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. Develop and test ransomware response plans.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2020

“The risk level should be regarded as high: in some cases, an attack can be performed just by using a mobile phone. ” Between 2018 and 2019 the researchers assessed 28 telecom operators in Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America and verifies the presence of the vulnerabilities in the GTP protocol. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The security breach poses a major national security risk. Salt Typhoon is a China-linked APT group active since at least 2019. internet-service providers in recent months in pursuit of sensitive information, according to people familiar with the matter.” Experts believe that threat actors are aimed at gathering intelligence.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 18, 2021

From smart homes that enable you to control your thermostat from a distance to sensors on oil rigs that help predict maintenance to autonomous vehicles to GPS sensors implanted in the horns of endangered black rhinos , the internet of things is all around you. In 2019 alone, attacks on IoT devices increased by 300%. Are You Secure?

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2019

Turn the corner into 2019 and we find Citigroup, CapitalOne, Wells Fargo and HSBC Life Insurance among a host of firms hitting the crisis button after their customers’ records turned up on a database of some 24 million financial and banking documents found parked on an Internet-accessible server — without so much as password protection.

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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. I had the chance at RSA 2019 to discuss the SMB security landscape at length with Gill.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

“According to the analysis of foreign law enforcement agencies, more than 50% of all phishing attacks in 2019 in Australia were carried out thanks to the development of the Ternopil hacker,” the attorney general’s office said, noting that investigators had identified hundreds of U-Admin customers. ” U-Admin, a.k.a.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2019

Microsoft Patches Over 90 Vulnerabilities With August 2019 Updates. Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for August 2019 address more than 90 flaws, including two new ‘ wormable ‘ issues in Windows Remote Desktop Services. The vulnerabilities are tracked as CVE-2019-1181, CVE-2019-1182, CVE-2019-1222 and CVE-2019-1226.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 14, 2019

So they began inundating their third-party suppliers with “bespoke assessments” – customized cyber risk audits that were time consuming and redundant. I had the chance to visit with CyberGRX CEO Fred Kneip at RSA 2019 at San Francisco’s Moscone Center last week. For a full drill down, please listen to the accompanying podcast.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Related: Implications of huge Capital One breach CASBs supplied a comprehensive set of tools to monitor and manage the multitude of fresh cyber risks spinning out of the rise in in corporate reliance on cloud services. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 24, 2019

Accounting for third-party risks is now mandated by regulations — with teeth. I had the chance at RSA 2019 to discuss that question with Catherine Allen, chairman and CEO of the Santa Fe Group, and Mike Jordan, senior director of Santa Fe’s Shared Assessments program. That out of the way, business can proceed with less risk.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 3, 2020

Use our robust API to seamlessly scrub these high-risk numbers from your outbound campaigns and inbound calls, or adjust your suppression settings to fit your individual requirements and appetite for risk.” In fiscal year 2019, the FTC received 3.78 million complaints about robocalls.

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Zero Day

JUNE 6, 2025

Collectively, they could easily put affected customers at risk for account takeovers and identity theft. Also:  I clicked on four sneaky online scams on purpose - to show you how they work In March 2024, the company revealed that customer data from 2019 and earlier had been leaked on the dark web , affecting 7.6

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

We are excited to announce that SiteLock ® INFINITY™ has been recognized as a WINNER of the 2019 Cloud Computing Security Excellence Awards ! Small businesses often build and maintain their own websites, but many do not have the technical expertise or bandwidth to ensure adequate protection is in place, which puts them at significant risk.

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Cisco Security

APRIL 11, 2022

Kenna Security maps out the vulnerabilities in your environment and prioritizes the order in which you should address them based on a risk score. With this initial integration, Secure Endpoint customers can now perform risk-based endpoint security. Figure 1: Kenna Risk Score in the Secure Endpoint console.

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The Security Ledger

MAY 4, 2021

In this episode of the podcast (#213): Molly Jahn of DARPA and University of Wisconsin joins us to talk about the growing cyber risk to the Food and Agriculture sector, as industry consolidation and precision agriculture combine to increase the chances of cyber disruption of food production. Read the whole entry. » And on and on.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

In May 2019, Microsoft disclosed the BlueKeep vulnerability, more than a year later over 245,000 Windows systems still remain unpatched. Over a year ago Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for May 2019 addressed nearly 80 vulnerabilities, including the BlueKeep flaw. ” CVE Number of affected systems CVSSv3 CVE-2019-0211 3357835 7.8

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Today’s generation of kids and teens consider their devices and the Internet as extensions of their lives. So without further ado, let’s dive into what we should be teaching our kids about Internet safety and what we can do to enforce these teachings. 7 Internet safety tips. Keep your online accounts secure.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 21, 2022

has a very different answer in 2022 than it did in 2019. The potential is huge – but so are the risks. What are the cybersecurity risks of the Metaverse? The risks of the Metaverse are as wide and as hard to quantify as the Metaverse itself. The major risks come from the unregulated nature of the Metaverse.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 5, 2019

I’m privileged to share news that two Last Watchdog articles were recognized in the 2019 Information Management Today MVP Awards. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. I’ve never done stories to win awards. So keep reading and sharing.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Qualys this week launched a new Ransomware Risk Assessment Service that’s designed to help enterprises understand their potential exposure to ransomware and automate the process of patching any associated vulnerabilities or misconfigurations. CVE-2019-1458. December 2019. Qualys Ransomware Risk Assessment dashboard.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2019

“In increasing numbers, lots of less-bandwidth-demanding consumers are inevitably going to start using cellular for their full-time Internet access,” Discovered issues were reported to the vendors, fortunately, most of them quickly fixed the vulnerabilities. 0 base score) CVE-2019-3412 – Arbitrary Command Execution (9.8

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 4, 2019

I had the chance to meet with Randy Watkins, Critical Start’s chief technology officer at Black Hat USA 2019. Even more ambitiously, the company wants to lead the way in pivoting network security back to a risk-oriented approach, instead of what Watkins opines that it has all too often become: a march toward meeting controls-based checklists.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 18, 2024

Cloud storage is a cloud computing model that allows data storage on remote servers operated by a service provider, accessible via internet connections. Local storage prioritizes direct access, potential cost savings, and reduced reliance on the internet, yet lacks the scalability and security of the cloud.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2019

Malware researchers at Cybaze-Yoroi ZLAB observed many attack attempts trying to spread malware abusing the CVE-2019-10149 issue. EW N030619 , CVE-2019-10149 ). Exim is a message transfer agent (MTA) developed at the University of Cambridge for Unix systems connected to the Internet. SecurityAffairs – CVE-2019-10149, Exim).

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

According to a report from Protenus and DataBreaches.net, over 41 million patient records were breached in 2019, almost tripling healthcare industry breaches from the prior year. The largest privacy incident was reported in 2019 at American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA), a third-party billing and collections company.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Consumers and organizations are enthused about the operational benefits of more robust mobile connectivity, but the shift to 5G networks doesn’t come without risks. Here we’ll discuss the most significant risks posed by 5G, how U.S. Table of Contents What Are the Cybersecurity Risks of 5G? How is 5G Different?

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 2, 2019

While the internet and social media have been very positive for businesses, there remains an inherent risk when it comes to how brands manage their Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram accounts. 1 : Cybercrime Businesses should always be very aware of the threat of cybercriminals, and social media also poses very real cyber-security risks.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 14, 2019

One of the catch phrases I overheard at RSA 2019 that jumped out at me was this: “The internet is the new corporate network.” I had the chance to catch up with Dana Tamir, Silverfort’s vice president of market strategy, at RSA 2019. If it is low risk, it will let the user through. That’s where adaptive MFA comes in.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The issue is that these tens of billions of new devices will likely amplify the inherent security risks of IoT. As systems become increasingly automated, manufacturers will begin deploying Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) on the plant floor and/or incorporating smart gadgets into their products. billion in number and generate 79.4

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. THE INTERNET NEVER FORGETS.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Experts believe Artificial intelligence (AI) could introduce new cybersecurity concerns, and that the upcoming 5G network could pose new risks as well. Information Risk Management (IRM) recently published its 2019 Risky Business Report. One tip that education brands should follow is to create a prioritized list of risks.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 14, 2020

The security risks inherent in Chinese-made 5G networking equipment are easy to understand. Eavesdropping is also a risk, although efforts to listen in would almost certainly be detectable. But keeping untrusted companies like Huawei out of Western infrastructure isn't enough to secure 5G. Already problems are being discovered.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 13, 2019

Cookie walls don't comply with GDPR, says Dutch DPA”: [link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) March 8, 2019. To continue chucking up cookie warnings to everyone and somehow expecting them to make an informed decision about the risks they present? pic.twitter.com/95bpDtmjDO — Paul Court (@MrPCourt) March 8, 2019.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 28, 2020

Internet address, and there’s a good chance you’ll see a paid ad show up on the first page of results warning that using such services to attack others online is illegal. “Law enforcement activity does not act as a deterrent, as individuals consider cyber crime to be low risk,” the NCA report found.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

and Saudi Arabia have been steadily escalating for at least the past decade, with notable spikes in activity throughout the course of 2019. The report discloses a new strain of wiper malware, dubbed Dustman , found to be targeting entities within the Middle East through the course of 2019. As geopolitical tensions between the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

GandCrab dissolved in July 2019, and is thought to have become “ REvil ,” one of the most ruthless and rapacious Russian ransomware groups of all time. Semen-7907 registered at Tunngle from the Internet address 31.192.175[.]63 63 , which is in Yekaterinburg, RU. Constella reports that tretyakov-files@yandex.ru

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