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Microsoft Warns of Surge in Cyber Attacks Targeting Internet-Exposed OT Devices
Microsoft has emphasized the need for securing internet-exposed operational technology (OT) devices following a spate of cyber attacks targeting such environments since late 2023. “These repeated attacks against OT devices emphasize the crucial need to improve the security posture of OT devices and prevent critical systems from becoming easy targets,” the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team…
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Beyond Threat Detection – A Race to Digital Security
Digital content is a double-edged sword, providing vast benefits while simultaneously posing significant threats to organizations across the globe. The sharing of digital content has increased significantly in recent years, mainly via email, digital documents, and chat. In turn, this has created an expansive attack surface and has made ‘digital content’ the preferred carrier for…
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Russian Hackers Target Europe with HeadLace Malware and Credential Harvesting
The Russian GRU-backed threat actor APT28 has been attributed as behind a series of campaigns targeting networks across Europe with the HeadLace malware and credential-harvesting web pages. APT28, also known by the names BlueDelta, Fancy Bear, Forest Blizzard, FROZENLAKE, Iron Twilight, ITG05, Pawn Storm, Sednit, Sofacy, and TA422, is an advanced persistent threat (APT) group…
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OpenAI, Meta, and TikTok Crack Down on Covert Influence Campaigns, Some AI-Powered
OpenAI on Thursday disclosed that it took steps to cut off five covert influence operations (IO) originating from China, Iran, Israel, and Russia that sought to abuse its artificial intelligence (AI) tools to manipulate public discourse or political outcomes online while obscuring their true identity. These activities, which were detected over the past three months,…
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Here are Oregon’s Best Places to Work
These Oregon and southwest Washington companies are crushing it leadership, culture, benefits, perks and more.
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Alaska Airlines buys building on Pacific NW property for training facility
The 173-acre campus in Renton was once the regional headquarters of Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
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OHSU, Legacy Health board chairs and President Jacobs on why the merger makes sense
“It was very organic,” Board Chair Charles Wilhoite said.
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Here are PBJ readers’ favorite new restaurants of 2024
We revealed PBJ readers’ favorite local restaurants last week. These are their 15 favorite new places.
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Kali Thorne Ladd, Joth Ricci on how Preschool for All supports local employers
The local executives
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CISA Alerts Federal Agencies to Patch Actively Exploited Linux Kernel Flaw
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a security flaw impacting the Linux kernel to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. Tracked as CVE-2024-1086 (CVSS score: 7.8), the high-severity issue relates to a use-after-free bug in the netfilter component that permits a local attacker to elevate…
