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Journalists are among the targets of state sponsored hacking and espionage

This is an interesting story from Cedric Pernet at TechRepublic looking at the types of threats and attacks faced by journalists: State-sponsored cyberespionage campaigns continue targeting journalists and media | TechRepublic It gives you an idea of the investment in time, money and technical resources state sponsored hacking groups make. …

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Ransomware victims in a searchable database for threat actors to access!

It gives the threat actors a chance to check on victim’s exploited vulnerabilities, see who pays when infected by ransomware and other useful bits of information if you plan to maximise your cyber criminal profits. Experts concerned about ransomware groups creating searchable databases of victim data – The Record by …

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As predicted Log4j is going to be a problem for a long time

The Cyber Safety Review Board is operated by The Department of Homeland Security and in it’s inaugural report the Log4j vulnerability, spread and exploitation is discussed: CSRB Report on Log4j – Public Report – July 11 2022_508 Compliant (cisa.gov) It makes interesting reading. I wonder just how many developers do …

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