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In the attack, hackers created several fake email accounts using a free Russian email service provider. They then set up a Bitbucket account with a few repositories. To evade detection, each masqueraded as a benign project using the official project documentation. Hackers then created a Docker hub with several registries. Each registry presented itself as benign, using its documentation to evade detection. The images are built on these service providers’ environments and then hijack their res...

BankInfoSecurity Compliance March 29, 2021 March 31, 2021 DougOlenick) • February 23, 2021     Get Permission A previously undetected malware variant has infected almost 30,000 Apple Macs. But researchers so far have not seen it deliver any malicious payloads to compromised endpoints, according to a new report. The malware, dubbed Silver Sparrow, is being investigated by security teams from Red Canary, Malwarebytes ...

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Images of the recent riots on Capitol Hill, in which supporters of former President Donald Trump attempted to storm the US Congress building, sent shockwaves around the world. The apparent attack on US democracy, an idea that seemed implausible until very recently, has led to significant pressure being applied to law enforcement agencies to hold those responsible to account. One avenue used by agencies such as the FBI to track down those suspected of involvement in violent acts has been to ana...

Maintain an inventory of components The most important open-source management practice that organizations should have is an inventory of which open-source components are used, and where, Mackey said. Thats particularly important because of the way many organizations obtain their open-source components, Korren said. "Very few organizations use open source directly from GitHub. A lot of them are getting a copy of the project and putting it into an internal code repository. " —Tsvi Korren Teams...

As the State of Colorado works to distribute the coronavirus vaccine state officials tell News5 they've started to receive reports of residents in our state being targeted by vaccine scams. News5 is watching out for you with what you need to know.

(Inside Science) — Until last year, website designers had a choice of just 22 Internet domains to use as suffixes at the end of URLs, excluding country-specific ones. The familiar “dot-com” and “dot-org” hail from the Reagan era, and the trickle of new domains since has usually been met with much discussion and occasionally debate or even discontent. But now, public health officials have brought up a potential concern: the use of the new "dot-health" suffix by groups that aren’t med...

Synopsys Study Shows Open Source Security Top-of-Mind but Patching Too Slow Global survey of 1,500 IT professionals finds that 40% of respondents worldwide had delivery schedules disrupted to address open source vulnerabilities MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Dec. 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today released the report, DevSecOps Practices and Open Source Management in 2020. Produced by the Synopsys Cybersecurity Research Center (CyRC), the report highlights the finding...