Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2022

“This is another step in the attacks against open source packages and open source contributors.” “We recommend checking your network traffic against the IOCs listed below and as always, encouraging contributors to use 2FA.” “Today we received reports of a phishing campaign targeting PyPI users. .

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

529 Contributor Day Attendees. 529 Contributor Day Attendees. Contributor Day. We had ample sponsor space at this event which allowed attendees easy access to learn about website security and the best practices for protecting their websites. This was the third year in a row that SiteLock sponsored #WCEU. And it worked!

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2021

The researcher John Page launched malvuln.com, the first website exclusively dedicated to the research of security flaws in malware codes. The security expert John Page (aka hyp3rlinx ) launched malvuln.com, the first platform exclusively dedicated to the research of security flaws in malware codes. ” wrote the expert.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 8, 2021

CC: @troyhunt #tweetfleet #security #workinprogress pic.twitter.com/miovu6g25q — Stefán Jökull Sigurðarson - CCP Ghostrider (@stebets) April 27, 2018 This was great work and Stefán very generously shared a heap of information about the things they learned from blocking the world's worst passwords in various blog posts.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2018

One of the flaws is caused by the ability of contributors to edit new comments from users with higher privileges. Karim El Ouerghemmi discovered that security issues allows authors to alter metadata and delete files that they normally would not be authorized to delete. Security Affairs –WordPress, security).

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2019

Threat actors targeted two high-profile PGP project contributors with the intent to poison certificates used by the SKS keyserver network. . Contributors to the PGP protocol GnuPG claim that threat actors are “poisoning” their certificates, this means that attackers spam their certificate with a large number of signatures.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 7, 2023

By John Weiler Threat Advisories and Alerts Websites Built with Elementor Pro and WooCommerce under Attack Millions of WordPress websites using the popular Elementor Pro website builder and the WooCommerce plugin have been exposed to a serious security vulnerability. based and international website administrators and contributors.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 21, 2019

When you go to secure (HTTPS) websites, the requested IP and domain are visible. LW contributor Goddy Ray is a content manager and researcher at Surfshark VPN. She’s a devoted security and privacy enthusiast with a focus on public education and communication. . Related: The Facebook factor.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 7, 2022

“This new approach protects against phishing and sign-in will be radically more secure when compared to passwords and legacy multi-factor technologies such as one-time passcodes sent over SMS,” the alliance wrote on May 5. But Bellovin said much depends on how securely such cloud systems are administered.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 15, 2021

In a post on the database leaking forum Raidforums , a regular contributor using the handle “pompompurin” said he stole the WeLeakInfo payment logs and other data after noticing the domain wli[.]design WeLeakInfo’s service fees. design was no longer listed as registered.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2021

On March 28, 2021, Astra Security Threat Intelligence Team responsibly disclosed a vulnerability in Ivory Search, a WordPress Search Plugin installed on over 60,000 sites. This security vulnerability could be exploited by an attacker to perform malicious actions on a victim’s website. immediately. Take an Astra demo today.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

The schedule included a Contributor Day (details below) and the two-day main event. Contributor Day. Moving on to the event itself, we’ll start by talking about Contributor Day which included a day of workshops and talks for those who want to contribute their time and skills to the WordPress software project. The Sessions.

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Google Security

JULY 1, 2021

Posted by Kim Lewandowski, Azeem Shaikh, Laurent Simon, Google Open Source Security Team Contributors to the Scorecards project , an automated security tool that produces a “risk score” for open source projects, have accomplished a lot since our launch last fall. Code reviews help mitigate against such attacks.

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Google Security

APRIL 26, 2023

Bob Callaway, Staff Security Engineer, Google Open Source Security team Last week the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) announced the release of SLSA v1.0 , a framework that helps secure the software supply chain. government, as well as the Network and Information Security (NIS2) Directive in the European Union.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2023

Early this month, Poland’s security agency warned of pro-Russian hackers that are continuously targeting the state since the start of the invasion of Ukraine. The security agency reported the case of the November attack on the Polish parliament that was attributed to the pro-Russian group NoName057(16). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Print out a bunch and hand them out at conferences or during security talks or wherever else you like, just enjoy them and socialise them. Thank you everyone who's been a part of this journey from the supporters to the contributors to the pwned. I've got 2 requests for this and the first is to simply share generously.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Is it fair to judge an organization’s information security posture simply by looking at its Internet-facing assets for weaknesses commonly sought after and exploited by attackers, such as outdated software or accidentally exposed data and devices? the security posture of vendor partners). ENTIRELY, CERTIFIABLY PREVENTABLE.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

sudo is a program for Unix-like computer operating systems that allows users to run programs with the security privileges of another user, by default the superuser. The latest security patches released by Apple on Monday doesn’t fix the flaw. The Sudo contributors addressed the flaw with the release of the 1.9.5p2 version.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2019

Last week many developers reported several problems with the installer and PureScript contributor Harry Garrood found malicious code in its npm installer. The post The npm installer for PureScript package has been compromised appeared first on Security Affairs. He begrudgingly did so.” ” wrote Garrood. “The 0.13.2

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

It’s an exploit in OpenSSL, a type of security that protects a user’s communications with a website (the s in https) and around half a million secure web servers may have been affected. It was discovered just recently by a security firm. If you host a website, make sure you apply the security update. It’s a very big deal.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

Security researchers said the fix for the remote execution flaw found in Microsoft Internet Explorer should top the patching list for security pros following Patch Tuesday yesterday. This is why least privilege accounts and not browsing the internet as an admin are so vital to staying secure.”.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Security researcher Alvaro Muñoz recently warned of a critical vulnerability in versions 1.5 “It’s natural and expected for developers to make mistakes while developing code, especially open source maintainers and contributors for whom this is not a full-time job,” he said. through 1.9 of Apache Commons Text.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 23, 2021

A researcher with email security solutions vendor Abnormal Security found a threat actor directly emailing employees of a company urging them to release the ransomware into a company computer or Windows server in return for 40 percent – about $1 million – of the expected $2.5 million ransom the company would pay.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

A Connecticut man who’s earned bug bounty rewards and public recognition from top telecom companies for finding and reporting security holes in their Web sites secretly operated a service that leveraged these same flaws to sell their customers’ personal data, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The Twitter account @phobia, a.k.a.

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Kali Linux

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

To access these wallpapers, simply install the kali-community-wallpapers package, which also offer many other stunning backgrounds created by our community contributors. Make sure to either grab weekly image or Kali 2024.1! This is when anyone can ask questions (hopefully relating to Kali or the information security industry) to us.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2020

Its contributors and developers confirmed that it will be no longer maintained and it will be definitively removed from the WordPress repository. The post 100,000 WordPress sites using the Contact Form 7 Datepicker plugin are exposed to hack appeared first on Security Affairs. Other attacks recently observed are: Jan.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 5, 2022

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the federal organization responsible for creating security standards. Air Force’s first Chief Software Officer, and Zulfikar Ramzan , CTO of RSA Security. Tetrate also provides free passes , on request, to application security professionals who need the $35 fee waived.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Notably, EvilProxy also supports phishing attacks against Python Package Index (PyPi) : The official software repository for the Python language (Python Package Index (PyPI)) has been recently said (last week) that project contributors were subject to a phishing attack that attempted to trick them into divulging their account login credentials.

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Google Security

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Security: There has been a reduction in memory safety vulnerabilities as we shift more development to memory safe languages. These components are often foundational in nature (for example, the bootloader, which establishes the trust for the rest of the system), thus they must be secure.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 30, 2021

So, like much of the rest of the world, the team is moving its code to GitHub: While investigation is still underway, we have decided that maintaining our own git infrastructure is an unnecessary security risk, and that we will discontinue the git.php.net server. In short, you’re likely fine. As for the attack itself?

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Kali Linux

MAY 29, 2023

All of that work was done by long-time i3 user and Kali contributor, Arszilla , and we’re really thankful for that. When using kali-tweaks , altering OpenSSL security will now have an effect for Python based libraries as well! Quick off the mark from previous 10 year anniversary , Kali Linux 2023.2 is now here.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

I spoke to many people this weekend about motivation behind the move from PHP theming to Twig, and everyone agreed it was mainly for security reasons: too many developers were performing insecure database queries in the themes, resulting in vulnerable Drupal installations. Drupal 8 includes a huge move to the Twig PHP Templating Engine.

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BH Consulting

JUNE 8, 2021

Professor Ciaran Martin, former head of the UK National Cyber Security Centre, told RTE’s Prime Time: “What Ireland has suffered is pretty unique. A considered piece from Professor Simon Woodworth of Cork University argued that the HSE was victim of a perfect storm of attacker behaviour and historical underinvestment in security and IT.

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IT Security Guru

APRIL 1, 2021

Between August 2020 and February 2021, “the agencies”, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), National Security Agency (NSA) and National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) had all published final or preliminary (beta) guidance for Zero Trust (ZT) that is applicable to all sizes of organisations. The Research.

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Jane Frankland

OCTOBER 1, 2021

” His statement couldn’t be truer and as I chaired the European Security Forum 2021 in London this week, I was amazed at how the theme of unlearning what we know glued together (figuratively speaking) all the other speakers’ presentations. Who your target hires are, what competencies they hold, what they want and value?

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Those predictions form Kaspersky Security Bulletin (KSB), an annual project lead by Kaspersky experts. The contributors include representatives from government institutions: H.E. Dr.Mohamed Al Kuwaiti (UAE Cyber Security Council) , and public organizations: Kubo Ma? Vladimir Dashchenko , Security Evangelist, Kaspersky.

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Google Security

AUGUST 29, 2023

Posted by Hamzeh Zawawy and Jon Bottarini, Android Security Fuzzing is an effective technique for finding software vulnerabilities. This effort has directly resulted in improved test coverage, fewer security/stability bugs, and higher code quality. A patch for this CVE has been applied by the service team.

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