3 Ways to Deal With the Trojan Source Attack
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
These scripts and commands provide short-term fixes for blocking the Trojan Source attack that abuses Unicode to inject malicious backdoors in source code.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
These scripts and commands provide short-term fixes for blocking the Trojan Source attack that abuses Unicode to inject malicious backdoors in source code.
The Last Watchdog
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
There’s no doubt, the increasing use of telemedicine, the explosion of health-based cloud apps, and innovative medical IoT devices are improving the patient care experience. Related: Hackers relentlessly target healthcare providers. However, healthcare data ranks at the top of the list for needing improvements in security and privacy protections. This data is managed by different entities, such as primary care facilities, acute care facilities and within associated applications that collect, sto
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Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 9, 2021
One of the biggest mistakes an organization can make is blindly throwing technology at the problem instead of properly investing in building a security team.
Krebs on Security
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
Most of us have probably heard the term “smishing” — which is a portmanteau for traditional ph ishing scams sent through SMS text messages. Smishing messages usually include a link to a site that spoofs a popular bank and tries to siphon personal information. But increasingly, phishers are turning to a hybrid form of smishing — blasting out linkless text messages about suspicious bank transfers as a pretext for immediately calling and scamming anyone who responds via text
Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage
Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.
Preservica
NOVEMBER 9, 2021
Welcome to the "How we do it" Video Series. If you are a Clerk, Records Manager or Archivist for City or County Government, our practical “How we do it” videos are for you! We have compiled a series of videos, from users in City and County Government to share how they quickly and easily perform common electronic records preservation and access tasks with Preservica’ s solutions.
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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
NOVEMBER 9, 2021
Evolution of Cloud Security: From Shared Responsibility to Shared Fate. madhav. Tue, 11/09/2021 - 11:20. Over the past year and a half, we have witnessed seismic changes with the accelerated adoption of the cloud and the shift to hybrid working. According to McKinsey, cloud adoption has been accelerated by three years compared to pre-pandemic adoption rates while Gartner is estimating that spending on public cloud services will exceed $480 billion next year.
Krebs on Security
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
The U.S. Department of Justice today announced the arrest of Ukrainian man accused of deploying ransomware on behalf of the REvil ransomware gang, a Russian-speaking cybercriminal collective that has extorted hundreds of millions from victim organizations. The DOJ also said it had seized $6.1 million in cryptocurrency sent to another REvil affiliate, and that the U.S.
Threatpost
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
The distributed computing vendor patched the flaw, affecting Citrix ADC and Gateway, along with another flaw impacting availability for SD-WAN appliances.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
Google revealed that threat actors recently exploited a zero-day vulnerability in macOS to deliver malware to users in Hong Kong. Google TAG researchers discovered that threat actors leveraged a zero-day vulnerability in macOS in a watering hole campaign aimed at delivering malware to users in Hong Kong. The attackers exploited a XNU privilege escalation vulnerability ( CVE-2021-30869 ) unpatched in macOS Catalina.
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Geopolitical risk is now at the top of the agenda for CEOs. But tracking it can be difficult. The world is more interconnected than ever, whether in terms of economics and supply chains or technology and communication. Geopolitically, however, it is becoming increasingly fragmented – threatening the operations, financial well-being, and security of globally connected companies.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
AWS fixed the security flaws that left the API service at risk of so-called HTTP header-smuggling attacks, says the researcher who discovered them.
Krebs on Security
NOVEMBER 9, 2021
Microsoft Corp. today released updates to quash at least 55 security bugs in its Windows operating systems and other software. Two of the patches address vulnerabilities that are already being used in active attacks online, and four of the flaws were disclosed publicly before today — potentially giving adversaries a head start in figuring out how to exploit them.
Threatpost
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
Researchers have a working exploit for the vulnerability (now patched), which allows for unauthenticated RCE and affects an estimated 70,000+ VPN/firewalls.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
Researchers have identified a total of 14 new vulnerabilities in BusyBox that expose million of Unix-based devices to cyberattacks. Researchers from software development company JFrog and industrial cybersecurity firm Claroty have identified a total of 14 new critical vulnerabilities in BusyBox. The software is used by many network appliances and embedded devices with limited memory and storage resources.
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Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.
Schneier on Security
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
I just don’t think it’s possible to create a hack-proof computer system, especially when the system is physically in the hands of the hackers. The Sony Playstation 5 is the latest example: Hackers may have just made some big strides towards possibly jailbreaking the PlayStation 5 over the weekend, with the hacking group Fail0verflow claiming to have managed to obtain PS5 root keys allowing them to decrypt the console’s firmware. […].
WIRED Threat Level
NOVEMBER 11, 2021
Visitors to pro-democracy and media sites in the region were infected with malware that could download files, steal data, and more.
Threatpost
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
Immutable storage and more: Sonya Duffin, data protection expert at Veritas Technologies, offers the Top 10 steps for building a multi-layer resilience profile.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 7, 2021
Threat actors are impersonating cybersecurity firm Proofpoint to trick victims into providing Microsoft Office 365 and Gmail credentials. Cybercriminals are impersonating the cybersecurity firm Proofpoint to trick victims into providing Microsoft Office 365 and Google Gmail credentials. The phishing messages use mortgage payments as a lure, they have the subject “Re: Payoff Request.”. “The email claimed to contain a secure file sent via Proofpoint as a link.” reads the post published
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Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.
Schneier on Security
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
Google researchers discovered a MacOS zero-day exploit being used against Hong Kong activists. It was a “watering hole” attack, which means the malware was hidden in a legitimate website. Users visiting that website would get infected. From an article : Google’s researchers were able to trigger the exploits and study them by visiting the websites compromised by the hackers.
Hunton Privacy
NOVEMBER 9, 2021
On November 3, 2021, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (“CISA”) announced Directive 22-01 – Reducing the Significant Risk of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (the “Directive”), establishing a CISA-managed catalog of vulnerabilities and compelling federal agencies to remediate such vulnerabilities on government information systems. The Directive targets vulnerabilities that pose a significant risk to the federal government and applies to all software and hardware found on federa
OpenText Information Management
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
While public clouds offer a breadth of benefits such as cost savings, scalability, and flexibility, many government entities are hesitant to make the leap. As of 2019, only 11% of federal IT systems are running in the cloud, and less than 5% of private government clouds are experiencing the full breadth of benefits available from cloud adoption. This is largely due to security, privacy, … The post The big challenges in wide-scale government cloud adoption appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 11, 2021
Researchers at AT&T discovered a new BotenaGo botnet that is using thirty three exploits to target millions of routers and IoT devices. BotenaGo is a new botnet discovered by researchers at AT&T that leverages thirty three exploits to target millions of routers and IoT devices. Below is the list of exploits used by the bot: Vulnerability Affected devices CVE-2020-8515 DrayTek Vigor2960 1.3.1_Beta, Vigor3900 1.4.4_Beta, and Vigor300B 1.3.3_Beta, 1.4.2.1_Beta, and 1.4.4_Beta devices CVE-20
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Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
OT security engineers and personnel should approach senior management with an emphasis on risk reduction benefits and with a concrete plan to secure budget and funding before it's too late.
Threatpost
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
Europol reports that criminal groups are undermining the EU’s economy and its society, offering everything from murder-for-hire to kidnapping, torture and mutilation.
eSecurity Planet
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
For a security technology that’s only a few years old, microsegmentation is catching on quickly. According to a new report from edge security vendor Byos, 88 percent of cybersecurity leaders believe microsegmentation is essential to achieving zero trust security, and 83 percent are currently leveraging microsegmentation in some form. Despite such strong uptake, the market still has plenty of room to grow, the report found: only 17 percent have fully invested in microsegmentation to the poi
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
The US DoJ has charged a REvil ransomware affiliate that is suspected to have orchestrated the attack on Kaseya MSP platform in July. The US Department of Justice has charged a REvil ransomware affiliate for orchestrating the ransomware attacks on Kaseya MSP platform that took place in July 4. The suspect is 22-year old Ukrainian national Yaroslav Vasinskyi (aka Profcomserv, Rabotnik, Rabotnik_New, Yarik45, Yaraslav2468, and Affiliate 22), who was arrested for cybercriminal activity on October 8
Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO
The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 9, 2021
By focusing on the organization rather than the threat, AI can identify subtle changes in your digital environment that point to a cyber threat.
Hunton Privacy
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
On November 5, 2021, the Federal Trade Commission suggested two preventative steps small businesses can take to protect against ransomware risks: Step #1: Make sure your tech team is following best practices to fend off a ransomware attack. Be prepared by backing up data. Set up off-line, off-site encrypted backups of information essential to the business.
Threatpost
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
The U.S. is seeking the extradition of a Ukrainian man, Yaroslav Vasinskyi, whom they suspect is behind the Kaseya supply-chain attacks and other REvil attacks.
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