IT Governance

JANUARY 18, 2018

This week, we discuss further problems caused by patches for the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, a text bomb that crashes Apple devices and the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2018. US ICS-CERT provides links to a number of advisories from industrial-equipment manufacturers, including ABB, Rockwell and Siemens.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2020

1 company in the field of manufacturing and trading steel sheet in Vietnam and the leading exporter of steel sheet in Southeast Asia. “Cyble has been reporting these data breaches to aware individuals of the risks associated with using online services.” Hoa Sen Group is the no.1 billion. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The United States continues to highlight the risks to national security in case of adoption of Huawei equipment and is inviting internet providers and telco operators in allied countries to ban Huawei. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” reported the AP News. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 3, 2023

reads the advisory The vulnerability is a heap-based buffer overflow issue and according to the vendor it may have been exploited in a limited number of attacks aimed at government, manufacturing, and critical infrastructure sectors. states the report published by Fortinet. “For ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

In July, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced its decision to phase out the use of network equipment manufactured by the Chinese tech giant Huawei in the UK’s 5G network as little as six months. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Recently Belgian telecoms operators Orange Belgium and Proximus announced that it will gradually replace the equipment from the Chinese manufacturer Huawei. In April 2018, the UK GCHQ intelligence agency warned UK telcos firms of the risks of using ZTE equipment and services for their infrastructure. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

On January 28, 2019, the Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council released the “ Medical Device and Health IT Joint Security Plan ” (“JSP” or “Plan”)—cybersecurity recommendations for medical device manufacturers, healthcare information technology vendors, and healthcare providers. Design Control.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

A vulnerability disclosure process could help organizations in rapidly address vulnerabilities reported by experts and bug hunters to reduce the risk of compromise. By providing a clear process, organisations can receive the information directly so the vulnerability can be addressed, and the risk of compromise reduced.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

.” In November 2017, Estonia announced that it would suspend security digital certificates for up to 760,000 state-issued electronic ID-cards that are using the buggy chips to mitigate the risk of identity theft. The Estonian electronic ID cards have been manufactured by the Swiss company Trub AG and its successor Gemalto AG since 2001.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Security measures have been taken to limit the risk of propagation.” The list of the victims of the Ryuk ransomware is very long and includes the US government contractor Electronic Warfare Associates (EWA) , US railroad company Railworks , Croatian petrol station chain INA Group , and parts manufacturer Visser Precision.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Researchers at Applied Risk discovered serious flaws in some PLC gateways manufactured by industrial tech company ABB. Security experts at Applied Risk are affected by potentially serious flaws and the bad news is that the vendor will not release firmware updates because the impacted products have reached the end of life.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Users of the Network attached storage devices manufactured have reported a mystery string of malware attacks that disabled software updates by hijacking entries in host machines’ hosts file. Unfortunately the first part is very attractive to users that doesn’t understand the risks and the last part is a lie.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2018

The US was the first country that warned of the security risks associated with the usage of the products manufactured by the Chinese telecommunications giant. In May, the Pentagon ordered retail outlets on US military bases to stop selling Huawei and ZTE products due to unacceptable security risk they pose. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

VNC is widely adopted in industrial environments and many manufacturers of industrial control systems (ICS) leverage on VNC to implement remote control for their products. For this reason, experts suggest setting a strong password on the server to mitigate the risks. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – ICS-SCADA, hacking).

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Investors, regulators and stakeholders are increasingly demanding that companies disclose their exposure to climate-related risks , such as dependence on fossil fuels or vulnerability to weather events. Join the IBM Sustainability Community 1 Green transition creates $10.3T

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2018

The Chinese nightmare is rapidly spreading among European countries, now a Czech cyber-security agency is warning against using the equipment manufactured by Chinese firms Huawei and ZTE because they pose a threat to state security. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. million people.”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2019

A serious DoS flaw affects several industrial automation products manufactured by the Yokogawa Electric. Affected products are used in a broad range of industries worldwide, mainly in the energy, critical manufacturing, and food and agriculture sectors. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

cdpwn – Millions of devices at risk due to flaws in implementations of Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP). IoT devices at major Manufacturers infected with crypto-miner. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Google mistakenly shared private videos of some users with others in 2019.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Amico worked with Auto-ISAC to figure out how attackers could steal PII from vehicles manufactured by affected members. The good news for drivers is that at least manufacturers have already provided updates to make their latest models immune to the CarsBlues attack. Pierluigi Paganini. Security Affairs – CarsBlues, privacy).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

600,000 GPS trackers left exposed online with a default password of ‘123456’ Avast researchers found at least 600,000 GPS trackers manufactured by a Chinese vendor that were exposed online with a default password of “123456.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Because the manufacturer’s analysis was not satisfactory, the team responsible for handling the incident requested a second opinion, since in other anti-virus tools the document was reported to be malicious. The team needed evidence to prove the risk involved in the file. Twitter: [link]. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2020

The Maze ransomware gang has released 14GB of files that they claim were stolen from one of its victims, the Southwire cable manufacturer. The victims of the Maze Ransomware are facing another risk, after having their data encrypted now crooks are threatening to publish their data online. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

According to the ICS-CERT the software widely used in the critical manufacturing sector. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2018-17912, it was discovered by Gjoko Krstic from industrial cybersecurity firm Applied Risk, the issue affects the CASE Suite versions 3.10 Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2021

SBOMs also offer protection against licensing and compliance risks associated with SLAs with a granular inventory of software components. With a universe of open source and proprietary components, SBOMs provide transparency by identifying risk-prone elements or later deemed vulnerable to attack. SBOM Use Cases. OWASP’s CycloneDX.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2020

A flaw, dubbed Cable Haunt, in Broadcom’s cable modem firmware exposed as many as 200 million home broadband gateways in Europe alone, at risk of remote hijackings. Hundreds of millions of Broadcom-based cable modems are at risk of remote hijacking due to the presence of a vulnerability dubbed Cable Haunt, CVE-2019-19494.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Researchers Mat Powell and Natnael Samson discovered several vulnerabilities in WECON’s PI Studio HMI software, a software widely used in critical manufacturing, energy, metallurgy, chemical, and water and wastewater sectors. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2019

In December 2018, the Czech National Cyber and Information Security Agency warned against using the equipment manufactured by Chinese firms Huawei and ZTE because they pose a threat to state security. The US first, and many other countries after, have decided to ban network equipment manufactured by the Chinese telecom giant Huawei.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2018

We believe this will only grow in 2019 and, because this will increase awareness of threats with IoT users, it will, in turn, accelerate the regulation process, and put more pressure on manufacturers to raise the security bar for their products. For certain, IoT device manufacturers cannot leave IoT cyber security behind much longer.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

“There is an access mode used during manufacturing of S7-1200 CPUs that allows additional diagnostic functionality. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. The teams of researchers discovered that the hardware undocumented access mode was present in the bootloader code since 2013.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

However, if you know where the dangers lurk, there is a way to minimize the cybersecurity risks. The Flaws in Manufacturing Process. Manufacturers saw this as an opportunity and rushed in to grab their own piece of the IoT market. Manufacturers saw this as an opportunity and rushed in to grab their own piece of the IoT market.

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Information Governance Perspectives

APRIL 5, 2023

In 2015, he successfully transitioned from a military career as a trial attorney for the JAG Corps to working in telematics in corporate America for State Farm Insurance. Insurers like Lemonade, Root, State Farm’s Highroad, and Blue Owl use telematics to price each individual’s risk exposure in real time.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 3, 2018

According to New Zealand’s Government Communications Security Bureau, Huawei equipment for 5G infrastructure poses a “significant network security risk,” for this reason, it asked mobile company Spark to avoid using the equipment of the Chinese company. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 9, 2019

Security experts at Pen Test Partners discovered several vulnerabilities in two smart car alarm systems put three million vehicles globally at risk of hack. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” reads the report published by Pen Test Partners. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

. “During the attack, the user is completely unaware that they received the attack, that information was retrieved, and that it was successfully exfiltrated ,” The experts revealed that they observed SimJacker attacks against users with most popular mobile devices manufactured by Apple, Google, Huawei, Motorola, and Samsung.

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Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2019

The experts at the healthcare cybersecurity firm CyberMDX have found some flaws in the firmware of the anesthesia machines, the issues could expose patients to serious risks. GE Healthcare has determined that this scenario does not provide access to data and does not introduce clinical hazard or patient risk.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2019

Multiple vulnerabilities in the heart defibrillators could be exploited by attackers to remotely control the devices, potentially putting the lives of patients at risk. Security firm Clever Security discovered that heart defibrillators manufactured by Medtronic are affected by two serious vulnerabilities. .”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2018

US first, and many other countries after, have decided to ban network equipment manufactured by the Chinese telecom giant Huawei. The United States is highlighting the risks for national security in case of adoption of Huawei equipment and is inviting internet providers and telco operators in allied countries to ban Huawei. .

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