eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2021

As threat actors aim at IT supply chains , enhanced cybersecurity has been the recent driving force for industry adoption of the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) framework. This article looks at software bills of materials, file data, existing standards, benefits, use cases, and what SBOMs mean for cybersecurity.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a script to recover VMware ESXi servers infected with ESXiArgs ransomware. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a script to allow them to recover encrypted VMware ESXi servers.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2024

Source: Cybernews Potential takeover of financial accounts With the fintech industry experiencing rapid growth, this leak stands as a clear reminder of the critical role of robust cybersecurity measures. Fintech companies manage and store exceptionally sensitive customer data. Users’ data.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2023

The open instances exposed: Call metadata, including time, state, duration, phone number, and email License keys Encoded database strings Attackers can leverage call metadata to develop an intimate picture of the callers’ behavior, deducing who called who and for how long.

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2022

The experts first detected the intrusion on April 12 when the company’s security team identified unauthorized access to their npm production infrastructure using a compromised AWS API key. All private npm package manifests and package metadata as of April 7, 2021. ” concludes the announcement. Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 31, 2022

To make better risk decisions, you need comprehensive vulnerability intelligence,” the report said, adding that security teams can maximize resources and reduce their immediate workload by 82 percent by first focusing on actionable, high severity vulnerabilities. See the Best Patch Management Systems.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Cybersecurity researchers warn of a now-patched critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-22205 , in GitLab’s web interface that has been actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability was actively exploited in the wild, researchers from HN Security described an attack one of its customers.

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Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2023

Cybersecurity experts Michael Gillespie told BleepingComputer that the Abyss Locker Linux encryptor is based on the Hello Kitty ransomware. vmdk), metadata (.vmsd), The analysis of the encryptor code revealed that use of the ‘esxcli’ command-line VMware ESXi management tool enumerate virtual machines and terminate them.

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erwin

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Now, as Cybersecurity Awareness Month comes to a close – and ghosts and goblins roam the streets – we thought it a good time to resurrect some guidance on how data governance can make data security less scary. That knowledge is critical to supporting efforts to keep relevant data secure and private. Where Are the Skeletons?

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 9, 2020

The many privacy and security issues raised by IoT, however, are another story. The addressing of IoT privacy and security concerns lags far, far behind. Commendably, the global cybersecurity community continues to push companies to practice cyber hygiene. And fantastic new IoT-enabled services will spew out of the other end.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 10, 2023

Threat intelligence feeds are continually updated streams of data that inform users of different cybersecurity threats, their sources, and any infrastructure impacted or at risk of being impacted by those threats. As a bonus, many of these tools are free to access and have specialized feeds that focus on different industries and sectors.

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Security Affairs

JULY 3, 2023

MetaData: Metadata refers to data about data. Example: Metadata can include information about the source, creation date, file format, or authorship of a document. Understanding what can lead to a loss of data is important for organizations when drafting their cyber security policies, especially with relating to compliance.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2018

The latest version of Google OS, Android Pie, implements significant enhancements for cybersecurity, including a stronger encryption and authentication. The tech giant updated the File-Based Encryption implementing the support for external storage media, it also included the metadata encryption with hardware support. .

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Security Affairs

APRIL 13, 2022

The values created within it (Id, Index, and SD) contain metadata for task registration within the system. The attackers deleted the [Security Descriptor] value within the Tree registry path. The security descriptor ( SD ) defines access controls for running the scheduled task. ” reads the post published by Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2021

The media reported that the politicians targeted by the hackers used their private Gmail accounts for communications, instead of using their secure government accounts. Media reported that the metadata of the leaked documents shows that they were edited by a person using Russian-language software. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Its metadata was then indexed by search engines and discovered by Cybernews researchers on October 17th. The Cybernews research team has discovered that their personal data was exposed in a leak. Los Angeles-based electric car-sharing provider Blink Mobility left a misconfigured MongoDB database open to the public.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

“And in the shared responsibility model, keeping this data secure is the responsibility of the organization that owns the buckets in which the data resides.” Also read: Cloud Security: The Shared Responsibility Model. ” Also read: CNAP Platforms: The Next Evolution of Cloud Security. A Data-Centric View.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike disclosed details of a supply chain attack that involved the use of a trojanized installer for the Comm100 Live Chat application to distribute a JavaScript backdoor. The attackers used the Microsoft Metadata Merge Utility binary to load a the MidlrtMd DLL. com, which resolved to the IP address 8.219.167[.]156

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The controversial collection of details on billions of American phone calls by the National Security Agency (NSA) was illegal and possibly unconstitutional, according to a ruling by a federal appeals court. Under the NSA program, information and metadata from calls placed by U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 21, 2022

Many IT and security teams think that cloud drives should be more resilient to ransomware attacks, but that’s not the case. Also read: PowerShell Is Source of More Than a Third of Critical Security Threats. A SharePoint list is basically a table that contains rows for data and columns for metadata.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 6, 2022

They also enrich documents with metadata and place them in crypto-containers, access to which is only granted by permission. But they have more disadvantages than benefits if we talk about ensuring information security. Yes, they are cheap to apply. They can be dynamic. There are more exotic ways of protecting documents.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Researchers from cybersecurity firm Avast observed the recently discovered espionage group Worok abusing Dropbox API to exfiltrate data via using a backdoor hidden in apparently innocuous image files. The post Avast details Worok espionage group’s compromise chain appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2021

The media reported that the politicians targeted by the hackers used their private Gmail accounts for communications, instead of using their secure government accounts. Media reported that the metadata of the leaked documents shows that they were edited by a person using Russian-language software. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 9, 2020

FireEye was hacked by — they believe — “a nation with top-tier offensive capabilities”: During our investigation to date, we have found that the attacker targeted and accessed certain Red Team assessment tools that we use to test our customers’ security. We have implemented countermeasures into our security products.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2022

The malicious code is able to harvest system metadata and information stored by popular web browsers, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and Opera GX. The post ZingoStealer crimeware released for free in the cybercrime ecosystem appeared first on Security Affairs. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2023

The researchers also discovered a.DS_Store file that held metadata from the developer’s computer, revealing the file and folder names in the directory where the website’s project files were stored.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 25, 2020

At RSA 2020, I was encouraged by strong evidence that the cybersecurity industry has now jumped fully on board the ML bandwagon. Juniper Networks, known for its high-performance routers, is in the vanguard of established technology and cybersecurity vendors applying ML and automation to defend company networks.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2021

Experts from cybersecurity firm Volexity reported that North Korea-linked InkySquid group (aka ScarCruft , APT37 , Group123 , and Reaper ) leverages two Internet Explorer exploits to deliver a custom backdoor in watering hole attacks aimed at the Daily NK South Korean online newspaper (www.dailynk[.]com). Terminate the file upload thread.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2019

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Shanghai Jiao Tong University data leak – 8.4TB in email metadata exposed. Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for June 2019 fix 88 flaws. Yubico is replacing for free YubiKey FIPS devices due to security weakness. Kindle Edition. Paper Copy. Once again thank you!

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Recently, researchers from cybersecurity firm Resecurity have identified a new version of Nevada Ransomware which recently emerged on the Dark Web right before the start of 2023. . “These attacks are detected globally and especially in Europe.”

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 11, 2019

This has led us to the current environment in which security threats are multiplying even as network breaches grow costlier and more frequent. However, a newly-minted security sub-specialty — christened Network Traffic Analysis, or NTA, by Gartner — holds some fresh promise for getting to the root of the problem.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2021

The new releases include fixes for a command injection security vulnerability ( CVE-2021-29472 ) reported by Thomas Chauchefoin from SonarSource.” “During our security research, we discovered a critical vulnerability in the source code of Composer which is used by Packagist. . billion download requests each month.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2021

vmsd (metadata and snapshot information), and .vmsn The post HelloKitty ransomware now targets VMware ESXi servers appeared first on Security Affairs. ” reported BleepingComputer. Once the virtual machines are shut down, the ransomware will encrypt .vmdk vmdk (virtual hard disk), .vmsd Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2022

The UK NCSC cybersecurity agency is going to release a collection of NMAP scripts that can allow defenders to find unpatched vulnerabilities. Providing a false sense of security, or false positives, doesn’t help make your systems safer, as you won’t be fixing the real security issues.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

And breaches will occur – because bad guys make a living by figuring out ways to circumvent security best practices. Prioritize Data Protection The downfall of many security strategies is that they become too general and too thinly spread. But it requires different levels of security.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 27, 2023

Security information and event management (SIEM) systems only have detections for 24 percent of the 196 techniques in MITRE ATT&CK v13, according to a new report. “This implies that adversaries can execute around 150 different techniques that will be undetected by the SIEM,” says the CardinalOps report.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 2, 2019

Steiger pointed out the company provided metadata and so-called secondary data that could be used by law enforcement and intelligence agencies for surveillance purposes. “Metadata or secondary data that is available must be provided. ” reads the post published by Stieger. 174 of the Swiss Criminal Code. Pierluigi Paganini.

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