SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Tim Mackey, Head of Software Supply Chain Risk Strategy at Black Duck, explains: "Attacks on legacy cyber-physical, IoT, and IIoT devicesparticularly in an OT environmentare to be expected and must be planned for as part of the operational requirements for the device. For the latest updates and resources, visit StopRansomware.gov.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2020

Cisco addressed ten high-risk vulnerabilities in NX-OS software, including some issues that could lead to code execution and privilege escalation. Cisco this week released security patches to address ten high-risk vulnerabilities in NX-OS software, including some flaws that could lead to code execution and privilege escalation.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 27, 2025

In that case, users run the risk of misinterpreting key information, making wrong choices, or unwittingly exposing personally identifiable data. This unintended oversharing fuels risks that could otherwise be mitigated through accessible design. Take privacy settings as an example. This is a long-running story, by the way.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Microsoft.NET Framework Information Disclosure Vulnerability CVE-2018-9276 (CVSS score of 7.2) Paessler PRTG Network Monitor OS Command Injection Vulnerability CVE-2018-19410 (CVSS score of 9.8) The vulnerability allowed authenticated threat actors to execute code or SQL queries, leading to remote code execution.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Brad Marden , superintendent of cybercrime operations for the Australian Federal Police (AFP), said their investigation into who was behind U-Admin began in late 2018, after Australian citizens began getting deluged with phishing attacks via mobile text messages that leveraged the software.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Tel Aviv, Israel-based Silverfort continues to make inroads into proving the efficacy of its innovative approach to multi-factor authentication, or MFA, in corporate settings. I met with Kovetz and Silverfort’s VP of Market Strategy, Dana Tamir, at Black Hat USA 2018. And there is a risk that true positive alerts will be ignored.”.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2021

He said the percentage of companies that reported already having inventoried all of their IT systems is roughly equal to the number of larger water utilities (greater than 50,000 population) that recently had to certify to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that they are compliant with the Water Infrastructure Act of 2018.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Although some of the risks of localization for cybersecurity are unpredictable emergent occurrences, most of them can be tackled preemptively. However, with the increasing role of AI in cybersecurity ,it's equally important to make provisions and mitigate potential risks at the stage of planning your localization. EU, and China.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

The missives asked users to click a link and log in at a phishing page that mimicked their employer’s Okta authentication page. Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication. That’s down from 53 percent that did so in 2018, Okta found.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

agarwal_mohit) January 5, 2018. I think the URL is right but it seems inaccessible from other countries: [link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) January 9, 2018. Security /= George blocking — Vatsalya Goel (@vatsalyagoel) January 9, 2018. The fix for this risk is HTTP Strict Transport Security or HSTS for short.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Adobe Patch Tuesday updates for November 2018 addresses three flaws in Flash Player, Acrobat and Reader, and Photoshop CC. Adobe Patch Tuesday updates for November 2018 fixes three flaws in Flash Player, Acrobat and Reader, and Photoshop CC. continues the expert. Successful exploitation could lead to information disclosure.”

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 2, 2019

Small and midsize businesses — so-called SMBs — face an acute risk of sustaining a crippling cyberattack. This appears to be even more true today than it was when I began writing about business cyber risks at USA TODAY more than a decade ago. There are so many more ways to subvert authentication.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2025

“Multiple vulnerabilities in the web-based management interface of Cisco Small Business RV016, RV042, RV042G, RV082, RV320, and RV325 Routers could allow a remote attacker to bypass authentication or execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system of an affected device.” ” reads the advisory.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 1, 2025

The attack was largely reminiscent of a 2022 YouTube account hack that repurposed a 2018 interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook to fool viewers into following a separate cryptocurrency scam. Social media account hacks are not only a risk to content creatorstheyre a risk to any business with a legitimate online audience.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

In July 2018, email users around the world began complaining of receiving spam which began with a password the recipient used at some point in the past and threatened to release embarrassing videos of the recipient unless a bitcoin ransom was paid. 13, 2018 bomb threat hoax. domaincontrol.com, and ns18.domaincontrol.com.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 27, 2018

pic.twitter.com/KiaGNKhaig — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) March 1, 2018. She was pretty shocked when I showed her this as it was precisely the same verbal password as she used to authenticate to her bank. pic.twitter.com/NphRX2dnCv — Geoffrey Huntley (@GeoffreyHuntley) March 27, 2018. No video recording or photos needed.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 5, 2018

My next book is still on track for a September 2018 publication. Authentication and Identification are Getting Harder 6. Risks are Becoming Catastrophic. Norton is still the publisher. The title is now Click Here to Kill Everybody: Peril and Promise on a Hyperconnected Planet , which I generally refer to as CH2KE.

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Adam Levin

JULY 24, 2020

In 2018, security researchers discovered a perfect copy of Reddit.com, one of the five most-visited sites online, under the domain name Reddit.co (.co The risk posed by this sort of hack on a business’s reputation is also worth noting. As in virtually every cyber risk, one path to risk mitigation here is education and training.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Related: Massive Marriott breach closes out 2018. The clear and present risk to the average consumer or small business owner is that his or here stolen account credentials will surface in one or more credential stuffing campaigns. Two-factor authentication, or even better, FIDO/U2F.” ” Third-party risks.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 4, 2022

The same types of security risks impact businesses, whatever their size. They are often unaware of the risks they take on, which can include hacking, fraud, phishing, and more. Storing authentication credentials for the API is a significant issue. Related: Using employees as human sensors.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

Zack Allen is director of threat intelligence for ZeroFOX , a Baltimore-based company that helps customers detect and respond to risks found on social media and other digital channels. And there are risks involved if you somehow screw up a bunch of employees accessing the VPN.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

“The threat actor was able to capture the employee’s master password as it was entered, after the employee authenticated with MFA, and gain access to the DevOps engineer’s LastPass corporate vault.” In February 2018, LastPass changed the default to 100,100 iterations. And very recently, it upped that again to 600,000.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

SAP today just released the September 2018 set of Security Notes that address a total of 14 flaws in its products, including a critical flaw in SAP Business Client. The September 2018 Security Patch Day includes other 13 Security Notes, three were rated High severity, 9 Medium risk, and 1 Low severity. 2.0 ( CVE-2018-2465).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 22, 2025

Between 2018 and 2023, large-scale healthcare data breaches increased by 102%. New measures proposed by HHS Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) : Clear definitions to enhance security when accessing sensitive systems. Regular Risk Assessments : Ensuring organizations remain vigilant against emerging threats.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 17, 2018

The expert discovered that an attacker can use low-risk functions against Phar archives to trigger deserialization attack without requiring the use of unserialize() function. A remote authenticated attacker that is in position to create/edit posts can upload a malicious image and execute arbitrary PHP code the target system.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

Related: Kaseya hack worsens supply chain risk. For T-Mobile, this is the sixth major breach since 2018. This is the type of incident that could have been identified as a risk by a properly scoped penetration test and detected with the use of internal network monitoring tools. Jerome Becquart, COO, Axiad : Becquart.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The agencies warn of risk to elections information housed on government networks. The Netlogon service is an Authentication Mechanism used in the Windows Client Authentication Architecture which verifies logon requests, and it registers, authenticates, and locates Domain Controllers. ” reads the report.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2018

SSL and TLS come into play in the form of digital certificates issued by Certificate Authorities (CAs) — vendors that diligently verify the authenticity of websites, and then also help the website owners encrypt the information consumers type into web page forms.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The 2018 State of IoT Security study took a poll of 700 organizations in the US, UK, Germany, France and Japan and found IoT is well on its way to be to be woven into all facets of daily business operations. It bears repeating: •Review risk: Perform penetration testing to assess the risk of connected devices.

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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2021

ModiPwn flaw (CVE-2021-22779) in some of Schneider Electric’s Modicon PLCs can allow attackers to bypass authentication mechanisms and take over the device. The vulnerability can allow attackers to bypass authentication mechanisms which can lead to native remote-code-execution on vulnerable PLCs.”

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Elie

DECEMBER 20, 2018

This post looks at two-factor authentication adoption in the wild, highlights the disparity of support between the various categories of websites, and illuminates how fragmented the two factor ecosystem is in terms of standard adoption. How prevalent is 2FA authentication? Overall, as of late 2018, 52.5% Methodology.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2022

US CISA added TIBCO Software’s JasperReports vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2018-5430 (CVSS score: 7.7) and CVE-2018-18809 (CVSS score: 9.9), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities ( KEV ) catalog, TIBCO JasperReports is an open-source Java reporting tool for creating and managing reports and dashboards.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 8, 2019

Not long after Facebook deleted most of the 120 cybercrime groups I reported to it back in April 2018, many of the groups began reemerging elsewhere on the social network under similar names with the same members. This is precisely what I experienced a year ago. Then again, I am likely far from your typical Facebook (ab)user.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The only federal law that applies to the cybersecurity of water treatment facilities in the United States is America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 , which requires water systems serving more than 3,300 people “to develop or update risk assessments and emergency response plans.” ” AN INTERNATIONAL CHALLENGE.

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SecureList

JULY 14, 2021

On the other hand, Melcoz (also known as Mekotio) is a banking Trojan family developed by the Tetrade group which has been active since at least 2018 in Brazil, before they decided to expand overseas. We found the group attacking assets in Chile in 2018 and, more recently, in Mexico.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Already having our primary access points for code and infrastructure behind strong authentication requiring two factor authentication (2FA), we learned that SMS-based authentication is not nearly as secure as we would hope, and the main attack was via SMS intercept. We spoke at Black Hat USA 2018. Guest: Absolutely.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Trick or Treat: The Choice is Yours with Multifactor Authentication. Whether you want the ‘trick’ of a malevolent threat actor infiltrating your network by exploiting a compromised password or the ‘treat’ from the peace of mind associated with multifactor authentication, the choice is yours. Fri, 10/29/2021 - 05:29.

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