Author: Robert Timlick

Google has announced that it’s going to start blocking websites that use certificates from Entrust starting around November 1, 2024, in its Chrome browser, citing compliance failures and the certificate authority’s inability to address security issues in a timely manner.
“Over the past several years, publicly disclosed incident reports highlighted a pattern of concerning behaviors by Entrust

Union workers presented a petition calling for no cuts to benefits before the board approved a $5.5B budget.

“Stopping Oregon’s competitive slide will require a commitment by the state’s elected leaders to recognize and address the policies and culture driving it. We can’t think of a better – and more necessary – focus for the 2025 legislative session.”

Tax Foundation finds Portland has highest business taxes and second-highest top marginal rate on wage income in the country.

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Oregon city’s camping ban in a 6-3 decision.

Oregon’s Agility Robotics inked a multiyear deal with a logistics giant for commercial deployment of its humanoid robots, a first for the industry.

The North Korea-linked threat actor known as Kimsuky has been linked to the use of a new malicious Google Chrome extension that’s designed to steal sensitive information as part of an ongoing intelligence collection effort.
Zscaler ThreatLabz, which observed the activity in early March 2024, has codenamed the extension TRANSLATEXT, highlighting its ability to gather email addresses, usernames,

GitLab has released security updates to address 14 security flaws, including one critical vulnerability that could be exploited to run continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines as any user.
The weaknesses, which affect GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE), have been addressed in versions 17.1.1, 17.0.3, and 16.11.5.
The most severe of the

Security researchers have shed more light on the cryptocurrency mining operation conducted by the 8220 Gang by exploiting known security flaws in the Oracle WebLogic Server.
“The threat actor employs fileless execution techniques, using DLL reflective and process injection, allowing the malware code to run solely in memory and avoid disk-based detection mechanisms,” Trend Micro researchers Ahmed

The modern kill chain is eluding enterprises because they aren’t protecting the infrastructure of modern business: SaaS. 
SaaS continues to dominate software adoption, and it accounts for the greatest share of public cloud spending. But enterprises and SMBs alike haven’t revised their security programs or adopted security tooling built for SaaS. 
Security teams keep jamming on-prem