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Week in review: VMware ESXi servers under attack, ChatGPT’s malicious potential, Reddit breached

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: While governments pass privacy laws, companies struggle to change In this Help Net Security interview, Bill Tolson, VP of Compliance and eDiscovery at Archive360, discusses how organizations should ensure privacy is built into the design process, cybersecurity investments for better privacy, and much more. North Korea targets US, South Korean hospitals with ransomware to fund further cyber operations US and … More → The post Week in review: VMware ESXi servers under attack, ChatGPT’s malicious potential, Reddit breached appeared first on Help Net Security.
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PCAP Data Analysis with Zeek, (Sun, Feb 12th)

Having full packet captures of a device or an entire network can be extremely useful. It is also a lot of data to go through and process manually. Zeek [1] can help to simplify network traffic analysis. It can also help save a lot of storage space. I'll be going through and processing some PCAP data collected from my honeypot. First, we need to install a couple tools to process the PCAP data. I started with a fully updated Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS desktop [2]. The steps to get our Zeek data from raw PCAPs will be:
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The Biden administration has a new challenge emerging for the second half of the term

Political appointees often leave an administration after the first two years. The pace of departures from the Biden administration at two years is happening at a quickening pace.
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Pentagon turns to digital engineering in shift toward ‘great power competition’

After two decades of counterterrorism missions, the Defense Department is shifting its attention to “great power competition.” DoD’s approach to engineering is also changing as it looks to upgrade its systems, integrate old with new, and have more resilience in the face of both cyber and kinetic attacks. DoD is now emphasizing the use of digital engineering to modernize its systems for the potential “near-peer” fight.
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Defense Industrial Base loses thousands more firms, mainly because DoD is a tough customer

More than 17,000 companies left the Defense Industrial Base over the past five years, according to an annual assessment by one of the Defense industry’s main trade associations.
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Top cybersecurity M&A deals for 2023

Uncertainty and instability marked the end of 2022 for many in the tech sector, a trend that bled into the beginning of 2023. Following on the heels of a drought in IT talent came mass layoffs at many of the world’s biggest tech companies as predictions of recession loomed and war in Ukraine dragged on with no end in sight. Global concern over cybersecurity has never been higher, with attacks coming fast and furious and in ever-growing numbers, and 65% of organizations planned to increase cybersecurity spending in 2023. That means CISOs may be pressured to do more with what they have as budgets shrink even as demand for security increases. And they should be aware of what could change if one of their vendors is acquired in this climate. To read this article in full, please click here
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SecuriThings Managed Service Platform secures physical security devices

SecuriThings announced a new Managed Service Platform for the physical security space that enables managed service providers to manage, visualize and maintain customer environments from a single pane of glass. Organizations across the globe invest extensively in buying and installing fleets of physical security devices – often across multiple sites, countries and continents. These assets require regular maintenance to stay operational, compliant and secure from cyber attacks: from password rotations and firmware upgrades, to general … More → The post SecuriThings Managed Service Platform secures physical security devices appeared first on Help Net Security.
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The long-running FedRAMP program for cloud computing just became law

The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, known as FedRAMP, is supposed to make it easier for agencies to use commercial cloud computing. FedRAMP, as policy, has been around for a dozen years, but only became law at the end of last year.
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