Securing Open Source
Sisense Hacked: CISA Warns Customers at Risk
Richi Jennings | | Amazon Web Services (AWS), aws, AWS access keys, AWS bucket, cisa, CISA Advisories, CISA Advisory, CISA Alert, CISA warning, CISA.gov, depth, NSA/CISA, Sangram Dash, SB Blogwatch, Sisense
A hard-coded credential catastrophe: The analytics firm kept big companies’ secrets in an insecure AWS bucket. Government says victims include the “critical infrastructure sector.” ...
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FCC: Phone Network Bugs Must Be Fixed — But are SS7/Diameter Beyond Repair?
Richi Jennings | | Big Telecom, carrier, Carriers, Diameter, digital telecom, fcc, FCC Failures, FCC Follies, FCC privacy rules, Federal Communications Commission, Federal Government, Location, location access risks, location data, Location data privacy, location history, location intelligence, location privacy, location sharing location tracking, location tracking, mobile carrier, mobile carrier vulnerability, Mobile carriers, Mobile Location Tracking, Mobile Tracking, Phone Carrier, RADIUS, roaming, Ron Wyden, SB Blogwatch, Sen. Ron Wyden, Smartphone Location Tracking, ss7, telco, Telecom, Telecom Cybersecurity, Telecom Industry, Telecom Industry Vulnerabilities, telecommunications, Telecommunications Security, telephone, telephones, U.S. Federal Communications Commission, wireless carrier
Fast enough for government work: The Federal Communications Commission is finally minded to do something about decades-old vulnerabilities ...
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Chrome’s Incognito Mode Isn’t as Private as You Think — but Google’s Not Sorry
Richi Jennings | | adtech, Advertising, Advertising and AdTech, adverts, breach of privacy, browser, browser abuse, Chrome, cookie, Cookie Consent, cookieconsent, cookies, customer privacy, Data Privacy, FLEDGE, FLoC, GOOG, google, Google Ad, Google AdSense, Google advertising, Google Chrome, Google Chrome Security, Incognito, Incognito Mode, Link History, Privacy, Privacy Sandbox, SB Blogwatch, Topics, tracking cookies, web cookie
Short term gain for long term pain? Class action attorney David Boies asked for $5,000 per user, but got nothing—except some assurances Google will delete data it no longer needs ...
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PyPI Goes Quiet After Huge Malware Attack: 500+ Typosquat Fakes Found
Richi Jennings | | code reuse, open source software supply chain security, PyPI, PyPI malicious packages, pypi vuln, pypi vulnerability, python, Python Malware, Python Packages, Python vulnerability, SB Blogwatch, secure software supply chain, software supply chain, software supply chain attack, software supply chain attacks, software supply chain hygiene, Software supply chain management, software supply chain risk, Software Supply Chain risks, software supply chain security, Software Supply Chain Security Risks, Software Supply Chain Security Weaknesses, typosquat, Typosquatting, typosquatting attacks
Emergency stop button: The Python Package Index was drowning in malicious code again, so they had to shut down registration for cleanup ...
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China Steals Defense Secrets ‘on Industrial Scale’
Richi Jennings | | china, china espionage, China-linked Hackers, Chinese, Chinese Communists, chinese government, chinese hacker, Chinese hackers, Chinese Intelligence, Chinese state-sponsored hacking group, Chinese Threat Actors, ConnectWise, ConnectWise Vulnerabilities, CVE-2022-0185, CVE-2022-3052, CVE-2023-22518, CVE-2024-1709, Data Stolen By China, Dawn Calvary, f5, F5 BIG-IP, F5 BIG-IP vulnerability, Genesis Day, gov.uk, Mandiant, MSS, MSS Hackers, Peoples Republic of China, PRC, PRC Espionage, SB Blogwatch, ScreenConnect, Teng Snake, uk, UNC302, UNC5174, Uteus, Xiaoqiying
UNC5174 ❤ UNC302: CVSS 10 and 9.8 vulnerabilities exploited by Chinese threat actor for People’s Republic ...
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Apple M-Series FAIL: GoFetch Flaw Finds Crypto Keys
Richi Jennings | | Apple, apple bug, Apple Data Security, apple hack, apple hacker, Apple iOS, Apple iPad, ARM, cache, dmp, GoFetch, iPad, M1, M2, M3, Macintosh, macos, SB Blogwatch
GoFAIL: Researchers worm their way into broken cache-filling microcode in most Macs and iPads ...
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EPA and White House Raise Alarm on Water Cybersecurity
Richi Jennings | | Critical Infrastructure, critical infrastructure assets, critical infrastructure attack, Critical Infrastructure Cyber security, Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, Drinking Water, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, ICS, operational technologies, OT, public water systems, SB Blogwatch, wastewater, water, water distribution systems, Water industry, water infrastructure, White House
Iran and China fingered: Biden admin. chides governors: Water infra. lacks “even basic cybersecurity precautions.” ...
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Google Splashes the Cash in Bug Bounty Bonanza: $59 Million to Date
Richi Jennings | | alphabet, bounty, bug bounty, bug bounty program, bugbounty, ethical hacker, ethical hackers, ethical hacking, google, SB Blogwatch, Vulnerability Rewards Program (VRP), white hat, white hat hacker, white hat hackers, White Hat Security, White Hats, WhiteHat, whitehat hackers, WhiteHat Security
Wanna be a VRP VIP? Last year, $GOOG paid $10 million to ethical hackers for finding vulnerabilities ...
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GitHub Fights Forks — Millions of Them — Huge Software Supply Chain Security FAIL
Richi Jennings | | Apiiro, App Sec & Supply Chain Security, AppSec & Supply Chain Security, dependency confusion, dependency confusion attacks, GitHub, github application security, github bug, GitHub Exploit, GitHub repositories, GitHub Security Measures, github security scanning, GitHub Security Vulnerabilities, Open Source and Software Supply Chain Risks, open source software supply chain, open source software supply chain security, repo confusion, SB Blogwatch, secure software supply chain, software supply chain, software supply chain attack, software supply chain attacks, software supply chain automation, software supply chain hygiene, software supply chain risk, Software Supply Chain risks, software supply chain security, Software Supply Chain Security Weaknesses, supply chain, supply chain security, Supply-Chain Insecurity
Forking hell: Scrotebots clone thousands of projects, injecting malware millions of times ...
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CNCF Graduates Falco Project to Improve Linux Security
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced today that Falco, an open source tool for defining security rules in Linux environments, has officially graduated ...
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