is a big part of Windows 11, but so is delivering productivity and a good experience with all the security features turned on.

Kaseya VSA Supply-Chain Ransomware Attack

Original release date: July 2, 2021

CISA is taking action to understand and address the recent supply-chain ...

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APT, GRU, Mirai, Sandworm

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The Invention of the Typewriter

On June 24, 1868, Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for something he called a “Type-Writing Machine.” The early tech resembled a piano and had 21 keys.

Find out how Sholes’ earliest keyboard evolved into today’s universal QWERTY system (named for the first six letters in the top row of keys).