Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2022

The malware was first spotted in 2019 by security experts at Kaspersky, the name BRAT comes from ‘Brazilian RAT Android,’ because at the time it was used to spy on Brazilian users. During the last months, a new variant has been observed targeting entities in EU territory posing as specific bank applications. Pierluigi Paganini.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 4, 2024

Security, governance, risk and compliance mechanisms are essential not only for governing AI but also for managing the IT estate running AI, providing evidence for regulatory compliance. These outcomes typically fall into one of three categories, none of which are desirable: Not useful: Customers remain unimpressed with your results.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2022

Security researchers released PoC exploit code for the critical authentication bypass vulnerability CVE-2022-22972 affecting multiple VMware products. The company acknowledged Bruno López of Innotec Security for the discovery of the flaw. Please vote for Security Affairs and Pierluigi Paganini in every category that includes them (e.g.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 27, 2022

Such consolidation across markets is good news for customers and vendors alike in terms of market growth and maximizing security investments. Throughout this period, the risk level of the acquirer is much higher than the acquired company, creating a major cybersecurity gap as they merge their tech stack and security tools together.

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2022

The experts first detected the intrusion on April 12 when the company’s security team identified unauthorized access to their npm production infrastructure using a compromised AWS API key. Security Affairs is one of the finalists for the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS. Pierluigi Paganini.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Application modernization is the process of updating legacy applications leveraging modern technologies, enhancing performance and making it adaptable to evolving business speeds by infusing cloud native principles like DevOps, Infrastructure-as-code (IAC) and so on.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 24, 2024

The online space continues to grow rapidly, opening more opportunities for cyberattacks to occur within a computer system, network, or web application. To mitigate and prepare for such risks, penetration testing is a necessary step in finding security vulnerabilities that an attacker might use. What is penetration testing?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2022

Magnifier Flashlight , a flashlight application with 10,000 downloads. Security Affairs is one of the finalists for the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS. Please vote for Security Affairs and Pierluigi Paganini in every category that includes them (e.g. To nominate, please visit:?.

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Security Affairs

MAY 31, 2022

. “A remote code execution vulnerability exists when MSDT is called using the URL protocol from a calling application such as Word. An attacker who successfully exploits this vulnerability can run arbitrary code with the privileges of the calling application. doc”) that was uploaded to VirusTotal from Belarus. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2022

“In fact, any application which makes use of WebView is liable to having the users’ credentials and cookies stolen.” ” Security Affairs is one of the finalists for the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS. ” concludes the report. To nominate, please visit:?. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2022

Joint research conducted by security firms Intezer and BlackBerry uncovered a new Linux threat dubbed Symbiote. For this reason, security researchers defined this threat as nearly impossible to detect. Security Affairs is one of the finalists for the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS.

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OpenText Information Management

APRIL 15, 2024

Help-desk employees can now find very specific, summarized answers from a deep repository of private, secured, semi-structured information in minutes instead of days. We have accelerated our portfolio into cloud, and we’ve placed strategic emphasis on key integrations--notably embedding security and intelligence everywhere.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 10, 2022

” The new variant is able to terminate a larger number of processes and services, to prevent that applications could lock them and interfere with the encryption process. ” Security Affairs is one of the finalists for the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2022

“Thanks to the HTTP request done by the document to its own controlled server, the attacker can get the version and the type of Word application used by the victim – which can be an interesting info to send a tailored exploit for the specific Microsoft Word version. .” reads the analysis published by the experts.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2022

In the past, the LuoYu group used watering-hole attacks to deliver their malware, since 2020 the WinDealer malware was delivered through an automatic update mechanism of select legitimate applications. ” A man-on-the-side attack is a form of active attack in computer security similar to a man-in-the-middle attack.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2022

A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs for free in your email box. Security Affairs is one of the finalists for the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS. To nominate, please visit:?. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2022

Tails is a security and privacy-oriented Linux distribution, it is a portable operating system that protects against surveillance and censorship. The CVE-2022-1802 vulnerability can allow an attacker to set up a rogue website to bypass some of the security built in Tor Browser and access information from other websites.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

0patch researchers released an unofficial security patch for a Windows zero-day vulnerability dubbed DogWalk. 0patch released an unofficial security patch for a new Windows zero-day vulnerability in the Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT) dubbed DogWalk. Many applications do that; MSDT, unfortunately, does not.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2022

Organizations are rapidly opening their ecosystem through Application Programming Interfaces (API) by ensuring seamless access to data and interaction with external software components and services. APIs are the gateway to providing the high security of data in an organization. Prioritize Security.

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Enterprise Software Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Group and aggregate data in Category chart when repeated labels are present. Chart Aggregations feature You can now g roup and aggregate data in Category chart when repeated labels are present. Let’s say you wanted to group by Category (groceries, household, restaurants) and then obtain the maximum value of the Amount column.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2022

Due to the lack of user input validation, an attacker can ignore the syntax provided by the software and inject arbitrary system commands with the user privileges of the application. concatenate `&|;r commands) and inject arbitrary system commands with the privileges of the application user. RESI S.p.A. CVE-2022-29538 – RESI S.p.A.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2022

Waiting for a security patch, Microsoft recommends disabling the MSDT URL Protocol as workarounds, below are the instructions included in the guidance: To disable the MSDT URL Protocol. Troubleshooters can still be accessed using the Get Help application and in system settings as other or additional troubleshooters.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2022

“A remote code execution vulnerability exists when MSDT is called using the URL protocol from a calling application such as Word. An attacker who successfully exploits this vulnerability can run arbitrary code with the privileges of the calling application. — Threat Insight (@threatinsight) June 3, 2022. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2022

The Pwn2Own Miami 2022 is a hacking contest organized by Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) that focuses on demonstrating exploits for ICS systems belonging to the following categories: the OPC UA Server, Control Server, Human Machine Interface, and Data Gateway. The payout for DoS ICS exploits was $5,000. To nominate, please visit:?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2022

Cybersecurity researchers from JFrog disclosed details of a now patched high-severity security vulnerability in the popular Fastjson library that could be potentially exploited to achieve remote code execution. The impact of this flaw is huge, it affects all Java applications that rely on Fastjson versions 1.2.80 Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2022

Microsoft security researchers recently observed web skimming campaigns that used multiple obfuscation techniques to avoid detection. The experts also observed compromised web applications injected with malicious JavaScript masquerading as Google Analytics and Meta Pixel (formerly Facebook Pixel) scripts. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Data Matters

JANUARY 12, 2022

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced settled charges against a broker-dealer firm for recordkeeping violations arising from its employees’ use of personal devices for business communications. Those communications can occur on employees’ personal devices, using text messages, messaging applications or personal email accounts.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Software application vulnerabilities fall into three different risk categories : Known Known : Known Knowns are identifiable risks that are known to lead to compromise. For the purpose of this blog post, we will focus on how SAST and Mayhem work together to identify both known-unknown and unknown-unknown risks.

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Rocket Software

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The White House has proclaimed October Cybersecurity Awareness Month, promoting efforts by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to encourage the public to be “Cyber Smart” and stay safe online. To constitute MFA, users should be asked to provide a combination of these categories. . In the U.S.,

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IT Governance

JULY 14, 2022

Organisations that fall within Levels 2–4 of the PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) can attest to compliance with an SAQ (self-assessment questionnaire). There are several types of questionnaire, and in this blog we help you understand which one is right for you. appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 30, 2019

As I noted in my last blog post , containers, which are now pervasive in enterprises, are ephemeral, and microservices frameworks like Kubernetes treat them as such. Data security is a complex subject, and, unfortunately, microservices only add to the complexity. Data security. Network security. And now some questions.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2022

The malware samples analyzed impersonated the applications of telecommunications companies or smartphone manufacturers. One of the Tykelab job postings for a security engineer we found spells out desired skills that would have direct application to surveillance of mobile networks and devices.” To nominate, please visit:?.

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Data Matters

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The Proposed Rule would bring “connected software applications” into the scope of Commerce’s authority to review certain transactions involving information and communications technology and services (ICTS) in the U.S. national security. First, the Proposed Rule would add “connected software applications” to the definition of ICTS.

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Data Matters

JUNE 14, 2022

Other permitted mechanisms include governmental security review and standard contractual clauses to be issued by Chinese government. Application Scope. processing of Chinese individuals’ personal information by an overseas data controller which is subject to the exterritorial application of PIPL. General Principles.

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Data Protection Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Noticeably, covered entities are now subject to new requirements imposing heightened responsibilities on Chief Information Security Officers (“CISOs”) and more specific and prescriptive requirements in relation to governance, risk assessments, and notifications to the NYDFS. f), is sufficient to trigger this new notice requirement.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 12, 2023

A global fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) enterprise needed to modernize its product portfolio, focusing on high-growth categories like pet care, coffee and consumer health. The need to digitally transform touches every organization, in every industry.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Some are quick fixes that you can sort out before you go away for the holidays, whereas other require a refined, systematic approach to information security. A simpler and more secure technique is to create a mnemonic or cipher, such as taking the first character from each word of a sentence. Weak passwords.

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