Cybersecurity

Stratascale acquires Vector0 to strengthen its cybersecurity services – Help Net Security

Stratascale, an SHI company, announced the acquisition of Vector0, an Attack Surface Management (ASM) provider. Through the acquisition, Stratascale professionals and their customers gain visibility of attack vectors and points of vulnerability, enhancing Stratascale’s ability to deliver proactive cybersecurity services. “Vector0 enables us to offer a comprehensive and proactive approach to Attack Surface Validation (ASV), […]

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Hong Kong crypto business Mixin says hackers stole $200 million in assets

A cryptocurrency business based in Hong Kong announced on Monday that hackers had stolen around $200 million of its assets after attacking its cloud service provider. Mixin, which describes itself as building “open source software that always puts security, privacy and decentralization first” announced the incident in a social media post. The company said that […]

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Atlassian Security Updates Patch High-Severity Vulnerabilities

Atlassian this week announced patches for four high-severity vulnerabilities impacting its Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Bamboo products. Tracked as CVE-2023-22513 (CVSS score of 8.5), the most severe of these issues is described as a remote code execution (RCE) bug in Bitbucket that could impact confidentiality, integrity, and availability. An authenticated attacker can exploit the flaw […]

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Finnish Authorities Dismantle Notorious PIILOPUOTI Dark Web Drug Marketplace

Sep 20, 2023THNCyber Crime / Dark Web Finnish law enforcement authorities have announced the takedown of PIILOPUOTI, a dark web marketplace that specialized in illegal narcotics trade since May 2022. “The site operated as a hidden service in the encrypted TOR network,” the Finnish Customs (aka Tulli) said in a brief announcement on Tuesday. “The […]

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Signal Messenger Introduces PQXDH Quantum-Resistant Encryption

Sep 20, 2023THNEncryption / Privacy Encrypted messaging app Signal has announced an update to the Signal Protocol to add support for quantum resistance by upgrading the Extended Triple Diffie-Hellman (X3DH) specification to Post-Quantum Extended Diffie-Hellman (PQXDH). “With this upgrade, we are adding a layer of protection against the threat of a quantum computer being built […]