DevSecOps

Election Security: Here’s What We Should Really Be Worried About
Rather than buying into unfounded claims of how fragile our election technology is, perhaps we should recognize its proven strengths and focus on improving from there ...
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Apple Enrages IT — 45-Day Cert Expiration Fury
Richi Jennings | | 90-day certificates, 90-day TLS certificate validity, Apple, Apple Safari, browser, Browser Security, CA/B Forum, CA/Browser Forum, CAB Forum, certificate, Certificate and Key Lifecycle Management, Certificate and Key Management, Certificate Automation, mobile safari, Safari, SB Blogwatch, Sectigo
CA/B testing: Ludicrous proposal draws ire from “furious” systems administrators ...
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(In)Fidelity Admits Data Breach 8 Weeks Ago — 77K PII Lost
Richi Jennings | | Access control, Access control and Identity Management, access control issues, Access Controls, and Access Control in Security+, asset management, Authentication, authorization, Banking/Fintech, broken access controls, cloud data access control, cybersecurity access controls, cybersecurity in fintech, data access control, Fidelity Investments, Fintech, fintech industry, fintech sector, improper access control, SB Blogwatch
FMR FAIL: Huge investment firm won’t say how it was hacked ...
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Biggest Ever DDoS is Threat to OT Critical Infrastructure
Richi Jennings | | Analyzing DDoS Attacks, application-layer DDoS attacks, Cloudflare DDoS Protection, Critical Infrastructure, critical infrastructure attack, critical infrastructure attacks, Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month, cyber attack on critical infrastructure, ddos, DDoS amplification, DDoS attack, distributed denial of service, Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, distributed denial of service attack, ICS, ICS/SCADA systems, industrial control systems, Infrastructure, iot, operational technologies, operational technology, operational technology security, OT, SB Blogwatch, US critical infrastructure
Egyptian River Floods: Operational technology (OT) targeted in “world record” 3.8 Tb/s distributed denial of service (DDoS) ...
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Kia’s Huge Security Hole: FIXED (Finally)
Richi Jennings | | Car Dealer, connected car security, Connected Cars, connected vehicle, Connected Vehicles, connected-car, Consumer IoT, Internet of things, Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Things (IoT) Security, Internet of Things cyber security, iot, Kia, Korea, SB Blogwatch, South Korea, southkorea
Connected cars considered crud: Kia promises bug never exploited. But even 10-year-old cars were vulnerable ...
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CrowdStrike Gets Grilled By U.S. Lawmakers Over Faulty Software Update
In what has become an annual ritual between Silicon Valley and the Beltway, a House subcommittee pressed a tech company over a glitch. And the company promised to do better. During a ...
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E2EE is MIA in iPhone/Android Chat — GSMA Gonna Fix it
Richi Jennings | | android, Apple, Apple iOS, Apple iPhone, china, E2EE, end-to-end, end-to-end encryption, google, Great Firewall of China, GSMA, iChat, imessage, ios, iOS 18, iPhone, iphone security, MLS, RCS, RCS protocol, SB Blogwatch, SMS, SMS messages
No More Barf-Green Bubbles? GSM Association is “excited” to bring Apple and Google closer together, but encryption is still lacking ...
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Russian ‘WhisperGate’ Hacks: 5 More Indicted
Richi Jennings | | Cadet Blizzard, Ember Bear, Frozenvista, GRU, GRU Unit 29155, NATO, NATO Member State, Ransomware, Russian GRU, SB Blogwatch, UAC-0056, Ukraine, ukraine conflict, Ukraine Cyber Attacks, Ukraine Cyber War, Ukraine cyberattack, Ukraine-Russia War, UNC2589, WhisperGate Wiper
Eaten by a GRU: Fake ransomware created by Russian GRU Unit 29155 attacked Ukraine and NATO—a month before the full scale invasion ...
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Yikes, YubiKey Vulnerable — ‘EUCLEAK’ FIDO FAIL?
Richi Jennings | | CVE-2024-45678, ECDSA, EUCLEAK, FIDO, FIDO2, Infineon, Passkeys, SB Blogwatch, YSA-2024-03, Yubikey
USB MFA SCA😱: Infineon hardware and software blamed for timing side-channel attack on popular auth tokens ...
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‘Terrorgram’ Telegram Terrorists Trash Transformers — Grid in Peril
Richi Jennings | | Anti-Terrorism, Child Abuse, child exploitation, Child Online Safety, child porn, child pornography, Child protection, Child Safety, child sexual exploitation, childpornography, Counter-Terrorism, counterterrorism, CSAM, Data encryption, E2EE, encryption, end-to-end encryption, extremism, france, ICS, ICS/SCADA systems, Pavel Durov, Privacy, Russia, SB Blogwatch, Telegram, Telegram app, Terrorgram, Terrorism, terrorist, terrorist attack, Terrorist attacks
Should’ve listened to Edison: After the arrest of Pavel Durov—the Telegram CEO—comes news of domestic extremists using the chat app to organize ...
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