#credentials

#credentials

Vulnerabilities in Netgear's NMS300 ProSAFE network management system allow attackers to retrieve cleartext credentials and escalate privileges, cybersecurity firm Flashpoint reports.The tool provides users with a web-based interface for network device management.It uses TCP port 8080 for communication and supports administrator accounts and lower-privileged operator and observer account roles.

A Russian espionage group tracked as Nomadic Octopus has been observed spying on Tajikistan's high ranking government officials, public service infrastructures, and telecoms services, likely by infiltrating a mobile phone carrier, cyber threat intelligence company Prodaft reports.Active since at least 2014 and also referred to as DustSquad, Nomadic Octopus is known for the targeting of individuals and diplomatic entities in Central Asia, mainly in Afghanistan and former Soviet Union countries.

A Chinese APT actor tracked as Evasive Panda has been observed targeting in-country members of an international non-governmental organization (NGO) with the MgBot backdoor, and the malware was likely delivered through the legitimate update channels of popular Chinese software, cybersecurity firm ESET reports.

TikTok offers a font of information at the swipe of your finger, with creators claiming authority on topics from home improvement and hair care to parenting and medicine.Even taxes aren't immune from the TikTok effect: Short videos sharing advice for how to hack your taxes are abundant on the app, and videos under #taxtips have more than 185.3 million views.

When managing the architecture of our system, we often deal with sensitive data.It's our job to ensure they don't fall into the wrong hands.An excellent example of confidential information is the database password and the Json Web Token secret key.In this article, we explore how we can use the AWS Secrets Manager to increase the security of our NestJS application.

Microsoft has already seen millions of phishing emails sent every day by attackers using this phishing kit.Learn how to protect your business from this AitM campaign.New research from Microsoft's Threat Intelligence team exposed the activities of a threat actor named DEV-1101, which started advertising for an open-source phishing kit to deploy an adversary-in-the-middle campaign.

M anchester United vs Aston Villa LIVE!Old Trafford is the setting for an intriguing Premier League clash between two high-flying teams this afternoon.Manchester United are 14 games unbeaten at home in the top-flight and can take a giant step towards Champions League qualification with a win here, though saw the momentum gained from their FA Cup semi-final shootout win over Brighton dented by carelessly throwing away a two-goal lead at Tottenham on Thursday night.

https://gitlab.com/honeyryderchuck/httpxhttpx 0.23.0 has been released.HTTPX.get("https://gitlab.com/honeyryderchuck/httpx") HTTPX is an HTTP client library for the Ruby programming language.Among its features, it supports:


HTTP/2 and HTTP/1.xprotocol versions
Concurrent requests by default
Simple and chainable API
Proxy Support (HTTP(S), CONNECT tunnel, Socks4/4a/5)
Simple Timeout System
Lightweight by default (require what you need)


And also:


Compression (gzip, deflate, brotli)
Streaming Requests
Authentication (Basic Auth, Digest Auth, AWS Sigv4)
Expect 100-continue
Multipart Requests
Cookies
HTTP/2 Server Push
H2C Upgrade
Automatic follow redirects
International Domain Names
GRPC
Circuit breaker
WebDAV
Datadog integration
Faraday integration
Webmock integration
Sentry integration


Here are the updates since the last release:
0.23.0 Features :retries plugin: resumable requests
The :retries plugin will now support scenarios where, if the request being retried supports the range header, and a partial response has been already buffered, the retry will resume from there and only download the missing data.

Back in December 2022, PayPal didn't suffer a data breach, but nearly 35,000 of its customers had their accounts accessed by an unauthorized party over the course of three days.Wait a minute, I hear you say; why isn't that a PayPal data breach, then?It's a tricky one, truth be told, but the account access didn't happen as a result of any compromise of PayPal security systems.

Data synced between devices with the new Google Authenticator app update could be viewed by third parties.Google says the app works as planned.On April 25, security researchers Tommy Mysk and Talal Haj Bakry, who are known collectively on Twitter as Mysk, warned users of Google's Authenticator 2FA app to not turn on a new syncing feature.

A Cl0p ransomware operator affiliated with the FIN11 and TA505 threat actors has been exploiting recently patched PaperCut vulnerabilities since April 13, Microsoft says.Impacting the PaperCut MF/NG print management system and tracked as CVE-2023-27350 (CVSS score of 9.8), the issue can be exploited to bypass authentication and achieve remote code execution (RCE) with System privileges.

GPTZero can tell you whether a document, report or other item was possibly written by a human or by AI.Here's a step-by-step guide on using GPTZero for this purpose.With the popularity of ChatGPT, many people are starting to rely on AI to generate emails, documents, reports and other content that they would normally have tried to write on their own.

Former Vice President Mike Pence, seemingly in his element as he addressed a gathering of evangelical Christians in Iowa this month, was speaking of the greatest honor of my life, serving in an administration that turned this country around by rebuilding the military, securing the southern border, and unleashing American energy.

The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation is scheduled to vote on President Joe Biden's pick to lead the Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday morning marking a consequential moment for the embattled nominee and the agency, which is attempting to address a slew of major challenges.

Suspected Chinese spies have exploited a critical Fortinet bug, and used custom networking malware to steal credentials and maintain network access, according to Mandiant security researchers.Fortinet fixed the path transversal vulnerability in FortiOS, tracked as CVE-2022-41328, earlier this month.

It doesn't matter whether they're for your Kindle or in print - starting this week, Amazon will no longer sell print or digital newspaper and magazine subscriptions.Publishers were alerted to the coming change in December, and subscribers were notified last week.(If you have any of these subscriptions, you can see the timing for how they'll be phased out; you won't lose money.)

Last month, I listened to my former colleagues on Slate's Political Gabfest podcast discuss Nikki Haley after she declared her run for president.John Dickerson, also of CBS News, explained that in a pre-Donald Trump world, you could make a strong case about Haley's credentials for the job: She comes from an important primary state.

It won't end the pronounced shortage of physicians that's plaguing many parts of Canada.But the Canadian Medical Association has an idea that it thinks might help.Image Applying for a medical license in another province is costly and time-consuming.Credit...Jackie Dives for The New York Times Its proposal seems simple: a single medical license that allows doctors to practice without restrictions anywhere in the country.

Boston-based data lake analytics company Starburst today announced an integration with transformation tool dbt Cloud to help users of the platform build data pipelines spanning multiple data sources via one central plane.The integration, which is now live as a dedicated adapter inside dbt Cloud, connects to Starburst's SaaS offering Starburst Galaxy.

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This feature is in public preview.We are proud to announce that Service Principals and Managed Identities can now be used to authenticate with Azure DevOps.For those who have not heard of them before, these Azure Active Directory identities enable teams to gain access to your Azure DevOps organizations acting as their own application, not as a human user or service account.

Google this week announced that it has obtained a court order that helped it disrupt the CryptBot information stealer's distribution.Initially designed to harvest and exfiltrate sensitive information such as credentials, cryptocurrency wallets, and more, CryptBot was also seen distributing banking trojans.

Hey everyone 👋!If you have been living under a rock and have no idea what envio is, check out another article that I wrote:
After that article envio went from 0 to 245 stars on github!With the release of version v0.2.0, envio now includes a new envio launch subcommand that makes it even easier to manage your environment variables.

Last month, LastPass, a password management firm, made headlines by revealing that one of their DevOps engineers had a personal home computer hacked and implanted with keylogging malware, which subsequently led to the exfiltration of corporate data from the vendor's cloud storage resources.The story shines a rare spotlight on the importance of endpoint resilience.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency (CISA), and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) this week issued an alert on the LockBit 3.0 ransomware operation.Since January 2020, LockBit has functioned based on the ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model, targeting a broad range of businesses and critical infrastructure entities and using a variety of tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).

The National Security Agency (NSA) this week published guidance to help system operators mature identity, credential, and access management (ICAM) capabilities to improve their cyberthreat protections.Immature ICAM capabilities pose a risk to critical infrastructure, national security, and defense industrial base (DIB) systems, but improvements can be made by integrating zero trust principles and designs into enterprise networks.

"I got this recruitment letter from a high-tech company that said, 'We're particularly interested in you as a female thought leader'," Radia Perlman, fellow for Dell Technologies and inventor of Spanning Tree Protocol, told the 2023 Everywoman in Tech Forum."I wasn't interested in the job, so I didn't reply," she said.

Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm declared at South By Southwest that climate change is an existential crisis and the U.S. can learn from China.During an exchange with Wajahat Ali at the multi-day Texas event, Granholm made an excited pitch for people to attend an upcoming talk by her on climate change.

Public proof-of-concept exploits have landed for bugs in Netgear Orbi routers - including one critical command execution vulnerability.The four vulnerabilities are found in Netgear's Orbi mesh wireless system, including its main router and the satellite routers that extend WiFi networks.Cisco Talos researchers disclosed these bugs to Netgear on August 30, 2022.

Malwarebytes warns of a remote code execution vulnerability impacting several Arris routers, for which proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code has been released.Tracked as CVE-2022-45701, the bug exists because the router firmware does not properly neutralize special characters in requests, which allowed security researcher Yerodin Richards to perform shell script command injection.

The Premium Ethical Hacking Certification Bundle features eight courses that introduce students to the fundamentals and prepare them to earn important credentials from CompTIA.The threat of a cyber attack is always looming, so experts advise companies to bolster their IT security budgets on the regular.

Education"A deep sense of belonging and well-being in a very rich academic environment that leads to well-paying jobs and careers that make a difference in the community.That's the magic formula," Marten says."And we want to see that replicated everywhere."The Brooklyn STEAM Center hosted the U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education Cindy Marten Wednesday morning, offering her a glimpse of what can be done when education and industry leaders work together to develop the kind of vocational training - also known as Career Technical Education (CTE) - that quickly leads to well-paying jobs for high school graduates.