Threat Source newsletter (Aug. 22)

Threat Source newsletter (Aug. 22)
Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw.

Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week.

A lot of people may think that cyber insurance is this new, unexplored field that carries a lot of questions. But did you know that these policies have actually been around since Y2K fever? There are many more misconceptions about these policies, so we aimed to clear some of these up with this cyber insurance FAQ.

If you came out and saw us at DEFCON, chances are you got your hands on our super sweet badges. Unfortunately, there were a few small bugs, but we have a step-by-step guide that shows you how to fix those problems, and we walk through how to set it up to get your own Digispark clone.

This was also a busy week for vulnerabilities. Our discovery of several bugs in Google’s Nest camera has made headlines, since an attacker could use these to leak sensitive information. We also have a breakdown of multiple remote code execution vulnerabilities in different Aspose APIs.

We also have our weekly Threat Roundup, which you can find on the blog every Friday afternoon. There, we go over the most prominent threats we’ve seen (and blocked) over the past week.

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