It is no secret that business cannot survive without innovation. To gain competitive advantage, companies must continually develop, introducing new processes, new technologies, new tools. Wholesale digitalization has affected innovation in at least two ways. On the one hand, it has prepared the ground to ease the way show more ...
One of the digital underground’s most popular stores for peddling stolen credit card information began selling a batch of more than three million new card records this week. KrebsOnSecurity has learned the data was stolen in a lengthy data breach at more than 100 Dickey’s Barbeque Restaurant locations show more ...
Ice Lake adds Intel Total Memory Encryption (Intel TME) to the Intel Xeon Scalable platform, to secure the data accessed from the CPU against hardware attacks by encrypting entire memory of a system.
Attackers created a Magento phishing page that used JavaScript to exfiltrate victims' login credentials. The page hosted what appeared to be a legitimate Magento 1.x login portal.
The $35 million funding round announced today saw participation from Ted Schlein, general partner at Kleiner Parkins, and Saam Motamedi and Asheem Chandna, general partners at Greylock.
This vulnerability resides within the Windows TCP/IP stack that is responsible for handling RA packets. Current exploitation leads to denial of service with the possibility of remote code execution.
The ruling by District Court for Northern District of Georgia represented a setback for election integrity advocates who contend that Georgia’s machines have not been secure enough, and still aren’t.
Twitter suffered from cybersecurity shortfalls that enabled a “simple” hack attributed to a Florida teenager to take over accounts of several public figures in July, according to a new report.
Coronavirus-related email subjects continue to dominate phishing campaigns, remaining the primary threat, with over half of phishing emails containing some information related to COVID-19 pandemic.
The winners of the fifth annual Security Serious Unsung Heroes Awards have been announced. The awards celebrate the people making a difference within the cybersecurity industry.
The DVLA said it submitted 181 breach notifications to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) across 2019-20. By contrast, the Home Office submitted just 25 during the period.
The SolarSys framework, which is mainly active in Brazil, is mainly composed of JavaScript backdoors, mail worms, and multiple spy modules. It uses the DGA algorithm to generate domain names randomly.
Launched last year as the foundation of IBM's open security strategy, Cloud Pak for Security is designed to glean threat information and insights from various sources without having to move data.
The flaw (CVE-2020-5135) is a stack-based buffer overflow in the SonicWall Network Security Appliance (NSA). It could also open the door to remote code execution (RCE), researchers said.
The number of ads on hacking forums selling access to compromised IT networks has tripled in September 2020, compared to the previous month, according to research by KELA.
According to a new Sophos study, after being hit by ransomware, and a third (35%) of victims reported recruiting and retaining skilled IT security professionals as their single biggest challenge.
With both security budgets and talent pools negatively affected by the ongoing pandemic, state and local governments are struggling to cope with the constant wave of cyber threats, as per Deloitte.
Cybercriminal groups are increasingly gravitating towards ransomware, while evolving more and more towards a cooperative cartel model, according to new research from threat intelligence firms.
A spokeswoman for the prosecutors’ office said authorities searched offices and homes linked to the company around Munich and a subsidiary in Romania from October 6 to 8.
The newly formed 16-member Cyber Investigations Advisory Board (CIAB) will provide the Secret Service’s Office of Investigations with outside strategic input for the agency’s investigative mission.
Research on Interplanetary Storm has revealed that threat actors are both proficient in using Golang and development best practices, and well-versed at concealment of management nodes.
The unprotected bucket contains more than 2.5 million user records, including full names, email addresses, genders, interests, location coordinates, last login dates, selfies, and document photos.
According to a recent global study of cybersecurity professionals by the ISSA and analyst firm ESG, there has been no significant progress towards a solution to this problem in the last four years.
Since its initial discovery in 2018, Kaspersky identified three different malware families related to the IAmTheKing threat actor, including KingOfHearts, QueenOfHearts, and QueenOfClubs.
Some customers were unable to access their Nook libraries, some previous purchases had vanished, others were not able to log in to the firm's online platform, and connectivity issues ran rampant.
A report published by Accenture warns that the kind of criminal groups behind most damaging ransomware attacks now have more options than ever for accessing corporate networks.
Scams can arrive via various routes – on the doorstep, via phone calls or SMS texts, but it’s even easier for fraudsters to target victims by making their initial contact via email or social media.
Researchers who uncover vulnerabilities can make between $50 and $14,800, depending on the severity of the flaw. TikTok has previously worked with security research companies to fix flaws they found.
The bug, found by a security researcher at Netherlands-based start-up Securify, could be triggered by passing objects containing malicious code to a Servlet component of QRadar Community Edition.
Sonrai Security secured $20M in series B funding in a round led by Menlo Ventures, with full participation from founding investor Polaris Partners and Series A lead investor Ten Eleven Ventures.
Iran’s cybersecurity authority acknowledged cyberattacks on two governmental departments on Tuesday and Wednesday this week, the state-owned IRAN daily newspaper reported.
Emotet operators change email subject lines, the text in the email body, the file attachment type, but also the content of the file attachment, which is as important as the rest of the email.
Unit 42 researchers took a closer look at four Mirai variants from two recently discovered campaigns leveraging command injection vulnerability exploits that reveal a familiar IoT attack pattern.
Digital transformation projects and cloud-first or cloud-smart paradigms are proliferating, both of which complicate monitoring and visibility and increase challenges for security teams.
BAE Systems unveiled a cyber-threat detection and mitigation solution for U.S. military platforms. The Fox Shield suite is designed to help detect, respond, and recover from cyberattacks in real-time.
62% of SMBs do not conduct a security audit at least once a year – and 14% never conduct an audit at all. 57% of SMBs indicated they have experienced a phishing attack in the last three years.
A tactic which has been around for a few years now, and frequently successful. Scammers will often pretend to be customer support reps, then insert themselves into support discussions on social media.
Almost 2,000 Robinhood Markets accounts were compromised in a recent hacking spree that siphoned off customer funds, a sign that the attacks were more widespread than was previously known.
New research from KnowBe4 has revealed that coronavirus-related phishing emails remained the most promising attack type during the third-quarter of 2020 and will continue to foray into the last quarter.
The TrickBot gang operators are increasingly targeting high-value targets with the new stealthy BazarLoader trojan before deploying the Ryuk ransomware. The game is getting bigger than ever!
GRR Rapid Response is an incident response framework focused on remote live forensics. The goal of GRR is to support forensics and investigations in a fast, scalable manner to allow analysts to quickly triage attacks and perform analysis remotely. GRR consists of 2 parts: client and server. GRR client is deployed on show more ...
This Metasploit module exploits CVE-2019-1458, an arbitrary pointer dereference vulnerability within win32k which occurs due to an uninitialized variable, which allows user mode attackers to write a limited amount of controlled data to an attacker controlled address in kernel memory. By utilizing this vulnerability to show more ...
Simple Grocery Store Sales and Inventory System 1.0 suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability that allows for authentication bypass.
Zoo Management System version 1.0 suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability that allows for authentication bypass.
The COVID-19 outreach is turning out to be not only health, social, and economic hazard but also a cybersecurity crisis. The pandemic has presented new challenges for businesses in the areas of remote collaboration and business continuity. With increased remote working for better business continuity, employees are using numerous Internet tools. As businesses and people have started relying more
We're in celebratory mood as we celebrate our 200th episode, but there's still time to discuss Fatima the ballerina who the UK government wants to become a cybersecurity expert, why women are quitting the tech industry, and a smartwatch which might be putting your kids at risk. All this and much more is show more ...
Hackney Council in London is keeping surprisingly schtum about what is actually going on behind-the-scenes of its "serious cyber attack".
Many thanks to the great folks at Recorded Future, who are sponsoring my writing this week. Recorded Future empowers your organization, revealing unknown threats before they impact your business, and helping your teams respond to alerts 10 times faster. How does it do this? By automatically collecting and analyzing show more ...
From the as-if-you-didn’t-have-enough-to-worry-about-in-2020 department, the FBI has warned that scammers are attempting to defraud the public by exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
American bookselling giant Barnes & Noble is contacting customers via email, warning them that its network was breached by hackers, and that sensitive information about shoppers may have been accessed. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
