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News Week Ending May 29, 2022
Spring4Shell Botnet Flawby Artie Kaye The Spring4Shell Java exploit is currently being used to help propagate the Mirai botnet. Mirai targets Linux-based network devices to infect, adding them to the botnet. These bots can be deployed to obfuscate where an attack originated from by channeling the commands through an infected device. Spring4Shell currently affects Spring…
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News Week Ending May 22, 2022
New Cybercrime Reporting Rulesby Artie Kaye Reporting cybercrimes is going to be mandatory for specific entities in the near future thanks to the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022. The basics of this are that if your company falls under the umbrella of this law, it will be required to report certain…
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News Week Ending May 15, 2022
Pro-Ukraine Protestwareby Artie Kaye An open source contributor modified dependency files they developed. The modifications were to cause damage to Russian computers. The altered dependencies were only uploaded for less than a day, however, another modified file was added shortly after, with a non-malicious message added. In recent months there has been an increased focus…
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News Week Ending May 8, 2022
Global Privacy Controlby Artie Kaye A little over a decade ago, the Do Not Track header was proposed as something which would prevent websites from tracking personal information online. It wasn’t well implemented and gradually died off. The concept, however, stayed alive. Global Privacy Control is an updated concept in the same vein that is…
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News Week Ending May 1, 2022
Discord Phishingby Artie Kaye Discord is a program used by many to keep in touch on phones or PC. Because of how Discord runs on these devices, malicious people have found methods of gaining access to other people’s devices through links and images sent over the program. Usually, there will be a claim for a…