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Dell warns of “incident” that may have leaked customers’ personal info

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Enlarge (credit: Getty ) For years, Dell customers have been on the receiving end of scam calls from people claiming to be part of the computer maker’s support team. The scammers call from a valid Dell phone number, know the customer's name and address, and use information that should …

How to enforce a security baseline for an AWS WAF ACL across your organization using AWS Firewall Manager

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Most organizations prioritize protecting their web applications that are exposed to the internet. Using the AWS WAF service, you can create rules to control bot traffic, help prevent account takeover fraud, and block common threat patterns such as SQL injection or cross-site scripting (XSS). Further, for those customers managing …

Critical vulnerabilities in BIG-IP appliances leave big networks open to intrusion

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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Researchers on Wednesday reported critical vulnerabilities in a widely used networking appliance that leaves some of the world’s biggest networks open to intrusion. The vulnerabilities reside in BIG-IP Next Central Manager, a component in the latest generation of the BIG-IP line of appliances, which …

Ransomware mastermind LockBitSupp reveled in his anonymity—now he’s been ID’d

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Enlarge / Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev, aka LockBitSupp (credit: UK National Crime Agency) Since at least 2019, a shadowy figure hiding behind several pseudonyms has publicly gloated for extorting millions of dollars from thousands of victims he and his associates had hacked. Now, for the first time, “LockBitSupp” has been unmasked …

Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose

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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Researchers have devised an attack against nearly all virtual private network applications that forces them to send and receive some or all traffic outside of the encrypted tunnel designed to protect it from snooping or tampering. TunnelVision, as the researchers have named their attack, largely …

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