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  1. Keeping your family safer online with Microsoft Edge and celebrating 1 year of Give with Bing

    We have lots of news this month to make the most of your time and help keep your family safer online. Today, we’re excited to unveil Microsoft Edge Kids Mode, a safer space for your child to discover the web. You can also learn more about Kids Mode by visiting Link Removed. Along with this news...
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  2. AA21-042A: Compromise of U.S. Water Treatment Facility

    Original release date: February 11, 2021 Summary On February 5, 2021, unidentified cyber actors obtained unauthorized access to the supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system at a U.S. drinking water treatment plant. The unidentified actors used the SCADA system’s software to...
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  3. AA20-304A: Iranian Advanced Persistent Threat Actor Identified Obtaining Voter Registration Data

    Original release date: October 30, 2020 Summary This advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK®) version 7 framework. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise version 7 for all referenced threat actor tactics and techniques. This joint cybersecurity advisory...
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  4. AA20-099A: COVID-19 Exploited by Malicious Cyber Actors

    Original release date: April 8, 2020 Summary This is a joint alert from the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). This alert provides information on...
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  5. AA20-010A: Continued Exploitation of Pulse Secure VPN Vulnerability

    Original release date: January 10, 2020 Summary Unpatched Pulse Secure VPN servers continue to be an attractive target for malicious actors. Affected organizations that have not applied the software patch to fix a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, known as CVE-2019-11510, can become...
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  6. Pen Testing Takes Center Stage at RSA

    Virtual pen testing can enable automated data feeds and model execution from real-time assessment inputs; simulate loss scenarios associated with attack successes; and it can be used for offline cyber resiliency testing. Continue reading...
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  7. TA18-086A: Brute Force Attacks Conducted by Cyber Actors

    Original release date: March 27, 2018 Systems Affected Networked systems Overview According to information derived from FBI investigations, malicious cyber actors are increasingly using a style of brute force attack known as password spraying against organizations in the United States and...
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  8. TA17-164A: HIDDEN COBRA – North Korea’s DDoS Botnet Infrastructure

    Original release date: June 13, 2017 | Last revised: July 07, 2017 Systems Affected Networked Systems Overview This joint Technical Alert (TA) is the result of analytic efforts between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). This alert...
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  9. Introduction: Chris Betz, new head of MSRC

    By way of introduction, I am Chris Betz, the leader of the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC). I’m stepping in to fill the shoes of Mike Reavey, who has moved on to become the General Manager of Secure Operations, still within Trustworthy Computing. Since joining the MSRC, I’ve spent...
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  10. Windows 7 INFORMATION SYSTEMS BREACHES - Hackers Claim 177K Email Addresses From Sony Pictures France Breach

    In yet another round of cyber attacks, hackers have stolen more than 177,000 emails from Sony Pictures France, ZDnet reports. The hackers say they wanted to demonstrate the sites insecurity to get them to fix their vulnerabilities. Read Full Story: Hackers Claim 177K Email Addresses from...
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  11. More Sony hack attacks; LulzSec goes after FBI affiliated site

    While Sony may have gotten its Playstation Network back online this week, other divisions of the Japanese business are still feeling hack attacks. The web site Naked Security reports that a hacker found his way into a data base at Sony Europe and took out "120 usernames, passwords (plain text)...
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  12. Is WikiLeaks engaged in 'cyber war'?

    Media outlets and a Twitter feed this week lobbed a controversial term into the public debate about cyber attacks over WikiLeaks: Link Removed the WikiLeaks' European Twitter feed declared, linking to a blog post of the same title. "WikiLeaks Cyberwar!" read a CBS blog headline. "Cyberwar...
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  13. Windows Vista Military Warns Of "Increasingly Active" Cyber Threat From China

    March 26, 2010 US Navy Admiral Robert Willard appeared appeared before the US Armed Services Committee last Thursday. He Said, "US military networks and computer systems continue to be the target of intrusions that appear to have originated from within the People's Republic Of China. Most of...
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