eSecurity Planet
JANUARY 5, 2023
Also read: SANS Outlines Critical Infrastructure Security Steps as Russia, U.S. Software supply chain issues like the SolarWinds attack and the Log4j vulnerability have made supply chain security and software dependencies major issues in recent years.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 23, 2022
Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 390 appeared first on Security Affairs. Breaking News Cybercrime data breach Hacking hacking news information security news IT Information Security malware Newsletter Security Affairs Security NewsA new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived!
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Security Affairs
JANUARY 24, 2021
Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 298 appeared first on Security Affairs.
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 3, 2021
CISA has released six advisories to warn organizations about security vulnerabilities affecting Hitachi Energy products. The advisories address tens of vulnerabilities, most of them are related to third-party libraries used by the products such as OpenSSL, LibSSL, libxml2, and GRUB2.
Krebs on Security
OCTOBER 18, 2022
When a participant uses a SNAP payment card at an authorized retail store, their SNAP EBT account is debited to reimburse the store for food that was purchased. The Massachusetts SNAP benefits card looks more like a library card than a payment card.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
Cyber security team at retail giant Walmart dissected a new ransomware family dubbed Sugar, which implements a ransomware-as-a-service model. Other similarities were found by the experts in the GPLib library used for encryption/decryption operations.
IT Governance
OCTOBER 9, 2018
The ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) has fined Heathrow Airport £120,000 for failing to secure sensitive personal data after a member of public found an unencrypted USB stick containing data about the airport’s staff. Newspaper reports claim that the USB stick was found in London on 16 October 2017, and that the person who found the stick viewed the contents on a library computer before passing it to the Sunday Mirror.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
MARCH 10, 2021
What’s driving the security of IoT? The Urgency for Security in a Connected World. Imagine a world where the retail value of your car actually grows over time – that’s now becoming a reality. Device Security is Hard. Security isn’t static. Securing the IoT Stack.
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 22, 2021
Security researchers from NCC Group reported an increase in ransomware attacks in November 2021 over the past month, and PYSA (aka Mespinoza) and Lockbit were the most active ransomware gangs. CERT-FR’s alert states that the Pysa ransomware code is based on public Python libraries.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 15, 2020
is an American bookseller with the largest number of retail outlets in the United States in fifty states. Over the weekend, users have been complaining on Nook’s Facebook page and Twitter that they were not able to access their library of purchased eBooks and magazine subscriptions.
The Security Ledger
JULY 26, 2018
In this Spotlight Podcast, sponsored by Trusted Computing Group*, Dennis Mattoon of Microsoft Research gives us the low-down on DICE: the Device Identifier Composition Engine Architectures, which provides a means of solving a range of security and identity problems on low cost, low power IoT endpoints. Secure identities are the foundation of secure ecosystems. At the risk of oversimplifying: without a foundation of strong identity, there can be no real security.
ForAllSecure
OCTOBER 9, 2019
Machine learning algorithms are already being used in transportation to ease road congestion, in healthcare to spot medical errors and improve patient care and in retail to improve the customer shopping experience. The Chrome team, I think there's 38 people just on the security team.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 18, 2019
The Commons FileUpload library is the default file upload mechanism in Struts 2, the CVE-2016-1000031 was discovered two years ago by experts at Tenable. The flaw also affected the Financial Services Analytical Applications Infrastructure, the Fusion Middleware MapViewer, and four three Oracle Retail components. The post Oracle critical patch advisory addresses 284 flaws, 33 critical appeared first on Security Affairs.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 28, 2019
About 3% of the infected systems belong to organizations in different sectors, including education, professional services, healthcare, finance, and retail. One of the second-stage instances of PowerShell downloads the legitimate node.exe tool, while another drops WinDivert packet capture library components. The post Nodersok malware delivery campaign relies on advanced techniques appeared first on Security Affairs.
ForAllSecure
OCTOBER 9, 2019
Machine learning algorithms are already being used in transportation to ease road congestion, in healthcare to spot medical errors and improve patient care and in retail to improve the customer shopping experience. But how exactly will artificial intelligence help bridge the information security skills gap? And even with the help of machine learning algorithms, what kinds of security work is still best left to humans? We're saying it's not enough to check security at the end.
ForAllSecure
OCTOBER 9, 2019
Machine learning algorithms are already being used in transportation to ease road congestion, in healthcare to spot medical errors and improve patient care and in retail to improve the customer shopping experience. But how exactly will artificial intelligence help bridge the information security skills gap? And even with the help of machine learning algorithms, what kinds of security work is still best left to humans? We're saying it's not enough to check security at the end.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 3, 2018
Government assesses that HIDDEN COBRA actors will continue to use FASTCash tactics to target retail payment systems vulnerable to remote exploitation.” “HIDDEN COBRA actors most likely deployed ISO 8583 libraries on the targeted switch application servers. Malicious threat actors use these libraries to help interpret financial request messages and properly construct fraudulent financial response messages.” Security Affairs – Hidden Cobra, FastCash ).
Krebs on Security
AUGUST 7, 2018
” The following month, Michigan authorities found the same individual accessing personal consumer data via public Wi-Fi at a local library, and seized 45 SIM cards, a laptop and a Trezor wallet — a hardware device designed to store crytpocurrency account data. But these precautions may serve as little protection against crooked insiders working at mobile phone retail locations.
Security Affairs
MAY 7, 2019
In fact, the “ fwmain32 ” process is part of the software services produced by Wincor Nixdorf International GmbH, one of the major vendors providing retail and banking hardware such as ATMs. This library provides access to the E X tension for F inancial S ervice (XFS) API, the communication interface needed to interact with AMT components such as PIN pad and cash dispenser. Figure 5: “msxfs.dll”, library required by malware to communicate with ATM device.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 31, 2019
FIN6 group has been active since 2015, past attacks were focused on point-of-sale (POS) machines used by retailers and companies in the hospitality sector in the U.S. In the campaign investigated by the experts, the attackers used the backdoor to download a signed binary loader and a signed Dynamic Link Library (DLL) that create a reverse shell and connect to a remote host. The post FIN6 recently expanded operations to target eCommerce sites appeared first on Security Affairs.
IT Governance
DECEMBER 1, 2021
In November, we discovered 81 publicly disclosed cyber security incidents, accounting for 223,615,390 breached records. In the meantime, you can find the full list of security incidents below, with those affecting UK organisations listed in bold.
IT Governance
JUNE 1, 2022
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.
IBM Journey to AI blog
DECEMBER 16, 2022
Imagine walking into the largest library you’ve ever seen. Fortunately, the library has a computer at the front desk you can use to search its entire inventory by title, author, genre, and more. You have a specific book in mind, but you have no idea where to find it.
Schneier on Security
OCTOBER 22, 2019
The economic sectors represented by ten or more survey respondents include the following: agriculture; construction; manufacturing; retail trade; transportation and warehousing; information; real estate rental and leasing; professional, scientific, and technical services; management services; waste management; educational services; and arts and entertainment. Still, I like seeing this kind of analysis about security infrastructure.
IT Governance
MAY 4, 2021
It was another busy month in the cyber security sector, as we discovered 143 incidents that resulted in 1,098,897,134 breached records. discloses security incident (unknown) St.
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.
IT Governance
JUNE 1, 2021
If you find yourself facing a cyber security disaster, IT Governance is here to help. For the second month in a row, ransomware has dominated our list of data breaches and cyber attacks.
IT Governance
OCTOBER 3, 2022
Compared to August, it was a comparatively quiet month, as we identified 88 publicly disclosed security incidents and 35,566,046 compromised records. If you’re facing a cyber security disaster, IT Governance is here to help.
Collibra
OCTOBER 4, 2022
There is a lack of prioritization on what data needs to be protected and likely a misalignment between security and business objectives in handling data. Semantic label: a generic descriptor for the column header, using an assigned value chosen from a library of approved data classes.
Preservica
MARCH 14, 2018
Preservica’s active digital preservation platform selected to future-proof unique digital assets that document nearly 150 years of corporate, brand and retail history. It is expected to create around 65 TB of information, and therefore felt it was important to ensure its unique digital material could be safely stored and future-proofed, using a secure cloud-hosted preservation and access platform.
Preservica
APRIL 11, 2018
Oxford, UK and Boston, MA: April 11 2018: The John Lewis Partnership, one of the UK’s leading retail businesses, has selected digital preservation specialist Preservica to build a secure cloud-based business archive. In particular, securing digital access to the valuable collection of designs used on textiles, clothing, greeting cards and other merchandise will play an important role for the product design teams, who use them to inspire new products and maintain brand integrity. “We
Cyber Info Veritas
JULY 11, 2018
A virtual private network, VPN for short, is an internet security system that allows you, the user, to send data over the internet in a safe, secure, and in the case of some VPN platforms, secretly over a private network. For instance, although users in other countries pay the same Netflix fee paid by users in the United States, Netflix users in the United States have a larger library of shows.
eSecurity Planet
FEBRUARY 16, 2021
Rogue security software. Architect a premium network security model like SASE that encompasses SD-WAN , CASB , secure web gateways , ZTNA , FWaaS , and microsegmentation. Experts say the best defense is a multi-pronged network security strategy that includes a firewall, anti-malware software, network monitoring, intrusion detection and prevention (IDPS), and data protection. Since 2008, RAM scraping has been a boon for retailers. Rogue Security Software.
Architect Security
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
Tools and techniques that were once available only to intelligence agencies to collect “open source intelligence” (known as OSINT in national security parlance) are now available to amateur sleuths. But concerns about this tool being used outside of law enforcement have grown with recent revelations showing that the company has been allowing others to try its technology , including big retail chains, schools, casinos, and even some individual investors and clients. .
The Texas Record
OCTOBER 19, 2020
The Talking Book Program, the Library Development Network and the State Librarian himself, Mark Smith all use the blog format to communicate with the people and agencies who rely on us. One of the most delightful things about working for TSLAC is our bounty of agency maintained blogs.
ForAllSecure
APRIL 22, 2021
It seems everything smart is hackable, with IoT startups sometimes repeating security mistakes first made decades ago. How then does one start securing it? Calderon: Paulino Calderon, I'm a senior application security consultant with Websec.
ForAllSecure
APRIL 22, 2021
It seems everything smart is hackable, with IoT startups sometimes repeating security mistakes first made decades ago. How then does one start securing it? Calderon: Paulino Calderon, I'm a senior application security consultant with Websec.
ForAllSecure
JANUARY 19, 2022
Is there something more secure? You might not think of it as a major aspect of security and yet, stolen credentials are really the key to data breaches today. And this security stuff is like it's got to go somewhere. It's like all the security guys.
Troy Hunt
AUGUST 5, 2021
But also full disclosure, I do buy Lenovo machines at full retail with my own hard-earned dollars because frankly, they're awesome: Bought @charlottelyng a *very* nice Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme to replace her MacBook Pro. The greatest gift I can give my kids is a love of technology.
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