Notice Bored

APRIL 10, 2021

We're currently preparing some new information risk and security policies for SecAware.com. This policy will outline the associated information risks, mitigating controls and other relevant approaches. It's hard to find gaps in the suite of 81 policy templates already on sale (!)

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The Security Ledger

APRIL 29, 2019

Cybersecurity luminaries including Bruce Schneier, Gary McGraw, Joe Grand, Chris Wysopal and Katie Moussouris are backing securepairs.org, countering industry efforts to paint proposed right to repair laws in 20 states as a cyber security risk. Read the whole entry. »

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 22, 2024

As part of ChargePoint’s commitment to customer security, the company encourages researchers to collaborate with ChargePoint InfoSec to identify potential new vulnerabilities in its products or environment. For more information, please email the InfoSec team at: infosec@chargepoint.com.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 7, 2023

Permalink The post BSides Knoxville 2023 – Zachary Hunsaker – Open Source Intelligence: What Does The Internet Know About You? Our thanks to BSides Knoxville for publishing their presenter’s outstanding BSides Knoxville 2023 content on the organizations’ YouTube channel. appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Daniel Miessler

APRIL 16, 2020

This got me thinking more about the implicit tradeoffs we make in life with regard to functionality vs. risk—tradeoffs that we’re really bad at capturing and articulating. We accept this risk because driving is a requirement for our society to function. The internet is a tire fire of horrible software.

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Notice Bored

APRIL 20, 2022

When you acquire or provide professional services, how do you address the associated information risks? In theory, clients and providers should proactively identify, evaluate and address information risks relating to or arising from professional services in order to avoid, reduce or limit the damage arising from such incidents.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 9, 2018

Daniel Miessler criticizes my writings about IoT security: I know it's super cool to scream about how IoT is insecure, how it's dumb to hook up everyday objects like houses and cars and locks to the internet, how bad things can get, and I know it's fun to be invited to talk about how everything is doom and gloom. Yes, definitely.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Internet Explorer Vulnerability Discovered. Earlier this month, a security researcher discovered a major security flaw in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser. 2015 Cyber Security Risks. TechRadar recently posted an article covering the top seven cyber security risks that businesses should be aware of for 2015.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Sharing intelligence for the greater good is an essential component of making Internet-centric commerce as safe and as private as it needs to be. Started by infosec professionals, Peerlyst takes the characteristics of B2B communications we’ve become accustomed to on Twitter and LinkedIn and directs it toward cybersecurity.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 18, 2024

It is undoubtedly in the hands of thousands of internet randos. The linked article talks about the author verifying the data with various people he knows, as well as other well-known infosec identities verifying its accuracy. So, let's focus on what we can prove, starting with the accuracy of the data.

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The Security Ledger

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Tomislav tells us why issues related to Log4j won’t be going away anytime soon and how organizations must adapt to deal with the risk it poses. Tomislav tells us why issues related to Log4j won’t be going away anytime soon and how organizations must adapt to deal with the risk it poses. Supply Chain Risks: The New Normal.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Attack surface management aims to automate the process of discovering, assessing, and prioritizing vulnerabilities and third-party, digital supply chain, and cloud risks. It addresses both internal and external (EASM) risks. CAASM (cyber asset ASM) and DRPS (digital risk protection) are also related terms and elements of ASM.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Moss also said that all hacking is not infosec and that all infosec is not hacking. Where with infosec the goal is to produce income. ” This set up a basic dichotomy throughout his talk in that hacking doesn’t require professionalism just curiosity and Infosec does require professionalism but not always curiosity.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 13, 2023

It was fitting that the opening keynote panel for SecureWorld Chicago on June 8th was titled " Making the Cybersecurity Music: Navigating Challenges and Opportunities in Today's InfoSec Landscape. Well, information security, cybersecurity happens to be a critical part of the business, being able to achieve strategic objectives.

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Notice Bored

APRIL 12, 2022

This morning, I’ve been browsing and thinking about ISO/IEC 27403 , a draft ISO27k standard on the infosec and privacy aspects of “domotics” i.e. IoT things at home. Dynamics and diversity: people, devices and services plus the associated challenges and risks, are varied and changeable. entertainment).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 16, 2023

However, sensitive data is transmitted freely across internal and external APIs, increasing the risk of accidental or malicious exposure of different sensitive data types. Leading analysts and research firms have sounded the alarm about growing data security risks via API.

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Hot for Security

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Seismic monitoring devices linked to the internet are vulnerable to cyberattacks that could disrupt data collection and processing, according to Michael Samios of the National Observatory of Athens and his fellow colleagues who put together a new study published in Seismological Research Letters.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 8, 2023

Some other female speakers that highlighted the day included: Tamika Bass, Cybersecurity Director, Gannett Fleming Tamika Bass drove up from her home base in Atlanta to deliver her session on " Risk Management: Understanding How to Assess and Communicate Cybersecurity Risks " to more than 70 attendees.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 11, 2024

Working as CISO, DeSouza's areas of expertise include strategic planning, risk management, identity management, cloud computing, and privacy. While it fosters innovation, automation, and productivity, it simultaneously introduces significant cybersecurity and privacy risks. With the maturation of Zero Trust, propelled by the U.S.

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The Security Ledger

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

In this Spotlight Edition of the podcast we're speaking with RSA Chief Technology Officer Zulfikar Ramzan about how his company is adapting to help its customers confront the dark side of digital transformation initiatives: increased digital risk, including from cloud, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 28, 2019

Consider that most of us spend more time navigating the Internet on our laptops and smartphones than we do behind the wheel of a car. But the larger point is that Xbash is just one of dozens of malware families circulating far and wide across the Internet. Credential stuffing campaigns have become part of the fabric of the Internet.

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IT Security Guru

DECEMBER 21, 2022

We built the largest most complex machine in the history of the world – the internet. We built something which became so vital to our survival of the Pandemic that our economies, our human spirit to survive the crisis, resulted in a deep addiction to the internet. Over the course of the Pandemic humanity found itself in crisis.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 6, 2021

Firewalls are used to segment or isolate networks and are an essential component to limit cyber threats and protect internal networks from the internet and untrusted networks. Establish firewalls at each Internet connection between the DMZ and the local network. What is a PCI DSS Compliant Firewall?

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 9, 2019

How exactly will artificial intelligence help bridge the infosec skills gap and what kinds of security work are still best left to humans? So in 2014, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, DARPA, the people who really funded the original internet said, "Can we make cyber fully autonomous?" David Brumley: Oh, no.

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Notice Bored

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

From the information risk and security perspective, virtual working is both a nightmare and, again, an opportunity. How can virtual working benefit information risk and security? What about the technology risks, not least our ever-increasing dependence on the Internet? but we are not the only ones.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Cyber threats pose one of the most significant risks to businesses, governments, and individuals today. Without enough competent professionals to secure systems, assess risks, and respond to threats, organizations in every industry are dangerously exposed. in just the past year. This skills gap represents a critical vulnerability.

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Notice Bored

MAY 14, 2022

The 'obvious' driver for information security is information risk: valuable yet vulnerable information must be secured/protected against anything that might compromise its confidentiality, integrity or availability, right? That's 'obvious' from my perspective as an experienced information risk and security professional, anyway.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2021

It’s refreshing to see a government executive order that understands technology trends such as “zero trust”, is able to delineate “Operational Technology (OT)” from “information technology (IT,)” and can talk intelligently about supply chain risks. Bryson Bort , CEO, SCYTHE.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The panel will tackle topics and questions, including: The potential risks quantum computing poses to current cryptographic methods. When will these risks come to fruition, and who are the main threat actors? Director of Information Security, State of Colorado Governor's Office of Information Technology; and Toby Zimmerer, Sr.

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SC Magazine

MAY 20, 2021

Today’s columnist, Perry Carpenter of KnowBe4, writes that with the FBI reporting an increase of 300,000 in internet crime complaints in 2020, SOAR tools can strike a nice balance between automation and human analysis. Bear in mind that SOAR requires a mix of technologies and tools that deliver the capabilities the infosec team requires.

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Herjavec Group

MAY 19, 2022

No matter how many firewalls or network controls you have in place, the risk of insider threat will always be present. I’ve been in infosec for over 30 years and have had the great privilege of evolving and learning as a cybersecurity executive in a space I love.

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Joseph Steinberg

JUNE 10, 2022

As a result, cybersecurity programs must be crafted and implemented not only to defend against lateral movement through data systems by so called “authorized users” but also to treat users on internal networks as if they were no more trustworthy than users accessing via Internet-based connections emanating from halfway around the work.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 3, 2021

I've investigated hundreds of data breaches over the years (there are 514 of them in Have I Been Pwned as I write this), and for the most part, the situation with Gab is just another day on the internet. You can immediately see the risk to individuals. Gab's approach. The groups.sql file Andy also mentioned is much more benign.

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Notice Bored

JULY 9, 2022

Despite not clearly expressing the risk, the bill specifies mitigating controls - well, sort of. As to the actual controls, well the bill takes a classical risk-management approach involving impact assessments and responses such as taking down unsafe content and banning users who published it. A veritable cost-cascade. Fair comment!

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Notice Bored

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Data masking (8.11) - in line with the organisation’s access control policy, plus other business requirements and compliance obligations, scurity controls are apropriate to mitigate the risk of disclosing sensitive personal and proprietary information. The fine details, however, do matter in practice.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 9, 2019

How exactly will artificial intelligence help bridge the infosec skills gap and what kinds of security work are still best left to humans? So in 2014, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, DARPA, the people who really funded the original internet said, "Can we make cyber fully autonomous?" David Brumley: Oh, no.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 9, 2019

How exactly will artificial intelligence help bridge the infosec skills gap and what kinds of security work are still best left to humans? So in 2014, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, DARPA, the people who really funded the original internet said, "Can we make cyber fully autonomous?" David Brumley: Oh, no.

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