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The feature will roll out publicly with iOS 17.4 in March and is already available in beta.

Mozilla released security updates to address vulnerabilities in Firefox, Firefox ESR, and Thunderbird. A cyber threat actor could exploit one of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the following Mozilla Security Advisories and apply the necessary updates: MFSA 2024-05 for Firefox MFSA 2024-06 for Firefox ESR MFSA 2024-07 for Thunderbird

Today, CISA, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released the joint fact sheet Top Cyber Actions for Securing Water Systems. This fact sheet outlines the following practical actions Water and Wastewater Systems (WWS) Sector entities can take to better protect water systems from malicious cyber activity and provides actionable guidance to implement concurrently: Reduce Exposure to the Public-Facing Internet Conduct Regular Cybersecurity Assessments Change Default Passwords Immediately Conduct an Inventory of Operational Technology/Information Technology Assets Develop and Exercise Cybersecurity Incident Response and Recovery Plans Backup OT/IT Systems Reduce Exposure to Vulnerabilities Conduct Cybersecurity Awareness Training CISA, EPA, and FBI urge all WWS Sector and critical infrastructure organizations to review the fact sheet and implement the actions to improve resilience to cyber threat activity. Organizations can visit cisa.gov/water for additional sector tools, information, and resources.

If there are too many “cooks” in the cloud security kitchen, here’s a six-step roadmap for simplifying the operation.

Iran has taken a page from the Russian playbook: Passing off military groups as civilians for the sake of PR and plausible deniability.

The Internet Archive is a well-known and much-admired institution, devoted to creating a “digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form”[ 1]. On its “WayBackMachine” website, which is hosted on https://archive.org/, one can view archived historical web pages from as far back as 1996. The Internet Archive basically functions as a memory for the web, and currently holds over 800 billion web pages as well as millions of books, audio and video recordings and other content… Unfortunately, since it allows for uploading of files by users, it is also used by threat actors to host malicious content from time to time[ 2, 3].