For a change, we’re not going to talk about information security today. Instead, this is about industrial data analysis at the Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant (ChelPipe). Out of the blue? Not really. It’s actually another area of application for our innovations, and it goes by the name “trusted show more ...
The Taiwanese hardware vendor urged customers last week to update the firmware and apps installed on their network-attached storage (NAS) devices to avoid infections with the new AgeLocker ransomware.
Many schools use unmanaged computers that are prone to vulnerabilities, creating countless opportunities for cybercriminals to use those devices as an attack vector to the internal network.
Cisco Talos is tracking a spike in exploitation attempts against the Microsoft vulnerability CVE-2020-1472, a privilege escalation bug in Netlogon, outlined in the August Patch Tuesday report.
The Defending the Integrity of Voting Systems Act was unanimously approved by the House of Representatives last week after gaining a green light from the Senate last year.
Twitter Inc appointed Rinki Sethi, a former information security executive at IBM, as its chief information security officer, the social media company said in a tweet here on Monday.
With today's news of the attack on CMA CGM, this now means that all of the four biggest maritime shipping companies in the world have been hit by cyber-attacks in the past four years, since 2017.
The FBI Private Industry Notification says greater use of botnets enables cybercriminals and fraudsters to quickly hit many targets in search of finding credentials that work.
Cybersecurity is the number one technology priority for planned digital transformation projects as businesses adapt to a surge in remote working as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
As online users become increasingly aware of and use multifactor authentication (MFA), attackers are devising new ways to circumvent the technology — and often with great success.
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has imposed a $6.85m penalty on Premera Blue Cross to resolve potential violations of the HIPAA Act.
An ongoing phishing attack puts pressure on enterprise employees to upgrade their Windows 7 systems – but in reality, they are redirected to a fake Outlook login page that steals their credentials.
The agencies warned that U.S. voter information is widely available through other avenues than illegal hacking, and that access to voter information had not impacted election results.
The TeamTNT hacking group has been previously documented using several tools including crypto-miners and credential-stealing worms to target instances on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
The lifecycle of a good cybersecurity idea may start with tech, but it requires a powerful infusion of foresight and listening to make it through investor and customer pipelines.
Of the thousands of notifications Microsoft made to customers about state-linked hacking activity from mid-2019 to mid-2020, NGOs accounted for 32% of alerts, the company said in a recent report.
“Swatch Group confirms that it has identified clear signs of a developing cyber-attack on some of its IT systems during the weekend,” the company said in an emailed statement.
Locking doctors out of patient records could easily have life-or-death consequences. If a hospital had to pay a ransom to unlock its systems, perhaps it couldn’t buy additional ventilators.
Researchers have observed a surge in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks throughout the course of this year, and the attacks are getting more powerful and more disruptive.
To be managed by the Department of Premier and Cabinet's Office of Digital Government, the center will provide further support to existing cybersecurity efforts across government.
Martin Hron, a senior researcher at security firm Avast, hacked the iKettle coffee maker’s third version, which costs $230, and installed ransomware, without compromising the network or router.
The developers noted that SHA-1 algorithm is still widely used, despite the availability of alternatives such as SHA-2, support by OpenSSH since the 7.2 release, and others supported for even longer.
The illegal release late last week of sensitive information from the Clark County School District in Las Vegas, with about 320,000 students, demonstrates an escalation in tactics for hackers.
The Pakistan-linked hacker group, Transparent Tribe, is reportedly behind the attack campaign aimed at stealing critical infrastructure and strategic data via phishing emails, from Indian targets.
On September 28, a federal jury in Frankfort, Kentucky found the Bulgarian national guilty of one count of conspiracy to commit racketeering and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.
Text storage service Pastebin last week announced the introduction of two new security features, but some industry professionals believe they will likely be abused by malicious actors.
Symantec discovered a cyber-espionage campaign that is using new malware to infiltrate targets around the world including organizations in media, finance, construction, and engineering.
Cyber espionage groups increasingly use cloud-based services and open source tools to create their infrastructure for gathering data and cyberattacks, attempting to hide their activities.
Two of the most popular flight tracking websites, Flightradar24 and PlaneFinder had their service disrupted after consecutively suffering multiple seemingly well-organized cyberattacks.
The Silicon Valley cybersecurity giant filed Monday for an IPO on the Nasdaq, a move that would separate the company from buyout firm TPG, which spun off McAfee from Intel in 2017.
First reported on the HackerOne bug bounty platform by security researcher William Bowling, the new prototype pollution vulnerability was found in a JavaScript file used to host content from Wistia.
Arista Networks will acquire Awake Security for an undisclosed amount in a deal that gives the networking vendor a network detection and response (NDR) security platform.
While the spyware previously targeted Windows, iOS, and Android users, researchers have discovered the recent FinSpy campaigns using new variants that target macOS and Linux users.
A cybercriminal group has been discovered launching brute-force attacks on thousands of MSSQL servers to deploy a cryptomining malware dubbed MrbMiner in compromised systems.
A Kaspersky report found that during the first half of 2020 the percentage of systems attacked in the oil and gas and building automation industries increased as compared to H2 2019.
A total of 17 Joker-infected apps were removed from Google Play Store. The apps were designed to steal SMS messages, contact lists, device information, and conduct WAP billing fraud.
CloudMe version 1.11.2 exploit that uses MSVCRT.System to create a new user (boku:0v3R9000!) and add the new user to the Administrators group. A requirement of successful exploitation is the CloudMe.exe process must be running as administrator.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2020-4059-01 - Kernel-based Virtual Machine offers a full virtualization solution for Linux on numerous hardware platforms. The virt:rhel module contains packages which provide user-space components used to run virtual machines using KVM. The packages also provide APIs for managing and show more ...
Red Hat Security Advisory 2020-4047-01 - Kernel-based Virtual Machine is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm-ma packages provide the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM on the IBM z Systems, IBM Power, and 64-bit ARM architectures.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2020-4051-01 - Kernel-based Virtual Machine is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm packages provide the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2020-4050-01 - Kernel-based Virtual Machine is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm packages provide the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2020-4049-01 - Kernel-based Virtual Machine offers a full virtualization solution for Linux on numerous hardware platforms. The virt:rhel module contains packages which provide user-space components used to run virtual machines using KVM. The packages also provide APIs for managing and interacting with the virtualized systems.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2020-4048-01 - Kernel-based Virtual Machine is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm packages provide the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2020-4055-01 - Kernel-based Virtual Machine is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm packages provide the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2020-4058-01 - Kernel-based Virtual Machine offers a full virtualization solution for Linux on numerous hardware platforms. The virt:rhel module contains packages which provide user-space components used to run virtual machines using KVM. The packages also provide APIs for managing and interacting with the virtualized systems.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2020-4054-01 - Kernel-based Virtual Machine is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm packages provide the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM.
Ubuntu Security Notice 4547-2 - It was discovered that the LibVNCClient vendored in SSVNC incorrectly handled certain packet lengths. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information, cause a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code.
I am sure that many of you have by now heard of a recently disclosed critical Windows server vulnerability—called Zerologon—that could let hackers completely take over enterprise networks. For those unaware, in brief, all supported versions of the Windows Server operating systems are vulnerable to a critical privilege escalation bug that resides in the Netlogon Remote Control Protocol for Domain
Shibu Philip has done a great service. Now everyone knows to steer well clear of working for him or his company Transcend.
Reading Time: ~ 2 min. DHS Announces Massive Increase in LokiBot Attacks By monitoring and tracking of cyberattacks over 2020, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials have uncovered a significant increase in cyberattacks being carried out by LokiBot, a malicious info-stealer of stored passwords and show more ...
