Once a niche pastime, the gaming industry (approaching its 50th anniversary) is now bigger than both Hollywood and the music industry — combined! To put this into perspective, so far this year more than 7000 titles have been released, eagerly awaited by around three billion gamers worldwide. You might spend only a show more ...
Insurance and legislation affect how enterprises balance between protecting against breaches and recovering from them.
The renowned security researcher, ethical hacker, and cybersecurity phenom was found Wednesday by the US Coast Guard.
AI will help enterprises scale cybersecurity defenses to handle the growing complexity of modern networks and increased number of cyberthreats.
While the ransomware-for-hire group works to create ever more efficient exploits, companies can protect themselves with structured vulnerability management processes. Prioritize threats based on severity and risk.
We can bridge that gap by spreading the word about the opportunities, the requirements, and the many tools available to help applicants break into the field.
Vulnerable people are lured by Facebook ads promising high-paying jobs, but instead they're held captive and put to work in Cambodia running cyber scams.
"SandStrike," the latest example of espionage-aimed Android malware, relies on elaborate social media efforts and back-end infrastructure.
A proposed plan to charge users for the platform's coveted blue check mark has, unsurprisingly, inspired attackers to try to dupe people into giving up their credentials.
An attack campaign using phishing attacks gives threat actors access to internal Dropbox code repositories, the latest in a series of attacks targeting developers through their GitHub accounts.
The now-patched RCE flaw in Cosmos DB's Jupyter Notebook feature highlights some of the weaknesses that can arise from emerging tech in the cloud-native and machine learning worlds.
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Jen Easterly has renewed a call for companies like Microsoft to stop marketing basic security features as add-ons to their core products.
After days of speculation, infosec professionals and armchair bug hunters received more of a trick than a treat on November 1: two CVE-tagged security issues, both rated "high" severity, to patch.
A phishing email impersonating the Hungarian government was discovered dropping Warzone RAT on Windows systems. Threat actors lure users into opening an attachment by telling them that their credentials have changed and the new ones have arrived in the attachment. The attached ZIP executable extracts the Warzone RAT and loads it into the memory.
Under 11% of respondents said they experienced a cyber intrusion in the last year, down from 15% in 2021, and 24% were confident that their systems weren't breached, up from 12% in 2021, as per a SANS Institute survey on behalf of Nozomi Networks.
A hospital in Osaka says it has suspended non-emergency outpatient services and operations following a ransomware cyberattack on its electronic medical record system. The facility has 36 departments and 865 beds.
A week before the midterm elections, CISA Director Jen Easterly said the Biden administration has done “everything we can” to protect election infrastructure and cautioned against overreactions to any voting mishaps on Election Day.
A family of malicious apps from the developer Mobile apps Group are listed on Google Play and infected with Android/Trojan.HiddenAds.BTGTHB. In total, four apps are listed, and together they have amassed at least one million downloads.
Ransomware attacks against U.K. hospitals and schools remained the biggest cybersecurity threat facing the country in 2022, the country’s cybersecurity agency warns, adding that these attacks are likely to surge in the coming months.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published two fact sheets designed to highlight threats against accounts and systems using certain forms of multi-factor authentication (MFA).
The Office of the National Cyber Director hosted a forum last week with government leaders and private companies, including both automakers and EV charging manufacturers, to discuss the cybersecurity issues facing EVs and the tech they operate on.
The cloud storage provider on Tuesday detailed the intrusion, and stated "no one's content, passwords, or payment information was accessed, and the issue was quickly resolved."
It is difficult to determine how serious countries are when they threaten “kinetic” responses to digital attacks. Yet, the ambiguity over if cyberattacks should be answered with military force only increases the risk of things going terribly wrong.
U.S. financial institutions observed nearly $1.2 billion in costs associated with ransomware attacks in 2021, a nearly 200 percent increase over the previous year, according to data reported by banks to the U.S. Treasury Department.
The financial group Santander issued its "Tackling Authorised Push Payment Fraud" Report this week, outlining its goals for enhanced collaboration between government, the private sector, and law enforcement.
In July 2022, after several months of the shutdown, a Raccoon Stealer V2 went viral. Last week, the Department of Justice's press release stated that the malware collected 50 million credentials.
Recovery isn't the only priority when ransomware hits. Careful planning, training and coordination among IT teams are critical to maintain business continuity during an attack.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been disclosed in Checkmk IT Infrastructure monitoring software that could be chained together by an unauthenticated, remote attacker to fully take over affected servers.
CISOs usually report to a high-level executive, but reporting to a top-level business executive like the CEO rather than a technology executive protects the business best.
The exposed database contained 215 million records of pseudonymized viewing data. This includes the name of the movie or show being streamed, the streaming device, and similar internal data such as subscription information and network quality.
Denmark is one of the most digitalized countries worldwide, with technologies used in the private and public sectors as well. This means that Denmark is also a target with a generous and attractive attack surface for threat actors.
Thales was added to the list of victims of the LockBit 3.0 group on October 31, the gang is threatening to publish stolen data by November 7, 2022, if the company will not pay the ransom.
According to a new report, almost half of Android phones used by U.S. state and local government employees are running outdated versions of the operating system, exposing them to hundreds of vulnerabilities that can be leveraged for attacks.
Vodafone Italia is sending customers notices of a data breach, informing that one of its commercial partners, FourB S.p.A., who operates as a reseller of telecommunications services in the country, has suffered a cyberattack.
In a blog post published today, Positive Security said the urlscan API came to its attention due to an email sent by GitHub in February, warning customers that GitHub Pages URLs had been accidentally leaked via a third party during metadata analysis.
In Apache CouchDB versions prior to 3.2.2, an attacker can access an improperly secured default installation without authenticating and gain admin privileges.
All FLIR AX8 thermal sensor cameras versions up to and including 1.46.16 are vulnerable to remote command injection. This can be exploited to inject and execute arbitrary shell commands as the root user through the id HTTP POST parameter in the res.php endpoint. This module uses the vulnerability to upload and execute payloads gaining root privileges.
In Webmin version 1.984, any authenticated low privilege user without access rights to the File Manager module could interact with file manager functionalities such as downloading files from remote URLs and changing file permissions. It is possible to achieve remote code execution via a crafted .cgi file by chaining those functionalities in the file manager.
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202211-1 - Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenSSL, the worst of which could result in remote code execution. Versions less than 3.0.7:0/3 are affected.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5711-1 - Yuchen Zeng and Eduardo Vela discovered that NTFS-3G incorrectly validated certain NTFS metadata. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to gain privileges.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-7272-01 - 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 ...
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-7201-01 - Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing Kubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments. This advisory contains the container images for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.11.12. Issues addressed include a code execution vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-7211-01 - Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing Kubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments. This advisory contains the container images for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.10.39. Issues addressed include a code execution vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-7273-01 - 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 ...
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-7288-01 - OpenSSL is a toolkit that implements the Secure Sockets Layer and Transport Layer Security protocols, as well as a full strength general purpose cryptography library. Issues addressed include a buffer overflow vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-7276-01 - Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.4.8 images Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes provides the capabilities to address common challenges that administrators and site reliability engineers face as they work across a range of public and private show more ...
Debian Linux Security Advisory 5268-1 - Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the FFmpeg multimedia framework, which could result in denial of service or potentially the execution of arbitrary code if malformed files/streams are processed.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-7280-01 - The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements. Issues addressed include privilege escalation and use-after-free vulnerabilities.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-7283-01 - KSBA is a library to make X.509 certificates as well as the CMS easily accessible by other applications. Both specifications are building blocks of S/MIME and TLS. Issues addressed include code execution and integer overflow vulnerabilities.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-7279-01 - The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Issues addressed include privilege escalation and use-after-free vulnerabilities.
OpenSSL is a robust, fully featured Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols with full-strength cryptography world-wide. The 3.x series is the current major version of OpenSSL.
OpenSSL is a robust, fully featured Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols with full-strength cryptography world-wide.
The project will advance understanding of how quantum-secure algorithms can be secured against side channel analysis through robust validation and countermeasures.
A well-crafted — and tested — disaster recovery plan can minimize downtime and is a key component of business continuity plans.
Cybersecurity concerns and education have not mitigated the overuse of the same passwords in 2022.
Report reveals new top sources of fake login page referrals, rise of fake third-party cloud apps used to trick users.
As vehicle security expands to cover cyber threats on the vehicle as well as the vehicle's external network, cross-industry collaboration and market opportunities are expected to increase.
New Aravo partnership provides organizations with comprehensive, standards-based third-party technical, financial, and compliance intelligence.
A previously undocumented Android spyware campaign has been found striking Persian-speaking individuals by masquerading as a seemingly harmless VPN application. Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky is tracking the campaign under the moniker SandStrike. It has not been attributed to any particular threat group. "SandStrike is distributed as a means to access resources about the Bahá'í religion
File hosting service Dropbox on Tuesday disclosed that it was the victim of a phishing campaign that allowed unidentified threat actors to gain unauthorized access to 130 of its source code repositories on GitHub. "These repositories included our own copies of third-party libraries slightly modified for use by Dropbox, internal prototypes, and some tools and configuration files used by the
Multiple vulnerabilities have been disclosed in Checkmk IT Infrastructure monitoring software that could be chained together by an unauthenticated, remote attacker to fully take over affected servers. "These vulnerabilities can be chained together by an unauthenticated, remote attacker to gain code execution on the server running Checkmk version 2.1.0p10 and lower," SonarSource researcher
A set of four Android apps released by the same developer has been discovered directing victims to malicious websites as part of an adware and information-stealing campaign. The apps, published by a developer named Mobile apps Group and currently available on the Play Store, have been collectively downloaded over one million times. According to Malwarebytes, the websites are designed to generate
Raccoon Stealer is back on the news again. US officials arrested Mark Sokolovsky, one of the malware actors behind this program. In July 2022, after several months of the shutdown, a Raccoon Stealer V2 went viral. Last week, the Department of Justice's press release stated that the malware collected 50 million credentials. This article will give a quick guide to the latest info stealer's version
