Daniel Miessler
JUNE 28, 2022
It’s common to hear that it’s hard to get into cybersecurity, and that this is a problem. That seems to be true, but it’s informative to ask a simple follow-up: The current cybersecurity jobs gap sits at around 2.7 million people. A problem for who? I think what we’re facing is an instance of the Two-Worlds Problem that’s now everywhere in US society.
Schneier on Security
JUNE 28, 2022
Thought experiment story of someone of someone who lost everything in a house fire, and now can’t log into anything: But to get into my cloud, I need my password and 2FA. And even if I could convince the cloud provider to bypass that and let me in, the backup is secured with a password which is stored in—you guessed it—my Password Manager.
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Lohrman on Security
JUNE 27, 2022
State and local governments need to prepare and respond to a new round of cyber attacks coming from groups claiming to be protesting the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade last Friday.
Krebs on Security
JUNE 28, 2022
On December 7, 2021, Google announced it was suing two Russian men allegedly responsible for operating the Glupteba botnet, a global malware menace that has infected millions of computers over the past decade. That same day, AWM Proxy — a 14-year-old anonymity service that rents hacked PCs to cybercriminals — suddenly went offline. Security experts had long seen a link between Glupteba and AWM Proxy, but new research shows AWM Proxy’s founder is one of the men being sued by Goo
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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.
Tech Republic Security
JUNE 28, 2022
A new report reveals that blockchain is neither decentralized nor updated. The post Pentagon finds concerning vulnerabilities on blockchain appeared first on TechRepublic.
Security Boulevard
JUNE 27, 2022
Myths of Cyber Security : We work online. We live online. As our fast-paced lives get exponentially dependent on digital services, the urgency to protect our information from being misused is crucial. In 2021, Microsoft went down in flames of […]. The post Top 5 Myths Of Cyber Security Debunked appeared first on WeSecureApp :: Simplifying Enterprise Security!
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Malwarebytes
JUNE 28, 2022
A person working in the city of Amagasaki, in Western Japan, has mislaid a USB stick which contained data on the city’s 460,000 residents. The USB drive was in a bag that went missing during a reported day of drinking and dining at a restaurant last Tuesday. The person reported it to the police the following day. Data on the USB drive included names, gender, birthdays, and addresses.
Tech Republic Security
JULY 1, 2022
Triggered by an employee from an external vendor who shared email addresses with an unauthorized party, the breach could lead to phishing attempts against affected individuals. The post Data breach of NFT marketplace OpenSea may expose customers to phishing attacks appeared first on TechRepublic.
CyberSecurity Insiders
JUNE 25, 2022
By Guy Golan, CEO of Performanta. As the threat of cyber-attacks continues to increase exponentially, a debate has erupted over the years, leaving organizations to choose between two sides. One focuses on the time before a breach, campaigning for the defense against attacks in the first place, while the other comes after, claiming that damage mitigation is the best way to respond to threats.
Bleeping Computer
JUNE 28, 2022
Over 900,000 misconfigured Kubernetes clusters were found exposed on the Internet to potentially malicious scans, some even vulnerable to data-exposing cyberattacks. [.].
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.
IT Security Guru
JUNE 28, 2022
The past decade has seen cybersecurity barge its way into the mainstream. A meteoric rise in attack rates during COVID-19 , major incidents such as the Colonial Pipeline attack, and an increasingly tense geopolitical landscape have all contributed to cybersecurity’s current position at the top of global news feeds. As cybercrime infects every facet of our daily lives, and technological advancements do little to stop the spread, many security professionals are turning to traditional solutions for
Tech Republic Security
JUNE 28, 2022
With the persistence of security issues in software development, there is an urgent need for software development companies to prioritize security in the software development life cycle. The post Best ways to incorporate security into the software development life cycle appeared first on TechRepublic.
CyberSecurity Insiders
JUNE 25, 2022
The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic changed the way most people look at healthcare. It proved the broad utility of telehealth as a way to continue care without needing to take in-person trips to a healthcare facility. It also showcased how vitally important healthcare cybersecurity has become during the internet age. The importance of HIPAA and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union (EU) can’t be understated, but cyberattacks on protected healthcare information are rising.
SecureList
JUNE 30, 2022
Following on from our earlier Owowa discovery , we continued to hunt for more backdoors potentially set up as malicious modules within IIS, a popular web server edited by Microsoft. And we didn’t come back empty-handed… In 2021, we noticed a trend among several threat actors for deploying a backdoor within IIS after exploiting one of the ProxyLogon-type vulnerabilities within Microsoft Exchange servers.
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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.
eSecurity Planet
JUNE 29, 2022
Cybersecurity researchers have found more than 900,000 instances of Kubernetes consoles exposed on the internet. Cyble researchers detected misconfigured Kubernetes instances that could expose hundreds of thousands of organizations. The researchers found a number of indicators of exposure in the open source container orchestration platform: KubernetesDashboard Kubernetes-master Kubernetes Kube K8 Favicon:2130463260, -1203021870.
Tech Republic Security
JUNE 28, 2022
Transferring data between password managers is a serious undertaking. Learn how to safely transfer data from LastPass to 1Password. The post How to transfer data from LastPass to 1Password appeared first on TechRepublic.
InfoWorld on Security
JUNE 27, 2022
Devops is primarily associated with the collaboration between developers and operations to improve the delivery and reliability of applications in production. The most common best practices aim to replace manual, error-prone procedures managed at the boundaries between dev and ops teams with more robust automations. These include automating the delivery pipeline with CI/CD (continuous integration and continuous delivery), standardizing configurations with containers, and configuring infrastructu
The Hacker News
JULY 1, 2022
Amazon, in December 2021, patched a high severity vulnerability affecting its Photos app for Android that could have been exploited to steal a user's access tokens. "The Amazon access token is used to authenticate the user across multiple Amazon APIs, some of which contain personal data such as full name, email, and address," Checkmarx researchers João Morais and Pedro Umbelino said.
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?
Cisco Security
JUNE 30, 2022
The past few months have been chockfull of conversations with security customers, partners, and industry leaders. After two years of virtual engagements, in-person events like our CISO Forum and Cisco Live as well as the industry’s RSA Conference underscore the power of face-to-face interactions. It’s a reminder of just how enriching conversations are and how incredibly interconnected the world is.
Tech Republic Security
JUNE 30, 2022
Most organizations surveyed by Titaniam have existing security prevention and backup tools, but almost 40% have still been hit by ransomware attacks in the last year. The post How traditional security tools fail to protect companies against ransomware appeared first on TechRepublic.
eSecurity Planet
JUNE 30, 2022
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added PwnKit as a high-severity Linux vulnerability to its list of actively exploited bugs. Recorded as CVE-2021-4034 , with a CVSS score of 7.8/10, PwnKit was discovered by Qualys in November 2021 and can be used by hackers to gain full root control over major Linux distributions.
CyberSecurity Insiders
JUNE 26, 2022
A Michigan based American bank named Flagstar Bank has sent notification to almost all its customers about a data breach that took place in December last year. According to the email sent to its customers on June 2nd of this year, the bank’s management detected unauthorized access to the company’s IT network between December 3rd, 2021 and December 4th, 2021.
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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.
Graham Cluley
JUNE 29, 2022
The FBI has warned that, in an attempt to gain access to sensitive data at organisations, crooks are using deepfake video when applying for remote working-at-home jobs.
Tech Republic Security
JUNE 28, 2022
Conti, Quantum and Mountlocker were all linked to having used the new piece of software to inject systems with ransomware. The post New Bumblebee malware loader increasingly adopted by cyber threat groups appeared first on TechRepublic.
We Live Security
JUNE 27, 2022
Here are some of the most common ways hackers can get hold of other people’s credit card data – and how you can keep yours safe. The post 5 ways cybercriminals steal credit card details appeared first on WeLiveSecurity.
Bleeping Computer
JUNE 28, 2022
Mozilla Firefox 102 was released today with a new privacy feature that strips parameters from URLs that are used to track you around the web. [.].
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.
Malwarebytes
JUNE 27, 2022
Microsoft has posted a reminder that Exchange Server 2013 reaches End of Support (EoS) on April 11, 2023. That’s a little more than 9 months from now. A useful and timely reminder, since we all realize that it takes some time to migrate to a different system. Every Windows product has a lifecycle. The lifecycle begins when a product is released and ends when it’s no longer supported.
Tech Republic Security
JUNE 28, 2022
The two companies announced their intention to bring Cisco’s private 5G solution to the public sector. The post Cisco partnering with GDIT to provide private 5G to government agencies appeared first on TechRepublic.
Identity IQ
JUNE 29, 2022
How Do I Help Protect My Identity After Losing My Wallet? IdentityIQ. Everyone has a lot on their plates these days, so it’s understandably easier now more than ever to misplace things – and to have a moment of panic when you think you’ve misplaced something important. Many people might experience that clutch of anxiety over the feeling that they’ve lost their wallets.
Bleeping Computer
JUNE 28, 2022
The Raccoon Stealer malware is back with a second major version circulating on cybercrime forums, offering hackers elevated password-stealing functionality and upgraded operational capacity. [.].
Speaker: William Hord, Vice President of ERM Services
A well-defined change management process is critical to minimizing the impact that change has on your organization. Leveraging the data that your ERM program already contains is an effective way to help create and manage the overall change management process within your organization. Your ERM program generally assesses and maintains detailed information related to strategy, operations, and the remediation plans needed to mitigate the impact on the organization.
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