German politicians’ emails are under attack, and the GRU is the prime suspect. Australia’s Nine Network was knocked off the air by a cyberattack, and a nation-state operation is suspected. PHP takes steps to protect itself from an attempt to insert a backdoor in its source code. Apple fixes browser engine bugs. FatFace pays the ransom. Project Zero caught a Western counterterror operation. Betsy Carmelite from Booz Allen Hamilton on Zero Trust. Our guest is Tal Zamir of Hysolate on CISA's new ransomware guidelines. And a guilty plea for one, and almost five-hundred indictments for others.
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Cyberespionage in Germany. Australian network knocked off the air by a cyberattack. PHP shuts backdoor. Apple fixes a browser bug. FatFace pays up. Criminal charges: espionage and fraud.

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Palo Alto Networks releases hotfixes for an exploited zero-day. Delinea issues an urgent update for a critical flaw. Giant Tiger data is leaked online. A European semiconductor manufacturer deals with a data breach. Roku suffers its second breach of the year. Operators of the Hive RAT face charges.  A former Amazon security engineer gets three years in prison for hacking cryptocurrency exchanges. Zambian officials arrest 77 in a scam call center crack down. Our guest Deputy Assistant Director Cynthia Kaiser from the FBI Cyber Division describes dual ransomware. And Rob Boyce, Managing Director at Accenture, shares his thoughts on security testing of generative AI. And selling Pokemon cheats leaves one man in Japan feeling like he had a run-in with a Scaldiburn.
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Today, we have two guests, Deputy Assistant Director Cynthia Kaiser from the FBI Cyber Division discussing dual ransomware. Followed by Rob Boyce, Managing Director at Accenture, sharing some thoughts on security testing of generative AI.
Selected Reading
Palo Alto Networks Releases Fixes for Firewall Zero-Day as First Attribution Attempts Emerge (SecurityWeek)
A critical vulnerability in Delinea Secret Server allows auth bypass, admin access (Help Net Security)
Hacker claims Giant Tiger data breach, leaks 2.8M records online (Bleeping Computer)
Press statement: Nexperia IT Breach (Nexperia)
Roku issues warning over massive customer account breach (ITPro)
Two People Arrested in Australia and US for Development and Sale of Hive RAT (SecurityWeek)
Ex-Amazon engineer gets 3 years for hacking crypto exchanges (Bleeping Computer)
Zambia arrests 77 people in swoop on "scam" call centre (Bitdefender)
Japanese Police Arrest 36-Year-Old Man on Suspicion of Tampering With Pokémon Violet Save Data (IGN) 

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Hunting vulnerabilities.

You can learn more about AWS in Orbit at space.n2k.com/aws.
N2K Space is working with AWS to bring the AWS in Orbit podcast series to the 39th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs from April 8-11. 
Our guests today are ​​Clint Crosier, Director at AWS Aerospace and Satellite, and Jim Tran, Vice President of Government Solutions at Iridium.
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AWS in Orbit: Extending the resilient edge to space. [T-Minus AWS in Orbit]

Founder and CEO Stu Sjouwerman takes us on a journey of how his career developed from starting a software service company to currently focusing on the infosec side of the business where his team essentially helps to create human firewalls. Stu talks about learning all aspects of the business while creating startups and suggests you learn to speak the language of the area you are looking to get into. He even touches on predicting the future and taking over the world. Our thanks to Stu for sharing his story with us.

Encore: Stu Sjouwerman: Trying for a win, win, win game. [CEO] [Career Notes]

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AWS in Orbit: Building a resilient outernet. [T-Minus AWS in Orbit]

Tomer Peled, a Security & Vulnerability Researcher from Akamai is sharing their work on "What a Cluster: Local Volumes Vulnerability in Kubernetes." This research focuses on a high-severity vulnerability in Kubernetes, allowing for remote code execution with system privileges on all Windows endpoints within a Kubernetes cluster.
The research states "The discovery of this vulnerability led to the discovery of two others that share the same root cause: insecure function call and lack of user input sanitization."
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What a Cluster: Local Volumes Vulnerability in Kubernetes

Cyberespionage in Germany. Australian network knocked off the air by a cyberattack. PHP shuts backdoor. Apple fixes a browser bug. FatFace pays up. Criminal charges: espionage and fraud.

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