Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence 104

Artificial Intelligence Security Ransomware Data breaches 104

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 29, 2022

Log4j is the latest, greatest vulnerability to demonstrate just how tenuous the security of modern networks has become. By no means has the cybersecurity community been blind to the complex security challenges spinning out of digital transformation. Log4j, for instance, is a ubiquitous logging library.

Security 218

Security Cloud Digital transformation Cybersecurity 218

Data Protection Report

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Exploited systems are at risk for ransomware, data exfiltration, cryptomining, and other malicious activities perpetrated by criminal organizations and nation-state actors. Knowledgeable counsel should be involved through all steps of the company’s assessments, containment, remediation, and documentation.

Libraries 57

Libraries Ransomware Cloud Risk 57

IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2023

IT Governance found 98 publicly disclosed security incidents in May 2023, accounting for 98,226,877 breached records. You can find the full list below, divided into four categories: cyber attacks, ransomware, data breaches, and malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents. million) Apria Healthcare suffers security breach (1.8

Data breaches 98

Data breaches Ransomware Insurance Personal data 98

IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2022

Welcome to our May 2022 review of data breaches and cyber attacks. We identified 77 security incidents during the month, resulting in 49,782,129 compromised records. Meanwhile, be sure to subscribe to our Weekly Round-up to receive the latest cyber security news and advice delivered straight to your inbox. Data breaches.

Data breaches 126

Data breaches Ransomware Phishing Education 126

ForAllSecure

JANUARY 28, 2020

In this post, we will follow up on a prior article on using Mayhem to analyze stb and MATIO by reviewing three additional vulnerabilities found in another open source library. The range of security-relevant defects that users can expect to find in memory-safe languages, such as Golang or Rust, is smaller. What Makes a Good Target?

Libraries 52

Libraries IT Security 52

Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2021

Microsoft released patch Tuesday security updates for August that address 120 CVEs in Microsoft products including a zero-day actively exploited in the wild. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.” ” reads the advisory published by Microsoft.

Security 99

Security Libraries IT 99

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The Hive ransomware gang, which claimed the responsibility for the Tata Power data breach, started leaking data. The company confirmed that the security breach impacted “some of its IT systems.”. The post Hive ransomware gang starts leaking data allegedly stolen from Tata Power appeared first on Security Affairs.

Ransomware 93

Ransomware Blockchain Encryption Data breaches 93

eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2021

But that success and the openness inherent in the community have led to a major challenge – security. Therefore, any security vulnerabilities are disclosed publicly. This has given rise to a large number of open source security tools. The Best Open Source Security Tools. WhiteSource.

Security 132

Security Encryption Compliance Libraries 132

Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2024

The attackers employed the lure of a free IP scanning tool to infect the systems with the Anunak backdoor and gain an initial foothold using living-off-the-land binaries, scripts, and libraries (lolbas). OpenSSH is also used for external access.

Phishing 108

Phishing Manufacturing Libraries IT 108

Security Affairs

AUGUST 26, 2021

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released five malware analysis reports (MARs) related to samples found on compromised Pulse Secure devices. CISA published five malware analysis reports (MARs) related to samples found on compromised Pulse Secure devices. v1: Pulse Connect Secure MAR-10334057-3.v1:

Security 127

Security Authentication Libraries Passwords 127

eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2023

Application security tools and software solutions are designed to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities and threats in software applications. Their main purpose is to protect applications from unauthorized access, data breaches, and malicious attacks.

Security 90

Security Cloud Compliance Risk 90

ForAllSecure

JANUARY 28, 2020

In this post, we will follow up on a prior article on using Mayhem to analyze stb and MATIO by reviewing three additional vulnerabilities found in another open source library. The range of security-relevant defects that users can expect to find in memory-safe languages, such as Golang or Rust, is smaller. What Makes a Good Target?

Libraries 52

Libraries IT Security 52

ForAllSecure

JANUARY 28, 2020

In this post, we will follow up on a prior article on using Mayhem to analyze stb and MATIO by reviewing three additional vulnerabilities found in another open source library. The range of security-relevant defects that users can expect to find in memory-safe languages, such as Golang or Rust, is smaller. What Makes a Good Target?

Libraries 52

Libraries IT Security 52

IT Governance

AUGUST 1, 2022

Welcome to our July 2022 review of data breaches and cyber attacks. We identified 85 security incidents during the month, resulting in 99,243,757 compromised records. Meanwhile, be sure to subscribe to our Weekly Round-up to receive the latest cyber security news and advice delivered straight to your inbox. Data breaches.

Data breaches 119

Data breaches Ransomware Insurance Access 119

Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2021

For the third time in the past four months, LinkedIn seems to have experienced another massive data scrape conducted by a malicious actor. Once again, an archive of data collected from hundreds of millions of LinkedIn user profiles surfaced on a hacker forum, where it’s currently being sold for an undisclosed sum.

Archiving 137

Archiving Passwords Data collection Sales 137

Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2021

Experts found a DB containing sensitive health insurance data belonging to customers of US insurance giant Humana. An SQL database containing what appears to be highly sensitive health insurance data of more than 6,000 patients has been leaked on a popular hacker forum. Who had access to the data? What was leaked?

Insurance 112

Insurance Passwords Libraries Access 112

erwin

JUNE 26, 2020

If you’re serious about a data-driven strategy , you’re going to need a data catalog. Organizations need a data catalog because it enables them to create a seamless way for employees to access and consume data and business assets in an organized manner. This also diminishes the value of data as an asset.

Metadata 132

Metadata Unstructured data Compliance Sales 132

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 21, 2022

Proofpoint researchers ourlined how hackers could collect and exfiltrate critical data in the following diagram: The diagram shows the whole attack chain from initial access to compromise and ultimately monetization. Many IT and security teams think that cloud drives should be more resilient to ransomware attacks, but that’s not the case.

Cloud 98

Cloud Ransomware Libraries Phishing 98

eSecurity Planet

APRIL 15, 2024

Typically, these vulnerabilities result in remote code execution or denial-of-service attacks, posing major dangers to users’ data security. Employ robust password management techniques, two-factor authentication (2FA), and regular backups of essential data. Looking for an alternative method for secure remote access?

Libraries 93

Libraries Risk Cybersecurity Honeypots 93

Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2021

Days after a massive Facebook data leak made the headlines, 500 million LinkedIn users are being sold online, seller leaked 2 million records as proof. To see if your email address has been exposed in this data leak or other security breaches, use our personal data leak checker with a library of 15+ billion breached records.

Passwords 115

Passwords Phishing Personal data Libraries 115

IT Governance

JANUARY 12, 2021

Cyber security risk assessments are essential for organisations to protect themselves from malicious attacks and data breaches. Risk appetites should be reviewed regularly and whenever there are changes to the organisation’s cyber security budget or resources. But what exactly does a risk assessment do?

Risk 113

Risk Security Libraries Data breaches 113

Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2021

About a week after scraped data from more than 700 million LinkedIn profiles were put for sale online , it seems that threat actors have no intention of stopping their abuse of the social media platform’s scrape-friendly systems. Our teams have investigated a set of alleged LinkedIn data that has been posted for sale.

Data breaches 94

Data breaches Sales Data collection Libraries 94

Collibra

JUNE 13, 2023

As our digital age advances, data professionals everywhere grapple with the relentless wave of ever-increasing data. The rapid evolution of technology and the continuous creation of new data are making it increasingly difficult for organizations to manage — let alone make sense — of a vast, complex data landscape.

Digital transformation 52

Digital transformation Metadata Marketing Government 52

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Storm-0558 threat actors focus on government agencies in Western Europe and were observed conducting cyberespionage, data theft, and credential access attacks. In July, Microsoft announced it had mitigated an attack conducted by a China-linked threat actor, tracked as Storm-0558, which targeted customer emails.

Authentication 111

Authentication Libraries Access Government 111

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 26, 2021

In fact, there are more than a few flaws present, as well as the occasional gaping security hole. Code debugging and code security tools exist to find and help developers fix the problems that occur. Such tools typically capture exceptions as they occur and provide diagnostic and contextual data to make resolution easier.

Security 142

Security Libraries IT Cloud 142

Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2023

In the past, Gootkit distributed malware masquerading as freeware installers and it used legal documents to trick users into downloading these files. Below is the attack chain of this new variant: The user visits an UNC2565-compromised site (usually related to business documents) and downloads a malicious ZIP archive. file inside.

Libraries 91

Libraries Archiving Ransomware IT 91

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Hundreds of millions of Android users are potentially exposed to the risk of hack due to the use of Android Play Core Library versions vulnerable to CVE-2020-8913. The CVE-2020-8913 flaw is a local, arbitrary code execution vulnerability that resides exists in the SplitCompat.install endpoint in Android’s Play Core Library.

Libraries 110

Libraries e-Delivery Risk Authentication 110

Krebs on Security

APRIL 14, 2020

Microsoft today released updates to fix 113 security vulnerabilities in its various Windows operating systems and related software. Both flaws could be exploited by getting a Windows users to open a booby-trapped document or viewing one in the Windows Preview Pane. However, the advisory says this IE bug is likely to be exploited soon.

Libraries 241

Libraries Security Authentication IT 241

Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2023

The message contains a “Click here to Continue” button that points to a fake SharePoint document hosted on Adobe’s InDesign service. If the recipient clicks on “Click Here to View Document” on the Adobe document, he will be redirected to the final page, which resembles the domain of the original sender, Talus Pay.

Encryption 94

Encryption Phishing Authentication Libraries 94

eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 25, 2018

Jim’s writing about eDiscovery and Data Management has been twice recognized with JD Supra Reader’s Choice Awards and he holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. For more information on how CloudNine helps organizations with data discovery, contact us at info@ediscovery.co.

ROT 34

ROT Libraries Information governance Risk 34

Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2022

Cyber Security Specialist Zoziel Pinto Freire shows an example of malicious file analysis presented during his lecture on BSides-Vitória 2022. Microsoft Office Documents. Microsoft Office Documents. PEframe is an open source tool to perform static analysis of malware executables and malicious MS Office documents.

Libraries 103

Libraries Metadata Education Security 103

Schneier on Security

JULY 11, 2023

The Washington Post has an article about popular printing services, and whether or not they read your documents and mine the data when you use them for printing: Ideally, printing services should avoid storing the content of your files, or at least delete daily. Some services, like the New York Public Library and PrintWithMe, do both.

Privacy 55

Privacy Mining Libraries Communications 55

Preservica

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

On World Digital Preservation Day 2018, Sylvain Bélanger, Director General of Digital Operations and Preservation at Library and Archives Canada (LAC) discusses operating at scale, the challenges of preserving high volume born-digital content, and giving Canadians greater access to Canada’s continuing memory.

Digital preservation 58

Digital preservation Libraries Archiving Government 58

IT Governance

DECEMBER 1, 2020

We recorded 103 cyber security incidents in November, which accounted for 586,771,602 leaked records. The majority of those came from a credential-stuffing attack targeting Spotify and a data leak at the messaging app GO SMS Pro, which you can learn more about below. Data breaches. Cyber attacks. Ransomware. In other news….

Data breaches 137

Data breaches Ransomware e-Discovery Personal data 137

Lenny Zeltser

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The notion that security is everyone’s responsibility in computer systems dates back to at least the early 1980s when it was included in a US Navy training manual and hearings in the US House of Representatives. Behind the pithy slogan is the idea that every person in the organization contributes to its security program.

Cybersecurity 100

Cybersecurity Security Authentication Compliance 100

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

They’re particularly dangerous because it’s difficult for security or development teams to see an XSS vulnerability, and it’s also hard to see the effects of an attack until the ensuing breach is well underway. The new malicious code is designed to steal data — like cookies or credentials — from that web application.

Risk 91

Risk Financial Services Security Libraries 91