What You Missed About the CrowdStrike Outage:: The Next Strike Might Be Linux Due to eBPF
The Other Crowdstrike Outage On July 19, 2024, a flawed update in CrowdStrike Falcon’s channel file 291 led to a…
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The State of Ransomware
Palo Alto Networks published its semi-annual report on ransomware. From the Executive Summary: Unit 42 monitors ransomware and extortion leak…
Weekly Update 413
Presently sponsored by: SentinelOne: Our agentless Offensive Security Engine automates red-teaming, without the false positives. This blog shows how. Whilst…
How a BEC scam cost a company $60 Million – Week in security with Tony Anscombe
Business email compromise (BEC) has once again proven to be a costly issue, with a company losing $60 million in…
Friday Squid Blog: The Market for Squid Oil Is Growing
How did I not know before now that there was a market for squid oil? The squid oil market has…
Unveiling Top API Vulnerabilities and Emerging Trends: Introducing the Wallarm Q2 2024 API ThreatStats™ Report
As we move through 2024, the Wallarm Research Team continues to monitor the evolving API vulnerability and threat landscape. Our…
New Windows IPv6 Zero-Click Vulnerability
The press is reporting a critical Windows vulnerability affecting IPv6. As Microsoft explained in its Tuesday advisory, unauthenticated attackers can…
NIST Releases First Post-Quantum Encryption Algorithms
From the Federal Register: After three rounds of evaluation and analysis, NIST selected four algorithms it will standardize as a…
Microsoft’s August 2024 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft fixes 10 zero days; releases fix for 90 flaws.
Microsoft released its August edition of Patch on Tuesday. In it, Microsoft addressed 90 flaws and patched 10 zero-day bugs,…
Texas Sues GM for Collecting Driving Data without Consent
Texas is suing General Motors for collecting driver data without consent and then selling it to insurance companies: From CNN:…