The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Related: The case for augmented reality training Because of this, cybersecurity investments and regulatory oversight are increasing at an astounding rate , especially for those in the financial services industry, bringing an overwhelming feeling to chief compliance officers without dedicated security teams.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2024

Liquipedia, an online e-sports platform run by Team Liquid, exposed a database revealing its users’ email addresses and other details. Users of the e-sports knowledge base were exposed via a publicly accessible and passwordless MongoDB database, the Cybernews research team has discovered. Our team contacted Liquipedia in late October.

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Data Breach Today

MARCH 8, 2024

NSTAC Report Calls for Federal Cybersecurity Tax Deductions and Financial Grants The National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee is recommending the administration work to establish financial incentives, such as tax deductions and federal grants, for critical infrastructure owners and operators that implement enhanced cybersecurity standards. (..)

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Purchase of Outflank Marks Security Software Firm's 10th Acquisition in 20 Months HelpSystems acquired Dutch red-teaming startup Outflank to help critical infrastructure firms more effectively prepare for cyberattacks.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2024

Participants earned $732,500 on the first day of the Pwn2Own Vancouver 2024 hacking competition, a team demonstrated a Tesla hack. The team also won a new Tesla Model 3. In past editions of the hacking competition, the same team already demonstrated exploits against Tesla. The team earned $90,000 and 9 Master of Pwn points.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Cisco’s $28 billion acquisition of Splunk comes at an inflection point of security teams beginning to adopt to working with modern, cloud-native data lakes. However, security teams have challenges with Splunk’s steeply rising costs. Ripping and replacing Splunk overnight is unrealistic.

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IT Governance

JULY 13, 2023

Red team cyber security assessments are a crucial way of giving organisations a practical understanding of their defence capabilities. In these exercises, the red team faces off against their counterparts, the blue team, in a battle to control a particular asset. What is a red team?

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Financial information is one of the most frequently targeted areas, so it’s crucial your cybersecurity policies start with your finance team. Training team members regularly with real-life scenarios will help them spot potential threats and protect them from exposing your business. Monitor team member access through audit trails.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Researchers: Fraudsters Target Office 365 Users to Harvest Credentials Researchers have uncovered a fresh phishing campaign that mimics the automated messages of the popular business communication platform Microsoft Teams in an attempt to harvest users' Office 365 login credentials.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Red, blue and purple teams simulate cyberattacks and incident responses to test an organization’s cybersecurity readiness. Blue Teams Blue teams simulate day-to-day operations that protect an organization’s systems and networks from cyberattacks.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 2, 2020

Fraudsters Look to Harvest Office 365 Credentials From At-Home Employees A recently uncovered phishing campaign is spoofing notifications from Microsoft's Teams collaboration platform in order to harvest Office 365 credentials from employees working from home offices because of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to research from Abnormal Security.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 11, 2021

Compliance Expert Discusses Leveraging Data Analytics Adam Turteltaub, chief engagement and strategy officer at the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics, says compliance teams should create a dashboard of data that will help keep track of actions taken by staff members who are working remotely.

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Data Breach Today

MARCH 21, 2022

Texas Dental Practice Says Patient PHI 'Accessed, Copied' in 2021 Malware Incident A Texas dental and orthodontic practice that boasts of being "the official dentist" of the National Basketball Association team the Dallas Mavericks is notifying more than 1 million individuals of a 2021 breach involving patient information being viewed and copied by (..)

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Dark Reading

JULY 5, 2023

The "TeamsPhisher" cyberattack tool gives pentesters — and adversaries — a way to deliver malicious files directly to a Teams user from an external account, or tenant.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Researchers uncovered an ongoing campaign abusing popular messaging platforms Skype and Teams to distribute the DarkGate malware. The threat actors abused popular messaging platforms such as Skype and Teams to deliver a script used as a loader for a second-stage payload, which was an AutoIT script containing the DarkGate malware. .

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Security researcher Gameel Ali speculated that Johnson Controls was the victim of the Dark Angels Team extortion group that has developed a new variant of their Linux ransomware. Dark Angels Team created a new variant of their linux ransomware to target @johnsoncontrols.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The Daixin Team group claims to have hacked the North Texas Municipal Water District (US) and threatened to leak the stolen data. The Daixin Team group added NTMWD to the list of victims on its Tor leak site. The Daixin Team is a ransomware and data extortion group that has been active since at least June 2022.

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Data Breach Today

MARCH 24, 2023

Mission Helped Find Threats, Vulnerabilities in Albania's Critical Infrastructure The United States sent its top cyber offensive team to NATO ally Albania to help secure the nation's critical infrastructure networks.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Attackers compromise Microsoft Teams accounts to attach malicious executables to chat and spread them to participants in the conversation. While the popularity of Microsoft Teams continues to grow, with roughly 270 million monthly active users , threat actors started using it as an attack vector. ” continues the analysis.

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KnowBe4

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Researchers at Truesec are tracking a phishing campaign that’s distributing the DarkGate Loader malware via external Microsoft Teams messages.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Time and again, we see IT teams struggle to deal with seasonal spikes in demand and outages. Such fiascos are an IT team’s nightmare— no one wants to be the IT person who let the systems go down on Black Friday or Cyber Monday. This year’s Black Friday sale wasn’t any different.

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KnowBe4

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Attackers are abusing Microsoft Teams to send phishing messages, according to researchers at AT&T Cybersecurity.

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AIIM

AUGUST 10, 2021

Teams offers yet another way to share content with colleagues and even customers, storing files in SharePoint and OneDrive separately. Every aspect of content flow and collaboration – including Microsoft Teams and its information—must be integral to the organization’s approach to information governance.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 29, 2023

Hero mentality Senior security leaders, i.e. CSOs and CISOs, need to be able to convey the risks that their teams face, especially to board members who can easily get lost in explanations of the endless technical nuances. Overworked SOC teams have difficulty focusing on what really matters. We can never switch off.”

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 29, 2019

Deborah Kish of Fasoo on Rethinking the Approach When it comes to rethinking how enterprises structure their cybersecurity teams, Deborah Kish of Fasoo says that teamwork and better coordination among stakeholders are essential.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 17, 2019

James Stanger of CompTIA on Improving Security Controls James Stanger, chief technology evangelist at CompTIA, explains why red teaming can prove highly beneficial in improving organizational security controls.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2023

The six critical vulnerabilities discussed in the release note are as follows: CVE-2023-29328 and CVE-2023-29330 , a pair of remote code execution flaws in Microsoft Teams with a CVSS score of 8.8 Subscribe The post Patch Tuesday Targets 74 Flaws, Including Microsoft Teams, Office appeared first on eSecurityPlanet.

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KnowBe4

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

New data sheds light on what kinds of cyber attacks are targeting your cybersecurity team, what it’s costing them, why it’s taking so much time to fix, and where you should focus resources.

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Hanzo Learning Center

MAY 10, 2023

To achieve these objectives, leaders in legal operations can begin building higher-performing teams through optimization by focusing on these three key aspects: optimizing and maintaining organizational health, practicing operational efficiency, and training and developing the legal department.

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Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2022

White hat hackers earned a total of $800,000 on the first day of the Pwn2Own Vancouver 2022, $450,000 for exploits targeting Microsoft Teams. During the first day of the event, white hat hackers earned a total of $800,000, a record for the first day of this contest, including $450,000 for successful exploits targeting Microsoft Teams.

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