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Weekend Update

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

DevSecOps tutorial: What is it, and how can it improve application security?

Dr. David Brumley, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and CEO of ForAllSecure, explains what DevSecOps is and how companies can use it to improve application security by designing security in from the start. Read interview…

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careers, compliance, cybersecurity, Software vulnerability, Weekend Update

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Porn blast disrupts bail hearing of alleged Twitter hacker

An alleged hacker’s bail hearing held online via Zoom with screen sharing enabled… what could possibly go wrong? Well, damn near everything as it turns out. Maybe IT needs to help these judges learn how Zoom works?

Weekend Update

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

AA20-209A: Potential Legacy Risk from Malware Targeting QNAP NAS Devices

Original release date: July 27, 2020

CISA and NCSC are investigating a strain of malware known as QSnatch, which attackers used in late 2019 to target Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices manufactured by the firm QNAP.

All QNAP NAS devices are potentially vulnerable to QSnatch malware if not ...

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AA20-198A: Malicious Cyber Actor Use of Network Tunneling and Spoofing to Obfuscate Geolocation

Original release date: July 16, 2020

This Activity Alert uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK™) and Pre-ATT&CK frameworks. See the MITRE ATT&CK for Enterprise and Pre-ATT&CK frameworks for referenced threat actor techniques.

Attributing malicious cyber activity that uses network ...

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account hijacking, News and politics, passwords, Phishing, social engineering, surveillance, TOR, Weekend Update

ICS, SCADA, spoofing, tunneling, VPN

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Finally – Your Tax Dollars At Work Doing Something Useful for Small Business Owners

JFTC Releases Article on Protecting Small Businesses from Cyber Threats

Original release date: July 13, 2020

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has released an article on their Protecting Small Business playlist, which is a collection of videos with tips for ...

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CISA Releases Securing Industrial Control Systems: A Unified Initiative

Original release date: July 7, 2020

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released its five-year industrial control systems (ICS) strategy: Securing Industrial Control Systems: A Unified Initiative. The strategy—developed in collaboration with industry and government partners—lays out CISA’s plan to improve, unify, ...

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Computers and Internet, cybersecurity, Linux, social networks, Web Design, Weekend Update

China, DNS, ICS, Microsoft, SCADA, Twitter

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Maersk, me & notPetya

A great post and a must read by Gavin Ashton. If you are tasked with Identity and Access Management, you at least have to read the Do the Basics section at the end of the article.

Maersk is the world’s largest integrated shipping and container logistics company. I was ...

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cloud computing, cloud services, Maersk, nonPetya, pen-testing, penetration testing, Sandworm, VPN

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Happy Independence Day

This is the day we celebrate our liberation from the King of England and the British Empire. The United States was founded through civil disobedience and even warfare against a government that some considered oppressive and unfair. Consider this: if the British crown had won, the “founding fathers” would have been considered terrorists, and hanged. Your terrorists ...

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Bogus Security Technology: An Anti-5G USB Stick

[2020.05.29] The 5GBioShield sells for £339.60, and the description sounds like snake oil:

…its website, which describes it as a USB key that “provides protection for your home and family, thanks to the wearable holographic nano-layer catalyser, which can be worn or ...

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It’s Hard to be a Hero – Marcus Hutchins, “the guy the saved the Internet” from WannaCry

At 22, he single-handedly put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen. Then he was arrested by the FBI. This is his untold story. A longer article by Andy Greenberg of Wired. Definitely worth the ...

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Identity Theft, ransomware, Web Design, Weekend Update, Windows 10, WordPress

chatbot, Marcus Hutchins, mobile banking apps