eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Threat intelligence can help scan IT environments for the latest malware, but that’s just one security layer against zero-day threats. Also read: How to Defend Common IT Security Vulnerabilities. In the following graphic, NTIA provides a conceptual example of charting relationships for a software application.

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Data Protection Report

MAY 18, 2022

Whether to report a breach of security safeguards to the OPC and notify impacted individuals. For example, basic contact details may appear relatively innocuous. The OPC highlights that the combination of this information can lead to an increased chance of phishing or identity theft: PIPEDA Report of Findings #2015-007.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In a 2,200-page report, Finnish authorities laid out how they connected the extortion spree to Kivimäki, a notorious hacker who was convicted in 2015 of perpetrating tens of thousands of cybercrimes, including data breaches, payment fraud, operating a botnet and calling in bomb threats. ” The Finnish daily yle.fi

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 11, 2019

A group of Israeli researchers demonstrated that it is possible to take over the Simatic S7 controller one of the most secure controllers in the industry. Security Research Center at the Technion, Prof. As a first example we extend attacks that can remotely start or stop the PLC to the latest S7-1500 PLCs.”

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IT Governance

JULY 6, 2020

Beaming’s Five Years in Cyber Security found that 1.5 This equates to 25% of all UK businesses, compared to 13% in 2015. On the plus side, the average cost of breaches has fallen from £26,000 per incident in 2015 to £6,000 in 2019 – although that’s offset by the increase in the overall number of incidents.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 2, 2015

On December 31, 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed legislation to move the deadline for compliance to September 1, 2015, for Federal Law No. The compliance deadline was then moved to January 1, 2015, before being changed to September 1, 2015 in the legislation signed by President Putin.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 13, 2023

After Microsoft warned earlier this week that some drivers certified by the Windows Hardware Developer Program (MWHDP) are being leveraged maliciously, a Cisco Talos security researcher said the number of malicious drivers could number in the thousands. Talos researcher Chris Neal discussed how the security problem evolved in a blog post.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2019

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. From iPhone to NT AUTHORITYSYSTEM – exploit ‘Printconfig dll with a real-world example. Negative opinion of Italy security committee Copasir on Huawei, ZTE 5G solutions. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2019

Microsoft presented a series of security enhancements for its Windows 10, including the removal of the password-expiration policy. ” An organization can protect users against stolen passwords by choosing alternative security policies instead of a password-expiration policy, for example by enforcing multi-factor authentication.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2018

2018 was the year of the Internet of Things (IoT), massive attacks and various botnets hit smart devices, These are 5 IoT Security Predictions for 2019. The regulation around IoT security was this year’s signal that the answer is, fortunately, no. Insights from VDOO’s leadership. 2019 will continue these trends but at a faster pace.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Twitter admitted having “inadvertently” used phone numbers and email addresses, collected for security purposes, for advertising. Twitter apologized to have used phone numbers and email addresses, privided by the users for security purposes, for advertising. ” reads a post published by Twitter. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

states now have designated safe trading stations — mostly at local police departments — which ensure that all transactions are handled in plain view of both the authorities and security cameras. The website Craigslistkillers has catalogued news links for at least 132 murders linked to Craigslist transactions since 2015.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Security experts at Cofense uncovered a malspam campaign the leverages Google Docs to deliver the TrickBot banking Trojan to unsuspecting victims via executables camouflaged as PDF documents. For example, in February Trend Micro detected a variant that includes a new module used for Remote App Credential-Grabbing. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 26, 2019

The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) urges developers to drop Python 2 due to imminent End-of-Life to avoid attacks on a large scale. The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is recommending developers to drop Python 2.x x due to the imminent End-of-Life. “Python 2.7 will not be maintained past 2020.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

In May 2015, KrebsOnSecurity briefly profiled “ The Manipulaters ,” the name chosen by a prolific cybercrime group based in Pakistan that was very publicly selling spam tools and a range of services for crafting, hosting and deploying malicious email. ZERO OPERATIONAL SECURITY. Image: Facebook.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Here's how it normally plays out: It all begins when a company pops up online and makes some sort of ludicrous statement related to their security posture, often as part of a discussion on a public social media platform such as Twitter. — Betfair Help (@BetfairCS) April 23, 2015. See the theme?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence have provided guidance and information as part of the Protected Voices campaign. Which are the most secure passwords? This is one of the most debated issues when dealing with cyber security. ” states the DHS.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2020

D-Link has released a firmware update to address three security flaws impacting the DIR-865L home router model, but left some issue unpatched. D-Link has recently released a firmware update to address three out of six security flaws impacting the DIR-865L wireless home router. ” reads the analysis published by Palo Alto Networks.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 22, 2019

The owner of a Swedish company behind a popular remote administration tool (RAT) implicated in thousands of malware attacks shares the same name as a Swedish man who pleaded guilty in 2015 to co-creating the Blackshades RAT , a similar product that was used to infect more than half a million computers with malware, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2019

The leak was reported to Wyze on December 26th at around 10:00 AM and the company immediately secured the database and launched an investigation. “Today, we are confirming that some Wyze user data was not properly secured and left exposed from December 4th to December 26th.” on December 26 by a reporter at IPVM.com.

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Security Affairs

JULY 4, 2019

Magento addressed security vulnerabilities that could be chained by an unauthenticated attacker to hijack administrative sessions and completely take over online stores. ” reads the analysis published by security firm RIPS Technologies. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2020

Security experts and privacy advocates believe that the Zoom is an efficient online video communication platform, but evidently it has some serious privacy and security solutions. The first expert to warn about the security flaw goes online with the handle Mitch ( @_g0dmode ). — Mitch (@_g0dmode) March 23, 2020.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2020

Below an example provided by WMware : 2020-04-06T17:50:41.860526+00:00 info vmdird t@139910871058176: ACL MODE: Legacy. In March, VMware has released security updates to address high severity privilege escalation and denial-of-service (DoS) flaws in the Workstation, Fusion, Remote Console and Horizon Client. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2020

A Server-side request forgery (also known as SSRF) is a web security vulnerability that allows an attacker to induce the server-side application to make HTTP requests to an arbitrary domain of the attacker’s choosing. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Following the summit, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were created, outlining eight international development goals to be achieved by 2015. Some prominent examples include the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), the Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB) and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is embracing the work of ethical hackers and their researches to secure medical devices. People typically shudder to think about their smart speakers or home security systems getting compromised, and indeed, vulnerabilities in those devices would be traumatizing. Image by Rawpixel.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2024

“For example, in Samourai’s marketing materials, RODRIGUEZ and HILL similarly acknowledge that the individuals most likely to use a service like Samourai include individuals engaged in criminal activities, including “Restricted Markets.” HILL was also arrested yesterday in Portugal following U.S. criminal charges.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Threat actors are adapting their attack techniques to exploit the ongoing situation, researchers from Abnormal Security observed campaign that hit between 15,000 to 50,000 Office 365 users. ” reads the report published by Abnormal Security. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Data Matters

MAY 5, 2022

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (“CISA”), repeatedly emphasizes CISA’s cooperative approach with the U.S. Instead, she described the Agency as a coequal partner with the private sector in securing U.S. Jen Easterly, Director of the U.S. private sector. infrastructure.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

I've bolded the most important bits: Manafort and Gates made numerous false and fraudulent representations to secure the loans. For example, Manafort provided the bank with doctored [profit and loss statements] for [Davis Manafort Inc.] for both 2015 and 2016, overstating its income by millions of dollars.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2020

The Sandboxie tool has been built on many years of highly-skilled developer work and is an example of how to integrate with Windows at a very low level.” The security firm confirmed that all restricted features have been made completely free in this version. .” Sophos Director of Product Marketing Seth Geftic said.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2022

FIN7 is a Russian criminal group that has been active since mid-2015, it focuses on restaurants, gambling, and hospitality industries in the US to harvest financial information that was used in attacks or sold in cybercrime marketplaces. FIN7 is suspected to have hit more than 100 US businesses, causing more than $1 billion in losses.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Crooks abuse Google and Adobe services to create URLs that point to malicious websites that anyway are able to bypass security filters because they appear as legitimate URLs from trusted IT giants. ” An example of Google open redirect is [link] ] that could be abused by attackers. “ reads the post published by Google.

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CGI

JUNE 17, 2019

Cybersecurity in utilities: Critical questions for securing distributed energy resources (DERs). Examples of DERs include rooftop solar photovoltaic panels, combined heating and power (CHP) systems, electric vehicles and chargers, wind turbines, generators and energy storage, among others. . Mon, 06/17/2019 - 05:09.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2020

IBM security researcher continues to monitor the evolution of the infamous Zeus Sphinx banking Trojan (aka Zloader or Terdot ) that receives frequent updates and that was involved in active coronavirus scams. . Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. 2 Trojan that was leaked online.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

House of Representatives passed the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act, a bill that aims at improving the security of IoT devices. House of Representatives last week passed the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act, a bill designed to improve the security of IoT devices. Mark Warner. “I Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2020

” reads the post published by Damian Menscher, a Security Reliability Engineer for Google Cloud. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Tbps DDoS attack in 2017, the largest DDoS ever seen appeared first on Security Affairs. ” reads the report published by Google. .

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