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The Hacker News Daily Updates Three Key Focus Areas for IoT Security The Virtual IoT Device Security Conference - November 9th Download Now Sponsored LATEST NEWS Oct 12, 2021 Digital Signature Spoofing Flaws Uncovered in OpenOffice and LibreOffice The maintainers of LibreOffice and OpenOffice have shipped security updates to their productivity software to remediate multiple vulnerabilities that could be weaponized by malicious actors to alter documents to make them appear as if they are digitally signed by a trusted source. The list of the ... Read More GitHub Revoked Insecure SSH Keys Generated by a Popular git Client Code hosting platform GitHub has revoked weak SSH authentication keys that were generated via the GitKraken git GUI client due to a vulnerability in a third-party library that increased the likelihood of duplicated SSH keys. As an added precautionary measure, the Microsoft-owned company also said ... Read More Microsoft Fended Off a Record 2.4 Tbps DDoS Attack Targeting Azure Customers Microsoft on Monday revealed that its Azure cloud platform mitigated a 2.4 Tbps distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in the last week of August targeting an unnamed customer in Europe, surpassing a 2.3 Tbps attack stopped by Amazon Web Services in February 2020. "This is 140 percent higher ... Read More Microsoft Warns of Iran-Linked Hackers Targeting US and Israeli Defense Firms An emerging threat actor likely supporting Iranian national interests has been behind a password spraying campaign targeting US, EU, and Israeli defense technology companies, with additional activity observed against regional ports of entry in the Persian Gulf as well as maritime and cargo ... Read More Ukraine Arrests Operator of DDoS Botnet with 100,000 Compromised Devices Ukrainian law enforcement authorities on Monday disclosed the arrest of a hacker responsible for the creation and management of a "powerful botnet" consisting of over 100,000 enslaved devices that was used to carry out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and spam attacks on behalf of paid ... Read More Three Key Focus Areas for IoT Security The Virtual IoT Device Security Conference - November 9th Download Now Sponsored This email was sent to myemailku.ghdbrevo2018@blogger.com. You are receiving this newsletter because you opted-in to receive relevant communications from The Hacker News. To manage your email newsletter preferences, please click here. Contact The Hacker News: info@thehackernews.com Unsubscribe The Hacker News | Pearls Omaxe, Netaji Subash Place, Pitampura, Delhi 110034 India