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Why API Security is Crucial in Defending Against Ransomware Attacks

| | API security, Application Security, AppSec, Noname Security, Ransomware
APIs often play a key role in a ransomware attack, making their security an important part of a ransomware defense strategy ...
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‘Incompetent’ FCC Fiddles With Data Breach Rules

| | breach notification, Data Breach Notification, data breach notification laws, fcc, FCC Failures, FCC Follies, FCC privacy rules, Federal Communications Commission, GDPR Breach Notification, Jessica Rosenworcel, SB Blogwatch, U.S. Federal Communications Commission
FCC FAIL: While Rome burns, Federal Communications Commission is once again behind the curve ...
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An electric toothbrush (that’s not part of a DDoS botnet)

‘Total Bollocks’ — No, Your Toothbrush isn’t DDoS’ing

| | botnet, Botnet Attack, botnets, Consumer IoT, ddos, DDoS attack, DDoS botnet, Fortinet, Inc., Internet of things, Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Things (IoT) Security, Internet of Things cyber security, iot, IoT botnet
PR FAIL: Were 3 million toothbrushes hacked into a botnet? Or does a Fortinet spokeschild have egg on his face? ...
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, with superimposed text: “C# is dead”

Microsoft Ditches C# for Rust: M365 Core Gets Safety and Perf Boosts

| | dotnet, m365, memory safe, memory safe language, Microsoft, rust, SB Blogwatch
C# — Rust in peas: Microsoft 365 “Core Platform Substrate” gets rewrite in Rust language ...
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A caricature of FBI head Christopher Wray, with superimposed text, “low blows against civilians are part of China's plan”

FBI Warning: China Will Hack US Infra. (via Router Botnet)

| | BRONZE SILHOUETTE, china, Chinese Communists, chinese government, chinese hacker, Chinese hackers, Chinese Threat Actors, election cybersecurity, FBI Director Christopher Wray, Peoples Republic of China, PRC, SB Blogwatch, Volt Typhoon
a/k/a BRONZE SILHOUETTE: FBI head Wray won’t tolerate China’s “real-world threat to our physical safety.” ...
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A caricature of Russian president-for-life Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, with superimposed text “no .ru for you”

Russian Internet Outage: DNSSEC Oops or Ukraine Hack?

| | dns, DNS Attacks, DNS hijack, DNS hijacking, DNSSEC, Russia, Russia Exodus, Russia-Ukraine, russia-ukraine conflict, Russia's War on Ukraine, russian, Russian Cyber War, SB Blogwatch
It was DNS. It’s always DNS: Government ministry denies hackers hacked its network infrastructure ...
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A Mercedes hood ornament

‘Extremely serious’ — Mercedes-Benz Leaks Data on GitHub

| | Compromised Credential, compromised credentials, credential, Credential Compromise, Credential Hunting, credential loss, credential management, Credential Monitoring, Credential Storage, Germany, git, GitHub, GitHub repositories, GitHub repository, GitHub Security Best Practices, Mercedes-Benz, SB Blogwatch
Oh, Lord: My friends all hack Porsches—I must make amends ...
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Rafi Ton

Malicious AdTech Spies on People as NatSec Targets

| | adtech, Advertising and AdTech, bidding, foreign adtech, google, Google advertising, national security, Nuviad, Patternz, Rafi Ton, SB Blogwatch, security service
Targeted ads target targets: Patternz and Nuviad enable potentially hostile governments to track individuals by misusing ad bidding ...
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Protect AI Chainguard supply chain Early in the Kill Chain

Protect AI Unveils Gateway to Secure AI Models

| | AI models, Artificial Intelligence, gateway, Guardian, LLMs, Protect AI
Protect AI's Guardian gateway enforces security policies to prevent malicious code from executing within an artificial intelligence (AI) model ...
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Volodymyr “Bob” Diachenko

‘Mother of all Breaches’ Leaks — 26 BILLION Records from 12TB Open Bucket

| | , bob diachenko, Breach, MOAB, mother of all breaches, SB Blogwatch
Less MOAB, more NOW: Researchers discover unsecured database of stolen personal information ...
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