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Firefox introduced version 116.0 to its Release channel users on August 1, 2023. This update brings a range of features designed to improve the browsing experience. Browsing Updates If you own a …http://dlvr.it/Sts1N1

Version Uses Open-Source Communication Framework Tool for Lateral Movement Microsoft identified a new variant of BlackCat ransomware malware that uses an open-source communication framework tool to facilitate lateral movement. BlackCat, also known as Alphv, is a Russian-speaking criminal group suspected of being a successor to DarkSide and BlackMatter.http://dlvr.it/Strjlj

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ICYMI: ThreatConnect Earns High Marks as CRQ Helps CISOs Prove Return on Cyber Investment Recently acquired RiskLens edged out startup Axio and incumbent ThreatConnect for the top spot in Forrester’s first-ever cyber risk quantification rankings. Cyber risk quantification focused on theoretical methodology for about 10 years but shifted to practical applications over the past five…
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ICYMI: Cisco’s AJ Shipley on When Generative AI Is Useful and When It’s Dangerous ChatGPT set the world on fire six months ago, and since then a slew of companies have released features or products built on or around generative AI – some of them completely legitimate and some of them little more than snake…
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ICYMI: Cloud-Delivered Security Service Edge Solution Gives Efficient Hybrid Work Security Cisco Secure Access is a security service edge solution that delivers zero trust access to efficiently solve today’s challenge of safely connecting anything to anywhere and reimagines the experience to make it better for users, easier for IT and safer for everyone.http://dlvr.it/StnyVb

You’ve probably never heard of “16Shop,” but there’s a good chance someone using it has tried to phish you. A 16Shop phishing page spoofing Apple and targeting Japanese users. Image: Akamai.com. The international police organization INTERPOL said last week it had shuttered the notorious 16Shop, a popular phishing-as-a-service platform launched in 2017 that made it…
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ICYMI: Online Scans Show More Than 1,200 Patched NetScaler Devices Are Backdoored Hackers moved faster than system administrators to exploit a zero-day vulnerability in Citrix NetScaler appliances by dropping web shells that remain active even after a patch, warn Dutch security researchers. Dutch firm Fox-IT says researchers “could not discern a pattern in the targeting.”http://dlvr.it/StnjxY

ThreatConnect Earns High Marks as CRQ Helps CISOs Prove Return on Cyber Investment Recently acquired RiskLens edged out startup Axio and incumbent ThreatConnect for the top spot in Forrester’s first-ever cyber risk quantification rankings. Cyber risk quantification focused on theoretical methodology for about 10 years but shifted to practical applications over the past five years.http://dlvr.it/StlMmM

Cisco’s AJ Shipley on When Generative AI Is Useful and When It’s Dangerous ChatGPT set the world on fire six months ago, and since then a slew of companies have released features or products built on or around generative AI – some of them completely legitimate and some of them little more than snake oil.…
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