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Westpac ramps up generative AI ambitions

Podcast: Targets 1000 engineering users by year’s end.
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Spam or Phishing? Looking for Credentials & Passwords, (Sun, Oct 29th)

We are now at the end of the Cybersecurity Awareness month, it is important to remain digitally safe all year round [1][2][3].
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Week in review: VMware patches critical vulnerability, 1Password affected by Okta breach

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: GOAD: Vulnerable Active Directory environment for practicing attack techniques Game of Active Directory (GOAD) is a free pentesting lab. It provides a vulnerable Active Directory environment for pen testers to practice common attack methods. “Disappearing” implants, followed by first fixes for exploited Cisco IOS XE zero-day Cisco has released the first fixes for the IOS XE zero-day (CVE-2023-20198) exploited by … More → The post Week in review: VMware patches critical vulnerability, 1Password affected by Okta breach appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Certain online games use dark designs to collect player data

The privacy policies and practices of online games contain dark design patterns which could be deceptive, misleading, or coercive to users, according to a new study.
http://news.poseidon-us.com/Sy4Cl6

Size Matters for Many Security Controls, (Sat, Oct 28th)

This week, I'm teaching FOR610 in Manchester, and while my students are busy resolving some challenges, I'm looking at my hunting results from the previous days. I found an interesting sample. The file was delivered via an email with a URL pointing to a well-known file-sharing service: hxxps://www[.]Mediafire[.]com/file/o3m15ydxnhlm9w0/New+Purchase+Order+pdf.tgz/file. The file is not available anymore, but I was able to find it back on VirusTotal: “New Purchase Order pdf.tgz” (SHA256:7f351b32e6209496ef59c511dffaf9312508b53e476b1e77171af3d433b94087[1]) with a low score of 3/54.
http://news.poseidon-us.com/Sy4C4z

Several Navy PEOs put personnel first in modernization efforts

The Navy is solidifying the importance of customer experience. For example, its Program Executive Office for Manpower, Logistics and Business Solutions is making its customer experience feedback pilot program permanent in the coming months.
http://news.poseidon-us.com/Sy3Fpp

OMB evolving FedRAMP to better address software-as-a-service needs

Drew Myklegard, the deputy federal chief information officer, said the draft memo to update FedRAMP creates a new oversight board and promotes agencies from similar sectors working together approve cloud services.
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