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New Research Reveals Spectre Vulnerability Persists in Latest AMD and Intel Processors
More than six years after the Spectre security flaw impacting modern CPU processors came to light, new research has found that the latest AMD and Intel processors are still susceptible to speculative execution attacks. The attack, disclosed by ETH Zürich researchers Johannes Wikner and Kaveh Razavi, aims to undermine the Indirect Branch Predictor Barrier (IBPB)…
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Updated Oct. 24: Nov. 5 General Election: Early turnout results for Hood River, Wasco, Klickitat and Skamania counties
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Postcards sent ahead of Nov. 5 election
Columbia Gorge Women’s Action Network (CGWAN) sponsored a postcard writing project this fall through Progressive Turnout Project, the largest voter contact organization in the country, using research-backed tactics to rally voters. The local campaign involved writing postcards to voters to…
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Senior Living: Braver Angels works to bridge political divide
Are you tired of all the attack ads — she said this, he did that — and you don’t know who to trust? Thankfully in two weeks, all the campaigning will be over and we’ll know whether our candidates won…
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Nov. 5 General Election: Oregon House District 52
Nick Walden Poublon
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Nov. 5 General Election: The Dalles City Council
Dan Richardson and Debra Liddell Gomez
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Russian RomCom Attacks Target Ukrainian Government with New SingleCamper RAT Variant
The Russian threat actor known as RomCom has been linked to a new wave of cyber attacks aimed at Ukrainian government agencies and unknown Polish entities since at least late 2023. The intrusions are characterized by the use of a variant of the RomCom RAT dubbed SingleCamper (aka SnipBot or RomCom 5.0), said Cisco Talos,…
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Researchers Uncover Cicada3301 Ransomware Operations and Its Affiliate Program
Cybersecurity researchers have gleaned additional insights into a nascent ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) called Cicada3301 after successfully gaining access to the group’s affiliate panel on the dark web. Singapore-headquartered Group-IB said it contacted the threat actor behind the Cicada3301 persona on the RAMP cybercrime forum via the Tox messaging service after the latter put out an
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5 Ways to Reduce SaaS Security Risks
As technology adoption has shifted to be employee-led, just in time, and from any location or device, IT and security teams have found themselves contending with an ever-sprawling SaaS attack surface, much of which is often unknown or unmanaged. This greatly increases the risk of identity-based threats, and according to a recent report from CrowdStrike,…
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SideWinder APT Strikes Middle East and Africa With Stealthy Multi-Stage Attack
An advanced persistent threat (APT) actor with suspected ties to India has sprung forth with a flurry of attacks against high-profile entities and strategic infrastructures in the Middle East and Africa. The activity has been attributed to a group tracked as SideWinder, which is also known as APT-C-17, Baby Elephant, Hardcore Nationalist, Leafperforator, Rattlesnake, Razor…
