eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Application programming interface (API) security is a combination of tools and best practices to secure the all-important connections between applications. API security protects data and back-end systems while preserving fluid communication between software components through strict protocols and access controls.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 26, 2021

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released five malware analysis reports (MARs) related to samples found on compromised Pulse Secure devices. CISA published five malware analysis reports (MARs) related to samples found on compromised Pulse Secure devices. v1: Pulse Connect Secure MAR-10334057-3.v1:

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 7, 2024

“We are thrilled to be working with Badge, enabling a best-in-class authentication solution that builds on top of our market-leading identity data management and identity analytics capabilities to provide greater privacy and security to our customers,” said Wade Ellery , Field CTO, Radiant Logic.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Compromised Credentials Compromised identities from phishing, info stealers, keyloggers, and bad password habits provide the entry point for most ransomware attacks and data breaches. 583% increase in Kerberoasting [password hash cracking] attacks. 64% of managers and higher admit to poor password practices.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 5, 2024

Strong encryption protects data securely from unauthorized access, but the specific algorithms that qualify as strong encryption change over time as computing power increases and researchers develop new ways to break encryption. Strong encryption keys are passwords for encryption.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2024

A previously unknown China-linked threat actor dubbed ‘Unfading Sea Haze’ has been targeting military and government entities since 2018. Bitdefender researchers discovered a previously unknown China-linked threat actor dubbed ‘Unfading Sea Haze’ that has been targeting military and government entities since 2018.

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IG Guru

OCTOBER 29, 2018

October 16, 2018Mohit Kumar A four-year-old severe vulnerability has been discovered in the Secure Shell (SSH) implementation library known as Libssh that could allow anyone to completely bypass authentication and gain unfettered administrative control over a vulnerable server without requiring a password.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Quick response (QR) codes are a convenient format for storing all kinds of information in a readable and secure way, at least when correctly implemented. With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, for example, governments have recently implemented QR codes to create Digital COVID Certificates for vaccination, tests status and other reasons.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 30, 2022

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is recommending that government agencies and private organizations that use Microsoft’s Exchange cloud email platform migrate users and applications to Modern Auth before Basic Auth is deprecated in October. Read next: Top Secure Email Gateway Solutions.

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The more security teams and employees know about the different types of cybersecurity threats, the more effectively they can prevent, prepare for, and respond to cyberattacks. According to the IBM Security X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2023 , ransomware attacks represented 17 percent of all cyberattacks in 2022.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 15, 2022

Vulnerabilities in WatchGuard firewalls and Microsoft Windows and Windows Server need to be patched and fixed immediately, security organizations said in alerts this week. WatchGuard provides a detailed 4-Step Cyclops Blink Diagnosis and Remediation Plan that includes the following advisories: Use unique passwords for each Firebox.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Security Center under the Ministry of National Defense recorded a large number of virus-infected e-mails addressed to several state institutions. The Emotet campaign uses malicious emails that attempt to trick recipients into opening the zipped archive with the password included in the message. Security Center. Security Center.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 10, 2022

The cyber security landscape offered similarly familiar topics: there were huge data breaches at Facebook and LinkedIn, while the threat of ransomware reached catastrophic levels. You can read more about that attack, along with the year’s other biggest stories, in our 2021 cyber security review of the year.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The CISA agency is warning of a surge in Emotet attacks targeting multiple state and local governments in the US since August. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an alert to warn of a surge of Emotet attacks that have targeted multiple state and local governments in the U.S. since August.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 4, 2024

February 26, 2024 FCKeditor Used for SEO Poisoning on Government, University Sites Type of vulnerability: Malicious URL redirect. The problem: The C library for “uAMQP,” a lightweight Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), contains vulnerability CVE-2024-27099 with a CVSS score of 9.8. The fix: Apply Windows patches ASAP.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

DHS CISA issued an emergency directive to tells government agencies to address the Zerologon vulnerability (CVE-2020-1472) by Monday. The Department of Homeland Security’s CISA issued an emergency directive to order government agencies to address the Zerologon vulnerability (CVE-2020-1472) by Monday. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Security researchers from NCC Group reported an increase in ransomware attacks in November 2021 over the past month, and PYSA (aka Mespinoza) and Lockbit were the most active ransomware gangs. Experts observed a 400% increase in the number of attacks, compared with October, that hit government organizations.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 8, 2021

But their popularity has made them a target for hackers, making container security an important area to supplement in the already extensive cybersecurity portfolio. The need for container security. Misconfigured permissions can multiply these problems, so container security is too critical to be taken lightly. Runtime security.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The post The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 20 – 26 November 2023 appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. Among those affected was SAP SE. The researchers discovered credentials that provided access to 95,592,696 artifacts, as well as download permissions and some deploy operations.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The APT group, recently discovered by ESET, targeted government and private companies in Belarus, Moldova, Russia, Serbia, and Ukraine, including militaries and Ministries of Foreign Affairs. The malware samples analyzed by the researchers are slightly obfuscated using string obfuscation and dynamic Windows API library loading.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2023

The Alaris security team explained that the documentation is only accessible to customers that have a support contract with Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD). The Alaris security team explained that the documentation is only accessible to customers that have a support contract with Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD).

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Compared to August, it was a comparatively quiet month, as we identified 88 publicly disclosed security incidents and 35,566,046 compromised records. Welcome to our September 2022 list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Ransomware. Data breaches. Malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents. Cyber attacks.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 30, 2020

The new decade has begun relatively well, with a six-month low of only 61 disclosed cyber security incidents. Royal Yachting Association tells members to reset passwords after intrusion (unknown). Bartlett Public Library District, IL, computers disabled by ransomware (unknown). It’s not all good news, though.

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IT Governance

JULY 31, 2019

Remember after last month’s relatively serene cyber security scene we said this wasn’t the beginning of the GDPRevolution ? Hackers steal names and Social Security numbers from Maryland Department of Labour (78,000). Croatian government targeted by mysterious hackers (unknown). Libraries in Onondaga Co.,

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

We each need to consider how these trends may affect our organizations and allocate our budgets and resources accordingly: AI will turbo-charge cybersecurity and cyberthreats: Artificial intelligence (AI) will boost both attackers and defenders while causing governance issues and learning pains.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 30, 2024

billion in total potential damages by year-end Although the impact on Change Healthcare and UHG will be quantified for the US Security Exchange Commission (SEC), the impact on the US healthcare industry is more difficult to measure. CNN interviewed small practitioners stranded without payments , and UGH wound up providing $6.5

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IT Governance

MAY 7, 2024

This week, it turns out at least 191 further Australian organisations, including government entities, were affected by this breach, highlighting the risks of supply chain attacks. Also this week, NIST released four draft publications “intended to help improve the safety, security and trustworthiness of [AI] systems”.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Q: If a ransomware attack happens in the future, is it likely that if tape is used, the attackers will use their system access to attack the tape library and robot since they did not get what they want? As we have seen, hackers keep upping their game and it is just a matter of time before they add attacks on tape robots and libraries.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

These are the three components of the CIA triad, an information security model designed to protect sensitive information from data breaches. The CIA triad is a widely accepted principle within the industry, and is used in ISO 27001 , the international standard for information security management. Why is the CIA triad important?

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

Back in the day, security training was largely reserved for IT security specialists and then extended to include IT personnel in general. These days, all employees need to be well educated in security best practices and good habits if the organization wishes to steer clear of ransomware and malware. Elevate Security.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2021

In March 2020, CERT France cyber-security agency warned about a new wave of ransomware attack that was targeting the networks of local government authorities. CERT-FR’s alert states that the Pysa ransomware code based on public Python libraries. newversion file extension instead of . Pierluigi Paganini.

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IT Governance

MAY 24, 2024

About Vanessa Horton Vanessa holds a degree in computer forensics, as well as a number of cyber security and forensics qualifications. Now, she’s part of our cyber incident response team, helping clients with their cyber security requirements. Return to contents Detection – security monitoring and what is ‘normal’?

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

These critical encryption concepts encompass the vast majority of encryption algorithms and tools currently in wide use and can be used in combination for secure communication. Users can establish a symmetric key to share private messages through a secure channel, like a password manager.

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IT Governance

JUNE 27, 2018

Earlier this month I had a conversation about cyber security that ended with someone offering the familiar opinion: “Oh, I won’t be hacked – our website isn’t very popular”. Flightradar24 suffers security breach. Video-sharing site AcFun urges users to change passwords after nearly 10 million users have data leaked.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 1, 2020

We recorded 103 cyber security incidents in November, which accounted for 586,771,602 leaked records. The majority of those came from a credential-stuffing attack targeting Spotify and a data leak at the messaging app GO SMS Pro, which you can learn more about below. Here is our complete list of November’s cyber attacks and data breaches.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 7, 2023

Vulnerability scanning is critically important for identifying security flaws in hardware and software, but vulnerability scanning types are as varied as the IT environments they’re designed to protect. These features make Nmap a popular port scanning tool among network administrators, security experts, and amateurs.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

Passwords are everywhere, but they probably weren't intended to be used as much as they are today. Is there something more secure? Maybe you are at an organization that requires you to change your passwords every 90 days or so, and so you have password fatigue -- there are only so many variations you can do every 90 days or so.

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