Would-be hitman busted after being fooled by parody website

Categories: News

Tags: Josiah Ernesto Garcia

Tags: Air National Guard

Tags: Air Guard

Tags: Pentagon leak

Tags: murder-for-hire

Tags: hired gun

Instead of using his time and military training for good, 21-year-old Josiah Garcia decided to become a hired gun—and failed in an epic way.

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Update now, there’s a Chrome zero-day in the wild

Categories: News

Tags: chrome

Tags: browser

Tags: update

Tags: vulnerability

Tags: CVE

Tags: exploit

Tags: exploitation

Tags: zero-day

Users of Chrome should ensure they’re running the latest version to patch an integer overflow in the Skia graphics library.

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Getting started with the CDMC framework—Microsoft’s guide to cloud data management

Credit to Author: Christine Barrett| Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2023 16:00:00 +0000

Learn how Cloud Data Management Capabilities (CDMC) certification can build trust with your customers and provide a standard for data governance and controls for managing sensitive data at scale.

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Microsoft Entra delivers 240 percent ROI, according to new Forrester study

Credit to Author: Matt Thomas| Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2023 16:00:00 +0000

Learn why Microsoft Entra delivers 240-percent ROI—get key benefits and real-world learnings from adopters across the financial, high-tech, and manufacturing sectors.

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FTC tackles tech support scams by chasing payment processor firms

Categories: News

Tags: ftc

Tags: tech support scam

Tags: scammers

Tags: payment processor

Tags: fine

Tags: visa

Tags: chargeback

We take a look at a story involving the FTC going head to head with a payment processor caught up in tech support scam allegations.

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Fancy Bear known to be exploiting vulnerability in Cisco routers

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities

Categories: News

Tags: APT28

Tags: Sofacy

Tags: Fancy Bear

Tags: GRU

Tags: Cisco

Tags: CVE–2017-6742

Tags: SNMP

Tags: Jaguar Tooth

A joint advisory about a Cisco vulnerability by several US and UK agencies gives us a peek inside the minds of ideologically motivated cybercriminals

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ViperSoftX Updates Encryption, Steals Data

Credit to Author: Don Ovid Ladores| Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

We observed cryptocurrency and information stealer ViperSoftX evading initial loader detection and making its lure more believable by making the initial package loader via cracks, keygens, activators, and packers non-malicious. We also noted more sophisticated encryption and basic anti-analysis techniques, such as byte remapping and web browser communication blocking.

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