Troy Hunt
DECEMBER 1, 2019
It's summer! Yes, I know it's back to front for many of you but Dec 1 means it's sunnier than ever here. Regardless, this week I've been at DDD in Brisbane, written my 10 year old son Ari and I running kids coding clubs in Oslo (cold) and London (rainy) next month and the Swiss gov being on-boarded onto HIBP. Plus there's this week's sponsor IVPN and how tracking ain't tracking (that may be a bit of an old Aussieism ).
Adam Levin
DECEMBER 30, 2019
2020 seems to be getting off to an inauspicious start with the compromise of the home addresses of prominent UK citizens–many of them in lines of work that could make them targets for crime. The UK Cabinet Office issued an apology after a data leak that involved the exact addresses (including house and apartment numbers) of more than 1,000 New Year Honours recipients.
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Krebs on Security
DECEMBER 7, 2019
A Colorado company that specializes in providing IT services to dental offices suffered a ransomware attack this week that is disrupting operations for more than 100 dentistry practices, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Multiple sources affected say their IT provider, Englewood, Colo. based Complete Technology Solutions (CTS), was hacked, allowing a potent strain of ransomware known as “Sodinokibi” or “rEvil” to be installed on computers at more than 100 dentistry businesses
Schneier on Security
DECEMBER 26, 2019
Interesting story of how a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group is bypassing the RSA SecurID two-factor authentication system. How they did it remains unclear; although, the Fox-IT team has their theory. They said APT20 stole an RSA SecurID software token from a hacked system, which the Chinese actor then used on its computers to generate valid one-time codes and bypass 2FA at will.
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How many people would you trust with your house keys? Chances are, you have a handful of trusted friends and family members who have an emergency copy, but you definitely wouldn’t hand those out too freely. You have stuff that’s worth protecting—and the more people that have access to your belongings, the higher the odds that something will go missing.
The Last Watchdog
DECEMBER 31, 2019
Physical security is the protection of personnel and IT infrastructure (such as hardware, software, and data) from physical actions and events that could cause severe damage to an organization. This includes protection from natural disasters, theft, vandalism, and terrorism. Related: Good to know about IoT Physical security is often a second thought when it comes to information security.
Tech Republic Security
DECEMBER 30, 2019
If you find port 80 is a security risk on your network, you can change the Apache listening port to something non-standard.
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Adam Levin
DECEMBER 10, 2019
Pensacola, FL was hit by a cyberattack in the wake of what has been described as a terrorist shooting. “The city of Pensacola is experiencing a cyberattack that began this weekend that is impacting our city network, including phones and email at City Hall and some of our other buildings,” said Mayor Grover Robinson. . The cyberattack began early Saturday morning days after a shooting at the nearby Pensacola Naval Air Station that left four dead and eight wounded.
Krebs on Security
DECEMBER 16, 2019
As if the scourge of ransomware wasn’t bad enough already: Several prominent purveyors of ransomware have signaled they plan to start publishing data stolen from victims who refuse to pay up. To make matters worse, one ransomware gang has now created a public Web site identifying recent victim companies that have chosen to rebuild their operations instead of quietly acquiescing to their tormentors.
Schneier on Security
DECEMBER 30, 2019
Lance Vick suggesting that students hack their schools' surveillance systems. "This is an ethical minefield that I feel students would be well within their rights to challenge, and if needed, undermine," he said. Of course, there are a lot more laws in place against this sort of thing than there were in -- say -- the 1980s, but it's still worth thinking about.
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 1, 2019
Google revealed that over 12,000 of its users were targeted by state-sponsored hackers in the third quarter of this year. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) revealed that it has detected and blocked attacks carried out by nation-state actors on 12,000 of its users in the third quarter of this year. Over 90 percent of the users identified by Google were targeted via “credential phishing emails” that attempt to trick victims into providing their password or other account credentials to hij
Advertiser: Revenera
In a recent study, IDC found that 64% of organizations said they were already using open source in software development with a further 25% planning to in the next year. Most organizations are unaware of just how much open-source code is used and underestimate their dependency on it. As enterprises grow the use of open-source software, they face a new challenge: understanding the scope of open-source software that's being used throughout the organization and the corresponding exposure.
Tech Republic Security
DECEMBER 18, 2019
Jack Wallen shares cybersecurity predictions that might make your IT skin crawl. Find out what he thinks could be the silver lining to this security nightmare.
Elie
DECEMBER 12, 2019
The. “Right to be Forgotten” (RTBF). is a landmark European ruling that governs the delisting of personal information from search results. This ruling establishes a right to privacy, whereby individuals can request that search engines delist URLs across the Internet that contain “inaccurate, inadequate, irrelevant or excessive” information uncovered by queries containing the name of the requester.
Adam Levin
DECEMBER 17, 2019
New Orleans has declared a state of emergency following a ransomware attack. The city government has effectively been offline since December 13 when employees were instructed to turn off all computers and disconnect them from WiFi networks following reports of suspicious network activity. . “The city asks residents and vendors for their patience and understanding as our Information Technology team works to restore all operations to normal,” said New Orleans mayor LaToya Cantrell.
Krebs on Security
DECEMBER 4, 2019
One of the more curious behaviors of Apple’s new iPhone 11 Pro is that it intermittently seeks the user’s location information even when all applications and system services on the phone are individually set to never request this data. Apple says this is by design, but that response seems at odds with the company’s own privacy policy.
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The healthcare industry has massively adopted web tracking tools, including pixels and trackers. Tracking tools on user-authenticated and unauthenticated web pages can access personal health information (PHI) such as IP addresses, medical record numbers, home and email addresses, appointment dates, or other info provided by users on pages and thus can violate HIPAA Rules that govern the Use of Online Tracking Technologies by HIPAA Covered Entities and Business Associates.
Schneier on Security
DECEMBER 24, 2019
The smartphone messaging app ToTok is actually an Emirati spying tool : But the service, ToTok, is actually a spying tool, according to American officials familiar with a classified intelligence assessment and a New York Times investigation into the app and its developers. It is used by the government of the United Arab Emirates to try to track every conversation, movement, relationship, appointment, sound and image of those who install it on their phones.
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 2, 2019
Experts discovered a new malware dubbed Clop ransomware that attempts to remove Malwarebytes and other security products. Security researcher Vitali Kremez discovered a new malware dubbed Clop ransomware that targets Windows systems and attempts to disable security products running on the infected systems. The malicious code executes a small program, just before starting the encryption process, to disable security tools running on the infected systems that could detect its operations.
Tech Republic Security
DECEMBER 3, 2019
Labeled "StrandHogg," the vulnerability discovered by the mobile security vendor Promon could give hackers access to users' photos, contacts, phone logs, and more.
Threatpost
DECEMBER 31, 2019
Mobile becomes a prime phishing attack vector, hackers will increasingly employ machine learning in attacks and cloud will increasingly be seen as fertile ground for compromise.
Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera
Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?
Adam Levin
DECEMBER 24, 2019
Convenience store and gas station chain Wawa informed customers of a data breach that compromised payment card information at most of its 842 locations. In an announcement released December 19, Wawa CEO Chris Gheysens. stated that the company’s information security team had discovered malware on their payment processing servers about a week earlier.
Krebs on Security
DECEMBER 5, 2019
KrebsOnSecurity ran a story this week that puzzled over Apple ‘s response to inquiries about a potential privacy leak in its new iPhone 11 line, in which the devices appear to intermittently seek the user’s location even when all applications and system services are individually set never to request this data. Today, Apple disclosed that this behavior is tied to the inclusion of a short-range technology that lets iPhone 11 users share files locally with other nearby phones that suppo
Schneier on Security
DECEMBER 2, 2019
New South Wales is implementing a camera system that automatically detects when a driver is using a mobile phone.
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 1, 2019
The online music streaming service Mixcloud was recently breached by a hacker that is attempting to sell stolen user data a dark web marketplace. On Friday, the hacker that goes online with the handle “A_W_S” contacted multiple media outlets to disclose the hack, it also provided data samples as proof of the data breach. The hack took place in early November and exposed data for more than 20 million user accounts.
Speaker: Erika R. Bales, Esq.
When we talk about “compliance and security," most companies want to ensure that steps are being taken to protect what they value most – people, data, real or personal property, intellectual property, digital assets, or any other number of other things - and it’s more important than ever that safeguards are in place. Let’s step back and focus on the idea that no matter how complicated the compliance and security regime, it should be able to be distilled down to a checklist.
Tech Republic Security
DECEMBER 24, 2019
Firejail allows you to easily sandbox Linux applications. Find out how to add this extra layer of security.
WIRED Threat Level
DECEMBER 10, 2019
Five men face federal charges of bilking investors of $722 million by inviting them to buy shares in bitcoin mining pools. .
Adam Levin
DECEMBER 19, 2019
Internal data breaches are on the rise, with 70% of security professionals reporting that it’s happened to them in the last five years. According to a survey conducted by email security company Egress , accidental internal breaches are one of the top three concerns for IT security decision makers along with external hacks and malware. Among the other findings in the report, fewer than than 40% (39.6%) of organizations train best cybersecurity practices and data hygiene to employees, and 26% of r
Krebs on Security
DECEMBER 27, 2019
Synoptek , a California business that provides cloud hosting and IT management services to more than a thousand customer nationwide, suffered a ransomware attack this week that has disrupted operations for many of its clients, according to sources. The company has reportedly paid a ransom demand in a bid to restore operations as quickly as possible.
Speaker: William Hord, Vice President of ERM Services
A well-defined change management process is critical to minimizing the impact that change has on your organization. Leveraging the data that your ERM program already contains is an effective way to help create and manage the overall change management process within your organization. Your ERM program generally assesses and maintains detailed information related to strategy, operations, and the remediation plans needed to mitigate the impact on the organization.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
DECEMBER 18, 2019
Last month, I presented at the FCW Continuous Diagnostics Mitigation (CDM) Summit. The vision of the CDM program, created in 2012, is that all federal networks should be continuously scanned to identify and respond to threats and breaches. Consistent with the federal government’s deployment of Information Security Continuous Monitoring (ISCM), the CDM program is a dynamic approach to fortifying the cybersecurity of government networks and systems.
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 1, 2019
Millions of SMS messages have been leaked by a database run by TrueDialog, a business SMS provider for businesses and higher education providers. Security experts at vpnMentor discovered a database belonging to the US communications company, TrueDialog that was leaking millions of SMS messages. Most of the SMS included in the database were sent by businesses to potential customers.
Tech Republic Security
DECEMBER 19, 2019
83 users have already been affected by 65 malicious files disguised as copies of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker according to Kaspersky.
WIRED Threat Level
DECEMBER 5, 2019
This animal liberation group actually wants to be put on trial. Their goal: force jurors to wear VR headsets and immerse them in the suffering of animals bound for slaughter.
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Within the past few years, ransomware attacks have turned to critical infrastructure, healthcare, and government entities. Attackers have taken advantage of the rapid shift to remote work and new technologies. Add to that hacktivism due to global conflicts and U.S. elections, and an increased focus on AI, and you have the perfect recipe for a knotty and turbulent 2024.
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