eSecurity Planet

APRIL 12, 2024

Data loss prevention (DLP) best practices are principles that help prevent intentional or unintentional data erasure. By following these guidelines, organizations can reduce the detrimental impact of data loss and quickly resume operations after an incident. Proofpoint’s 2024 data loss landscape report reveals 84.7%

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2024

The Black Basta ransomware gang claimed to have hacked the UK water utility Southern Water, a major player in the UK water industry. The company is a major player in the UK water industry, it employs over 6,000 people and has an annual turnover of over £1 billion. reads the post published by the researchers. southernwater.co[.]uk

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This week’s news includes open-source software vulnerabilities, endangered data, and continued attacks from state-sponsored Russian threat groups. And WordPress sites are vulnerable to code injection through plugin Backup Migration. and below are susceptible to the vulnerabilities. pfSense CE 2.7.0

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2023

CISA released an Industrial Control Systems (ICS) medical advisory warning of a critical flaw affecting Illumina medical devices. The above medical devices are used either in clinical diagnostic use in sequencing a person’s DNA for various genetic conditions or for research use only (RUO). iScan Control Software: v4.0.5

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2023

Multiple vulnerabilities in CyberPower PowerPanel Enterprise DCIM platform and Dataprobe PDU could expose data centers to hacking. CyberPower is a prominent supplier of data center hardware and infrastructure solutions, with a specific focus on cutting-edge power protection technologies and effective power management systems.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In a recent revelation, security researcher Jeremiah Fowler uncovered a significant data leak affecting one of the United States' largest health insurance companies, Cigna Health. Cigna Health data exposed The exposed database contained a staggering 17,187,743,574 records, spanning across 6.35 terabytes of data.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The past week has been a busy one for cybersecurity vulnerabilities, with 34 vulnerable Windows drivers and four Microsoft Exchange flaws heading a long list of security concerns. QNAP vulnerabilities and npm package supply chain attacks also made our list this week, plus a look at the new CVSS v4.0 The problem: The 9.1

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 13, 2023

This article is based on research by Marcelo Rivero, Malwarebytes’ ransomware specialist, who monitors information published by ransomware gangs on their Dark Web sites. The fate of the gang was sealed in early December, when their data leak sites suddenly became unavailable. The bad news?

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LRQA Nettitude Labs

JULY 5, 2023

With little in the way of regulation and standard security methodologies in the space, almost daily reports highlighting vulnerabilities or logic flaws that lead to less than ideal responses. This has been echoed by the news that OpenAI have announced that their first international office outside the US is to be opened in London. “We

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 18, 2024

Cloud storage is a cloud computing model that allows data storage on remote servers operated by a service provider, accessible via internet connections. Data is stored on physical mediums (SSDs, HDDs, and USBs), restricting access to specific devices and requiring physical transfer for mobility.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Experts discovered many misconfigured Apache Airflow servers exposed online that were leaking sensitive information from prominent tech firms. In the vulnerable Airflows, we see exposed credentials for popular platforms and services such as Slack, PayPal, AWS and more.” ” states the post published by Intezer. .”

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Critical multi-platform vulnerabilities impacting diverse systems dominated the past week’s cybersecurity headlines. A coding vulnerability in Microsoft’s Azure Pipelines affected 70,000 open-source projects. Vendor risk management and collaboration within the industry further enhance your system’s resiliency.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 13, 2019

There’s a very tough question on the table that no one can afford to ignore: If more than half of global IT and security executives say they actively fear the exposure of payment card data and other personal identifiable information, why are 70% of them not deploying measures such as encryption to maintain security?

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

"In an abundance of caution, our facilities are rescheduling some non-emergent, elective procedures and diverting some emergency room patients to other area hospitals until systems are back online," the company said in a news release. Many ransomware attacks today involve exfiltration of victim data," said Dave Monnier, CIO of Team Cymru. "In

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 29, 2024

Data loss prevention (DLP) refers to a set of security solutions that identify and monitor information content across storage, operations, and networks. DLP solutions help detect and prevent potential data exposure or leaks. DLP integrates procedures, technology, and people to effectively detect and prevent sensitive data leaks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 4, 2023

Social engineering – specifically malicious cyber campaigns delivered via email – remain the primary source of an organization’s vulnerability to attack. In addition, threat actors are rapidly exploiting the news cycle to profit from employee fear, urgency, or excitement.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The movement to the cloud means access to data anywhere, enhanced data recovery, flexibility for collaboration, and less of a burden on IT staff. But, while cloud providers boast that their storage services — or “buckets” — offer added application security , they have also consistently proven vulnerable.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Justice Department today unsealed indictments against four Chinese officers of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) accused of perpetrating the 2017 hack against consumer credit bureau Equifax that led to the theft of personal data on nearly 150 million Americans. companies in the nuclear power, metals and solar products industries.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 10, 2019

It has only been in the past four years or so that white hat researchers and black hat hackers have gravitated over to this unguarded terrain – and begun making hay. Remember when, over the course of the 2000s and 2010s, the cybersecurity industry innovated like crazy to address software flaws in operating systems and business applications?

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SC Magazine

MARCH 18, 2021

Ransomware gangs are evolving their operations at a rapid pace and making off with increasingly large pay days, according to a new report from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42. The manufacturing and health care sectors continue to get hammered, but there are indications that other industries are feeling the hurt as well.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 6, 2023

They’ve aggregated large data sets and deployed more cloud services to digitize business models, products, and services. When creating and deploying apps, DevOps teams use internal APIs to connect data sources and business processes, and external APIs to communicate with partners and customers.

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Webroot

JANUARY 13, 2021

After healthcare and higher education emerged as lucrative targets for cyberattacks in 2020, researchers have identified the video gaming industry as another key target. By scouring the dark web for stolen data belonging to any of the top 25 largest gaming firms, over a million unique and newly uploaded accounts were discovered.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 31, 2023

By John Weiler Microsoft patches the “ aCropalypse ” vulnerability, ChatGPT leaks users’ billing information and the Latitude Financial breach expands to 14 million records. Authorities Use Decoy Sites to Gather Data on Cybercriminals The U.K.'s Data is shared with international law enforcement and has led to several arrests.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

“Phishing emails containing malware, Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) brute forcing and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vulnerability exploitation are the most common intrusion tactics used by cybercriminals. Ransomware is named as the most prominent threat with a broad reach and a significant financial impact on industry.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 4, 2021

Spectre is the name for a whole class of vulnerabilities discovered in January 2018 that affected huge numbers of modern computer processors that rely on a performance feature called speculative execution. New research has discovered Spectre attacks that bypass existing mitigations. The new Spectre attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 6, 2021

Forescout Research Labs last month released a 14-page white paper and a 47-page research report detailing 33 vulnerabilities affecting millions of Internet of Things (IoT), Operational Technology (OT), and IT devices. Also Read: How to Build & Run a Threat Hunting Program. TCP/IP: Ubiquitous and insecure.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Every year, Kaspersky experts prepare forecasts for different industries, helping them to build a strong defense against any cybersecurity threats they might face in the foreseeable future. Yury Slobodyanuk , head of content filtering research, Kaspersky. Also, we’d like to thank Prof.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 11, 2023

This article is based on research by Marcelo Rivero, Malwarebytes' ransomware specialist, who monitors information published by ransomware gangs on their Dark Web sites. In both cases, significant amounts of customer data were stolen. The company's public willingness to pay also makes them a vulnerable target for further attacks.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 21, 2023

In 2019, crooks shifted their focus to enterprises and pioneered in stealing data in addition to encrypting it, which turned these raids into an explosive mix of blackmail and breaches. Metropolitan Police Department and allegedly retrieved about 250 GB worth of sensitive data. For the record, this phenomenon isn't exactly new.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 11, 2024

This article is based on research by Marcelo Rivero, Malwarebytes’ ransomware specialist, who monitors information published by ransomware gangs on their Dark Web sites. In that attack, the group claims to have encrypted devices and stolen sensitive data amounting to over 600GB.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 20, 2017

This week, I've been writing up my 5-part guide on "Fixing Data Breaches" On Monday I talked about the value of education ; let's try and stop the breach from happening in the first place. I don't know how the guy found the vulnerability nor do I know what it actually was (SQL injection, direct object references, etc).

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

But what are the biggest vulnerabilities to apps and software in particular this year? Vulnerabilities within a program or app cause problems like the recently reported bug with HP Omen Gaming Hub , which revealed a potential hole for attackers and that did reach millions. Where did those mainframes come from?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Experts discovered several flaws in Fuji Electric V-Server, a tool that connects PCs within the organizations to Industrial Control Systems (ICS). Experts discovered several vulnerabilities in Fuji Electric V-Server, a tool that connects PCs within the organizations to Industrial Control Systems (ICS) on the corporate network.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 4, 2021

Recent years have seen a sharp increase in the number of reported security vulnerabilities, along with quite a few notorious attacks on enterprise applications. It refers to the accumulation of known security vulnerabilities in an organization’s software and infrastructure. What is Security Debt and Why You Should Watch Out for It.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal. Apple T2 security chip in new MacBooks disconnects Microphone when lid is closed. 20% discount. Paper Copy.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 13, 2023

This article is based on research by Marcelo Rivero, Malwarebytes' ransomware specialist, who monitors information published by ransomware gangs on their Dark Web sites. The group successfully breached over 104 organizations by taking advantage of a zero-day vulnerability in the widely-used managed file transfer software, GoAnywhere MFT.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2018

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 176 – News of the week appeared first on Security Affairs.

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