Tech Republic Security
JANUARY 18, 2023
The volume of cloud-based malware tripled in 2022 over the prior year, says Netskope, with 30% of the malicious downloads coming from Microsoft OneDrive. The post Rise of cloud-delivered malware poses key security challenges appeared first on TechRepublic.
Bleeping Computer
JANUARY 18, 2023
Email marketing firm MailChimp suffered another breach after hackers accessed an internal customer support and account administration tool, allowing the threat actors to access the data of 133 customers. [.].
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Tech Republic Security
JANUARY 18, 2023
This report shows cybercriminals need only a couple days to access your full corporate network and exfiltrate its data. Read on to learn more. The post Threat attackers can own your data in just two days appeared first on TechRepublic.
Cisco Security
JANUARY 18, 2023
When the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) announced the TLS 1.3 standard in RFC 8446 in August 2018, plenty of tools and utilities were already supporting it (even as early as the year prior, some web browsers had implemented it as their default standard, only having to roll it back due to compatibility issues. Needless to say, the rollout was not perfect).
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How many people would you trust with your house keys? Chances are, you have a handful of trusted friends and family members who have an emergency copy, but you definitely wouldn’t hand those out too freely. You have stuff that’s worth protecting—and the more people that have access to your belongings, the higher the odds that something will go missing.
CyberSecurity Insiders
JANUARY 18, 2023
Many of you get confused with terms cybersecurity and Information Security and think that both these words are same and synonymous. However, in reality, both these terms are different and confused with one another. Cybersecurity is one of the significant business function that focuses on protecting IT infrastructure such as data, applications, communication infrastructure and network.
Tech Republic Security
JANUARY 18, 2023
All company communication needs may vary but certain standard template messages can come in handy for IT staff to keep employees up to date on “need to know” informational bulletins. These bulletins may be one-off or regularly scheduled communications to help raise awareness about your technology processes, accepted procedures and best practices or to explain.
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Bleeping Computer
JANUARY 18, 2023
The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has linked a destructive malware attack targeting the country's National News Agency of Ukraine (Ukrinform) to Sandworm Russian military hackers. [.].
CyberSecurity Insiders
JANUARY 18, 2023
Microsoft, in association with Fortinet and other partners, is working on mapping cyber crime activities and attain responses to cyber threats on public and private entities. The program was developed in the year 2019 and after a long pause, the service of crafting the service was resumed at the end of last year. The mapping will be called as Cybercrime Atlas and arrangements are being made to host it at the World Economic Forum(WEF) in the next 18-20 months.
Security Boulevard
JANUARY 18, 2023
Reading Time: 6 minutes “Cloud keeps growing, and it is capturing an ever-larger share of information technology spending,” remarked Lee Sustar from Forrester Inc. “Big banks and other companies aren’t simply migrating existing data and software from private data centers to the cloud. Increasingly, they are looking to cloud companies for unique tools and capabilities, especially when it comes […].
Tech Republic Security
JANUARY 18, 2023
With a CyberTraining 365 Online Academy: Lifetime Subscription, you’ll learn to create and maintain effective, up-to-date security measures. The post Get lifetime access to award-winning cybersecurity training for just $80 appeared first on TechRepublic.
Advertiser: Revenera
In a recent study, IDC found that 64% of organizations said they were already using open source in software development with a further 25% planning to in the next year. Most organizations are unaware of just how much open-source code is used and underestimate their dependency on it. As enterprises grow the use of open-source software, they face a new challenge: understanding the scope of open-source software that's being used throughout the organization and the corresponding exposure.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 18, 2023
Threat actors are diversifying across all aspects to attack critical infrastructure, muddying the threat landscape, and forcing industrial organizations to rethink their security.
Security Boulevard
JANUARY 18, 2023
With the creation and mass adoption of Chat-GPT, AI – inspired topics have been thrust to the forefront of everyday conversation. GPT (Generative Pre-training Transformer) is…. The post What does Chat-GPT Imply for Brand Impersonation? Q&A with Dr. Salvatore Stolfo appeared first on Security Boulevard.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 18, 2023
The powerful AI bot can produce malware without malicious code, making it tough to mitigate.
Security Boulevard
JANUARY 18, 2023
Get out in front of software supply chain compliance requirements for a competitive advantage. Here's what your software organization needs to know. The post Supply chain security and compliance: Why software organizations should get out in front of requirements appeared first on Security Boulevard.
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Within the past few years, ransomware attacks have turned to critical infrastructure, healthcare, and government entities. Attackers have taken advantage of the rapid shift to remote work and new technologies. Add to that hacktivism due to global conflicts and U.S. elections, and an increased focus on AI, and you have the perfect recipe for a knotty and turbulent 2024.
SecureList
JANUARY 18, 2023
Kaspersky detects an average of 400,000 malicious files every day. These add up to 144 million annually. The threat landscape is constantly updated through new malware and spyware, advanced phishing methods, and new social engineering techniques. The media routinely report incidents and leaks of data that end up publicly accessible on the dark web. Hacker attacks constantly hurt individuals, corporations, and entire countries, and not just financially.
Bleeping Computer
JANUARY 18, 2023
Bank of America has started to restore missing Zelle transactions that suddenly disappeared from customers' bank accounts this morning, causing some to dip into negative balances. [.].
Security Through Education
JANUARY 18, 2023
Not too long ago, many of us thought that cybersecurity was something for corporations to worry about. Perhaps we thought, who would want to hack a completely unknow person like me? The truth is technology has grown at an exponential rate and so has cybercrime. Cybercrime doesn’t just affect big businesses and national governments. Cybercriminals target individuals just as relentlessly as they do large companies and organizations.
Bleeping Computer
JANUARY 18, 2023
Solaris, a large darknet marketplace focused on drugs and illegal substances, has been taken over by a smaller competitor named 'Kraken,' who claims to have hacked it on January 13, 2022. [.].
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The healthcare industry has massively adopted web tracking tools, including pixels and trackers. Tracking tools on user-authenticated and unauthenticated web pages can access personal health information (PHI) such as IP addresses, medical record numbers, home and email addresses, appointment dates, or other info provided by users on pages and thus can violate HIPAA Rules that govern the Use of Online Tracking Technologies by HIPAA Covered Entities and Business Associates.
The Hacker News
JANUARY 18, 2023
Security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in Netcomm and TP-Link routers, some of which could be weaponized to achieve remote code execution. The flaws, tracked as CVE-2022-4873 and CVE-2022-4874, concern a case of stack-based buffer overflow and authentication bypass and impact Netcomm router models NF20MESH, NF20, and NL1902 running software versions earlier than R6B035.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 18, 2023
SSRF vulnerabilities in four Microsoft Azure services could be exploited to gain unauthorized access to cloud resources. Researchers at the security firm Orca discovered that four different Microsoft Azure services were vulnerable to server-side request forgery (SSRF) attacks. Threat actors could have exploited the flaws to gain unauthorized access to cloud resources.
WIRED Threat Level
JANUARY 18, 2023
Animal rights activists have captured the first hidden-camera video from inside a carbon dioxide “stunning chamber” in a US meatpacking plant.
Graham Cluley
JANUARY 18, 2023
Carole's in her sick bed, which leaves Graham in charge of the good ship "Smashing Security" as it navigates the choppy seas of credential stuffing and avoids the swirling waters of apps being sloppy with sensitive information. Find out more in this latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast, hosted by Graham Cluley with special guest BJ Mendelson.
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The losses companies suffered in 2023 ransomware attacks increased by 74% compared to those of the previous year, according to new data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The true figure is likely to be even higher, though, as many identity theft and phishing attacks go unreported. Ransomware attackers can potentially paralyze not just private sector organizations but also healthcare facilities, schools, and entire police departments.
The Hacker News
JANUARY 18, 2023
Popular email marketing and newsletter service Mailchimp has disclosed yet another security breach that enabled threat actors to access an internal support and account admin tool to obtain information about 133 customers.
Bleeping Computer
JANUARY 18, 2023
Microsoft has acknowledged a new bug affecting some Windows 11 applications triggering launch issues and causing them to display errors after a system restore. [.].
Malwarebytes
JANUARY 18, 2023
In a sponsored security source code audit, security experts from X41 D-SEC GmbH (Eric Sesterhenn and Markus Vervier) and GitLab (Joern Schneeweisz) found two notable critical flaws in Git's code. A vulnerability on Git could generally compromise source code repositories and developer systems, but "wormable" ones could result in large-scale breaches, according to the high-level audit report.
Security Boulevard
JANUARY 18, 2023
The post GitHub Copilot’s ML ‘Code Brushes’: Ready for a Bob Ross ‘happy little accident’? appeared first on Security Boulevard.
Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera
Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?
Bleeping Computer
JANUARY 18, 2023
Microsoft is investigating an issue causing the Windows taskbar and Start Menu to become unresponsive and triggering Outlook and Teams login problems. [.
Heimadal Security
JANUARY 18, 2023
Cyber researchers discovered last year that four of Microsoft Azure`s Services had security issues that made them vulnerable to server-side request forgery (SSRF) attacks. Two of the vulnerabilities did not request authentication, so threat actors had the opportunity to exploit them without even having an Azure account. As soon as researchers flagged Azure API Management, […].
Security Affairs
JANUARY 18, 2023
A couple of critical vulnerabilities have been discovered in Netcomm rourers, experts warn of their potential exploitation in the wild. The vulnerabilities discovered in the Netcomm routers are a a stack based buffer overflow and an authentication bypass, respectively tracked as CVE-2022-4873 and CVE-2022-4874. Both issues impact the Netcomm router models NF20MESH, NF20, and NL1902 running software versions earlier than R6B035.
Malwarebytes
JANUARY 18, 2023
Several experts have warned LastPass users who store cryptocurrency-related login information in their vaults to change that login information as soon as they can. Apparently, cybercriminals who have access to the stolen information are making it a priority to decrypt the data in an attempt to access to cryptowallets and online accounts. The breach According to LastPass, an unknown attacker accessed a cloud-based storage environment using information obtained in LastPass' August 2022 breach.
Speaker: Erika R. Bales, Esq.
When we talk about “compliance and security," most companies want to ensure that steps are being taken to protect what they value most – people, data, real or personal property, intellectual property, digital assets, or any other number of other things - and it’s more important than ever that safeguards are in place. Let’s step back and focus on the idea that no matter how complicated the compliance and security regime, it should be able to be distilled down to a checklist.
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