Google Security

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

This comes from the fact that versioning schemes in existing vulnerability standards (such as Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) ) do not map well with the actual open source versioning schemes, which are typically versions/tags and commit hashes. The result is missed vulnerabilities that affect downstream consumers.

Software 140

Software Accountability 140

CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 3, 2023

In the year 2021, security analysts tagged Ransomware at the trending malware topping the list in the Crypto-virology chart. We can also conclude such an operation as a prevention technique, where the identity and remediation in the attack chain take place in an automated way at the hardware level.

Software 120

Software Ransomware Manufacturing Encryption 120

Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Dependabot automates dependency updating tasks which helps to keep security issues at bay. Dependabot has a square profile image and a “bot” tag. Regular accounts have a circular avatar and are also unable to properly replicate the bot tag signifier.

Accountability 105

Accountability Scams Social Engineering Passwords 105

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 15, 2021

Success in implementing microsegmentation for your organization means tagging traffic, servicing regular business communications, adapting to threats , and denying all other anomalies. . All traffic is known, tagged, or verified, preventing any potential vulnerabilities related to trust. . Tag Your Workloads.

Firewall 94

Firewall Architecture Technology Software 94

The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 8, 2023

With support for Microsoft CA and AWS Private CA, DigiCert Trust Lifecycle Manager enables discovery, issuance, automation and revocation, including the ability to tag, filter and apply policy to imported and discovered third-party digital certificates.

Authentication 100

Authentication Technology VPN Software 100

ForAllSecure

MARCH 16, 2023

The Mayhem GitHub action allows you to use Mayhem with GitHub Actions , automating security testing for your applications hosted on GitHub. As you can see, automating security testing with Mayhem saves not only manual security testing effort, but—more importantly—time. How do I contribute to the Mayhem GitHub Action?

Passwords 52

Passwords Accountability 52

SecureList

MAY 23, 2022

In early 2020, we notified the Rockwell Automation Product Security Incident Response Team ( RA PSIRT ) of several vulnerabilities we had identified in the ISaGRAF Runtime execution environment. A remote attacker could easily implement a password brute force attack in ISaGRAF Runtime.

Architecture 79

Architecture Authentication Passwords Encryption 79

Google Security

APRIL 26, 2024

Lambert Rosique and Jan Keller, Security Workflow Automation, and Diana Kramer, Alexandra Bowen and Andrew Cho, Privacy and Security Incident Response Introduction As security professionals, we're constantly looking for ways to reduce risk and improve our workflow's efficiency.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 18, 2022

But apparently some organizations have automated the uploading of email attachments without really thinking through the possible consequences. Receiving information with a TLP tag other than TLP:WHITE is a privilege. While we do understand the occasional need to upload a file to VirusTotal, do not automate this procedure.

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Malware Engineering Technology Cybersecurity 121

Cisco Security

MAY 17, 2021

Imagine simplified security, where you describe your high-level security objectives in simple language, and then receive automated recommendations to secure your networks, clouds, and workloads. Now, with the dynamic attribute connector, we also leverage Azure, VMware, and AWS tags. Bringing back visibility. Bringing Back Visibility .

Network Security 98

Network Security Firewall VPN Encryption 98

IT Security Guru

MAY 24, 2021

They need automation when they want it, so that action is taken automatically based on the security risk policies they have put in place. With limited resources on security teams, automated tools are required to achieve the scale and scope of managing small- and medium-sized environments, let alone enterprise-scale infrastructure.

Cybersecurity 107

Cybersecurity Risk Software Data collection 107

Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2023

Within the file, there were seven brackets of PHP tags and each of them contained an obfuscated piece of code within. The PHP tags were stacked on top of each other, having legitimate code of the website at the very bottom. The articles explain various quirks in the malware’s automated attack behavior.

Malware 91

Malware Software Hacking Engineering 91

Troy Hunt

AUGUST 3, 2022

Step 2: Trigger a Microsoft Power Automate Flow Microsoft Power Automate (previously "Microsoft Flow") is a really neat way of triggering a series of actions based on an event, and there's a whole lot of connectors built in to make life super easy.

Passwords 363

Passwords Accountability 363

Security Boulevard

AUGUST 4, 2021

This proactive security posture improvement initiative consists of automated “pass/fail” checks that provide risk scores. When running checks to determine whether an open-source project is active, the automation reviews whether the project got any commits in the last 90 days. What are Secure Scorecards for open source projects?

Software 83

Software Risk Government Technology 83

Identity IQ

JANUARY 10, 2024

” Let’s break it down: what these services offer, how they help, and if the peace of mind is worth the price tag. Deciding whether identity theft protection is worth the price tag takes more than a simple cost-benefit analysis. What Do Identity Theft Protection Companies Do? What about your identity?

Identity Theft 104

Identity Theft Insurance Accountability Surveillance 104

Malwarebytes

MARCH 18, 2022

The Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has shared their observations about a group of cybercriminals called Exotic Lily. Among these interested parties TAG found the Conti and Diavol ransomware groups. From the TAG blog we can learn that Exotic Lily was very much specialized. Initial access broker. Exotic Lily.

Ransomware 87

Ransomware Malware Social Engineering Media 87

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Regarding that flaw, Microsoft observed, “An attacker can craft a malicious file that would evade Mark of the Web (MOTW) defenses, resulting in a limited loss of integrity and availability of security features such as Protected View in Microsoft Office, which rely on MOTW tagging.”

Risk 129

Risk Authentication Ransomware Cybersecurity 129

Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2023

Russia-linked APT Gamaredon starts stealing data from victims between 30 and 50 minutes after the initial compromise The source code of the BlackLotus UEFI Bootkit was leaked on GitHub US CISA warns of Rockwell Automation ControlLogix flaws Indexing Over 15 Million WordPress Websites with PWNPress New AVrecon botnet remained under the radar for two (..)

Spyware 90

Spyware Hacking Data breaches Mobile 90

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The vulnerability allows attackers to craft documents that won’t get tagged with Microsoft’s “Mark of the Web,” despite being downloaded from untrusted sites. The bug already seeing exploitation is CVE-2022-44698 , which allows attackers to bypass the Windows SmartScreen security feature.

Social Engineering 195

Social Engineering Ransomware Software Engineering 195

Security Boulevard

JANUARY 10, 2024

Overall, here is how word cloud of our 2023 episode titles looks like: (src) Top episodes from all years: “EP1 Confidentially Speaking“ “EP2 Data Security in the Cloud“ “EP75 How We Scale Detection and Response at Google: Automation, Metrics, Toil” “EP3 Automate and/or Die?” EP47 Megatrends, Macro-changes, Microservices, Oh My!

Cloud Migration 64

Cloud Migration Government Network Security Risk 64

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 30, 2023

In December, MIT Technology Review investigated the data collection and sharing practices of the company iRobot , the developer of the popular self-automated Roomba vacuums. In their reporting, MIT Technology Review discovered a series of 15 images that were all captured by development versions of Roomba vacuums.

Artificial Intelligence 94

Artificial Intelligence Data collection Technology Data privacy 94

The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Many of these photos are tagged with the identity of the people in them. One solution for online facial recognition would be to trick the systems to allow the use of subtly altered real photos so that the subject will not be recognized by automated systems. This kind of technology would have many applications.

Surveillance 153

Surveillance Marketing Technology Authentication 153

SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Google says that OSV will automate workflow for an open source package consumer by providing an API to query for vulnerabilities. If that information is not available, OSV requires providing a reproduction test case and steps to generate an application build, and then it performs bisection to find these commits in an automated fashion.

Software 77

Software Accountability Cybersecurity 77

Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

tag='></a> <a href='/blog?tag='></a> tag='></a> <a href='/blog?tag='></a> tag='></a> 2020 was a year of unprecedented challenge for anyone working in public sector cybersecurity. <a href='/blog?tag='></a> Featured: .

Cybersecurity 78

Cybersecurity Digital transformation Cyber threats Ransomware 78

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Maintainers of open source software could benefit of OSV’s automation to reduce the burden of triage. This is cross referenced against upstream repositories to figure out the affected tags and commit ranges.” ” reads the post published by Google. npm Registry and PyPI). . ” continues Google.

Software 112

Software Hacking Information Security Malware 112

NetSpi Technical

MARCH 11, 2024

This property tag contained the COM GUID that we have assigned in the configuration file, which ultimately defines what COM CLSID the form was eventually registered as. Again, SensePost provides an overview of these property tags and their importance so we will refrain from re-stating the same here. What makes that determination?”

Authentication 52

Authentication Penetration Testing Technology Phishing 52

eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2021

SWID: Software Identification Tagging. Towards the end of the 2010s, the International Organizations for Standards (ISO) began developing a standard for tagging software components with machine-readable IDs. In August 2021, the SPDX became an official standard as ISO/IEC 5962. ISO/IEC 19770-2 was confirmed in 2012 and updated in 2015.

Software 134

Software Risk Healthcare Cybersecurity 134

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 30, 2023

There are also manual additions for projects that lack labels in the GitHub API (tags, topics). Automation and as-code workflow utilities like Nuclei and Sigma have begun to emerge. For example, at the time of writing, Osquery is behind Sigma, even if Sigma only has 5,805 stars compared to Osquery’s 19,678.

InfoSec 119

InfoSec Accountability Software Cybersecurity 119

Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

IIoT applications offer a great return on investment while enabling manufacturers to improve automation, visibility, customer-centricity, and time to market. Every item in the inventory gets an RFID tag, and each tag has a unique identification number (UID) with encoded digital information about the item. Quality control.

Manufacturing 98

Manufacturing IoT Authentication Artificial Intelligence 98

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Despite simultaneously targeting thousands of our IPs, presumably in hopes of slipping past automated defenses, the attack had no impact.” A report published by the Google Threat Threat Analysis Group (TAG) speculates that the attack was carried out by a state-sponsored threat actor. . “Our infrastructure absorbed a 2.5

DDOS 100

DDOS DNS Advertising Engineering 100

Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2024

Patch it now! million cryptojacking scheme arrested in Ukraine Cybercrime Cryptojacker arrested in Ukraine over EUR 1.8

Artificial Intelligence 97

Artificial Intelligence VPN Hacking Firewall 97

ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 6, 2022

In order to build API security testing into the development process naturally, use a shift left approach along with an automated API tester, such as Mayhem for API. Mayhem for API is an API testing tool that uses fuzzing automation technology to give developers detailed API testing results in less than five minutes.

Software 52

Software Marketing Technology 52

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Likely an automated process, the code was injected before the closing <body> tag. This simple example shows how bad actors and their network of automated tools and compromised sites can inject pretty much whatever they want into a site with less than ideal security.

Malware 52

Malware Firewall Hacking Cybersecurity 52

CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

The IBM Cost of a Data Breach Study 2021 found that the price tag for a breach had increased to $4.24 Additionally, the average cost of a data breach continues to rise. million, the highest total cost in the history of the IBM report. The study found that it took an average of 287 days for an organization to find and detect a breach.

Data breaches 116

Data breaches InfoSec Threat Detection Ransomware 116

Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Private registries and metadata are used to give out role-based assignments, automate policies, minimize human errors, and identify vulnerabilities. Appropriately name and tag each container image. Second, container compliance is easy and automated, which reduces human error and closes vulnerability gaps. . Network traffic.

Architecture 69

Architecture Risk Accountability Software 69

Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 21, 2023

As well, vulnerabilities are tagged as “CISA recommended” if they are found in the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) managed catalog of known exploited vulnerabilities. To help automate the patching process, you can create a schedule to install third-party software updates regularly. Bam, you’re done.

Software 71

Software Cybersecurity 71

Security Boulevard

APRIL 17, 2023

This allowed the actor to automate the malware delivery process against specific targets entered by the attackers in the email recipient section of the panel's user interface. According to the Apache documentation, users must insert all IP filters inside the "<RequireAll>" tag (7). htaccess” file (figure 6): 109[.]200[.]159[.]40

Phishing 84

Phishing Social Engineering Malware Government 84