Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2023

It was a bit shocking that we were able to reach the deserialization sink without any authentication.” Most of these online assets belong to large enterprises, governments and educational institutions.” The vulnerability was discovered by researchers at the cybersecurity firm Assetnote. ” continues Assetnote.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 13, 2022

These Russian cyber actors are government organizations and include other parties who take their orders from the Russian military or intelligence organizations – while not technically under government control. Educate your employees on threats and risks such as phishing and malware. Related: Cyber espionage is in a Golden Age.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Government policymakers decided in the 1990s to promote inherently insecure, nascent Internet technology to be the world’s primary global information infrastructure for all the world’s communications, content, and commerce. Government policymakers decided in the 1990s to de facto nationally abdicate governing online.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2024

The attacks were observed as recently as February 2024, they targeted government, education, emergency services, healthcare, and other critical infrastructure sectors. Phobos operation uses a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model, it has been active since May 2019. ” reads the joint CSA.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 24, 2024

A ransomware attack against the Finnish IT services provider Tietoevry disrupted the services of some Swedish government agencies and shops. Tietoevry is a Finnish multinational information technology (IT) and consulting company that provides managed services and cloud hosting for the enterprise. ” concludes the update.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Rebecca Krauthamer , Co-founder and CPO, QuSecure Krauthamer As new standards for quantum-resilient cryptography come into effect, many government agencies will move toward quantum-readiness. The federal government, specifically the Defense Industrial Base (DIB,) which consists of 300,000 contractors, is struggling to keep up.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2022

Security researchers released PoC exploit code for the critical authentication bypass vulnerability CVE-2022-22972 affecting multiple VMware products. VMware Workspace ONE Access, Identity Manager and vRealize Automation contain an authentication bypass vulnerability affecting local domain users.” using CVE-2022-22972.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors. The group relied on compromised credentials to authenticate to internal VPN access points. The victims of the group are “targets of opportunity.”

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 8, 2023

The libOQS library that is included in Sandwich gives easy access to new post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithms from NIST, which will be critical to protect government entities and corporations against threats posed by quantum computers. A broad range of U.S. For additional information visit our website at [link].

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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2024

Most affected organizations are educational institutions such as schools and universities, healthcare facilities including clinics and doctors’ practices, nursing services, legal and tax advisory firms, local governments, and a multitude of medium-sized enterprises. reads the advisory published by Microsoft.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The grants are part of the state’s SOC/Range Initiative, a program managed by MassTech’s MassCyberCenter that aims to help build a diverse generation of cybersecurity professionals through education, training, and workforce development. Preparation, communication, and active monitoring are key to defending against online attacks.” “The

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

As well as October’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month, there are many planned events to help educate on the emerging trends around cybersecurity and privacy. We have two meeting rooms, and our focus is on protecting and securing access to your data through modern and strong authentication solutions. Our event booth number is H25-C70.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 6, 2022

This October is Cyber Security Awareness Month, an event designed to educate people about information security and the steps they can take to stay safe online. Both national governments and private organisations have supported the campaign and are running programmes online and in person. How IT Governance can help.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

. “As early as 2022, APT28 actors had utilized compromised EdgeRouters to facilitate covert cyber operations against governments, militaries, and organizations around the world.” and foreign governments and military, security, and corporate organizations. ” reads the joint report. ” concludes the report.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

According to the message, there is a huge cash prize for the winner, and to enter, they need to share the link with a friend, who will receive an authentication code to verify that they are real. However, the code is actually part of Facebook’s password reset mechanism. But how is the scammer able to do this?

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The Texas Record

AUGUST 27, 2019

On Friday, August 16, over twenty local government entities in Texas were targeted by a coordinated ransomware attack. This incident is the most recent in a year marked by cyberattacks on state and local governments across the country. In the wake of the attack, Texas local governments have been asking for help.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Secure remote working tips and VPN insights from our senior penetration tester Leon Teale is a senior penetration tester at IT Governance. Enable MFA (multifactor authentication) for when the device is authenticating to the corporate network, and consider using certificate-based access.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 30, 2018

DataLocker honed its patented approach to manufacturing encrypted portable drives and landed some key military and government clients early on; the company has continued branching out ever since. You just simply push the power button, type in your password, authenticate it; and then you can connect it to any system with a USB port.

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Preservica

JANUARY 22, 2020

In 2002, I accepted the position of Statewide Records and Forms Coordinator for the Wisconsin Department of Electronic Government (DEG). Today, digital information and communications technologies are ubiquitous in the public sector and every agency is engaged in e-government. Playing Catch Up.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2023

We have also implemented measures such as multi-factor authentication to prevent further breaches.” On August 10, 2023, the Japanese maker of watches Seiko disclosed a data breach following a cyber attack. It appears that some as-yet-unidentified party or parties gained unauthorized access to at least one of our servers.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2023

FortiGuard Labs researchers observed a worrisome level of attacks attempting to exploit an authentication bypass vulnerability in TBK DVR devices. Threat actors are attempting to exploit a five-year-old authentication bypass issue, tracked as CVE-2018-9995 (CVSS score of 9.8), in TBK DVR devices.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

They’re often state-sponsored entities, foreign governments, or actual businesses. In fact, ransomware-as-a-service is alive and well, educating would-be offenders on how to undertake an attack and even offering customer support. Educate employees on how to spot and respond to suspicious emails that bypass filters. Prevalence.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 24, 2024

Leon Teale is a senior penetration tester at IT Governance with more than ten years’ experience performing penetration tests for clients in various industries all over the world. In my research work for IT Governance, I’ve noticed a pattern where the same names repeatedly crop up. What do you make of this breach?

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IT Governance

AUGUST 9, 2022

That’s why we are suspending your account in 48h if you don’t complete the authentication process.”. When users enter their email address and password, the site states: “Authenticity Check is completed, your account has been proved authentic by our automatic system, all current problems are resolved”.

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Preservica

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Recording and preservation of land and real property is a foundational statutory and administrative operation of government. Nearly 7,000 documents in the Dutch collection have been digitized and translated and are available online to researchers, educators and genealogists. Evolution and Integration of Disciplines.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2023

Russia-linked APT group Sandworm is behind destructive cyberattacks against Ukrainian state networks, the Ukrainian Government Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) warns. The threat actors allegedly obtained access to Ukraine’s public networks by using compromised VPN credentials.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

One shocking statistic is that, even though 55% of the retailers had experienced a breach, only 33% of retailers prioritized multi-factor authentication (MFA) as the most effective method for preventing cyberattacks. Of the leading perceived threats, malware tops the list at 65%, and ransomware follows close behind at 52%.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2023

Installations that have not altered the default configured SECRET_KEY according to installation instructions allow for an attacker to authenticate and access unauthorized resources.” The application then validates the signature on the cookie to re-authenticate the user prior to processing the request. ” reads the advisory.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Furthermore, at the time of the publication, the system did not use any authentication method upon access.” Experts noticed that the system still allows communications on port 502, which is used for Modbus protocol, that doesn’t require any authentication/encryption. ” reads the blog post published by OTORIO.

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Preservica

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The 2016 IGI Benchmark Report on The Governance of Long-term Digital Information confirmed that nearly all organizations represented have digital records and information that keep or need to keep in excess of 10 years. For the time being, long-term digital preservation is a future area of focus on the IG roadmap.

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2023

In the most recent campaign, the group targeted organizations in the communications, manufacturing, utility, transportation, construction, maritime, government, information technology, and education sectors. The Volt Typhoon group has been active since at least mid-2021 it carried out cyber operations against critical infrastructure.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

level vulnerability involves a lack of validation, which allows attackers to steal Kubernetes API credentials from the ingress controller, compromise the authentication process by modifying settings, and gain access to internal files including service account tokens. CVE-2022-4886 (Path Sanitization Bypass): This 8.8-level The problem: The 9.1

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Notably, the Order requires private companies to share with the federal government the results of “red-team” safety tests for foundation models that pose certain risks, directs the development of new AI standards to guide government agencies’ acquisition and use of AI, creates a new National AI Research Resource to foster U.S.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 13, 2023

When users attempt to log in, the phishing page uses the EvilProxy AITM (adversary-in-the-middle) kit to intercept requests between the legitimate website and the user, enabling it to steal credentials and session cookies that it can then use to bypass multifactor authentication when impersonating the victim on the legitimate website.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2021

The company started in education and has expanded to government and corporate markets. ExtremeControl is popular with education, entertainment, hospitality and healthcare customers and can scale to 200,000 endpoints. Personnel, customers, consultants, contractors and guests all need some level of access. ForeScout CounterACT.

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IT Governance

APRIL 28, 2022

Coca-Cola received an overwhelming majority of the votes, beating out the toy maker Mattel, the online education platform Blackboard, the tech firm Danaher and General Electrics’ aviation subsidiary. The Stormous ransomware gang announced earlier this week that it had hacked Coca-Cola and stolen 161 gigabytes of data. A scavenger hunt.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 9, 2021

With hybrid working now the norm, many organisations are relying on Cloud services to access data from home or the office. But whenever organisations adopt technological solutions such as this, they must acknowledge the risks that come with it. In this blog, we look at those principles and explain the steps you can take to meet them.

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