Jane Frankland

JANUARY 12, 2024

However, the reason why women matter so much in cybersecurity is because of the way they view and deal with risk. Countless studies have shown that women and men gauge risk differently. 1999) presented a meta-analysis of 150 psychology studies that showed that women are in some situations significantly more averse to risk than men.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 16, 2024

On January 4, 2017, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), located in Cleveland, Ohio, became aware of an infection on more than 100 of its computers. The university was notified by an undisclosed third party, who provided information to help the team find and identify the malware. This can take years, however.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2022

German Federal Office for Information Security agency, also known as BSI, recommends consumers not to use Kaspersky anti-virus software. The German Federal Office for Information Security agency, aka BSI, recommends consumers uninstall Kaspersky anti-virus software. ” reads the BSI announcement.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

In this article we will learn how to address and effectively respond to major enterprise cybersecurity threats and provide tips to mitigate IT security risk. Today, c yber security incidents lead to significant damage, alarming organizations of all types and sizes in different geographic locations.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2023

We have no evidence to suggest your information has been misused for purposes of fraud or identity theft as a result of this incident – and no reason to believe that it will be.” “As a result, we believe the risk to individuals whose personal data was involved in this event is low.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 14, 2021

For the first time in its 60-year history, the OECD offered policy guidelines for risk reduction through vulnerability management. For the first time in its history this past February, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) offered policy guidelines for digital risk reduction through vulnerability management.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 28, 2020

Warning Australians of “specific risks” and an increased frequency of attacks, the Australian government is working on “specific risks” related to a significant increase in the number of targeted cyber attacks against sensitive institutions and organizations in almost any industry, Morrison told an organised press conference.

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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). How useful is such a score?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2023

The potential risks A data leak like this can have many negative consequences for both the company and the affected job seekers. However, the leaky bucket dates back to 2017. Prosperix should focus on the following areas to mitigate risks: Encryption: setting default server-side encryption for existing Amazon S3 buckets.

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Pen Test

OCTOBER 12, 2023

It endeavors to elucidate the underlying methodology, a comprehensive array of tools employed, and the typical vulnerabilities that security experts strategically target (Anderson & White, 2017). It encompasses a range of electromagnetic radio waves utilized for wireless information transmission.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2020

91541, 91534 CVE-2014-1812 05/13/2014 Microsoft Windows Group Policy Preferences Password Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (KB2962486) 9 91148, 90951 CVE-2020-0688 02/11/2020 Microsoft Exchange Server Security Update for February 2020 8.8 50098 CVE-2016-0167 04/12/2016 Microsoft Windows Graphics Component Security Update (MS16-039) 7.8

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2022

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday moved to add a critical SAP security flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. The issue in question is CVE-2022-22536 , which has received the highest possible risk score of 10.0

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

LeakedSource also tried to pass itself off as a legal, legitimate business that was marketing to security firms and professionals. The RCMP arrested Bloom in December 2017, and said he made approximately $250,000 selling hacked data, which included information on 37 million user accounts leaked in the 2015 Ashley Madison breach.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2022

An unauthorized third party could have had access to the details of Toyota customers between December 2017 and September 15, 2022. Users of T-Connect who registered between July 2017 and September 2022 could be exposed to fraudulent activities, including scams. The source code was leaked by a development subcontractor.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Koshkin was arrested in California in September 2019 , while Tsurkan was arrested in April 2017. At the time the FBI dismantled the Kelihos botnet, in 2017, the malicious infrastructure was composed of at least 50,000 compromised devices around the world.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2022

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) urges organizations to improve cybersecurity due to the risk of imminent destructive cyberattacks from Russia-linked APT groups. “UK organisations are being urged to bolster their cyber security resilience in response to the malicious cyber incidents in and around Ukraine.?”

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Forrester also predicts that the number of women CISOs at Fortune 500 companies will rise to 20 percent in 2019 , compared with 13 percent in 2017. This is consistent with new research from Boardroom Insiders which states that 20 percent of Fortune 500 global chief information officers (CIOs) are now women — the largest percentage ever.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Multiple security researchers have already developed their own proof-of-concept exploits for this flaw. Kinsing actors often exploited the PHPUnit vulnerability ( CVE-2017-9841 ) and it engaged in fully automated attacks as part of mining cryptocurrency. Recently, observers noticed Kinsing actors exploiting vulnerable Openfire servers.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

According to a report published by the NUKIB Czech National Cyber and Information Security Agency (NUKIB) in September, China carried out a major cyber attack on a key government institution in the Czech Republic last year. The Czech experts discovered the security breach in early January 2017.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2022

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the CVE-2022-23176 flaw in WatchGuard Firebox and XTM appliances to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The group is also the author of the NotPetya ransomware that hit hundreds of companies worldwide in June 2017, causing billions worth of damage.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2020

The OCC claims that Capital One failed to implement an appropriate risk management process before migrating its IT operations to a public cloud-based service. The conduct of the bank was not compliant with the “Interagency Guidelines Establishing Information Security Standards” that are imposed on all the US banks.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2023

The remaining flaws added to the catalog are: CVE-2013-3163 – Microsoft Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2017-7494 – Samba Remote Code Execution Vulnerability CVE-2022-42948 – Fortra Cobalt Strike User Interface Remote Code Execution Vulnerability CVE-2022-39197 – Fortra Cobalt Strike Teamserver Cross-Site (..)

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

.” Boa is known to be affected by multiple flaws, including CVE-2017-9833 and CVE-2021-33558 , which can allow unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files, obtain sensitive information, and gain remote code execution. ” concludes the report. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2022

The Windows botnet has been active since late 2017, it was mainly used to mine cryptocurrency, but it was also involved in DDoS attacks in 2018. Experts defined DirtyMoe as a complex malware that has been designed as a modular system. ” reads an analsys published by Avast.”One

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In the early afternoon of Friday 12 May 2017, the media broke the news of a global computer security attack carried out through a malicious code capable of encrypting data residing in information systems and demanding a ransom in cryptocurrency to restore them, the Wannacry ransomware. What should we learn from this?

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2019

Poland and Lithuania are probing the potential privacy and security risks of using a Russian-made app FaceApp. Many security experts are warning of the risks of using the popular app, threat actors could be potentially interested in data collected by FaceApp.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The group is also the author of the NotPetya ransomware that hit hundreds of companies worldwide in June 2017, causing billions worth of damage. More broadly, it may represent an increased risk to organizations in Eastern Europe that may be considered by the Russian state to be providing support relating to the war.”

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SC Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

A conversation with Dawn Cappelli, vice president and chief information security officer at Rockwell Automation. One of a series of security leadership profiles prepared by Cybersecurity Collaborative in conjunction with SC Media. Cappelli started at Rockwell as director of insider risk.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2021

TA544 is a financially motivated threat actor that is active at least since 2017, it focuses on attacks on banking users, it leverages banking malware and other payloads to target organizations worldwide, mainly in Italy and Japan. When I began studying this threat, Ursnif campaigns were more widespread and less targeted. .

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Early this month, Microsoft has notified a small group of Azure customers that have been impacted by a recently discovered bug, dubbed NotLegit, that exposed the source code of their Azure web apps since at least September 2017. The NotLegit vulnerability was likely exploited by threat actors in attacks in the wild.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2021

which can automatically close dialogs relevant to establishing external connections to reduce a risk that a user detects an external connection by the malware. ” The activity of the BlackTech APT was first detailed by TrendMicro in 2017, the group focuses on targets in Taiwan, Japan and Hong Kong and is aimed at stealing technology.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2021

SBOMs also offer protection against licensing and compliance risks associated with SLAs with a granular inventory of software components. With a universe of open source and proprietary components, SBOMs provide transparency by identifying risk-prone elements or later deemed vulnerable to attack. SBOM Use Cases. OWASP’s CycloneDX.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2020

The final payload is the FormBook information-stealing Trojan, a malware that was first spotted by researchers at FireEye in October 2017. Researchers explained that FormBook is easy to use, it is offered for sale in the criminal underground since July 2017, it was offered for $29 a week up to a $299 full-package “pro” deal.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2022

According to Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 22-01: Reducing the Significant Risk of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities , FCEB agencies have to address the identified vulnerabilities by the due date to protect their networks against attacks exploiting the flaws in the catalog.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Eliminating vulnerabilities at the stage of application development significantly reduces information security risks. Uses machine learning algorithms to reduce the risk of false positives. HCL Security AppScan Source. Vulnerabilities and bugs in software under development constitute a major security problem.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2018

According to a report from cyber threat intelligence firm Risk Based Security some 2.6. According to a new report titled “ Mid-Year 2018 Data Breach QuickView ” published by the cyber threat intelligence company Risk Based Security some 2.6. billion data records have been exposed in the first half of 2018.

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SC Magazine

MAY 24, 2021

In a report released May 20, the Government Accountability Office looked at how the private cybersecurity insurance market has developed over the past five yearsRich Baich is global chief information security officer for insurance giant AIG. billion in damages – that it caused a broader reevaluation of cyber risk by the industry.

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