Tech Republic Security
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Ransomware was down last year, though LockBit led threat actors and employees opened a third of the toxic emails in the last six months of 2022. The post New cybersecurity data reveals persistent social engineering vulnerabilities appeared first on TechRepublic.
Security Boulevard
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Considering the effectiveness of an endpoint security solution when a firewall is already in place is a valid concern for any organization looking to run lean. On the surface, they can look like two solutions doing very much the same thing. However, they are as different as a guard fence and an internal alarm system, The post Do You Need EDR if You Already Have a Firewall?
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eSecurity Planet
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
ChatGPT has raised alarm among cybersecurity researchers for its unnerving ability in composing everything from sophisticated malware to phishing lures – but it’s important to keep in mind that the tool can help support cybersecurity defenses as well. Shiran Grinberg, director of research and cyber operations at Cynet, told eSecurity Planet that too many companies are deterred by ChatGPT, rather than encouraging employees to leverage its functionality. “After all, I doubt you’l
Security Boulevard
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Today’s cybersecurity landscape is riskier, costlier and more complicated than ever before, with bad actors capitalizing on global disruption and vulnerability with destructive third-party breaches, allowing them to compromise multiple victims in one fell swoop. Unfortunately, according to a Black Kite report, the magnitude of the problem is growing worse, and cybercriminals are learning new.
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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.
CSO Magazine
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Data security and management vendor has announced the 7.0 software release of its Cohesity Data Cloud platform. The release provides customers with enhanced cyber resiliency capabilities to help protect and secure data against cyberattacks, the firm stated in its announcement. Expanded features include privileged access hardening, accelerated ransomware recovery for files and objects, and attack surface reduction via AWS GovCloud support, Cohesity added.
Security Boulevard
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
6clicks today announced it has integrated its namesake governance, risk and compliance management (GRC) platform with generative AI to make it simpler to create policies. The 6clicks platform is based on an artificial intelligence (AI) engine it developed with the GPT-3 platform created by OpenAI. Anthony Stevens, CEO of 6clicks, said creating policies based on.
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Bleeping Computer
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Microsoft and Adobe have partnered to integrate the Adobe Acrobat PDF rendering engine directly into the Edge browser, replacing the existing PDF engine. [.
CyberSecurity Insiders
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
First is the news related to Russian hackers infiltrating an email account of a British Member of Parliament to steal intelligence. According to the sources reporting to Cybersecurity Insiders, threat actors, probably funded by Kremlin, hacked the email account of Stewart McDonald via a spear-phishing act. The MP belonging to the Scottish National Party (SNP) witnessed suspicious behavior on his personal email account and launched an investigation to find the truth.
We Live Security
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
A view of the T3 2022 threat landscape as seen by ESET telemetry and from the perspective of ESET threat detection and research experts The post ESET Threat Report T3 2022 appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
Bleeping Computer
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced that ASCON is the winning bid for the "lightweight cryptography" program to find the best algorithm to protect small IoT (Internet of Things) devices with limited hardware resources. [.
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.
Security Boulevard
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Using 2FA to secure your WordPress website is by far one of the best security measures you can take. It adds an additional layer of security while being very easy to set up. Furthermore, it has a proven track record of stopping the vast majority of login-based attacks, such as brute-force attacks. While many WordPress administrators have already implemented 2FA, several still shy away from this technology.
CSO Magazine
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
At around 8:45 pm on February 1, 2023, a caller to the Groveland, Massachusetts, 911 emergency line told dispatchers that he harmed someone in a home on Marjorie Street in the upscale small town 34 miles north of Boston. The caller also said he would harm first responders, too. Groveland police chief Jeffrey Gillen summoned the police, fire, and emergency mutual aid of the nearby towns of Ipswich, Rowley, Topsfield, and Haverhill.
Security Boulevard
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
This is the year that security and DevOps will come together. Security will operate at the speed of DevOps and DevOps will embrace security. The post Security and DevOps Will Finally Work Together to Prevent Vulnerabilities appeared first on Azul | Better Java Performance, Superior Java Support. The post Security and DevOps Will Finally Work Together to Prevent Vulnerabilities appeared first on Security Boulevard.
Approachable Cyber Threats
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Banks are taking revolutionary approaches to digitize and streamline the customer experience - but these measures could come with a cost without strategic cybersecurity measures. The world is changing, and the banking industry is evolving too. Modern banking is all about the “digital experience” and moving faster - so we call it “Digital Banking.” With this modernized banking, banks and financial institutions are under constant threat from a wide range of cyber attacks.
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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.
Heimadal Security
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
A new variant of the Mirai-based Medusa DDoS (distributed denial of service) botnet has been discovered in the wild, equipped with a ransomware module and a Telnet brute-forcer. The Medusa malware (not to be confused with the Android malware with the same name) has been for sale on dark web marketplaces since 2015, and in 2017 […] The post Mirai-based Medusa Botnet Is Back with Ransomware Capabilities appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.
Bleeping Computer
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
New ESXiArgs ransomware attacks are now encrypting more extensive amounts of data, making it much harder, if not impossible, to recover encrypted VMware ESXi virtual machines. [.
The Hacker News
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced that a family of authenticated encryption and hashing algorithms known as Ascon will be standardized for lightweight cryptography applications. "The chosen algorithms are designed to protect information created and transmitted by the Internet of Things (IoT), including its myriad tiny sensors and actuators," NIST said.
Bleeping Computer
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Google has announced the release of the first developer preview for Android 14, the next major version of the world's most popular mobile operating system, which comes with security and privacy enhancements, among other things. [.
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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
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Multiple unpatched security flaws have been disclosed in open source and freemium Document Management System (DMS) offerings from four vendors LogicalDOC, Mayan, ONLYOFFICE, and OpenKM.
Bleeping Computer
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
A flaw in the Money Lover financial app for Android, iOS, and Windows allowed any logged-in member to see the email addresses and live transaction metadata for other users' shared wallets. [.
Malwarebytes
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence builds a monthly picture of ransomware activity by monitoring the information published by ransomware gangs on their Dark Web leak sites. This information represents victims who were successfully attacked but opted not to pay a ransom. LockBit started off the new year just as it ended the last one, topping the charts once again as January’s most prolific ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS).
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
The infrastructure of Toyota was compromised again, this time its global supplier management network was hacked by a researcher. The security researcher Eaton Zveare has exploited a vulnerability in Toyota’s Global Supplier Preparation Information Management System (GSPIMS) to achieve system admin access to Toyota’s global supplier management network.
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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.
Bleeping Computer
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Security hardware manufacturer SonicWall warned customers today of what it describes as a "limitation" of the web content filtering (WCF) feature on Windows 11, version 22H2 systems. [.
Heimadal Security
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
SYN flood is a type of denial-of-service (DoS) attack in which a threat actor floods a server with several requests, but doesn’t acknowledge back the connection, leaving it half-opened, usually with the purpose of consuming server resources, which leads to denying other users access to that server. In this article, we’ll explore how a SYN […] The post SYN Flood Explained.
Security Boulevard
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
A successful quantitative cyber risk management program begins with lunch – more specifically, a Lunch ‘n’ Learn or other roadshow event to introduce to stakeholders the concepts, benefits, and practical details of launching a CRQ program or capability. As part of a RiskLens launch, our team members typically lead the first one or two of these events and then hand them off to clients, who know their audience well.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a script to recover VMware ESXi servers infected with ESXiArgs ransomware. Good news for the victims of the recent wave of ESXiArgs ransomware attacks, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a script to allow them to recover encrypted VMware ESXi servers.
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
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
SpecterOps has released Ghostwriter v3.2 with some significant enhancements we think you’ll like. We overhauled how you interact with operation logs and added support for tagging clients, projects, reports, findings, evidence files, domains, servers, operation logs, and log entries. Tagging Tags will help you organize and customize your projects. At the most basic level, a tag can help communicate something about the tagged object, like this project: Tags Applied to a Project Ghostwriter’s tags
Bleeping Computer
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
If you've been experiencing Tor network connectivity and performance issues lately, you're not the only one since many others have had issues with onion sites loading slower or not loading at all. [.
Security Boulevard
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
What differentiates a CIEM solution from other cloud security platforms, and how should a CIEM be used in an organization? Read on to find out. The post How to Implement CIEM – A Checklist appeared first on Ermetic. The post How to Implement CIEM – A Checklist appeared first on Security Boulevard.
The Hacker News
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
A Russia-linked threat actor has been observed deploying a new information-stealing malware in cyber attacks targeting Ukraine. Dubbed Graphiron by Broadcom-owned Symantec, the malware is the handiwork of an espionage group known as Nodaria, which is tracked by the Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) as UAC-0056.
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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