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CapraRAT Spyware Disguised as Popular Apps Threatens Android Users
The threat actor known as Transparent Tribe has continued to unleash malware-laced Android apps as part of a social engineering campaign to target individuals of interest. “These APKs continue the group’s trend of embedding spyware into curated video browsing applications, with a new expansion targeting mobile gamers, weapons enthusiasts, and TikTok fans,” SentinelOne security researcher…
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Indian Software Firm’s Products Hacked to Spread Data-Stealing Malware
Installers for three different software products developed by an Indian company named Conceptworld have been trojanized to distribute information-stealing malware. The installers correspond to Notezilla, RecentX, and Copywhiz, according to cybersecurity firm Rapid7, which discovered the supply chain compromise on June 18, 2024. The issue has since been remediated by Conceptworld as of June 24
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End-to-End Secrets Security: Making a Plan to Secure Your Machine Identities
At the heart of every application are secrets. Credentials that allow human-to-machine and machine-to-machine communication. Machine identities outnumber human identities by a factor of 45-to-1 and represent the majority of secrets we need to worry about. According to CyberArk’s recent research, 93% of organizations had two or more identity-related breaches in the past year. It…
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New OpenSSH Vulnerability Could Lead to RCE as Root on Linux Systems
OpenSSH maintainers have released security updates to contain a critical security flaw that could result in unauthenticated remote code execution with root privileges in glibc-based Linux systems. The vulnerability, codenamed regreSSHion, has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-6387. It resides in the OpenSSH server component, also known as sshd, which is designed to listen for…
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Google to Block Entrust Certificates in Chrome Starting November 2024
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…
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OHSU board meeting swarmed by union members
Union workers presented a petition calling for no cuts to benefits before the board approved a $5.5B budget.
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OBI CEO and board chair on Oregon’s ‘competitiveness crisis’
“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.”
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Portland’s heavy tax burden called out in new report
Tax Foundation finds Portland has highest business taxes and second-highest top marginal rate on wage income in the country.
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Oregon leaders react to Supreme Court ruling on Grants Pass camping ban
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Oregon city’s camping ban in a 6-3 decision.
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Agility Robotics inks deal with a logistic giant
Oregon’s Agility Robotics inked a multiyear deal with a logistics giant for commercial deployment of its humanoid robots, a first for the industry.
