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Will Voluntary CISA Cyber Goals Be Enough to Protect Critical Infrastructure?

Lohrman on Security

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is getting pushback from critical infrastructure owners and operators on cyber goals and objectives. So what happens next?

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ROI of Automated Mobile App Security & Privacy Testing

Appknox

Several companies aren't still aware of the fact that automated mobile app security testing brings better ROI than manual testing. Perhaps, they don't know what aspects of automation testing directly or indirectly impact the ROI. However, we got you covered.

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North Korea Kimsuky accurately targets victims with malware

CyberSecurity Insiders

North Korea hacking group named Kimsuky is using sophistication to assure that its malware reaches the right targets with great accuracy. According to Kaspersky, Kimsuky hackers are targeting mainly companies and high-profile individuals from the Korean Peninsula. It all begins with a phishing email that is targeted by politicians, diplomats, university research professors, and journalists in North and South Korea.

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Surveillance firm’s leaked docs show the purchase of an $8M iOS RCE zero-day exploit?

Security Affairs

Leaked documents show the surveillance firm Intellexa offering exploits for iOS and Android devices for $8 Million. Intellexa is an Israeli surveillance firm founded by Israeli entrepreneur Tal Dilian, it offers surveillance and hacking solution to law enforcement and intelligence agencies. The Vx-undergroud researchers shared some images of several confidential documents that appear to be the commercial offer of Intellect.

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The Importance of User Roles and Permissions in Cybersecurity Software

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.

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Cyber Attack news headlines trending on Google

CyberSecurity Insiders

Microsoft released a report that cloud applications are acting as catalysts for cyber attacks as it detected over 1.5 million attack attempts on cloud environments in a time frame of just 60 months. The technology giant mentioned in its Cyber Signals reports that most of the attempts were made by exploiting configuration errors by admins in corporate environments.

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LockBit ransomware gang gets aggressive with triple-extortion tactic

Bleeping Computer

LockBit ransomware gang announced that it is improving defenses against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and working to take the operation to triple extortion level. [.].

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CISA Adds 10 New Known Actively Exploited Vulnerabilities to its Catalog

The Hacker News

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added 10 new actively exploited vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, including a high-severity security flaw affecting industrial automation software from Delta Electronics. The issue, tracked as CVE-2021-38406 (CVSS score: 7.8), impacts DOPSoft 2 versions 2.00.07 and prior.

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Key Points from the IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2022

Security Boulevard

The volume and impact of data breaches have accelerated largely in 2022, which has contributed to many adverse effects for businesses. Tc highlights several updated factors that have generated great costs across 17 countries and regions, and 17 industries. The report has included new related areas of analysis such as: Extended Detection and Response (XDR). […]… Read More.

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Key Points from the IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2022

The State of Security

The volume and impact of data breaches have accelerated largely in 2022, which has contributed to many adverse effects for businesses. Tc highlights several updated factors that have generated great costs across 17 countries and regions, and 17 industries. The report has included new related areas of analysis such as: Extended Detection and Response (XDR). […]… Read More.

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Okta one-time MFA passcodes exposed in Twilio cyberattack

Bleeping Computer

The threat actor behind the Twilio hack used their access to steal one-time passwords (OTPs) delivered over SMS to from customers of Okta identity and access management company. [.].

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IDC Analyst Report: The Open Source Blind Spot Putting Businesses at Risk

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.

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How to Prevent High Risk Authentication Coercion Vulnerabilities

The State of Security

Most of us already know the basic principle of authentication, which, in its simplest form, helps us to identify and verify a user, process, or account. In an Active Directory environment, this is commonly done through the use of an NTLM hash. When a user wants to access a network resource, such as a file […]… Read More. The post How to Prevent High Risk Authentication Coercion Vulnerabilities appeared first on The State of Security.

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DuckDuckGo opens its privacy-focused email service to everyone

Bleeping Computer

DuckDuckGo has opened its 'Email Protection' service to anyone wishing to get their own '@duck.com' email address. [.].

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Experts warn of the first known phishing attack against PyPI

Security Affairs

The Python Package Index (PyPI) warns of an ongoing phishing campaign to steal developer credentials and distribute malicious updates. The Python Package Index, PyPI, this week warned of an ongoing phishing campaign that aims to steal developer credentials and inject malicious updates to the packages in the repository. “Today we received reports of a phishing campaign targeting PyPI users.

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Janet Jackson Can Crash Laptops, Credential Phishing Attacks Skyrocket, A Phone Carrier That Doesn’t Track You

Security Boulevard

Janet Jackson’s “Rhythm Nation” has been recognized as an exploit for a vulnerability after Microsoft reported it can crash the hard drives of certain old laptop computers, phishing attacks that compromise credentials using brand impersonation are on the rise, and details about a new privacy focused phone carrier that doesn’t track your location or web […].

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Cybersecurity Predictions for 2024

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.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 381

Security Affairs

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs 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. Twilio hackers also breached the food delivery firm DoorDash Unprecedented cyber attack hit State Infrastructure of Montenegro Threat actor abuses Genshin Impact Anti-Cheat driver to disable antivirus Critical flaw impacts Atlassian Bitbucket Serve

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How to Prevent High Risk Authentication Coercion Vulnerabilities

Security Boulevard

Most of us already know the basic principle of authentication, which, in its simplest form, helps us to identify and verify a user, process, or account. In an Active Directory environment, this is commonly done through the use of an NTLM hash. When a user wants to access a network resource, such as a file […]… Read More. The post How to Prevent High Risk Authentication Coercion Vulnerabilities appeared first on The State of Security.

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Ransomware Resiliency for Storage & Backup: Trends, Threats & Tips

CyberSecurity Insiders

By Doron Pinhas | CTO at Continuity , Co-author of NIST Special Publication Security Guidelines for Storage Infrastructure. Ransomware attacks have been in the public eye for quite a while now. Growth is propelled not only by the surge in the number of cybercrime groups specializing in ransomware, but to a large extent, also by the continual increase in attack sophistication.

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BSidesTLV 2022 – Philip Tsukerman’s And Amir Kutcher’s ‘Unmasked! – Fighting Stealthy Execution Methods Using Process Creation Properties’

Security Boulevard

Our thanks to BSidesTLV for publishing their outstanding conference videos on the organization's YouTube channel. Permalink. The post BSidesTLV 2022 – Philip Tsukerman’s And Amir Kutcher’s ‘Unmasked! – Fighting Stealthy Execution Methods Using Process Creation Properties’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Beware of Pixels & Trackers on U.S. Healthcare Websites

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.

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'Data Broker' Oracle Enables Privacy End-Arounds, Lawsuit Alleges

SecureWorld News

At least one Big Tech firm has glided mostly under the radar during the recent techlash—Oracle—but that relative obscurity might be coming to an end. A class-action lawsuit filed against the data giant by some heavy-hitters in the privacy world alleges that Oracle combines some of the worst qualities of Google and Facebook, at a scale even those firms have trouble matching.