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MY TAKE: Rising geopolitical tensions suggest a dire need for tighter cybersecurity in 2024

The Last Watchdog

Related: Cybersecurity takeaways of 2023 I recently visited with Mihoko Matsubara , Chief Cybersecurity Strategist at NTT to discuss why this worry has climbed steadily over the past few years – and is likely to intensify in 2024. The wider context is all too easy to overlook. . • It’s not just Russia.

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Loss of CIA Hacking Tools Tied to Lax Cybersecurity

Adam Levin

CIA-developed hacking tools stolen in 2016 were compromised by an organizational culture of lax cybersecurity, according to an internal memo. The hacking tools and other data were developed by the Center for Cyber Intelligence (CCI), often referred to as the hacking arm of the CIA. .

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Decoding Security 108: 2017 – The Year Everyone Got Hacked

SiteLock

2017 was a big year for malware, hacks, and data breaches. On the latest episode of Decoding Security, security analysts Jessica Ortega, Ramuel Gall, and producer/security analyst Topher Tebow count down the top ten cybersecurity issues of the past year. Your hosts discuss the facts and what happens next.

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NSA on Authentication Hacks (Related to SolarWinds Breach)

Schneier on Security

” This is related to the SolarWinds hack I have previously written about , and represents one of the techniques the SVR is using once it has gained access to target networks. This SAML forgery technique has been known and used by cyber actors since at least 2017.

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2017 cybercrime trends: Expect a fresh wave of ransomware and IoT hacks

Tech Republic Security

In 2017 the number could double. Cybersecurity expert Sameer Dixit explains how new innovation leads to increased vulnerability. This year companies were rocked by over 90 million cyberattacks.

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T Mobile Retailer hacks into Company Servers

CyberSecurity Insiders

Argishti Khudaverdyan, a former retailer of T-Mobile company, received a 10-year jail imprisonment sentence at the end of last as he was found guilty of hacking into the servers of the telecom provider and gaining access to phone unlocking and unblocking of cellphones. It is unclear yet on how the person got access to internal servers.

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GUEST ESSAY: Stolen logons, brute force hacking get used the most to breach web, email servers

The Last Watchdog

Web application attacks directed at organizations’ web and mail servers continue to take the lead in cybersecurity incidents. Related: Damage caused by ‘business logic’ hacking. A whopping 80 percent were due to stolen credentials (nearly a 30 percent increase since 2017!). 2009 DBIR page 17) .

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