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Are you, the customer, the one paying the ransomware demand?

Ransomware payments may have greater implications than you thought – and not just for the company that gave in to the attackers’ demands

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Health authorities in 40 countries targeted by COVID‑19 vaccine scammers

Fraudsters impersonate vaccine manufacturers and authorities overseeing vaccine distribution efforts, INTERPOL warns

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Nearly 2 million records from terrorist watchlist exposed online

The secret list was exposed online for three weeks, allowing anyone to access it without any kind of authentication

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Dumpster diving is a filthy business

One man’s trash is another man’s treasure – here’s why you should think twice about what you toss in the recycling bin

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Week in security with Tony Anscombe

How IISpy spies on its victims and stays under the radar – IISerpent tampers with search engine results – How to avoid falling prey to ransomware

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Examining threats to device security in the hybrid workplace

As employees split their time between office and off-site work, there’s a greater potential for company devices and data to fall into the wrong hands

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AllStar: Continuous Security Policy Enforcement for GitHub Projects

Posted by Mike Maraya, Google Open Source Security Team 

As an active member of the open source software (OSS) community, Google recognizes the growing threat of software supply chain attacks against OSS we use and develop. Building on our efforts to improve OSS security with an end-to-end framework (SLSA), metrics (Scorecards), and coordinated vulnerability disclosure (guide), we are excited to announce Allstar.


Allstar is a GitHub app that continuously enforces security policy settings through selectable automated enforcement actions. Allstar is already filing and closing security issues for Envoy and GoogleContainerTools, with more organizations and repositories lined up. 

See the OpenSSF announcement for more information on Allstar.




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IISerpent: Malware‑driven SEO fraud as a service

The last in our series on IIS threats introduces a malicious IIS extension used to manipulate page rankings for third-party websites

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Deepfakes – the bot made me do it

As fraud involving highly believable synthetic media soars, what can you do to avoid getting scammed?

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Ransomware runs rampant, so how can you combat this threat?

A new paper explains how ransomware has become one of the top cyberthreats of the day and how your organization can avoid becoming the next victim

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