Other companies frequently call in our experts for emergency assistance with incident response, to conduct (or help conduct) investigations, or to analyze cybercriminals’ tools. Throughout 2020, we collected a wealth of data for a view on the modern threat landscape that helps us predict the most likely attack show more ...
We kick off episode 222 of the Transatlantic Cable podcast with a discussion of the recent Facebook outage, including possible causes. Sticking with Facebook, we delve into the whistleblower story and details being leaked about the social media behemoth. From there, we move on to concerning news about a recent show more ...
Pondurance CISO Dustin Hutchison joins me to talk about how companies can operationalize MDR within their environment. The post Spotlight: Operationalizing MDR with Pondurance CISO Dustin Hutchison appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Roberts. Click the icon below to listen. Related StoriesSpotlight: show more ...
Pondurance CISO Dustin Hutchison joins me to talk about how companies can operationalize MDR within their environment. The post Spotlight: Operationalizing MDR with Pondurance CISO Dustin Hutchinson appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Roberts. Click the icon below to listen. Related StoriesSpotlight: show more ...
Mondoo, a startup that provides security tools for DevOps teams, has raised $15 million in funding ($12 million in a new Series A round, and $3 million from a previously undisclosed seed round).
Amnesty revealed how fake Android applications and spyware-loaded emails tied to the notorious Donot Team hacker group were used to target a prominent Togolese human rights defender.
Unrelated to other recent problems Facebook has had, this particular batch of data was scraped from profiles, meaning it's publicly available knowledge. That doesn't stop it from being dangerous.
The MyBB team said that validation attempts made through the CAPTCHAs, when implemented on a forum, may “appear broken and the verification can reject or accept attempts incorrectly”.
Singapore and Finland have inked an agreement to mutually recognize each country's cybersecurity labels for IoT devices, aimed at helping consumers assess the level of security in such products.
The upcoming changes will make it mandatory for rail, air companies to name a chief cyber official, disclose hacks to the government, and draft recovery plans if an attack were to occur.
Resecurity, Inc. and its cyber threat intelligence and R&D unit, HUNTER, drained the Agent Tesla Command & Control Servers (C2) and extracted over 950GB of logs, files, and other information.
This is a dramatic increase over the previous quarter and means that any organization that isn’t examining encrypted HTTPS traffic at the perimeter is missing a majority of all malware.
"At this time, we have no indication that login credentials have been exposed. Additionally, full credit card numbers are not stored by Twitch, so full credit card numbers were not exposed," it said.
The simulation centers around the discovery of malware from an advanced adversary which has gained access to a fictional organization’s systems after exploiting commonly used software.
Although there are different vectors of malware distribution, most of the current crop of ransomware threats targeting businesses in the CIS penetrate the victim’s network via RDP.
The list of the affected models is extensive and covers many of Dahua cameras, even some thermal ones. On Shodan, researchers found over 1.2 million Dahua systems around the world.
According to a report by National Cybersecurity Alliance and CybSafe, public response, and implementation of commonly known best practices including strong passwords, MFA and others are tepid at best.
Overall, 130 suspects were identified and 116 searches were conducted. The group is estimated to have caused losses of around $4 million for over 470 victims by posting fake property ads.
Making critical infrastructure more resilient to attacks will be one of four outcomes national security officials hope to achieve by hosting representatives from 30 countries in the coming weeks.
The agency observed, based on an interview with a LockBit ransomware operator, that the bad actors appeared to have a "contradictory code of ethics." Hospitals are considered easy targets, said HC3.
“For too long, companies have chosen silence under the mistaken belief that it’s less risky to hide a breach than to bring it forward and to report it. Well, that changes today,” the Deputy AG said.
A new ASEAN regional cybersecurity training centre that will see ASEAN member states work together to conduct research, share knowledge and train to respond to cyber threats.
Russia accounted for most state-sponsored hacking detected by Microsoft over the past year, with a 58% share, mostly targeting government agencies and think tanks in the United States.
Anthos Capital is leading the round with Section 32 also participating alongside Greylock and Moonshots Capital. Greylock led the company’s previous round in 2020. It has raised $65.5 million to date.
Cisco this week released patches for multiple high-severity vulnerabilities affecting its Web Security Appliance (WSA), Intersight Virtual Appliance, Small Business 220 switches, and other products.
A high-severity code injection vulnerability has been disclosed in 23andMe's Yamale, a schema and validator for YAML, that could be trivially exploited by adversaries to execute arbitrary Python code.
The claim of the breach came from an anonymous account on a hacking forum that, according to Vice, obtained access to the database from a supposed company called “X2Emails.”
Wireshark is a GTK+-based network protocol analyzer that lets you capture and interactively browse the contents of network frames. The goal of the project is to create a commercial-quality analyzer for Unix and Win32 and to give Wireshark features that are missing from closed-source sniffers. This is the source code release.
This Metasploit module exploits a file upload in VMware vCenter Server's analytics/telemetry (CEIP) service to write a system crontab and execute shell commands as the root user. Note that CEIP must be enabled for the target to be exploitable by this module. CEIP is enabled by default.
A heap out-of-bounds write affecting Linux since version 2.6.19-rc1 was discovered in net/netfilter/x_tables.c. This allows an attacker to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (via heap memory corruption) through user name space. Kernels up to and including 5.11 are vulnerable.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5105-1 - It was discovered that Bottle incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cache malicious requests.
The Call For Papers for nullcon Goa 2022 is now open. Nullcon is an information security conference held in Goa, India. The focus of the conference is to showcase the next generation of offensive and defensive security technology. It will take place in March of 2022.
Online Traffic Offense Management System version 1.0 suffers from multiple unauthenticated remote SQL injection vulnerabilities. Original discovery of SQL injection in this version is attributed to Justin White in August of 2021.
Online Traffic Offense Management System version 1.0 suffers from persistent and reflective cross site scripting vulnerabilities.
Online Traffic Offense Management System version 1.0 suffers from multiple remote shell upload vulnerabilities.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5106-1 - Valentina Palmiotti discovered that the io_uring subsystem in the Linux kernel could be coerced to free adjacent memory. A local attacker could use this to execute arbitrary code. It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly enforce certain types of entries in the Secure show more ...
Simple Online College Entrance Exam System version 1.0 suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability that allows for authentication bypass.
Online DJ Booking Management System version 1.0 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2021-3743-01 - Red Hat JBoss Web Server is a fully integrated and certified set of components for hosting Java web applications. It is comprised of the Apache Tomcat Servlet container, JBoss HTTP Connector, the PicketLink Vault extension for Apache Tomcat, and the Tomcat Native library. This show more ...
Windows/x86 bind TCP shellcode / dynamic PEB and EDT method null-free shellcode. This a bind tcp shellcode that open a listen socket on 0.0.0.0 and port 1337. In order to accomplish this task the shellcode uses the PEB method to locate the baseAddress of the required module and the Export Directory Table to locate show more ...
Google SLO-Generator versions 2.0.0 and below suffer from a code execution vulnerability.
Interactive livestreaming platform Twitch acknowledged a "breach" after an anonymous poster on the 4chan messaging board leaked its source code, an unreleased Steam competitor from Amazon Game Studios, details of creator payouts, proprietary software development kits, and other internal tools. The Amazon-owned service said it's "working with urgency to understand the extent of this," adding the
Communication is a vital skill for any leader at an organization, regardless of seniority. For security leaders, this goes double. Communicating clearly works on multiple levels. On the one hand, security leaders and CISOs must be able to communicate strategies clearly – instructions, incident response plans, and security policies. On the other, they must be able to communicate the importance of
The U.S. government on Wednesday announced the formation of a new Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative that aims to hold contractors accountable for failing to meet required cybersecurity requirements in order to safeguard public sector information and infrastructure. "For too long, companies have chosen silence under the mistaken belief that it is less risky to hide a breach than to bring it forward
All third-party iOS, iPadOS, and macOS apps that allow users to create an account should also provide a method for terminating their accounts from within the apps beginning next year, Apple said on Wednesday. "This requirement applies to all app submissions starting January 31, 2022," the iPhone maker said, urging developers to "review any laws that may require you to maintain certain types of
A high-severity code injection vulnerability has been disclosed in 23andMe's Yamale, a schema and validator for YAML, that could be trivially exploited by adversaries to execute arbitrary Python code. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-38305 (CVSS score: 7.8), involves manipulating the schema file provided as input to the tool to circumvent protections and achieve code execution. Particularly, the
So, you've been thinking about getting a Penetration Test done on your Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment. Great! What should that involve exactly? There are many options available, and knowing what you need will help you make your often limited security budget go as far as possible. Broadly, the key focus areas for most penetration tests involving AWS: Your externally accessible cloud
Facebook suffers a massive (and very public) failure, Britain announces plans for counter-attacking nation states in cyberspace, and there’s a tragic story related to ransomware. All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast by computer show more ...
Organisations who find their networks hit by a ransomware attack may soon have to disclose within 48 hours any payments to their extortionists. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
The UK High Court has determined that the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum, had his ex-wife's smartphone hacked with the notorious Pegasus spyware, sold by the equally notorious NSO Group. But what I find particularly fascinating is who blew the whistle...
