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Automate detection and response to website defacement with Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics

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Website defacement occurs when threat actors gain unauthorized access to a website, most commonly a public website, and replace content on the site with their own messages. In this blog post, we show you how to detect website defacement, and then automate both defacement verification and your defacement response …

Ever wonder how crooks get the credentials to unlock stolen phones?

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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A coalition of law-enforcement agencies said it shut down a service that facilitated the unlocking of more than 1.2 million stolen or lost mobile phones so they could be used by someone other than their rightful owner. The service was part of iServer, a …

Massive China-state IoT botnet went undetected for four years—until now

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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The FBI has dismantled a massive network of compromised devices that Chinese state-sponsored hackers have used for four years to mount attacks on government agencies, telecoms, defense contractors, and other targets in the US and Taiwan. The botnet was made up primarily of small office …

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