SecureWorld News

MAY 6, 2025

Behind every secure environment is a resilient mind: because healthy people build stronger security and most importantly, stronger teams." The cybersecurity industry has long since moved to a mental model of resilience when thinking about programs and architecture.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Mo Wehbi, VP, Information Security & PMO, Penske Automotive Group: The Good and the Bad "The Good: Widespread Adoption of AI and Machine Learning for Threat Detection: AI will become more sophisticated and integral in identifying threats in real-time, reducing response times and mitigating risks faster than ever before.

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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2025

CVE-2025-53770 (ToolShell) exploit was initially used in targeted attacks against high-value organizations in sectors like tech consulting, manufacturing, critical infrastructure, and professional services tied to sensitive engineering and architecture.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 12, 2025

Increased risk from RMM tools IT operations and information security staff often need to remotely connect to machines dozens, perhaps even hundreds, of times per day to troubleshoot a problem or make a system function well.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

What there is a shortage of are computer scientists, developers, engineers, and information security professionals who can code, understand technical security architecture, product security and application security specialists, analysts with threat hunting and incident response skills.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 8, 2022

Current quantum computers are still toy prototypes, and the engineering advances required to build a functionally useful quantum computer are somewhere between a few years away and impossible. Fun fact: Those three algorithms were broken by the Center of Encryption and Information Security, part of the Israeli Defense Force.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 17, 2021

The post BSidesNoVA 2021 – Rich Wickersham’s, David Martin’s, Dan Higham’s And Robert Lowe’s ‘Panel: Cyber Engineering & Architecture’ appeared first on Security Boulevard. Our thanks to BSidesNoVA for publishing their outstanding videos on the organization's YouTube channel.

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Daniel Miessler

DECEMBER 24, 2022

If you follow Information Security at all you are surely aware of the LastPass breach situation. These encrypted fields remain secured with 256-bit AES encryption and can only be decrypted with a unique encryption key derived from each user’s master password using our Zero Knowledge architecture.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2022

Today, there are two major types of common CMS platforms: •The older “traditional” or “monolithic” CMS platforms include a content repository (usually a multimedia database), the administrative console (where content is added and categorized), the presentation system (which makes nice-looking pages), and the search engine. Gierlinger.

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Joseph Steinberg

JULY 13, 2022

Additionally, keep in mind that while Lockdown Mode may make it more difficult for attackers to exploit social engineering in order to compromise devices, until Apple more strictly controls what apps it allows in its app store , potential government spying remains a major problem. Is that really true?

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Adam Shostack

DECEMBER 7, 2019

In the early years various design principles, architectures and methodologies were proposed: in 1972 Anderson described the “reference monitor” concept, in 1974 Saltzer described the “Principle of least privilege”, and in 1985 the US Department of Defense issued the Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

For organizations looking to improve their security posture, this is causing confusion and vendor fatigue, especially for companies that don’t have a full time Chief Information Security Officer. The vendors are well-intentioned.

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Lenny Zeltser

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As the CISO at a tech company, my responsibilities include empowering our software engineering teams to maintain a strong security posture of our products. While everyone agrees that security is important, the different incentives of security and engineering teams can make it harder to collaborate.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

“According to the documentation, to achieve this the attackers would have to reverse engineer the generation process of the “site-specific passphrase”, which is used to derive the encryption key for sensitive data. ” continues the analysis. ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2021

XCSSET, a Mac malware targeting Xcode developers, was now re-engineered and employed in a campaign aimed at Apple’s new M1 chips. Experts from Trend Micro have uncovered a Mac malware campaign targeting Xcode developers that employed a re-engineered version of the XCSSET malware to support Apple’s new M1 chips.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2021

Below the list of info stolen by the threat actor and available for sale: – Project Specification:[ Electrical, Power System, Architectural, Chief Engineering, Civil, Construction Mgnt, Environmental, Instrument & Control, Interface Mgnt, Machinery – Rotating, Mechanical – Vessels, Piping, Project Engineering, Safety Engineering, Telecommunications (..)

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Netscout is reporting a spate of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks leveraging a problematic engineering decision in the popular Plex media server. They should check for SSDP as part of a security audit.” Reliance on UPnP and SSDP is an engineering decision, not a vulnerability.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2024

This extortion campaign involved several security failures, including exposing environment variables, using long-lived credentials, and the lack of a least privilege architecture. This indicates that these threat actor groups are both skilled and knowledgeable in advanced cloud architectural processes and techniques.”

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 24, 2022

We’re very fortunate to have our security technologies powered by Cisco Talos , one of the largest and most trusted threat intelligence groups in the world. We refer to this as security resilience , and Talos plays a critical role in helping our customers achieve it. Bahruz Ibrahimov, Senior Information Security Engineer, AzEduNet.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The vulnerability was reported by Apple Security Engineering and Architecture (SEAR) and The Citizen Lab at The University of Toronto’s Munk School. . “Opening a malicious WebP image could lead to a heap buffer overflow in the content process. We are aware of this issue being exploited in other products in the wild.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The issue was reported to the IT giant by Apple Security Engineering and Architecture (SEAR) and The Citizen Lab at The University of Torontoʼs Munk School on 2023-09-06. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-4863, is the fourth actively exploited zero-day fixed by Google in 2023. ” reads the announcement made by Google.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 31, 2024

Artificial Intelligence Engineer 4. DevOps Engineer 7. Machine Learning Engineer 8. Emerging/new roles Artificial Intelligence Engineer: This role has emerged in the last five to seven years as AI/ML became more mainstream. Machine Learning Engineer: Similar to AI Engineer, this specialized role didn't exist a decade ago.

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SC Magazine

MAY 1, 2021

Below is our esteemed panel of SC Awards judges, contributing from health care, engineering, finance, education, manufacturing, nonprofit and consulting, among others. Prior to Mastercard, Abdullah was the chief information security officer at Xerox, where she established and led a corporate-wide information risk management program.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 3, 2021

There is an argument to be made that agility-minded developers, in fact, are in a terrific position to champion the rearchitecting of Enterprise security that’s sure to play out over the next few years — much more so than methodical, status-quo-minded security engineers. It’s a moving target; it’s hyper dynamic.

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Please join McAfee, AWS, and our customers to discuss the impact women are having on information security in the cloud. These remarkable women represent multiple roles in cloud and security, from technical leadership through executive management. Chief Information Security Officer. Can’t make it? Collins Aerospace.

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Google Security

MARCH 12, 2021

Posted by Stephen Röttger and Artur Janc, Information Security Engineers Three years ago, Spectre changed the way we think about security boundaries on the web. We've confirmed that this proof-of-concept, or its variants, function across a variety of operating systems, processor architectures, and hardware generations.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 26, 2020

2] It has modeling capabilities and a flexible plugin architecture and must be used on the Microsoft Windows platform. 3Ds Max is used by engineering, architecture, gaming, or software organizations. ” reads the security alert. It is developed and produced by Autodesk Media and Entertainment.[2]

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2021

For example, a sample with the MD5 hash sum 914e49921c19fffd7443deee6ee161a4 contains two architectures: x86_64 and ARM64.” “The first one corresponds to previous-generation, Intel-based Mac computers, but the second one is compiled for ARM64 architecture, which means that it can run on computers with the new Apple M1 chip.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2021

The script downloaded several next stage payloads for several *nix architectures from the open directory named “Simps” in the same C2 URL from where the shell script was downloaded (see Figure 1). The code similarity of the Valve source Engine module used by Simps was similar to Gafgyt. 200 in simps directory to tmp. see Figure 13).

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 21, 2022

CISA is ISACA’s (Information Systems Audit and Control Association) high-level certification designed for those who audit, control, monitor, and assess an organization’s information technology and business systems. The four-hour exam includes 106 questions. Training is available in a variety of formats, including live and on demand.

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Security Affairs

JULY 2, 2020

The IT giant also fixed Stored Cross-Site Scripting issues in Cisco Identity Services Engine tracked as CVE-2020-3340. These vulnerabilities can be exploited for DoS and XSS attacks, and lead information disclosure. .” reads the advisory published by Cisco. ” reads the advisory published by the company.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2021

All the vulnerabilities were discovered by security experts at industrial cybersecurity firm Claroty, ICS-CERT also published an advisory that provides details about the vulnerabilities and mitigation information. Each agent communicates with the centralized server and can accept and send commands to automation devices, such as PLCs.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2020

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 a post published by MSRC VP of Engineering Aanchal Gupta.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2020

The flaw is currently defined as unpatchable and could be exploited by attackers to bypass hardware-enabled security technology. The CVE-2019-0090 vulnerability affects the firmware running on the ROM of the Intel’s Converged Security and Management Engine (CSME). “Unfortunately, no security system is perfect.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 7, 2023

This is a mega-summit as The Group of Twenty (G20) is the premier forum for international economic cooperation, and plays an important role in shaping and strengthening global architecture and governance on all major international economic issues. San Jose, Calif.,

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Cisco Security

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

When cyberattacks began to affect the productivity and security of its day-to-day operations, the company turned to Cisco to get back on track. Roberto Alunda – Telecom and Security Engineering Global Director, Mediapro. Bahruz Ibrahimov – Senior Information Security Engineer, AzEduNet.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

” According to the experts, the attackers have good knowledge about the internal architecture of the targeted platform. ESET researchers believe the author of the CDRThief malware had to reverse engineer platform binaries to analyzed the encryption process and retrieve the AES key used to decrypts the database password.

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