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RSAC insights: Malware is now spreading via weaponized files circulating in data lakes, file shares

The Last Watchdog

The attacker managed to insert attack code into a zip file contained in a password-protected email message – one that the banker was expecting to receive from the attorney. Bad actors are constantly evolving their techniques to compromise the organization’s business services,” Srinivasan says.

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Episode 243: The CSTO is a thing- a conversation with Chris Hoff of LastPass

The Security Ledger

at the password management firm LastPass, what the CSTO role entails and how companies need to do more to confront the security implications of “software eating the world.” Prior to that, Chris was the head of BoA’s “Never Down” Critical Business Services group and a former CISO at Citadel. .

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 30 October – 5 November 2023

IT Governance

According to the attacker, compromised information included staff information, such as phone numbers and postal addresses, parent and student information, a full backup of the school’s IT project management directory and some financial documents.

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Who’s Behind the DomainNetworks Snail Mail Scam?

Krebs on Security

com , which says it belongs to a Las Vegas-based Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and digital marketing concern generically named both United Business Service and United Business Services. The first result that currently pops up when searching for “ubsagency” in Google is ubsagency[.]com and Renton, Wash.

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Open APIs: A coming of age

CGI

This can be done by building end-to-end security into applications, adopting a federated identity model, and connecting business services with the payment function, thereby bypassing manual interventions, log-ins, passwords, etc.

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Proposed Amendments to NY Financial Services Cybersecurity Regulations Impose New Obligations on Large Entities, Boards of Directors and CISOs

Hunton Privacy

of the Proposed Amendments, Class A Companies must (1) ensure use of strong, unique passwords; (2) monitor privileged access activity; and (3) unless, a reasonable equivalent is approved in writing by the company’s CISO, implement both a password vaulting solution for privileged accounts and an automated method for blocking commonly used passwords.

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NYDFS proposes significant cybersecurity regulation amendments

Data Protection Report

To the extent passwords are employed as a method of authentication, the proposed changes would require the covered entity to ensure strong, unique passwords are used. Notifications to DFS. Cybersecurity Event Notification Would Expand.