Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2022

Microsoft Partch Tuesday security updates for April 2022 fixed 128 vulnerabilities, including an actively exploited zero-day reported by NSA. One of these flaws, tracked as CVE-2022-24521 (CVSS score 7.8), is a Windows Common Log File System Driver Elevation of Privilege issue that is actively exploited. Pierluigi Paganini.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2023

Welcome to our review of security incidents for 2022, in which we take a closer look at the information gathered in our monthly lists of data breaches and cyber attacks. IT Governance discovered 1,063 security incidents in 2022, which accounted for 480,014,323 breached records. How security incidents occurred.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Welcome to our third quarterly review of security incidents for 2022, in which we take a closer look at the information gathered in our monthly list of data breaches and cyber attacks. IT Governance identified 285 publicly disclosed security incidents between July and September 2022, which accounted for 232,266,148 compromised records.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

On January 30, Taiwanese vendor QNAP released QTS and QuTS firmware updates to address a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-27596 (CVSS v3 score: 9.8), that affects QNAP NAS devices. 4,777 “while there are no indications that bad actors are using this new exploit, the threat is definitely on the horizon.” and QuTS hero h5.0.1

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IT Governance

JULY 11, 2022

Welcome to our second quarterly review of security incidents for 2022, in which we take a closer look at the information gathered in our monthly list of data breaches and cyber attacks. IT Governance discovered 237 security incidents between April and June 2022, which accounted for 99,019,967 breached records.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 9, 2023

Identity thieves have been exploiting a glaring security weakness in the website of Experian , one of the big three consumer credit reporting bureaus. But until the end of 2022, Experian’s website allowed anyone to bypass these questions and go straight to the consumer’s report. Her report also was replete with errors.

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IT Governance

APRIL 12, 2022

Welcome to our first quarterly review of security incidents for 2022, in which we take a closer look at the information gathered in our monthly list of data breaches and cyber attacks. IT Governance discovered 266 security incidents between January and March 2022, which accounted for 75,099,482 breached records.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2023

A PoC exploit code for the unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2022-47966 in Zoho ManageEngine will be released soon. The CVE-2022-47966 flaw is an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability that impacts multiple Zoho products with SAML SSO enabled in the ManageEngine setup. POC and blog to come.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 26, 2022

Five Hot Security and Privacy Topics You Need To Understand in 2022. Thu, 01/27/2022 - 06:13. Panelists included security professionals from many well-established and successful organizations as well as consultants and industry leaders. Schrems II and the Security of International Data Flows.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2023

Threat actors are actively exploiting a recently patched critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-44877 (CVSS score: 9.8), in Control Web Panel (CWP). Ongoing mass exploitation of CVE-2022-44877 (Centos Web Panel 7 Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution). The vulnerability was discovered by Numan Türle from Gais Security.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 31, 2022

scored vulnerabilities are unspecified,” Flashpoint noted in its mid-year 2022 Report. ” Flashpoint analyzed 11,860 vulnerabilities in the first six months of 2022 and found that the CVE/NVD services failed to report and detail 27.3% percent of all known 10.0 See the Best Patch Management Systems.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The acquisition was announced in March 2022 by both companies: “ RESTON, Va., March 8, 2022 – Mandiant, Inc. NASDAQ: MNDT) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Google LLC for $23.00 billion appeared first on Security Affairs. Google announced the completion of the $5.4

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 9, 2022

On May 27, 2022, Vermont Governor Phil Scott signed H.515 515 , making Vermont the twenty-first state to enact legislation based on the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Insurance Data Security Model Law (“MDL-668”). Information Security Program Requirements.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

I remember the first time we were asked for a SOC 2 report, which quickly became the minimum bar requirement in our industry for proof of an effective security program,” he said. The vision was to automate security and compliance across 14 frameworks, including SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and GDPR. Growth has definitely been robust.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 10, 2023

The second flaw being actively exploited is CVE-2023-24932 , a Windows Secure Boot security feature bypass vulnerability with a CVSS score of 6.7 – again, Goettl said, it’s best to ignore the rating and focus on the confirmed exploits. Still, six of the flaws are critical, and two others are currently being exploited in the wild.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2023

The ransomware attack took place on December 2, 2022, threat actors exploited a previously unknown security exploit , dubbed OWASSRF by Crowdstrike , to gain initial access to the Rackspace Hosted Microsoft Exchange. The ProxyNotShell flaws are: CVE-2022-41040 – Microsoft Exchange Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2022

A recent experience highlighted that security awareness training and most alerts to users about unsafe practices may be making the error of being too general. An alert came in one morning about a security alert generated by my device. See the winners of eSecurity Planet’s 2022 Cybersecurity Product Awards. Echoes of Y2K.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

11, made public the Regulatory Agenda approved by the Directing Council for the 2021-2022 biennium, through which it lists the topics to be regulated by the ANPD in this period and the respective deadlines for its beginning. The agenda foresees the regulation of the so-called ‘priority aspects’. Although Ordinance No. Although Ordinance No.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In December 2022, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that a cybercriminal using the handle “ USDoD ” had infiltrated the FBI ‘s vetted information sharing network InfraGard , and was selling the contact information for all 80,000 members.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 20, 2022

On October 10, 2022, there were 576,562 LinkedIn accounts that listed their current employer as Apple Inc. “That’s definitely the first huge drop that happened throughout the time we’ve collected the profiles,” she said. The next day, half of those profiles no longer existed. A follow-up story on Oct.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

US – Federal banking regulators issue computer-security incident notification final rule. Rule takes effect April 1, 2022. Issued on November 18, 2021, the rule takes effect April 1, 2022 , providing covered organizations with some time to update their incident response processes and vendor agreements.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2023

AI company OpenAI launched a bug bounty program and announced payouts of up to $20,000 for security flaws in its ChatGPT chatbot service. The bug bounty program, which is operated via the Bugcrowd crowdsourced security platform, also covers APIs, API keys, and other assets belonging to OpenAI.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The rule defines a “notification incident” as a “computer-security incident that has materially disrupted or degraded, or is reasonably likely to materially disrupt or degrade, a banking organization’s—. The final rule becomes effective April 1, 2022, and compliance is required by May 1, 2022.

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Data Protection Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In order to facilitate the safe re-opening of the economy, the Ministry of Manpower (“ MOM ”) and the Tripartite Alliance for Fair and Progressive Employment Practices (“ TAFEP ”) have collectively issued new guidance for employers on the COVID-19 measures to be implemented at the workplace from 1 January 2022 (the “ MOM Guidance ”) [1].

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Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2023

The worm is written in the Rust programming language, it targets Redis instances by exploiting the Lua sandbox escape vulnerability CVE-2022-0543 (CVSS score 10.0). This CVE-2022-0543 vulnerability has been used in previous attacks aimed at Redis servers carried out tby by the Muhstik and Redigo botnets.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. The homepage of Stark Industries Solutions.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Talos believes that NineRAT was built around May 2022, but was first spotted on March 2023 as part of Operation Blacksmith. Lazarus APT is an umbrella for sub-groups, each of them has specific objectives in defense, politics, national security, and research and development.

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Data Protection Report

AUGUST 4, 2022

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

header.len is deserialized from the network and can report a length up to u64::MAX , so it definitely should be checked before allocating. They suggest tungstenite for new websocket applications in Rust, however they clearly value the security of users that haven't switched crates yet. GitHub Security Advisory.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 23, 2022

On May 29, 2022, the Maryland legislature enacted House Bill 962 , which amends Maryland’s Personal Information Protection Act (the “Act”). Other changes to the Personal Information Protection Act include clarifications to the definition of “genetic information” and to the substitute notice requirements.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Microsoft today issued updates to plug more than 70 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, including one vulnerability that is already being exploited. This month’s Patch Tuesday also includes security fixes for the newly released Windows 11 operating system. Firstly, Apple has released iOS 15.0.2

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 3, 2022

On April 28, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”) and an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“ANPRM”), proposing several updates to the Telemarketing Sale Rules (“TSR”). Revising the definition of “previous donor.”

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Krebs on Security

JULY 10, 2022

Turner said he created the account at Experian in 2020 to place a security freeze on his credit file, and that he used a password manager to select and store a strong, unique password for his Experian account. Turner said that in early June 2022 he received an email from Experian saying the email address on his account had been changed.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

On November 3, 2022, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf signed Senate Bill 696 into law (the “Act”), amending Pennsylvania’s breach notification law. . Username or e-mail address, in combination with a password or security question that would permit access to an online account.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

Network security creates shielded, monitored, and secure communications between users and assets. Securing the expanding, sprawling, and sometimes conflicting collection of technologies that make up network security provides constant challenges for security professionals.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2024

According to the UK agency, data retrieved from the systems belonging to the ransomware gang revealed that from June 2022 to February 2024, the criminals gave orchestrated over 7,000 attacks. 119 engaged in negotiations with victims, meaning they definitely deployed attacks. ” continues the NCA.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

There are multiple examples of ransomware groups doing just that after security researchers crowed about finding vulnerabilities in their ransomware code. “I definitely feel like I was ill-prepared for this attack,” Jon said. This is not an idle concern.

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