Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

A high severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-3437 , in HP OMEN laptop and desktop gaming computers exposes millions of systems to DoS and privilege escalation attacks. “Potential security vulnerabilities have been identified in an OMEN Gaming Hub SDK package which may allow escalation of privilege and/or denial of service.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2021

The root cause for the hack of the New Zealand Central Bank was the Accellion FTA (File Transfer Application) file sharing service. During the weekend, the New Zealand central bank announced that a cyber attack hit its infrastructure. “The Reserve Bank of New Zealand – Te P?tea Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 7, 2023

Kali Linux is a popular pentesting distribution maintained by Offensive Security (OffSec), a 15-year-old private security company. Kali contains scanners, sniffers, and many other attacking tools. The OS can power a full pentest session or more specific attacks. Kali is built for pentesting only.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 7, 2019

In 2019, and moving ahead, look for legacy IT business networks to increasingly intersect with a new class of networks dedicated to controlling the operations of a IoT-enabled services of all types, including smart buildings, IoT-enabled healthcare services and driverless cars. Related: Why the golden age of cyber espionage is upon us.

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KnowBe4

JUNE 13, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #24 | June 13th, 2023 [The Mind's Bias] Pretexting Now Tops Phishing in Social Engineering Attacks The New Verizon DBIR is a treasure trove of data. A social attack known as BEC, or business email compromise, can be quite intricate.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2019

Operators behind the Echobot botnet added new exploits to infect IoT devices, and also enterprise apps Oracle WebLogic and VMware SD-Wan. At the time of its discovery, operators added 8 new exploits, but currently, it includes 26 exploits. Most were well-known command execution vulnerabilities in various networked devices.”

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 22, 2019

While the benefits of DX are highly-touted , this shift has also spawned a whole new tier of unprecedented privacy and security challenges. People are taking the development, building and management of applications and moving it into a new phenomenon called containers,” Byron says. “The

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 22, 2021

Advanced technologies and fresh security frameworks are being implemented to deter cyber attacks out at the services edge, where all the action is. Organizations today must withstand a constant barrage of cyber attacks. Network security is in the throes of a metamorphosis. Related: Automating security-by-design in SecOps.

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Data Protection Report

JULY 12, 2022

On June 20, 2022, the New York Attorney General (NYAG) announced a consent agreement (called an Assurance of Discontinuance ) with Northeast grocery chain Wegmans for, among other things, violations of the SHIELD Act requirements. Wegmans does not confirm or deny the NYAG’s findings.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 1, 2019

Authorities charged the 33-year-old former Amazon software engineer with masterminding the hack. Capital One’s mea culpa coincided with the FBI’s early morning raid of a Seattle residence to arrest Paige Thompson. Many more lawsuits, as well as federal probes and Congressional hearings, are sure to follow.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 14, 2020

The security risks inherent in Chinese-made 5G networking equipment are easy to understand. Since the internet, especially the "internet of things," is expected to rely heavily on 5G infrastructure, potential Chinese infiltration is a serious national security threat. Neither is banning Chinese microchips, software, or programmers.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2019

A new variant of the NRSMiner is infecting users in the southern region of Asia, most of the victims are in Vietnam (54%), Iran (16%) and Malaysia (12%). The new version leverages the EternalBlue exploit to spread, experts observed that the threat also updates existing NRSMiner installs. traduires[.]com exploit executable.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

Cayosin Botnet: a deeper look at this threat supported by the psychological profile of the “youngsters-wannabe-hackers” Rolex boasters. Or elsewhere the same threat actor pronounces a more blatantly made statement in a sentence that sounds like “I am not scared by the death, I am scared more to not live a pleasant life.”.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2018

As a result, we are stuck with hackable internet protocols, computers that are riddled with vulnerabilities and networks that are easily penetrated. As a result, we are stuck with hackable internet protocols, computers that are riddled with vulnerabilities and networks that are easily penetrated.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2023

The gang leverages exposed remote administration services and internet-facing vulnerabilities to gain and maintain access to victim networks. The gang leverages exposed remote administration services and internet-facing vulnerabilities to gain and maintain access to victim networks.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

It seems everything smart is hackable, with IoT startups sometimes repeating security mistakes first made decades ago. Raccoons are blind in the light, so they were effectively creating a denial of service attack upon themselves. How then does one start securing it? Vamosi: I once lived near a large urban park. Funny thing.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

It seems everything smart is hackable, with IoT startups sometimes repeating security mistakes first made decades ago. Raccoons are blind in the light, so they were effectively creating a denial of service attack upon themselves. How then does one start securing it? Vamosi: I once lived near a large urban park. Funny thing.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Importantly, none appeared to have suffered the sorts of attacks that typically preface a high-dollar crypto heist, such as the compromise of one’s email and/or mobile phone accounts. The threat actor moved stolen funds from multiple victims to the same blockchain addresses, making it possible to strongly link those victims.”

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

This week, we discuss a Bank of England cyber resilience exercise, the latest cyber security news from the US Office of Personnel Management, the highlights of this month’s Patch Tuesday, and a surprising admission by a Japanese cyber security minister. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 16 November.

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IT Governance

MARCH 27, 2019

But it’s not as though cyber crime is a new thing in the industry. You might remember that in April 2017, seven British banks, including Santander, Royal Bank of Scotland and Barclays, were forced offline following a series of attacks. million in October 2018 for failing to prevent a cyber attack that occurred the previous year.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 7, 2023

Threats to your data are virtually everywhere these days, and too often, data compromises seem almost inevitable. But with a proactive approach to data security, organizations can fight back against the seemingly endless waves of threats. Malware attacks via backdoors made up 21% of all incidents, and 17% were ransomware attacks.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 4, 2019

With the largest concentration of cybersecurity expertise –– the “oil” — in the world, Maryland is fast changing from the Old Line State into “Cybersecurity Valley.” The state counts approximately 109,000 cyber engineers. Two notable examples are Sourcefire, acquired by Cisco for $2.7B

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Adam Shostack

JULY 1, 2021

The US Government’s lead cybersecurity agencies (CISA, NSA, and ODNI) have released an interesting report, Potential Threat Vectors To 5G Infrastructure. Press release ), and I wanted to use this for a Threat Model Thursday, where we take a respectful look at threat modeling work products to see what we can learn.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

KrebsOnSecurity turns 13 years old today. Until recently, I was fairly active on Twitter , regularly tweeting to more than 350,000 followers about important security news and stories here. I will also continue to post on LinkedIn about new stories in 2023.

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Cyber Info Veritas

JUNE 25, 2018

Phishing, Trojans, ransomware, penetration attacks, Over WIFI attacks, and worms; these are some of the most common strategies used by hackers to gain access to your information or to get you to give them access to your private information. The company further projects that the attacks will grow by 430% (to about 3.1

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2019

The last days of March 2019 are making headlines due to a targeted cyber attack involving a new variant of infamous EMOTET malware. This threat is known as a banking trojan malware that collects financial information by injecting malicious code into a computer. EMOTET spread in Chile targeted financial and banking services.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The consistent implementation of firewall best practices establish a strong defense against cyber attacks to secure sensitive data, protect the integrity and continuity of business activities, and ensure network security measures function optimally. Why It Matters This approach protects against conflict with organizational requirements.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Then I sat down and talked to an astronomer, and found out that much of his time was spent writing proposals, getting shot down, then writing new proposals, then, once the proposal was approved by the department, negotiating time on the massive university telescope -- all of which means maybe you get a few hours of actual sky time each year.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Then I sat down and talked to an astronomer, and found out that much of his time was spent writing proposals, getting shot down, then writing new proposals, then, once the proposal was approved by the department, negotiating time on the massive university telescope -- all of which means maybe you get a few hours of actual sky time each year.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2024

As technology evolves and our dependence on digital systems increases, the cybersecurity threat landscape also rapidly changes, posing fresh challenges for organizations striving to protect their assets and data. A Dynamic, Complex Threat Landscape Today’s cyber threat landscape is characterized by its dynamic and complex nature.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 8, 2022

And if that means a bad actor can create a wireless key for your new Tesla, that price is pretty steep. At CanSecWest 2022, researcher Martin Herfurt announced a new tool, TeslaKee.com , which he hopes prevents wireless key attacks from happening. With digital convenience there’s often a price. So the car would start.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2021

A 24-year-old New York man who bragged about helping to steal more than $20 million worth of cryptocurrency from a technology executive has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. In January 2020, a New York grand jury criminally indicted Truglia (PDF) for his part in the crypto theft from Terpin.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Vendors regularly deliver feature updates, correct malfunctions, and issue security patches to improve the performance and eliminate security vulnerabilities in their products. Prompt adoption of these updates protects against threats and potentially improves the experience for users and can improve productivity for the organization.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

Or even basic low level threat analysis. Chris Gray of Deep Watch talks about the view from the inside of a virtual SOC, the ability to see threats against a large number of SMB organizations, and the changes to cyber insurance we’re seeing as a result. Small to Medium Business are, today, the target of APTs and ransomware.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 30, 2021

InsightIDR offers the complete approach to threat detection and response. Powered by insights from our MDR, research, and threat intelligence teams, InsightIDR combines the most impactful components of tech and service to aggregate and analyze data across logs, users, endpoints, and network to notify teams at the first signs of attack.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 4, 2023

But what happens when an incident happens to an organization that’s entirely in the cloud, where developers can spin up and spin down new instances ? How is it different, and why do we need to pay more attention to it today, before something major happens tomorrow. It’s 3am and the call comes in. There are the servers you control.

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KnowBe4

JULY 5, 2023

We've seen plenty of attacks that impersonated a single brand along with a few domains used to ensure victims can be taken to a website that seeks to harvest credentials or steal personal information. But I don't think an attack of such magnitude as the one identified by security researchers at Internet security monitoring vendor Bolster.

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