AppSec

Prisoner Swap: Huge Russian Hackers Freed — Seleznev and Klyushin

Richi Jennings | August 2, 2024 | cyber attacks russia, Putin, Roman Seleznev, Russia, russia hacker, russia-based, Russian hacker, Russian hackers, Russian hacking, SB Blogwatch, Vladimir Putin, Vladislav Klyushin

Pragmatic politics: Anger as Putin gets back two notorious cybercriminals ...

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David Boies, founding partner and chairman of Boies Schiller Flexner, LLP

CrowdStrike Sued? — Delta Dials David Boies

Richi Jennings | July 31, 2024 | CrowdStrike, CrowdStrike Falcon, CrowdStrike incident;, Delta Airlines, falcon, SB Blogwatch

Is Delta the First of Many? Airline calls in attorneys Boies Schiller Flexner to claw back its cash ...

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WTH? Google Auth Bug Lets Hackers Login as You

Richi Jennings | July 29, 2024 | G Suite, Google Apps, Google Apps for Work, Google Workspace, OAuth, oauth 2.0, oauth abuse, Oauth Application Abuse, SB Blogwatch, securing oauth

G Suite Sours: Domain owners flummoxed as strangers get Google for their domains ...

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CrowdStrike Admits it Doesn’t ‘Canary’ Test all Updates

Richi Jennings | July 24, 2024 | canary deployment, CrowdStrike, CrowdStrike Falcon, CrowdStrike Falcon XDR, Downtime and outages, outage, Outage Investigation, SB Blogwatch

Corporate incompetence: Beleaguered security firm issues initial post-mortem on Friday’s faux pas ...

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EFF Angry as Google Keeps 3rd-Party Cookies in Chrome

Regulatory capture by stealth? Google changes its mind about third-party tracking cookies—we’re stuck with them for the foreseeable ...

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A Microsoft Windows “blue screen of death”

Global Outage Outrage: CrowdStrike Security Tool Blamed

Richi Jennings | July 19, 2024 | azure, Azure cloud, cloud outage, CrowdStrike, CrowdStrike Falcon, CrowdStrike Falcon XDR, Downtime and outages, m365, Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 (365), Microsoft 365 outage, Microsoft 365 service outage alert, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure Security, outage, Outage Investigation, SB Blogwatch

BSODs beyond belief: A buggy update to CrowdStrike Falcon made Windows PCs and servers crash—worldwide ...

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Squarespace Hacked — DeFi Wallets Drained (Imaginary Money Stolen)

Richi Jennings | July 16, 2024 | API exploit, blockchain, Crypto, cryptocurrencies, cryptocurrency, cryptocurrency exchange, DeFi, domain hijacking, Google Domains, imaginary money, Ponzi scheme, SB Blogwatch, smart contract, Smart Contract Security, smart contracts, Squarespace, Web3

DeFAIL: Cryptocurrency fans lose their worthless tokens via phishing attacks on decentralized finance sites ...

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‘Blast-RADIUS’ Critical Bug Blows Up IT Vacation Plans

Richi Jennings | July 10, 2024 | blast radius, collision-based-hashing-algorithm-disclosure, CVE-2024-3596, hash, hash algorithms, hash function, hash functions, Man In The Middle, man in the middle attack, man in the middle attacks, maninthemiddleattacks, md5 hash, men-in-the-middle attack, mitm, MitM Attack, mitm attacks, RADIUS, SB Blogwatch

MD5 MITM Muddle: Ancient, widely used protocol has CVSS 9.0 vulnerability ...

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Biggest Ever Password Leak — but is ObamaCare’s RockYou2024 Really NEW?

Richi Jennings | July 9, 2024 | credentials, Cybersecurity, Malware, ObamaCare, Passkeys, passwords, rockyou2021, RockYou2024, SB Blogwatch

Credential crunch: Ten billion plain-text passwords in a file—sky falling or situation normal? ...

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A ballet dancer sitting with her head in her hands

‘Polyfill’ Supply Chain Threat: 4x Worse Than We Thought

Richi Jennings | July 5, 2024 | App Sec & Supply Chain Security, AppSec & Supply Chain Security, CloudFlare, Funnull, Javascript, Modern Software Supply Chains, Open Source and Software Supply Chain Risks, open source software supply chain, open source software supply chain security, polyfill, SB Blogwatch, secure software supply chain, software supply chain attack, software supply chain attacks, software supply chain hygiene, software supply chain risk, Software Supply Chain risks, Supply-Chain Insecurity

Spackle attack: Chinese company takes over widely used free web service—almost 400,000 websites at risk ...

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AppSec

Senator Sanders Wants to Own AI Companies — and Hand America’s Adversaries the Keys

NIST’s Nine: The PQC Signature Race Moves to Round Three

The Quantum Arms Race: Why Washington Just Wrote a $2 Billion Check to Nine Companies

Beyond Moore’s Law: The Hyper-Acceleration of Autonomous AI Cyber Capabilities

The Exception Economy: When Security Teams Stop Protecting and Start Negotiating

GoPlus’s Latest Report Highlights How Blockchain Communities Are Leveraging Critical API Security Data To Mitigate Web3 Threats

C2A Security’s EVSec Risk Management and Automation Platform Gains Traction in Automotive Industry as Companies Seek to Efficiently Meet Regulatory Requirements

Zama Raises $73M in Series A Lead by Multicoin Capital and Protocol Labs to Commercialize Fully Homomorphic Encryption

RSM US Deploys Stellar Cyber Open XDR Platform to Secure Clients

ThreatHunter.ai Halts Hundreds of Attacks in the past 48 hours: Combating Ransomware and Nation-State Cyber Threats Head-On