Month: July 2021

Cybersecurity researchers on Thursday revealed details about a new Mirai-inspired botnet called “mirai_ptea” that leverages an undisclosed vulnerability in digital video recorders (DVR) provided by KGUARD to propagate and carry out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Chinese security firm Netlab 360 pinned the first probe against the flaw on March 23, 2021, before it detected active
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In yet another instance of software supply chain attack, unidentified hackers breached the website of MonPass, one of Mongolia’s major certificate authorities, to backdoor its installer software with Cobalt Strike binaries. The trojanized client was available for download between February 8, 2021, and March 3, 2021, said Czech cybersecurity software company Avast in a report
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Facebook will provide money for an “innovation fund” for 170 regional Australian newspapers as part of a planned licensing deal, the parties said on Friday, calling the move a show of co-operation between the social media giant and local publishers. The move brings a grassroots element to a string of deals announced by Facebook in Australia
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Facebook on Tuesday revealed it filed two separate legal actions against perpetrators who abused its ad platform to run deceptive advertisements in violation of the company’s Terms and Advertising Policies. “In the first case, the defendants are a California marketing company and its agents responsible for a bait-and-switch advertising scheme on Facebook,” the social media
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NASA has shared three stunning air-to-air images of a supersonic shock wave interaction, something never seen before. The three pictures feature two T-38 Talons, piercing through the sky. Though shared on Wednesday, the pictures are from March 2019 when the American space agency successfully tested an advanced air-to-air photographic technology in flight, capturing the first-ever
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Australia’s competition watchdog said on Thursday it issued draft proposals to authorise regional newspaper industry group, Country Press Australia, to negotiate with Google](https://gadgets.ndtv.com/google) and Facebook for payments for news content on their platforms. Country Press Australia (CPA) is seeking authorisation to allow its members to hammer out a payments deal with Google and Facebook for
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Securing applications it the API-first era can be an uphill battle. As development accelerates, accountability becomes unclear, and getting controls to operate becomes a challenge in itself. It’s time that we rethink our application security strategies to reflect new priorities, principles and processes in the API-first era. Securing tomorrow’s applications begins with assessing the business
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