Schneier on Security
JANUARY 17, 2023
No details , though: According to the complaint against him, Al-Azhari allegedly visited a dark web site that hosts “unofficial propaganda and photographs related to ISIS” multiple times on May 14, 2019. In virtue of being a dark web site—that is, one hosted on the Tor anonymity network—it should have been difficult for the site owner’s or a third party to determine the real IP address of any of the site’s visitors.
Krebs on Security
JANUARY 17, 2023
Most people who operate DDoS-for-hire businesses attempt to hide their true identities and location. Proprietors of these so-called “booter” or “stresser” services — designed to knock websites and users offline — have long operated in a legally murky area of cybercrime law. But until recently, their biggest concern wasn’t avoiding capture or shutdown by the feds: It was minimizing harassment from unhappy customers or victims, and insulating themselves ag
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The Last Watchdog
JANUARY 17, 2023
To get network protection where it needs to be, legacy cybersecurity vendors have begun reconstituting traditional security toolsets. The overarching goal is to try to derive a superset of very dynamic, much more tightly integrated security platforms that we’ll very much need, going forward. Related: The rise of security platforms. This development has gained quite a bit of steam over the past couple of years with established vendors of vulnerability management (VM,) endpoint detection and respo
Tech Republic Security
JANUARY 17, 2023
William “Hutch” Hutchison, founder and CEO of SimSpace, speaks with Karl Greenberg about the virtues of cyber ranges in training IT teams, and SimSpace’s own specialty: Digital-twin based ranges that the firm provides to NATO governments worldwide, including security teams in Ukraine. The post SimSpace CEO brings dogfight mentality to terra firma for IT cybersecurity training appeared first on TechRepublic.
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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.
Security Boulevard
JANUARY 17, 2023
The holidays were anything but happy over at Slack, which saw threat actors access its externally hosted GitHub repositories. The miscreants apparently used a “limited” number of stolen Slack employee tokens. And while they breached some of the platform’s private code repositories, the primary codebase—as well as customer data—weren’t affected. “On December 29, 2022, we.
Bleeping Computer
JANUARY 17, 2023
Hackers are setting up fake websites for popular free and open-source software to promote malicious downloads through advertisements in Google search results. [.].
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CyberSecurity Insiders
JANUARY 17, 2023
Most of us who have been gaining knowledge about the current cybersecurity landscape are aware that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg covers his laptop with a tape to avoid any prying eyes tracking him down through the webcam. It is learnt that the owner of Meta also keeps the front camera of his iPhone covered with a cover to keep his private life away from snooping eyes.
Bleeping Computer
JANUARY 17, 2023
Nissan North America has begun sending data breach notifications informing customers of a breach at a third-party service provider that exposed customer information. [.].
We Live Security
JANUARY 17, 2023
Don’t be the next victim – here's what to know about some of the most common tricks that scammers use on the payment app. The post Top 10 Venmo scams – and how to stay safe appeared first on WeLiveSecurity.
Bleeping Computer
JANUARY 17, 2023
Git has patched two critical severity security vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code after successfully exploiting heap-based buffer overflow weaknesses. [.].
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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.
CyberSecurity Insiders
JANUARY 17, 2023
First, a Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) is nothing but a converged form of information aggregating platform that helps an organization gain insights on the latest attack campaigns and treats developing in the current cyber threat landscape. It helps organizations in knowing when their IT assets will be targeted by attacks and helps them mitigate the risks in advance.
Security Boulevard
JANUARY 17, 2023
The first post of this series on the software-related risks organizations are facing looked at vulnerabilities introduced in development. In this post we look at the risks of open source vulnerabilities. Organizations are increasingly dependent on third-party software, including open source code, but current tools provide limited visibility and require a lot of manual work.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 17, 2023
Security professionals must update their skill sets and be proactive to stay ahead of cybercriminals. It's time to learn to think and act like an attacker to cope with the cyber "new normal.
Bleeping Computer
JANUARY 17, 2023
Over 4,000 Sophos Firewall devices exposed to Internet access are vulnerable to attacks targeting a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability. [.].
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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.
Security Boulevard
JANUARY 17, 2023
10 critical questions you need answered to optimize your cybersecurity budget in 2023. Read More. The post 10 Cybersecurity Budget Questions for 2023 appeared first on Axio. The post 10 Cybersecurity Budget Questions for 2023 appeared first on Security Boulevard.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 17, 2023
The latest critical bug is exploitable in dozens of ManageEngine products and exposes systems to catastrophic risks, researchers warn.
Security Boulevard
JANUARY 17, 2023
Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky recently published an analysis that detailed how a North Korean threat actor, which it called the BlueNoroff group, is stealing cryptocurrency by bypassing the “Mark of the Web” flag security feature within the Windows operating system. Kaspersky’s advisory is only the latest in a string of cybersecurity research pointing to North Korean.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 17, 2023
Two of the vulnerabilities — in Azure Functions and Azure Digital Twins — required no account authentication for an attacker to exploit them.
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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.
Security Boulevard
JANUARY 17, 2023
Your organization could be at risk if you’re not handling hard-coded secrets properly. The Synopsys AST portfolio has you covered at every stage of the SDLC. The post Finding hard-coded secrets before you suffer a breach appeared first on Security Boulevard.
Bleeping Computer
JANUARY 17, 2023
GitHub Codespaces, a cloud-hosted integrated development environment (IDE), has a port forwarding feature that malicious actors can abuse to host and distribute malware to unaware developers. [.].
Heimadal Security
JANUARY 17, 2023
There is no doubt that cybercriminals are constantly looking for new ways to hold your data hostage. As a result, ransomware has emerged as one of the most serious cybersecurity threats to businesses in recent years. Because it’s so dangerous, understanding how ransomware spreads it’s the first step to preventing it. In this article, we’ll discuss how […].
Approachable Cyber Threats
JANUARY 17, 2023
Category Awareness, Guides. Risk Level. When it comes to Public Wi-Fi, it is “better to be safe than sorry.” Read our guide and secure your Wi-Fi connection when you travel. “Is public Wi-Fi safe to use?” We need access to the internet wherever we go here in the digital age. Our reliance on the internet means we tend to look for convenient ways to connect our electronic devices to the internet when we aren’t home - usually relying on public Wi-Fi at coffee shops, restaurants, hotels, airports, e
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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.
Security Boulevard
JANUARY 17, 2023
To get network protection where it needs to be, legacy cybersecurity vendors have begun reconstituting traditional security toolsets. The overarching goal is to try to derive a superset of very dynamic, much more tightly integrated security platforms that we’ll very … (more…). The post NEW TECH: DigiCert unveils ‘Trust Lifecyle Manager’ to centralize control of digital certificates appeared first on Security Boulevard.
Identity IQ
JANUARY 17, 2023
What To Know About Privacy Data. IdentityIQ. The internet makes our lives more convenient but also brings about new threats that we need to be on the lookout for. Every year, up to 10% of Americans fall for a scam, which often leads to the exposure of their personal data, according to Legaljobs. Identity theft also affects around 1.4 million Americans yearly, leading to a loss of approximately $5.8 billion.
Security Boulevard
JANUARY 17, 2023
When California allowed car owners to opt for “digital license plates” which could be customized to add personal messages, few who opted into the new technology suspected that they were permitting the government to track their location anywhere they were. But a recent penetration test of the California Reviver license plate indicated that, with superuser.
The Hacker News
JANUARY 17, 2023
Users of Zoho ManageEngine are being urged to patch their instances against a critical security vulnerability ahead of the release of a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code. The issue in question is CVE-2022-47966, an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability affecting several products due to the use of an outdated third-party dependency, Apache Santuario.
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?
Security Boulevard
JANUARY 17, 2023
No details , though: According to the complaint against him, Al-Azhari allegedly visited a dark web site that hosts “unofficial propaganda and photographs related to ISIS” multiple times on May 14, 2019. In virtue of being a dark web site—that is, one hosted on the Tor anonymity network—it should have been difficult for the site owner’s or a third party to determine the real IP address of any of the site’s visitors.
The Hacker News
JANUARY 17, 2023
Four different Microsoft Azure services have been found vulnerable to server-side request forgery (SSRF) attacks that could be exploited to gain unauthorized access to cloud resources.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 17, 2023
Researchers demonstrated how to abuse a feature in GitHub Codespaces to deliver malware to victim systems. Trend Micro researchers reported that it is possible to abuse a legitimate feature in the development environment GitHub Codespaces to deliver malware to victim systems. Users can customize their project for GitHub Codespaces by committing configuration files to their repository, which creates a repeatable codespace configuration for all users of your project.
Trend Micro
JANUARY 17, 2023
In this entry, we discuss a Web3 fraud scenario where scammers target potential victims via fake smart contracts, and then take over their digital assets, such as NFT tokens, without paying. We named this scam “Payzero”.
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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