The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The increase in remote workforces and difficulty enforcing security controls with expanding perimeters has played a role in the rise of ransomware. The price tag of the ransom is just one of the many costs of these attacks, and remediation can often exceed this fee many times over. The impact of ransomware. Preventing ransomware.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 24, 2021

tag=Data Security'>Data Security</a> <a href='/blog?tag=Data tag=Data Breach'>Data Breach</a> <a href='/blog?tag=Information Consequently, the challenge for most organizations now is: how do we share data safely and securely? <a href='/blog?tag=Data how much data?is is created?every

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

No HTML tags. That's actually my top tweet over the last 4 weeks by a significant margin because it's one we can all relate to. Scott Helme put me onto this originally via his two excellent posts on Securing DNS across all of my devices with Pi-Hole + DNS-over-HTTPS + 1.1.1.1 That is all. No tracking.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2021

April 2021 Security Patch Day includes 14 new security notes and 5 updates to previously released notes, one of them fixes a critical issue in SAP Commerce. SAP Security Note #3040210 , tagged with a CVSS score of 9.9 ” reads the advisory published by SAP security firm Onapsis.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 9, 2023

A surge of critical vulnerabilities and zero-day exploits has made for a very busy week in IT security, affecting a range of tech giants like Atlassian, Cisco, Apple, Arm, Qualcomm and Microsoft. Among the issues in the last week, Android and Arm faced actively exploited vulnerabilities in GPU drivers.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 31, 2023

The featured speakers are: Rachel Tobac, white hat hacker and CEO, SocialProof Security Rachel is a white hat hacker and the CEO of SocialProof Security, where she helps people and companies keep their data safe by training and pentesting them on social engineering risks. Check out the entire series.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 22, 2021

Security researchers responded Monday to news of the REvil ransomware attack on computer and electronics manufacturer Acer late last week, mostly expressing shock over the $50 million price tag and advising the computer maker not to pay. Quintin Lin, CC BY-SA 2.0 link] , via Wikimedia Commons).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 9, 2020

Security experts Simon Zuckerbraun from Zero Day Initiative published technical details on how to exploit the Microsoft Exchange CVE-2020-0688 along with a video PoC. A couple of weeks ago, the popular security researcher Kevin Beaumont reported mass scanning for the CVE-2020-0688 (Microsoft Exchange 2007+ RCE vulnerability).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

SAP released a collection of security fixes for February 2019 that address 13 vulnerabilities in its products, including a Hot News flaw in SAP HANA XSA. SAP Security Patch Day for February 2019 includes 13 Security Notes and 3 updates to previously released security notes.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The Mozi botnet was spotted by security experts from 360 Netlab, at the time of its discovered it was actively targeting Netgear, D-Link, and Huawei routers by probing for weak Telnet passwords to compromise them. state researchers at Microsoft Security Threat Intelligence Center and Section 52 at Azure Defender for IoT.

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The Falcon's View

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Today marks the end of my first week in a new job. As of this past Monday, I am now a Manager, Security Engineering, with Pearson. I'll be handling a variety of responsibilities, initially mixed between security architecture and team management. The destination is not finalized, but it seems likely to be Denver.

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The Security Ledger

DECEMBER 11, 2018

In this week’s podcast (#124): we speak with French security researcher Baptiste Robert about research on the social media accounts pushing the french "Yellow Vest" protests. Our first guest this week suspects that online propaganda campaigns orchestrated by outside agitators may be one factor. Read the whole entry. »

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Cisco Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Earlier this year we held a live broadcast, featuring cybersecurity threat analysts from across Cisco Secure. Colonial Pipeline, and The New World of Infrastructure Security. We also saw various underground forums instigate certain new rules, which told people that they could not advertise ransomware services here.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2019

According to The Media Trust’s Digital Security & Operations (DSO) team, iPhone users have been targeted by a malvertising campaign that has impacted more than 100 publisher websites, including online newspapers and international weekly news magazines. ” reads the analysis published by the DSO experts. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 31, 2021

A researcher said Wednesday that two malicious commits that were added to the PHP web development programming language’s official Git server earlier this week may have been prevented if the maintainers had enabled signed commits (encryption) on the server. (PXHERE, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons).

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SC Magazine

MARCH 31, 2021

A researcher said Wednesday that two malicious commits that were added to the PHP web development programming language’s official Git server earlier this week may have been prevented if the maintainers had enabled signed commits (encryption) on the server. (PXHERE, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 6, 2022

But in their rush to the cloud, too many organizations fail to identify the security risks that are unique to cloud computing, primarily misconfigurations. In the past year, 36% of companies suffered a serious cloud security leak or breach due to cloud misconfiguration, according to The State of Cloud Security 2021 Report.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

A file that attempts to pass itself as ‘image/png’ but does not have the proper.PNG format loads a PHP web shell in compromised sites by replacing the legitimate shortcut icon tags with a path to the fake.PNG file. According to the Korean Financial Security Institute, Andariel is a sub-group of the Lazarus threat actor.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 13, 2021

You might have heard their names as they are well known in the security industry for building apps that are secure by design. We can involve Claire as well, our new DevSecOps person, since it will be best to get security built into the product from the start,” said Alice. Bob asked, “ Won’t that slow us down Alice ?

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 3, 2023

And that's precisely what this 185th blog post tagging HIBP is - the noteworthy things of the years past, including a few things I've never discussed publicly before. ” Anyone can type in an email address into the site to check if their personal data has been compromised in a security breach. The Wall Street Journal.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

Both during this week and over previous years, there's been various headlines calling the security posture of Aadhaar into question and the Indian government has been vehemently refuting any suggestion that the system isn't top notch. UIDAI is the Unique IDentification Authority of India and they run the Aadhaar project.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Fortunately, this is digital hardware device--the password is on a chip somewhere -- so Dan and his friend turned to a world-renowned embedded security expert, Joe Grand, who looked at the Trezor wallet. For some people, crypto means cryptography. For others, it means cryptocurrency. That means it falls to you to protect your cryptocurrency.

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Daniel Miessler

MARCH 20, 2022

I’m starting a new series with this 2022 edition where I think about what Information Security could or should look like in the distant future—say in 2050. I think security will live within engineering in the future, much like building “secure” bridges isn’t a separate department within civil engineering.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

What role might the security industry have in identifying or even stopping it? The FTC claims that spy phones secretly harvested and shared data on people's physical movements phone news online activities through a hidden hack. Welcome to the hacker mind, in original podcast from for all security. So I hope you'll stick around.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 21, 2018

Transparency has been a huge part of that effort and I've always written and spoken candidly about my thought processes, how I handle data and very often, the mechanics of how I've built the service (have a scroll through the HIBP tag on this blog for many examples of each). Not had a @haveibeenpwned notification!

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

A 20-year-old from Vancouver, Washington was indicted last week on federal hacking charges and for allegedly operating the “ Satori ” botnet, a malware strain unleashed last year that infected hundreds of thousands of wireless routers and other “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices. 2018 that Schuchman was Nexus Zeta.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

We are excited to announce the Velocity Update for our application security platform, ShiftLeft CORE! With this update, AppSec and Development teams can fix security issues in source code even more quickly and efficiently. The Velocity Update streamlines security testing and remediation so teams release secure code more quickly.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

You can defend your site from the top cybercriminals, have the best hosting platform, and secure your platform with a strong password, but none of this is relevant if you aren’t performing website backups on a consistent basis. How do you put a price tag on irrecoverable data loss? Why do you need website backup?

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 15, 2023

It underscores the need to take preventative steps to ensure a security posture that reduces the risk of malware delivery and footholds early on in attack campaigns. The same way you do in the real world – the market becomes flooded. This is the story of information stealers today. MysticStealer forum post advertising v1.2

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

During the first week of March, we identified approximately 1,400 unique servers that had been targeted, in which one or more of these vulnerabilities were used to obtain initial access. They are designed to highlight the significant events and findings that we feel people should be aware of. Russian-speaking activity.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 14, 2019

The CyberWire Daily podcast delivers the day's cyber security news into a concise format. Dave Bittner: [00:00:03] A contractor for Russia's FSB security agency was apparently breached. Dave Bittner: [00:00:03] A contractor for Russia's FSB security agency was apparently breached. Transcript. That's extrahop.com/cyber.

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SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

For example, before making the first internet connection to its C2s, the Sunburst malware lies dormant for up to two weeks, preventing easy detection of this behaviour in sandboxes. When this technique is used, some security solutions cannot detect these implants. MS Exchange zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in the wild.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 14, 2019

The CyberWire Daily podcast delivers the day's cyber security news into a concise format. Dave Bittner: [00:00:03] A contractor for Russia's FSB security agency was apparently breached. Dave Bittner: [00:00:03] A contractor for Russia's FSB security agency was apparently breached. Transcript. That's extrahop.com/cyber.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 14, 2019

The CyberWire Daily podcast delivers the day's cyber security news into a concise format. Dave Bittner: [00:00:03] A contractor for Russia's FSB security agency was apparently breached. Dave Bittner: [00:00:03] A contractor for Russia's FSB security agency was apparently breached. Transcript. That's extrahop.com/cyber.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 19, 2023

OSes today are basically ineffective database managers, so why not build an OS that’s a database manager? Michael Coden, Associate Director, Cybersecurity, MIT Sloan, along with Michael Stonebreaker will present this novel concept at RSAC 2023. You can learn more at dbos-project.github.io. Music] VAMOSI: What is an operating system?

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Krebs on Security

MAY 11, 2021

The FBI confirmed this week that a relatively new ransomware group known as DarkSide is responsible for an attack that caused Colonial Pipeline to shut down 5,550 miles of pipe , stranding countless barrels of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel on the Gulf Coast. victim that earns $15 billion in annual revenue. The DarkSide ransomware note.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 3, 2021

Most organisation begin with "we take the security of your data seriously", layer on lawyer speak, talk about credit cards not being exposed and then promise to provide further updates as they come to hand. Gab's approach. This is normal. "It is standard practice for passwords to be hashed.

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