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NBN Co challenged on size of ARPU increases from fibre customers

As ACCC makes draft ruling on costs.
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Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the REST API and web UI of Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC) could allow an authenticated, low-privileged, remote attacker to perform a command injection attack against an affected device.   This vulnerability is due to improper user authorization and insufficient validation of command arguments. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by submitting crafted commands to an affected REST API endpoint or through the web UI. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the CLI of a Cisco NDFC-managed device with network-admin privileges.   Note: This vulnerability does not affect Cisco NDFC when it is configured for storage area network (SAN) controller deployment. Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability. This advisory is available at the following link: https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ndfc-cmdinj-UvYZrKfr Security Impact Rating: Critical CVE: CVE-2024-20432
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Pondurance MDR Essentials uses autonomous SOC to tackle AI-driven attacks

Pondurance announced MDR Essentials, MDR Essentials, an MDR service providing an autonomous SOC that reduces the time from threat detection to containment by 90%. Threat actors today use AI to attack at machine-speed, making it difficult for traditional cybersecurity solutions to accurately detect and contain cyber threats before they can become breaches. A recent paper from PwC notes that “in AI-driven SOCs, threats can be blocked in seconds, autonomously.” Pondurance’s MDR Essentials with the Kanati … More → The post Pondurance MDR Essentials uses autonomous SOC to tackle AI-driven attacks appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Amazon sends AI agents into pen testing and DevOps

Amazon’s latest AI capabilities bring on-demand penetration testing through the AWS Security Agent, alongside the AWS DevOps Agent. “These agents are changing the way we secure and operate software. AWS Security Agent compresses penetration testing timelines from 2-6 weeks to 1-2 days. AWS DevOps agent gives teams 3–5x faster incident resolution so they can spend less time on incident resolution and more time innovating”, said Swami Sivasubramanian, VP, AI Amazon Web Services. AWS Security Agent … More → The post Amazon sends AI agents into pen testing and DevOps appeared first on Help Net Security.
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