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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 12, 2023
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=> ↺ US cyber body to review cloud computing safety, Microsoft breach
-A U.S. cyber safety body will review issues relating to cloud-based identity and authentication infrastructure that will include an assessment of a recent Microsoft breach that led to the theft of emails from U.S. government agencies, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said on Friday.
The review by the Cyber Safety Review Board will look at the malicious targeting of cloud computing environments, the DHS said in a statement.
"Organizations of all kinds are increasingly reliant on cloud computing to deliver services to the American people, which makes it imperative that we understand the vulnerabilities of that technology," DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in the statement.
=> ↺ UK cybersecurity firm NCC makes second round of job cuts this year
NCC Group, a UK cybersecurity firm with more than 14,000 customers, has confirmed it more staff are to lose their jobs, after it cut 125 roles in February.
=> ↺ This week in global cybercrime: twin takedowns by Interpol and FBI
The evidence that cybercrime has gone global was doubly reinforced this week with news of two independent takedowns of criminals behind the 16shop and Lolek Hosting operations, both used as sources of automated tools for various malware attacks.
=> ↺ Intel's Downfall Mitigations Drop Performance Up to 39%, Tests Show
Linux publication Phoronix evaluates the performance impact of Downfall mitigations on different Intel processors.
=> ↺ AMD and Intel CPU security bugs bring Linux patches
Two new chip vulnerabilities, AMD Inception and Intel Downfall, forced Torvalds to push out Linux security fixes.
=> ↺ Show me All Your Windows!, (Fri, Aug 11th)
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