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Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Resilient Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) and Strong Passwords

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Resilient Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) and Strong Passwords. Tue, 10/04/2022 - 05:20. Historically, October has always been an important month for the cybersecurity community and a month of major cybersecurity events. Use strong passwords. Recognize and report phishing.

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday Leaves ProxyNotShell Exposed

eSecurity Planet

Microsoft’s October 2022 Patch Tuesday includes security updates that fix well over 80 vulnerabilities in more than 50 different parts of its product range – but the ProxyNotShell flaws in Exchange Server that were reported last month are not on the list. We will release updates for CVE-2022-41040 and CVE-2022-41082 when they are ready.”

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Arrests in $400M SIM-Swap Tied to Heist at FTX?

Krebs on Security

Three Americans were charged this week with stealing more than $400 million in a November 2022 SIM-swapping attack. 11-12, 2022. 11-12, 2022. 11, 2022 after they SIM-swapped an AT&T customer by impersonating them at a retail store using a fake ID. .” Image: Elliptic.co.

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Best Encryption Software for 2022

eSecurity Planet

By encrypting data, it can only be accessed with the right password and by those with the appropriate access rights. You may have seen passwords getting longer and more complex in recent times. This stems from how easily cybercriminals can figure out passwords and decrypt data or gain access to systems using a brute-force approach.

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NYDFS Imposes Fine of $5 Million on Carnival for Cybersecurity Breaches

Hunton Privacy

On June 24, 2022, the New York State Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS” or the “Department”) announced it had entered into a $5 million settlement with Carnival Corp. Since Carnival was licensed by the Department to sell insurance in NY State, it was treated as a covered entity under the Cybersecurity Regulation.

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GhostTouch: how to remotely control touchscreens with EMI

Security Affairs

The researchers demonstrated how to inject two types of basic touch events, taps and swipes, into targeted locations of the touchscreen. The events allowed the researchers to control the devices (i.e. Security Affairs is one of the finalists for the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS.

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Vulnerability Recap 4/29/24 – Cisco, Microsoft, Palo Alto & More

eSecurity Planet

April 22, 2024 CISA Adds 2022 Windows Print Spooler Vulnerability to KEV Catalog Type of vulnerability: Elevation of privilege. Although fixed in the October 2022 updates, Microsoft notes that the zero-day vulnerability may have been exploited as early as April 2019. 10, in the WP-Automatic plugin.