Advice on security, from Washington, DC and Washington State. The Predator Files have bad news on privacy. Notes on the hybrid war. And LoveGPT is not your soulmate.

Published: Oct. 6, 2023, 8:15 p.m.

b"NSA and CISA release a list of the ten most common misconfigurations along with Identity and access management guidelines. The Predator Files. Cyber cooperation between Russia and North Korea. Hacktivist auxiliaries hit Australia. Hacktivists and hacktivist auxiliaries scorn the application of international humanitarian law. The direction of Russian cyber operations. Dave Bittner speaks with Andrea Little Limbago from Interos to talk about geopolitics, cyber and the C-suite. Rick Howard talks with John Hultquist, Chief Analyst at Mandiant, at the mWISE 2023 Cybersecurity Conference about cyber threat intelligence. And, finally, adventures in catphishing: \\u201cLoveGPT.\\u201d\\n\\nFor links to all of today's stories check out our CyberWire daily news briefing:\\nhttps://thecyberwire.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/12/192\\n\\nSelected reading.\\nNSA and CISA Release Advisory on Top Ten Cybersecurity Misconfigurations (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA)\\nCISA and NSA Release New Guidance on Identity and Access Management (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA)\\nMicrosoft Digital Defense Report 2023 (Microsoft)\\nPredator Files | EIC (European Investigative Collaborations)\\nMeet the \\u2018Predator Files,\\u2019 the latest investigative project looking into spyware (Washington Post)\\nNORTH KOREA\\u2013RUSSIA SUMMIT : A NEW ALLIANCE IN CYBERSPACE? - CYFIRMA (CYFIRMA)\\xa0\\nAustralia\\u2019s home affairs department hit by DDoS attack claimed by pro-Russia hackers (the Guardian)\\xa0\\nPro-Russia hacktivist group targets Australian government agencies over support for Ukraine (Cyberdaily.au)\\xa0\\nHome Affairs, Administrative Appeals Tribunal websites hit by cyber attacks (SBS News)\\xa0\\n\\u2018War has no rules\\u2019: Hacktivists scorn Red Cross\\u2019 new guidelines (Record)\\xa0\\nEspionage fuels global cyberattacks (Microsoft On the Issues)\\xa0\\nLoveGPT: How \\u201csingle ladies\\u201d looking for your data upped their game with ChatGPT (Avast Threat Labs)"