Security Boulevard
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
A survey identified cybersecurity as the biggest challenge small organizations face today, with 49% more concerned than they were six months ago. The post Cybersecurity the Biggest Challenge for Smaller Organizations appeared first on Security Boulevard.
Schneier on Security
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
The robot revolution began long ago, and so did the killing. One day in 1979, a robot at a Ford Motor Company casting plant malfunctioned—human workers determined that it was not going fast enough. And so twenty-five-year-old Robert Williams was asked to climb into a storage rack to help move things along. The one-ton robot continued to work silently, smashing into Williams’s head and instantly killing him.
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The Last Watchdog
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
In today’s digital age, trust has become a cornerstone of building a better Internet. Preserving privacy for a greater good The Internet was designed as a platform for peer research, not for the vast scale and diverse uses we see today. Over the decades, it’s grown in a way that has left it with many inherent vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities, not borne out of malice, were the result of choices made with limited information available at the time.
Krebs on Security
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
In December 2022, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that a cybercriminal using the handle “ USDoD ” had infiltrated the FBI ‘s vetted information sharing network InfraGard , and was selling the contact information for all 80,000 members. The FBI responded by reverifying InfraGard members and by seizing the cybercrime forum where the data was being sold.
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Troy Hunt
SEPTEMBER 10, 2023
I'm in Spain! Alicante, to be specific, where we've spent the last few days doing family wedding things, and I reckon we scrubbed up pretty well: Getting fancy in Spain 😍 pic.twitter.com/iDFmBORnHa — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) September 9, 2023 Next stop is Amsterdam and by the end of today, we'll be sipping cold beer canal side in the 31C heat 😎 Meanwhile, this week's video focuses mostly on the Dymocks breach and the noteworthiness of what appears to be ex
Schneier on Security
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
Make sure you update your iPhones : Citizen Lab says two zero-days fixed by Apple today in emergency security updates were actively abused as part of a zero-click exploit chain (dubbed BLASTPASS) to deploy NSO Group’s Pegasus commercial spyware onto fully patched iPhones. The two bugs, tracked as CVE-2023-41064 and CVE-2023-41061 , allowed the attackers to infect a fully-patched iPhone running iOS 16.6 and belonging to a Washington DC-based civil society organization via PassKit attachment
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Krebs on Security
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
Microsoft today issued software updates to fix at least five dozen security holes in Windows and supported software, including patches for two zero-day vulnerabilities that are already being exploited. Also, Adobe , Google Chrome and Apple iOS users may have their own zero-day patching to do. On Sept. 7, researchers at Citizen Lab warned they were seeing active exploitation of a “zero-click,” zero-day flaw to install spyware on iOS devices without any interaction from the victim.
Joseph Steinberg
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
CyberSecurity and Artificial Intelligence Expert , Joseph Steinberg, will speak as part of a panel discussion on the intersection of CyberSecurity and Artificial Intelligence (AI), to take place on Tuesday, September 12, 2023 at 2 PM US Eastern time. Steinberg’s session, entitled Building Trust in AI: Addressing Security Fears in AI Adoption , will feature a discussion with three other notable figures from the world of AI: Yihua Liao, Ph.D.
Schneier on Security
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Google removed fake Signal and Telegram apps from its Play store. An app with the name Signal Plus Messenger was available on Play for nine months and had been downloaded from Play roughly 100 times before Google took it down last April after being tipped off by security firm ESET. It was also available in the Samsung app store and on signalplus[.]org, a dedicated website mimicking the official Signal.org.
Lohrman on Security
SEPTEMBER 10, 2023
In this interview with Dick Wilkinson, CTO at Proof Labs, we explore the cyber threats in space and on the Internet of Things, and how they impact each of us.
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The Last Watchdog
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
In an era of global economic uncertainty, fraud levels tend to surge, bringing to light the critical issue of intellectual property (IP) theft. Related: Neutralizing insider threats This pervasive problem extends beyond traditional notions of fraud, encompassing both insider threats and external risks arising from partnerships, competitors, and poor IP management.
Tech Republic Security
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
Check Point's Global CISO discusses the firm's 2023 threat intelligence, including new AI malice and threat actors spreading malware by dropping flash drives.
Schneier on Security
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
A new Mozilla Foundation report concludes that cars, all of them, have terrible data privacy. All 25 car brands we researched earned our *Privacy Not Included warning label—making cars the official worst category of products for privacy that we have ever reviewed. There’s a lot of details in the report. They’re all bad. BoingBoing post.
Trend Micro
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
In this blog, we investigate how threat actors used information-stealing malware with EV code signing certificates and later delivered ransomware payloads to its victims via the same delivery method.
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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.
The Hacker News
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
Google on Monday rolled out out-of-band security patches to address a critical security flaw in its Chrome web browser that it said has been exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2023-4863, the issue has been described as a case of heap buffer overflow that resides in the WebP image format that could result in arbitrary code execution or a crash.
Tech Republic Security
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Get technical details about how this new attack campaign is delivered via Microsoft Teams and how to protect your company from this loader malware.
Schneier on Security
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Interesting article on technologies that will automatically identify people: With technology like that on Mr. Leyvand’s head, Facebook could prevent users from ever forgetting a colleague’s name, give a reminder at a cocktail party that an acquaintance had kids to ask about or help find someone at a crowded conference. However, six years later, the company now known as Meta has not released a version of that product and Mr.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware operators have used their leak site to "set the record straight" about the MGM Resorts cyberattack. Meanwhile, more attacks abusing Okta could be likely.
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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.
The Hacker News
SEPTEMBER 9, 2023
Spyware masquerading as modified versions of Telegram have been spotted in the Google Play Store that’s designed to harvest sensitive information from compromised Android devices. According to Kaspersky security researcher Igor Golovin, the apps come with nefarious features to capture and exfiltrate names, user IDs, contacts, phone numbers, and chat messages to an actor-controlled server.
Tech Republic Security
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
Written by: Kirstie McDermott Silicon Valley is just one of a number of key US startup ecosystems fueling startups, all of which drive investment and job creation: check where new opportunities are in the US right now.
Schneier on Security
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at swampUP 2023 in San Jose, California, on September 13, 2023 at 11:35 AM PT. The list is maintained on this page.
Graham Cluley
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
Hotel and casino giant MGM Resorts has revealed that it is investigating a "cybersecurity incident" that has resulted in its website being taken offline, an outage of online booking systems, and even problems with slot machines. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
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The Hacker News
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
A new phishing attack is leveraging Facebook Messenger to propagate messages with malicious attachments from a "swarm of fake and hijacked personal accounts" with the ultimate goal of taking over the targets' Business accounts.
Tech Republic Security
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Updates are now available to patch a Chrome vulnerability that would allow attackers to run malicious code.
Schneier on Security
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Claude (Anthropic’s LLM) was given this prompt: Please summarize the themes and arguments of Bruce Schneier’s book Beyond Fear. I’m particularly interested in a taxonomy of his ethical arguments—please expand on that. Then lay out the most salient criticisms of the book. Claude’s reply: Here’s a brief summary of the key themes and arguments made in security expert Bruce Schneier’s book Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World :
Malwarebytes
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
The consequences of last year's LastPass breach continue to be felt, with the latest insult to users coming in the form of a highly convincing phishing email. Although the " unauthorized party" that compromised LastPass users' data was able to steal password vaults, it's likely that they are having a hard time cracking them open. LastPass's own assessment was that "it would be extremely difficult to attempt to brute force guess master passwords for those customers who follow our password best pr
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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.
WIRED Threat Level
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
State and local governments in the US are scrambling to harness tools like ChatGPT to unburden their bureaucracies, rushing to write their own rules—and avoid generative AI's many pitfalls.
Tech Republic Security
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Red Box provides the open architecture for data capture. Uniphore then feeds that data into U-Capture, its conversational AI automation tool.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
Zscaler ThreatLabz detailed a new malware loader, named HijackLoader, which has grown in popularity over the past few months HijackLoader is a loader that is gaining popularity among the cybercriminal community. The malware is not sophisticated, however, unlike other loaders, it has a modular structure that allows supporting code injection and execution.
The Hacker News
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
Adobe's Patch Tuesday update for September 2023 comes with a patch for a critical actively exploited security flaw in Acrobat and Reader that could permit an attacker to execute malicious code on susceptible systems. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-26369, is rated 7.
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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.
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