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The governor warned that he would take legal action against a journalist who identified a vulnerability that exposed teachers' Social Security numbers. Security Security / Security News MORE
A proof of concept exploit for two authentication bypass vulnerabilities in Dahua cameras is available online, users are recommended to immediately apply updates. MORE
Even before Apple made its announcement , law enforcement shifted their battle for backdoors to client-side scanning. The idea is that they wouldn’t touch the cryptography, but instead eavesdrop on communications and systems before encryption or after decryption. MORE
A recent phishing campaign targeting Coinbase users shows thieves are getting cleverer about phishing one-time passwords (OTPs) needed to complete the login process. MORE
Facebook and its sister properties Instagram and WhatsApp are suffering from ongoing, global outages. MORE
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Security expert Dhiraj Mishra published an NMAP script for the CVE-2021-41773 Path Traversal vulnerability affecting Apache Web Server version 2.4.49. MORE
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Software today is built on a combination of open source and proprietary software packages. Developers can reuse and build on the packages created by others, which results in the rapid creation of new capabilities and technologies. Related: How SBOM factors into DevSecOps. This reuse creates dependencies, all of which don’t necessarily stay updated at the same pace. MORE
FDA Warns Exploitation of Security Flaw Could Cause Death The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday issued a warning notifying patients that medical device maker Medtronic has expanded a recall of remote controllers for certain wireless insulin pumps that were part of an earlier recall. MORE
Google's online malware scanning service analyzed 80 million ransomware samples that were uploaded in the past year-and-a-half MORE
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Microsoft today issued updates to plug more than 70 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, including one vulnerability that is already being exploited. This month’s Patch Tuesday also includes security fixes for the newly released Windows 11 operating system. MORE
Resecurity researchers dumped Gigabytes of data from Agent Tesla C2Cs, one of the most well-known cyberespionage tools suffers a data leakage. MORE
On Wednesday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran a story about how its staff discovered and reported a security vulnerability in a Missouri state education website that exposed the Social Security numbers of 100,000 elementary and secondary teachers. In a press conference this morning, Missouri Gov. MORE
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An unnamed ransomware gang used a custom Python script to target VMware ESXi and encrypt all the virtual machines hosted on the server. MORE
The NSA issued a technical advisory to warn organizations against the use of wildcard TLS certificates and the new ALPACA TLS attack. The National Security Agency (NSA) is warning organizations against the use of wildcard TLS certificates and the new ALPACA TLS attack. MORE
I feel sorry for the accused : The “security incident” that forced a New-York bound flight to make an emergency landing at LaGuardia Airport on Saturday turned out to be a misunderstanding — after an airline passenger mistook another traveler’s camera for a bomb, sources said Sunday. MORE
The Wall Street Journal is reporting on a baby’s death at an Alabama hospital in 2019, which they argue was a direct result of the ransomware attack the hospital was undergoing. MORE
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It is no secret that there is, and has been for some time, a shortage of trained cyber security professionals in corporate IT Security teams. The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania observed that “nowhere is the workforce-skills gap more pronounced than in cybersecurity.”. Related: Deploying ‘human’ sensors’ According to data gathered by CyberSeek under a Commerce Department grant, there are currently nearly 465,000 unfilled cyber jobs across the US alone. MORE
In recent years, brands have started butting up against the line between convenience and privacy. Shoppers love the convenience of personalized experiences that their data powers, but then horror stories such as the Cambridge Analytica scandal make people skeptical about how much information companies should be collecting and sharing. Related: Apple battles Facebook over consumer privacy. MORE
DSCI: Ransomware Alkhal Likely Spread Via Phishing, Malicious URLs The Data Security Council of India has issued an advisory about newly discovered ransomware Alkhal, which uses a strong encryption tool and has no known decryptor to recover lost data. The ransomware was likely discovered on Oct. MORE
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 12, 2021
Count of Victims - Listed on Leak Sites or Not - Appears To Be Holding Steady One measure of the damage being done by ransomware groups continues to be how many victims get listed on ransomware operators' dedicated data-leak sites, as part of their so-called double extortion tactics.
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OCTOBER 4, 2021
Facebook and its sister properties Instagram and WhatsApp are suffering from ongoing, global outages.
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OCTOBER 11, 2021
Software today is built on a combination of open source and proprietary software packages. Developers can reuse and build on the packages created by others, which results in the rapid creation of new capabilities and technologies. Related: How SBOM factors into DevSecOps. This reuse creates dependencies, all of which don’t necessarily stay updated at the same pace.
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OCTOBER 5, 2021
An unnamed ransomware gang used a custom Python script to target VMware ESXi and encrypt all the virtual machines hosted on the server.
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OCTOBER 15, 2021
Even before Apple made its announcement , law enforcement shifted their battle for backdoors to client-side scanning. The idea is that they wouldn’t touch the cryptography, but instead eavesdrop on communications and systems before encryption or after decryption.
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OCTOBER 4, 2021
DSCI: Ransomware Alkhal Likely Spread Via Phishing, Malicious URLs The Data Security Council of India has issued an advisory about newly discovered ransomware Alkhal, which uses a strong encryption tool and has no known decryptor to recover lost data. The ransomware was likely discovered on Oct.
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OCTOBER 14, 2021
On Wednesday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran a story about how its staff discovered and reported a security vulnerability in a Missouri state education website that exposed the Social Security numbers of 100,000 elementary and secondary teachers. In a press conference this morning, Missouri Gov.
The Last Watchdog
OCTOBER 4, 2021
It is no secret that there is, and has been for some time, a shortage of trained cyber security professionals in corporate IT Security teams. The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania observed that “nowhere is the workforce-skills gap more pronounced than in cybersecurity.”. Related: Deploying ‘human’ sensors’ According to data gathered by CyberSeek under a Commerce Department grant, there are currently nearly 465,000 unfilled cyber jobs across the US alone.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 9, 2021
Security expert Dhiraj Mishra published an NMAP script for the CVE-2021-41773 Path Traversal vulnerability affecting Apache Web Server version 2.4.49.
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OCTOBER 11, 2021
It’s not actually banned in the EU yet — the legislative process is much more complicated than that — but it’s a step: a total ban on biometric mass surveillance.
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OCTOBER 13, 2021
Google's online malware scanning service analyzed 80 million ransomware samples that were uploaded in the past year-and-a-half
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OCTOBER 6, 2021
Reports: Platform's Entire Source Code Compromised in 125GB Leak Amazon-owned video streaming service Twitch, which focuses on video games and e-sports broadcasts, reportedly suffered a massive data breach, which the company vaguely confirmed via Twitter.
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OCTOBER 13, 2021
A recent phishing campaign targeting Coinbase users shows thieves are getting cleverer about phishing one-time passwords (OTPs) needed to complete the login process.
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OCTOBER 13, 2021
In recent years, brands have started butting up against the line between convenience and privacy. Shoppers love the convenience of personalized experiences that their data powers, but then horror stories such as the Cambridge Analytica scandal make people skeptical about how much information companies should be collecting and sharing. Related: Apple battles Facebook over consumer privacy.
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OCTOBER 6, 2021
Resecurity researchers dumped Gigabytes of data from Agent Tesla C2Cs, one of the most well-known cyberespionage tools suffers a data leakage.
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OCTOBER 5, 2021
Spending money you hadn’t budgeted to hire experts to clean up an unexpected mess is at the bottom of every manager’s wish list, but in the case of a cyber attack as damaging as ransomware , turning incident response over to a pro may be the best thing you can do.
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OCTOBER 13, 2021
The group, which conducts espionage and sows disinformation, is larger than previously thought and has shifted tactics
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OCTOBER 6, 2021
FDA Warns Exploitation of Security Flaw Could Cause Death The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday issued a warning notifying patients that medical device maker Medtronic has expanded a recall of remote controllers for certain wireless insulin pumps that were part of an earlier recall.
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OCTOBER 15, 2021
The governor warned that he would take legal action against a journalist who identified a vulnerability that exposed teachers' Social Security numbers. Security Security / Security News
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OCTOBER 11, 2021
The NSA issued a technical advisory to warn organizations against the use of wildcard TLS certificates and the new ALPACA TLS attack. The National Security Agency (NSA) is warning organizations against the use of wildcard TLS certificates and the new ALPACA TLS attack.
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OCTOBER 12, 2021
I feel sorry for the accused : The “security incident” that forced a New-York bound flight to make an emergency landing at LaGuardia Airport on Saturday turned out to be a misunderstanding — after an airline passenger mistook another traveler’s camera for a bomb, sources said Sunday.
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OCTOBER 4, 2021
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OCTOBER 2, 2021
Sarwent Malware Can Execute Remote Tasks Fraudsters are impersonating Amnesty International by building a fake site to distribute malware purporting to be an anti-virus tool to protect against the NSO Group's Pegasus tool, according to researchers at Cisco Talos
Krebs on Security
OCTOBER 12, 2021
Microsoft today issued updates to plug more than 70 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, including one vulnerability that is already being exploited. This month’s Patch Tuesday also includes security fixes for the newly released Windows 11 operating system.
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OCTOBER 11, 2021
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OCTOBER 7, 2021
A proof of concept exploit for two authentication bypass vulnerabilities in Dahua cameras is available online, users are recommended to immediately apply updates.
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OCTOBER 1, 2021
The Wall Street Journal is reporting on a baby’s death at an Alabama hospital in 2019, which they argue was a direct result of the ransomware attack the hospital was undergoing.
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