Lohrman on Security
FEBRUARY 13, 2022
Some global experts are predicting a significant cyber attack against U.S. and UK critical infrastructure if Russia invades Ukraine. Whether it happens or not, is your organization prepared for this scenario?
Tech Republic Security
FEBRUARY 13, 2022
Giving employees the flexibility to be fully productive while working remotely makes it critical that businesses have endpoint security measures in place to prevent, detect and respond to the growing threat landscape while allowing employees the flexibility to work remotely. Dell endpoint protection spans the enterprise to include multi-cloud data protection solutions that can be.
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Security Boulevard
FEBRUARY 13, 2022
Last year, as consumers flocked online to buy flowers, chocolates and other gifts for their loved ones to celebrate Valentine’s Day, researchers at cybersecurity firm Check Point found something unsavory—indeed, downright malicious. In the run-up to February 14, 2021, cyberattackers launched over 400 new Valentine’s Day-themed phishing emails targeting innocent users every week, a 29%.
The Hacker News
FEBRUARY 13, 2022
Adobe on Sunday rolled out patches to contain a critical security vulnerability impacting its Commerce and Magento Open Source products that it said is being actively exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2022-24086, the shortcoming has a CVSS score of 9.
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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
FEBRUARY 13, 2022
The EARN IT Act is back for a second time which would pave the way for a new massive government surveillance system in the US, romance scams are on the rise so don’t fall for love in all the wrong places, and details about a new ransomware attack that wants you to like and subscribe, […]. The post EARN IT Act is Back, Romance Scams, Like and Subscribe Ransomware appeared first on The Shared Security Show.
CyberSecurity Insiders
FEBRUARY 13, 2022
In what seems to be the first of its crime detected in the cyber history, hackers are seen planting cyber crime evidence on computers of innocent online users who aren’t aware of the activity taking place in the background. Interestingly, though the online user has no link with the crime, it was found that some of them were arrested by the law enforcement because the available evidence was terming them as guilty.
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Bleeping Computer
FEBRUARY 13, 2022
Microsoft is enabling an 'Attack Surface Reduction' security feature rule by default to block hackers' attempts to steal Windows credentials from the LSASS process. [.].
Security Boulevard
FEBRUARY 13, 2022
Detail overview of trending issue in cyberspace, Ransomware What is Ransomware? Ransomware is a kind of software or programming script which encrypt the user’s files and block the user to access their data. The new generation ransomware malware is built […]. The post Devil for Modern Security: RANSOMWARE appeared first on WeSecureApp :: Simplifying Enterprise Security!
Tech Republic Security
FEBRUARY 13, 2022
Giving employees the flexibility to be fully productive while working remotely makes it critical that businesses have endpoint security measures in place to prevent, detect and respond to the growing threat landscape while allowing employees the flexibility to work remotely. Dell endpoint protection spans the enterprise to include multi-cloud data protection solutions that can be.
Security Boulevard
FEBRUARY 13, 2022
In our latest log in the Microsoft Defender on AWS Series, we introduced a tool created from the ground up by the Lightspin Office of the CISO, the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS) Creation Engine (ECE). The most obvious question to ask is “why?” Despite the fact there is a large ecosystem of tools for the creation of EKS, we wanted to create ECE to simplify the creation of secure EKS clusters and offer plugins to extend security functionality that did not exist in our idealized vision.
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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.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 13, 2022
Organizations have paid more than $600 million in cryptocurrency during 2021, nearly one-third to the Conti ransomware gang. Last week, cybersecurity agencies from the U.K., the U.S. and Australia have published a joint advisory warning of an increased globalised threat of ransomware worldwide in 2021. According to a report published by the blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis, organizations have paid $602 million in cryptocurrency during 2021.
Security Boulevard
FEBRUARY 13, 2022
Many thanks to BSidesRDU for publishing their outstanding videos from the BSidesRDU 2021 Conference on the organization’s YouTube channel. Permalink. The post BSidesRDU 2021 – Jason Pittman’s ‘Seeing …The Deception – A Model for Detecting … Honeypots …’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.
Tech Republic Security
FEBRUARY 13, 2022
When it comes to IT, disruption is just another day at the office. From fending off cyberattacks to incorporating leading-edge technologies, today’s organizations no longer experience “business as usual.” In a world where seven million data records are already compromised each day, security in a work-from-anywhere-world has never been more critical.
Security Boulevard
FEBRUARY 13, 2022
FS-ISAC 2022 is around the corner, so we wanted to formally welcome you to join Sonrai Security at this year’s […]. The post FS-ISAC Location & Dates appeared first on Sonrai Security. The post FS-ISAC Location & Dates 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.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 13, 2022
Cybersecurity researchers Zoziel Pinto Freire analyzed the use of weaponized PDFs in phishing attacks. Every day everybody receives many phishing attacks with malicious docs or PDFs. I decided to take a look at one of these files. I did a static analysis and I went straight to the point to make this reading simple and fast. Here is the received email as it was from the Caixa Economica Federal bank, but we can see the sender uses Gmail services and a strange name.
Security Boulevard
FEBRUARY 13, 2022
via the comic artistry and dry wit of Randall Munroe , resident at XKCD ! Permalink. The post XKCD ‘Rest And Fluids’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.
CyberSecurity Insiders
FEBRUARY 13, 2022
BlackByte Ransomware group that is seen targeting physical and virtual servers hosted on Microsoft Windows operating system have this time hit the servers related to San Francisco 49ers- just before the Super Bowl. And information is out that the threat actors only encrypted the corporate IT network and not the one outside the network, such as the ones linked to ticket sales and game and stadium related operations on the administrative side.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 13, 2022
A ransomware attack hit the corporate IT network of the San Francisco 49ers NFL team, The Record reported. The San Francisco 49ers NFL team has fallen victim to a ransomware attack, the news was reported by The Record. The team disclosed the attack after that the BlackByte ransomware added the team to the list of its victims on its dark web leak site.
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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 State of Security
FEBRUARY 13, 2022
If you’re a Tripwire® Whitelist Profiler customer, then you know that the software does an excellent job of executing its core functionalities. These include comparing the running state of a machine to the approved and expected configurations in your environment to stay in compliance with audit and internal policies. Although Whitelist Profiler is proficient in […]… Read More.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 13, 2022
A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. Organizations are addressing zero-day vulnerabilities more quickly, says Google CISA, FBI, NSA warn of the increased globalized threat of ransomware Croatian phone carrier A1 Hrvatska discloses data breach FritzFrog P2P Botnet is back and targets H
Trend Micro
FEBRUARY 13, 2022
Trend Micro Vision One™ integrates with Palo Alto Networks Cortex™ XSOAR to drive automated response to incidents uncovered by Vision One.
Tech Republic Security
FEBRUARY 13, 2022
When it comes to IT, disruption is just another day at the office. From fending off cyberattacks to incorporating leading-edge technologies, today’s organizations no longer experience “business as usual.” In a world where seven million data records are already compromised each day, security in a work-from-anywhere-world has never been more critical.
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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.
Malwarebytes
FEBRUARY 13, 2022
Twitter is transitioning away from from its two-factor authentication (2FA) provider, Mitto AG, a Swiss communications company. The social media giant broke the news to US Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon. It is noted that Twitter’s decision to move away from Mitto AG came after allegations that its co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, Ilja Gorelik, sold access to Mitto’s networks to surveillance technology firms.
WIRED Threat Level
FEBRUARY 13, 2022
Your lock screen stands between your private data and unwelcome visitors—make sure you set it up correctly.
Kali Linux
FEBRUARY 13, 2022
Today we are pushing out the first Kali Linux release of the new year with Kali Linux 2022.1 , and just in time for Valentine’s Day! This release brings various visual updates and tweaks to existing features, and is ready to be downloaded or upgraded if you have an existing Kali Linux installation. The summary of the changelog since the 2021.4 release from December 2021 is: Visual Refresh - Updated wallpapers and GRUB theme Shell Prompt Changes - Visual improvements to improve readability
Security Boulevard
FEBRUARY 13, 2022
Which topics should CEOs, CIOs and CISOs have on their radar when it comes to Identity and Access Management ( IAM ) and cyber security risks in 2022? Related: How IAM authenticates users. Here are a few important issues that … (more…). The post GUEST ESSAY: 5 steps all SMBs should take to minimize IAM exposures in the current enviroment 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?
The Security Ledger
FEBRUARY 13, 2022
In this episode of the podcast (#235) Justine Bone, the CEO of Medsec, joins Paul to talk about cyber threats to healthcare organizations in the age of COVID. Justine’s firm works with hospitals and healthcare organizations to understand their cyber risk and defend against attacks, including ransomware. The post Episode 235: Justine Bone of. Read the whole entry. » Click the icon below to listen.
Security Boulevard
FEBRUARY 13, 2022
The number of missing security patches in an OT system is typically very large—measured in the thousands, at least. It would be difficult and expensive for an asset owner to evaluate each missing security patch / cyber asset pair. This may be one reason we see a patch everything approach, but this is also difficult […]… Read More. The post OT Vulnerability Management: A Risk-Based Approach appeared first on The State of Security.
Security Boulevard
FEBRUARY 13, 2022
If you’re a Tripwire® Whitelist Profiler customer, then you know that the software does an excellent job of executing its core functionalities. These include comparing the running state of a machine to the approved and expected configurations in your environment to stay in compliance with audit and internal policies. Although Whitelist Profiler is proficient in […]… Read More.
Security Boulevard
FEBRUARY 13, 2022
If you’ve been following my inane tweets and non-technical blog posts for any length of time since 2015, you likely know the 2016 election cycle broke me more than just a tad, with each subsequent month of the Trump presidency adding a bit more breakage. My brain is constantly trying to make sense of the. Continue reading ?. The post Getting Back 2 Good appeared first on Security Boulevard.
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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