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Ransomware gangs recruit pen testers to improve attack reliability Threat actors employ pen testers to improve ransomware effectiveness Threat actors are recruiting pen testers to test and improve...
Alleged intrusion spotted in June Chinese government cyberspies Volt Typhoon reportedly breached Singapore Telecommunications over the summer as part of their ongoing attacks against critical...
Also updates bug bounty program with $1M payout In June, Apple used its Worldwide Developer Conference to announce the creation of the Private Cloud Compute platform to run its AI Intelligence...
A security flaw impacting the Wi-Fi Test Suite could enable unauthenticated local attackers to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. The CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) said the...
Members of the North Korean hacker group Lazarus posing as recruiters are baiting Python developers with coding test project for password management products that include malware. [...]
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new set of malicious Python packages that target software developers under the guise of coding assessments. "The new samples were tracked to GitHub...
Needless to say, it backfired in a big way University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) students may be relieved to hear that an emailed warning about a staff member infected with the Ebola virus...
In what will likely be one of many class-action complaints against the embattled IT security firm, a retirement association has accused CrowdStrike, its CEO George Kurtz, and CFO Burt Podbere of defrauding it and fellow shareholders by making false and misleading statements about the biz's Falcon endpoint defense software. CrowdStrike and its top execs "Repeatedly touted the efficacy of the Falcon platform while assuring investors that CrowdStrike's technology was 'validated, tested, and certified,'" the Plymouth County Retirement Association's lawsuit [PDF], filed this week in Texas federal court, reads.
CrowdStrike has blamed a bug in its own test software for the mass-crash-event it caused last week. Rapid response content is delivered in those channel files as so-called "Template instances," which CrowdStrike describes as "Instantiations of a given template type." Thus, the rapid response content relies on template code defined by the base sensor content, and each piece of this response content is a template instance.
Something called 'Content Validator' did not validate the content, and the rest is history CrowdStrike has blamed a bug in its own test software for the mass-crash-event it caused last week.…