Krebs on Security
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Many organizations — including quite a few Fortune 500 firms — have exposed web links that allow anyone to initiate a Zoom video conference meeting as a valid employee. These company-specific Zoom links, which include a permanent user ID number and an embedded passcode, can work indefinitely and expose an organization’s employees, customers or partners to phishing and other social engineering attacks.
Schneier on Security
OCTOBER 2, 2023
The NSA is starting a new artificial intelligence security center: The AI security center’s establishment follows an NSA study that identified securing AI models from theft and sabotage as a major national security challenge, especially as generative AI technologies emerge with immense transformative potential for both good and evil. Nakasone said it would become “NSA’s focal point for leveraging foreign intelligence insights, contributing to the development of best practices g
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The Last Watchdog
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Surrounded by the invisible hum of electromagnetic energy, we’ve harnessed its power to fuel our technological marvels for decades. Related: MSFT CEO calls for regulating facial recognition tech Tesla’s visionary insights from 1900 hinted at the potential, and today, we bask in the glow of interconnected networks supporting our digital lives.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2023 – What it is and why we should be aware madhav Tue, 10/03/2023 - 05:33 The inception of Cybersecurity Awareness Month in 2004 came at a critical juncture in our technological history. As we are well and truly in the digital-first age, the need for robust cybersecurity measures is glaringly evident. Though significant, the early days' threats vastly differed from today's sophisticated cyberattacks.
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Tech Republic Security
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Don't be surprised when connecting multiple iPhones to one Apple ID. Learn how to prevent common errors and issues with this guide.
Malwarebytes
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Post anything publicly on Facebook and Instagram? Meta has likely been using those posts to train its AI, according to the company's top policy executive. In an interview with Reuters , Meta President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg said the company used the public posts to train the LLM (large language model) that feeds into its new Meta AI virtual assistant.
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NSTIC
OCTOBER 2, 2023
October is always an exciting time for us as we celebrate Cybersecurity Awareness Month and some of NIST’s greatest accomplishments, resources, guidance, and latest news in the cybersecurity space. This year is a big one because 2023 marks the 20 th anniversary of this important initiative —and we will celebrate in various ways every day throughout the month.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 2, 2023
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) disclosed a data breach, threat actors had access to a database of its users. Threat actors stole a database containing the list of users of the portal of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute ( ETSI ). The European Telecommunications Standards Institute is an independent, not-for-profit organization based in Europe.
Bleeping Computer
OCTOBER 2, 2023
The FBI issued a public service announcement warning of a significant increase in 'phantom hacker' scams targeting senior citizens across the United States. [.
The Hacker News
OCTOBER 2, 2023
A financially motivated campaign has been targeting online payment businesses in the Asia Pacific, North America, and Latin America with web skimmers for more than a year. The BlackBerry Research and Intelligence Team is tracking the activity under the name Silent Skimmer, attributing it to an actor who is knowledgeable in the Chinese language.
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Security Affairs
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Experts warn of threat actors actively exploiting CVE-2023-40044 flaw in recently disclosed flaw in Progress Software’s WS_FTP products. Progress Software recently warned customers to address a critical severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-40044 (CVSS score 10), in its WS_FTP Server software which is used by thousands of IT teams worldwide.
WIRED Threat Level
OCTOBER 2, 2023
A software company sold a New Jersey police department an algorithm that was right less than 1 percent of the time.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Once they compromise an victim with an initial ransomware attack, threat actors are ready to deploy a secondary attack with a different strain, which could leave even more damage.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 2, 2023
The National Logistics Portal (NLP), a newly launched platform to manage all port operations in India, left public access to sensitive data, posing the risk of a potential takeover by threat actors. On September 24th, researchers discovered that the NLP platform was exposing sensitive credentials, secrets, and encryption keys via publicly available JS files.
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Tech Republic Security
OCTOBER 2, 2023
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Bleeping Computer
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Over the weekend, security researchers released a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for a maximum severity remote code execution vulnerability in Progress Software's WS_FTP Server file sharing platform. [.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 2, 2023
The Lazarus Group's "LightlessCan" malware executes multiple native Windows commands within the RAT itself, making detection significantly harder, security vendor says.
Bleeping Computer
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Security researchers discovered a new malware-as-a-service (MaaS) named 'BunnyLoader' advertised on multiple hacker forums as a fileless loader that can steal and replace the contents of the system clipboard. [.
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The Hacker News
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Introduction In today's interconnected digital ecosystem, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) play a pivotal role in enabling seamless communication and data exchange between various software applications and systems. APIs act as bridges, facilitating the sharing of information and functionalities.
IT Security Guru
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Cybercriminal tactics continue to grow in number and advance in ability; in response, many organisations have seen the need to reach a security posture where their teams can proactively combat threats. Threat hunting plays a pivotal role in modern organisations’ cybersecurity strategies. It involves actively searching for signs of advanced threats and vulnerabilities beyond passive defence mechanisms.
WIRED Threat Level
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Victims of the MOVEit breach continue to come forward. But the full scale of the attack is still unknown.
The Hacker News
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Arm has released security patches to contain a security flaw in the Mali GPU Kernel Driver that has come under active exploitation in the wild.
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Veracode Security
OCTOBER 2, 2023
To secure our world, Cybersecurity Awareness Month encourages four steps that make it easy to stay safe online. As a CISO, my team and I advocate for these practices constantly within our organization. If you are a security practitioner looking to bolster cybersecurity awareness, here’s a brief look at how we explain these steps to help make staying safe online easier.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 2, 2023
PCI DSS v4.0 is the future of the payment card industry's information security standard, but businesses must continue to look beyond this guidance and engage in proactive strategies of their own.
Digital Guardian
OCTOBER 2, 2023
File security is integral to effective cybersecurity. In today's blog we dig into the difference between file security and data security, best practices, and tools to implement for file security.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 2, 2023
The royal takedown was a brief but effective PR stunt for Russia's most notorious hacktivist group.
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The Hacker News
OCTOBER 2, 2023
A high-severity security flaw has been disclosed in the open-source OpenRefine data cleanup and transformation tool that could result in arbitrary code execution on affected systems. Tracked as CVE-2023-37476 (CVSS score: 7.8), the vulnerability is a Zip Slip vulnerability that could have adverse impacts when importing a specially crafted project in versions 3.7.3 and below.
Tech Republic Security
OCTOBER 2, 2023
In the current business environment, it is almost inevitable that an organization will experience a security breach that exposes collected personal data to unauthorized access. Under the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation, regardless of the severity of the security breach, organizations must inform their EU customers and stakeholders of the incident in a.
The Hacker News
OCTOBER 2, 2023
LUCR-3 overlaps with groups such as Scattered Spider, Oktapus, UNC3944, and STORM-0875 and is a financially motivated attacker that leverages the Identity Provider (IDP) as initial access into an environment with the goal of stealing Intellectual Property (IP) for extortion.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Norway wants to permanently ban the owner of Facebook and Instagram from collecting sensitive user data across Europe, saying its current policies violate GDPR rules.
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