Google Security

APRIL 30, 2024

Posted by Will Harris, Chrome Security Team Chromium's sandboxed process model defends well from malicious web content, but there are limits to how well the application can protect itself from malware already on the computer. This blog will also show how the logging works in practice by testing it against a python password stealer.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 9, 2024

SAP Patch Day: January 2024 ltabo Tue, 01/09/2024 - 12:44 Highlights of January SAP Security Notes analysis include: January Summary —12 new and updated SAP security patches released, including three HotNews Notes and four High Priority Notes SAP HotNews Notes —Additional SAP solution and existing custom applications based on node.js

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 9, 2022

Microsoft today released updates to fix a record 141 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and related software. Microsoft this month also issued a different patch for another MSDT flaw, tagged as CVE-2022-35743. See Microsoft’s blog post on the Exchange Server updates for more details.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Microsoft has released its final monthly batch of security updates for 2022, fixing more than four dozen security holes in its various Windows operating systems and related software. The security updates include patches for Azure , Microsoft Edge, Office , SharePoint Server , SysInternals , and the.NET framework.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Employee security awareness is the most important defense against data breaches. Related: Leveraging security standards to protect your company. As such, you should limit the amount of information that employees have access to. As such, you should limit the amount of information that employees have access to.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 17, 2021

In a blog post, Avanan said hackers are bypassing static link scanners by hosting their attacks on publicly-known services. According to Avanan blog, once the attacker publishes the lure, “Google provides a link with embed tags that are meant to be used on forums to render custom content.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

<a href='/blog?tag='></a> tag='></a> <a href='/blog?tag='></a> tag='></a> <a href='/blog?tag='></a> tag='></a> 2020 was a year of unprecedented challenge for anyone working in public sector cybersecurity.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2021

VirusTotal announced VirusTotal Collections, a new service that allows security researchers to share sets of Indicators of Compromise (IoCs). Security experts often use sharing platforms like Pastebin to share IoCs with the community, now they have a dedicated platform to do it, which is also integrated with the information from Virus Total.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 3, 2023

Researchers at Orca Security disclosed how they found a remote code execution vulnerability in Azure Service Fabric Explorer. The vulnerability was reported to the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) with responsible disclosure and was included by Microsoft in their March 2023 Patch Tuesday round.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 24, 2021

<a href='/blog?tag=Data tag=Data Security'>Data Security</a> <a href='/blog?tag=Data tag=Data Breach'>Data Breach</a> <a href='/blog?tag=Information Consequently, the challenge for most organizations now is: how do we share data safely and securely?

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

“An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could access a user’s Net-NTLMv2 hash which could be used as a basis of an NTLM Relay attack against another service to authenticate as the user,” the company wrote. Critical Outlook Zero-Day The Outlook zero-day, CVE-2023-23397 , with a critical CVSS score of 9.8,

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 13, 2023

SAP Security Patch Day June 2023 Laura Cabrera Tue, 06/13/2023 - 16:30 Cross-Site Scripting Never Gets Old Highlights of June SAP Security Notes analysis include thirteen new and updated SAP security patches released, including four High Priority Notes. The second new High Priority SAP Security Note is #3301942.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2022

A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs for free in your email box. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 371 by Pierluigi Paganini appeared first on Security Affairs. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2022

The attacks were also reported by Google’s TAG team, which confirmed they were for intelligence purposes. By using summit- and conference-themed lures in Asia and Europe, this attacker aims to gain as much long-term access as possible to conduct espionage and information theft.” ” reads the report published by Cisco Talos.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

In a blog post, Neel Mehta, Information Security lead for Google, explains how a hacker has managed to break certificate code parsing to invade email inboxes and infect users with malware. Attackers often rely on varying behaviors between different systems to gain access. Faking legitimate code signatures: how does it work?

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

I highly recommend reading Andy Robbins’ blog, “ Microsoft Breach — What Happened (and What Should Azure Admins Do)? ”, or our recent video describing the breach here , to understand the full scope of what we know based on Microsoft’s transparency report. What Happened and What is the Attack Path? tenantid = "TENANT_ID" AND NOT toUpper(sp1.appownerorganizationid)

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The victim, through no fault of their own, has been the target of numerous angry tweets designed to ridicule their role in internet security and suggest they are incapable of performing their duty. Obviously, the image is resized to the width of paragraphs on this blog, give it a click if you want to check it out at 1:1 size.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2022

Tags available to all @GreyNoiseIO users now – Create an account to deploy a dynamic block list to block it [link] pic.twitter.com/xXldngWdPH — Andrew Morris @ RSA (@Andrew Morris) June 4, 2022. Our scans currently find around 4000 Confluence instances accessible worldwide, most in the US, likely exploitable.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2021

Magecart cybercrime gang is using favicon to hide malicious PHP web shells used to maintain remote access to inject JavaScript skimmers into online stores. This technique allows bypassing most client-side security tools. Threat actors edited the shortcut icon tags with a path to the fake PNG file. ” concludes the analysis.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 30, 2021

Related: Equipping Security Operations Centers (SOCs) for the long haul. Today’s websites integrate dozens of third-party service providers, from user analytics to marketing tags, CDNs , ads, media and these third-party services load their code and content into the browser directly. are used to gain access to third party servers.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Adoption of facial recognition technology is fast gaining momentum, with law enforcement and security use cases leading the way. Many of these photos are tagged with the identity of the people in them. Security use cases. Facial biometric security is both strong and convenient.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 21, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Defense strategies have evolved as hackers have changed their schemes, and one new approach companies are putting into practice for their security plan is data-centric security. It also encompasses the zero-trust-network-access (ZTNA) concept.

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Herjavec Group

MARCH 24, 2022

In addition, the actual hosts being scanned are also often provisioned with IDS/IPS and additional access control restrictions. It is incumbent upon ASV customers to ensure that the ASV service provider has complete access to the scanning target systems during the scanning session time frame. PCI Data Security Standards v4.0.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Residential Proxies vs. Datacenter Proxies: this blog post examines the contours of each type and provides info on how to choose the perfect proxy option In the robust landscape of the digital era, our need for privacy, security, and accessibility on the internet has never been more acute.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 5, 2023

Security researchers at Akamai have published a blog about a new Magecart -alike web skimming campaign that uses compromised legitimate sites as command and control (C2) servers. The code used on the web skimming victims is designed to look like popular third-party services such as Google Tag Manager or Facebook Pixel.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 27, 2018

I want to help take a big chunk out of the massive list of smaller sites that are still served over non-secure connections because the owners simply don't know where to start. Having said that, everything in this video series is equally applicable to sites like this very blog and indeed that's pretty much how I have things configured today.

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LRQA Nettitude Labs

JUNE 5, 2023

This is the tagline associated with Kali Linux, a Linux distribution used by security researchers, penetration testers, and hackers alike. In this blog post, I am going to be exploring one potential physical security attack chain, relaying a captured signal to open a gate using a device called the Flipper Zero.

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McAfee

OCTOBER 30, 2020

McAfee MVISION Cloud was the first to market with a CASB solution to address the need to secure corporate data in the cloud. Today, Gartner named McAfee a Leader in the 2020 annual Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) for the fourth time evaluating CASB vendors. You can read them here.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The increase in remote workforces and difficulty enforcing security controls with expanding perimeters has played a role in the rise of ransomware. This gives the perpetrator the access needed to launch the ransomware and lock the company out of its own infrastructure or encrypt files until the ransom is paid in cryptocurrency.

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Cisco Security

JUNE 8, 2021

In Part One of the Cisco TrustSec Policy Analytics blog series, Samuel Brown addressed some of the challenges related to designing group-based security policies and introduced one of the new feature sets of Cisco Secure Network Analytics – TrustSec Analytics reports.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 19, 2021

In one sentence, the Same-Origin Policy is this: A script from one page can only access data from another page if they have the same origin. If the SOP doesn’t exist, a script hosted on attacker.com can generate requests to access your information on bank.com. JSONP implementations tend to be prone to security issues.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 1, 2018

I ran it on a coffee budget (the goal was to keep the operating costs under what a couple of cups from a cafe each day would cost) and I made it freely accessible. As this service has grown, it's become an endless source of material from which I've drawn upon for conference talks, training and indeed many of my blog posts.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Some 14,000 people have been notified about a spear phish attempt looking to compromise accounts and access their files. He goes into more details in this thread: TAG sent a above average batch of government-backed security warnings yesterday. Google has more information on this type of warning over on its security blog.

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Centraleyes

APRIL 16, 2024

Beyond being a set of security protocols, data loss prevention policies are a strategic approach that involves identifying, monitoring, and protecting sensitive data throughout its lifecycle. Instead of merely identifying sensitive data, organizations gain real-time insight into how, when, and why it is accessed.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The improper restriction of XML external entity reference can allow malicious parties to interfere with the application’s processing of XML data, impacting the application’s logic, performing unauthorized actions, and accessing sensitive data. XML is used to store and transport data using a tree-like structure of tags and data.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Tech support scams These imposters offer remote assistance to fix nonexistent problems with your laptop or devices while gaining access to your sensitive data. government’s Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) at phishing-report@us-cert.gov. Remember: legitimate tech support doesn’t come knocking unsolicited.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

This will help consumers of open source software determine if they were impacted and make the appropriate security changes. OSV takes care of the rest of the analysis to figure out impacted commit ranges (accounting for cherry picks) and versions/tags.". For more information, read Google's Security Blog about OSV.

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