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A Sherlock Holmes Approach to Cybersecurity: Eliminate the Impossible with Exposure Validation
Sherlock Holmes is famous for his incredible ability to sort through mounds of information; he removes the irrelevant and exposes the hidden truth. His philosophy is plain yet brilliant: “When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” Rather than following every lead, Holmes focuses on the details that are…
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Dutch Police Disrupt Major Info Stealers RedLine and MetaStealer in Operation Magnus
The Dutch National Police, along with international partners, have announced the disruption of the infrastructure powering two information stealers tracked as RedLine and MetaStealer. The takedown, which took place on October 28, 2024, is the result of an international law enforcement task force codenamed Operation Magnus that involved authorities from the U.S., the U.K., Belgium,…
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U.S. Government Issues New TLP Guidance for Cross-Sector Threat Intelligence Sharing
The U.S. government (USG) has issued new guidance governing the use of the Traffic Light Protocol (TLP) to handle threat intelligence information shared between the private sector, individual researchers, and Federal Departments and Agencies. “The USG follows TLP markings on cybersecurity information voluntarily shared by an individual, company, or other any organization, when not in…
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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,…
