> TODAY'S SUMMARY (7 articles)
Today's cybersecurity news highlights several key trends and threats. Microsoft has made Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) containers generally available, allowing administrators to manage their use effectively. A Cisco survey indicates that most organizations require over six months to implement new security controls, with only 8% demonstrating strong defenses against evolving AI threats. Cloudflare is set to introduce post-quantum website certificates by early 2027, signaling a move towards enhancing encryption standards in anticipation of quantum computing risks. Additionally, a critical vulnerability has been identified in the Perl DBI module on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, which could allow for denial of service or code execution attacks. Lastly, discussions around AI regulation are ongoing, with tech firms agreeing to self-police development practices.
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Just a quarter of consumers are aware that scams are more common during Christmas and other sales shopping periods
Report finds serious problems in many popular devices
You might have heard about “NAT Slipstreaming” by Samy Kamkar. It’s an amazing technique that allows punching a hole in your routers firewall by just visiting a website.
The attack depends on the router having the Application Layer Gateway enabled. This gateway can be used by anyone inside your netw...
Researcher gets nearly $4000 for high severity discoveries
Unsecured Elasticsearch database reveals all
Credits Sick.Codes
Github: (https://github.com/sickcodes)
Twitter: (https://twitter.com/sickcodes)
John
Github: (https://github.com/johnjhacking) Nick Sahler
Github: (https://github.com/nicksahler)
Twitter: (https://twitter.com/tensor_bodega)
With Collaboration from:
Harold Hunt
LinkedIn: (https://w...
Houston man arrested over BEC scam exploiting sale of airplane down under
Cyber-attack exposes data of thousands of hospital patients of LSU Medical Centers
A new white paper from the NCSC explains the potential benefits of adopting a cloud-system.
Uganda Police website downed by hacking collective in the wake of Bobi Wine’s arrest
A third of consumers are more concerned about fraud due to COVID-19
Each month we publish numerous new articles and known issues to the WatchGuard Knowledge Base. Here is the new content published in October:
Articles
Where can I download Visio icons of WatchGuard devices?
WatchGuard Cloud Service Cookie Notice
Are WatchGuard products compliant with NDAA Section 88...
AWS regional centers in the US and EU were top targets for attackers
Making users more secure will also make governments angrier
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As Black Friday and Cyber Monday loom, the NCSC warns about common scam tactics
Parliament’s defenses have blocked more than 22 million this year
BLUF: TDR Outage – 30 minutes
EU – 30 November 2020 at 5PM PST
NA – 1 December 2020 at 11PM PST  Â
We have listened to your feedback and we are excited to announce that with the release of TDR 6.0.0, WatchGuard will deploy a TDR UI integrated into WatchGuard Cloud. To prepare for this, WatchGuard mu...
Club forced to shut down affected systems
Former US Army Green Beret pleads guilty to role in Russian espionage conspiracy