The risk of becoming a victim of identity theft has never been greater We are increasingly living our lives in the digital realm. Whether we’re banking, purchasing or browsing, our daily activities are most likely taking place online. Not only has this sped up our efficiency, but it has also expanded our exposure show more ...
Researchers find current data protections strategies are failing to get the job done, and IT leaders are concerned, while a lack of qualified IT security talent hampers cyber-defense initiatives.
CISA says Federal Civilian Executive Branch systems were compromised through a Log4Shell vulnerability in an unpatched VMware Horizon server.
Stop chatty apps from oversharing and eliminate a hacker backdoor — train developers on "security first" while subjecting APIs to least-privilege zero-trust policies.
The socially engineered campaign used a legitimate domain to send phishing emails to large swaths of university targets.
Access to digital certificates would allow the Chinese-speaking espionage group to sign its custom malware and skate by security scanners.
A single device with malicious code can foil a networking protocol used by spacecraft, aircraft, and industrial control systems, resulting in unpredictable operations and possible failures.
To lay the groundwork for future growth, Akeyless closed a $65 million Series B round — $45.5 million in equity and $19.5 million in debt — led by NGP Capital with participation from Team8 Capital and Jerusalem Venture Partners.
Rapid7 researchers discovered several vulnerabilities in F5 BIG-IP and BIG-IQ devices running a customized distribution of CentOS. The experts also discovered several bypasses of security controls that F5 does not recognize as exploitable flaws.
DuckDuckGo for Android's 'App Tracking Protection' feature has reached open beta, allowing all Android users to block third-party trackers across all their installed apps.
Website security firm Sansec warned that almost 40% of Magento 2 websites are being targeted by the attacks, with hacking groups fighting each other over control of an infected site.
Failures in reporting cyber incidents at the U.S. Department of Defense risks leaving commanders in the dark about the effects hackers could have on their missions, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office.
In February 2022, the threat actors exploited Log4Shell for initial access to the organization’s unpatched VMware Horizon server. As part of their initial exploitation, CISA observed a connection to a known malicious IP address lasting 17.6 seconds.
The month-long operation took place in October and saw 19 countries involved in targeting criminal networks that were using stolen credit card information to order high-value goods from online shops.
The new investment round was led by Ballistic Ventures, with participation from Sierra Ventures, Cervin Ventures, and angel investors. This brings the total raised by the company to $25 million.
A senior Pentagon official on Wednesday said that Russia’s cyber personnel “underperformed” during the initial invasion of Ukraine, prompting it to ultimately rely less on digital attacks during the now months-long conflict than was expected.
Netwrix on Tuesday reported that 44% of financial institutions responding to its cloud security survey say their own IT staffs pose the biggest risk to data security in the cloud.
A server misconfiguration at a firm that provides medical claims processing for correctional facilities exposed sensitive information of nearly 600,000 inmates who received medical care during the last decade while incarcerated.
Domain registrar CSC on Tuesday reported that three out of four Forbes Global 2000 companies have implemented less than half of all domain security measures, exposing them to high-security risks.
PyPI, an open-source repository used by developers to share Python packages used in projects, is an increasingly popular target in software supply chain attacks for uploading malicious code via fake packages.
As the HHS moves toward greater interoperability across the healthcare sector, the agency must make greater efforts to modernize its approach to cybersecurity, according to a new report from the Office of the Inspector General.
TA542, an actor that distributes Emotet malware, has once again returned from an extensive break from delivering malicious emails. The actor was absent from the landscape for nearly four months but became active again in early November.
This Metasploit module exploits the Git fetch command in the Gitea repository migration process to allow for remote command execution on the system. This vulnerability affect Gitea versions prior to 1.16.7.
Botan is a C++ library of cryptographic algorithms, including AES, DES, SHA-1, RSA, DSA, Diffie-Hellman, and many others. It also supports X.509 certificates and CRLs, and PKCS #10 certificate requests, and has a high level filter/pipe message processing system. The library is easily portable to most systems and compilers, and includes a substantial tutorial and API reference. This is the current stable release.
Debian Linux Security Advisory 5283-1 - Several flaws were discovered in jackson-databind, a fast and powerful JSON library for Java.
Debian Linux Security Advisory 5279-2 - Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Wordpress, a web blogging tool. They allowed remote attackers to perform SQL injection, create open redirects, bypass authorization access, or perform Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) or Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks. The show more ...
Ubuntu Security Notice 5729-1 - It was discovered that a race condition existed in the instruction emulator of the Linux kernel on Arm 64-bit systems. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. Hsin-Wei Hung discovered that the BPF subsystem in the Linux kernel contained an out-of-bounds read show more ...
Ubuntu Security Notice 5727-1 - It was discovered that a race condition existed in the instruction emulator of the Linux kernel on Arm 64-bit systems. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. It was discovered that the KVM implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle virtual CPUs show more ...
Ubuntu Security Notice 5728-1 - Jann Horn discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly track memory allocations for anonymous VMA mappings in some situations, leading to potential data structure reuse. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. It was show more ...
Debian Linux Security Advisory 5282-1 - Multiple security issues have been found in the Mozilla Firefox web browser, which could potentially result in the execution of arbitrary code, information disclosure, spoofing or bypass of the SameSite cookie policy.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-7435-01 - An update is now available for Logging subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift 5.4. Issues addressed include a denial of service vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-8502-01 - The ovirt-engine package provides the Red Hat Virtualization Manager, a centralized management platform that allows system administrators to view and manage virtual machines. The Manager provides a comprehensive range of features including search capabilities, resource management, live migrations, and virtual infrastructure provisioning.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-8506-01 - Red Hat Satellite is a systems management tool for Linux-based infrastructure. It allows for provisioning, remote management, and monitoring of multiple Linux deployments with a single centralized tool. Issues addressed include code execution, cross site scripting, denial of service, remote SQL injection, and traversal vulnerabilities.
Online fraud prevention company predicts Cyber Monday will see a 100% increase in online fraud attempts.
Unified data layer enables continuous platform updates.
A Ukrainian national who has been wanted by the U.S for over a decade has been arrested by Swiss authorities for his role in a notorious cybercriminal ring that stole millions of dollars from victims' bank accounts using malware called Zeus. Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov, who went by online pseudonyms show more ...
On average, organizations report using 102 business-critical SaaS applications, enabling operations of most departments across an organization, such as IT and Security, Sales, Marketing, R&D, Product Management, HR, Legal, Finance, and Enablement. An attack can come from any app, no matter how robust the app is.Without visibility and control over a critical mass of an organization’s entire SaaS
Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in F5 BIG-IP and BIG-IQ devices that, if successfully exploited, to completely compromise affected systems. Cybersecurity firm Rapid7 said the flaws could be abused to remote access to the devices and defeat security constraints. The issues impact BIG-IP versions 13.x, 14.x, 15.x, 16.x, and 17.x, and BIG-IQ Centralized Management versions 7.x
Iranian government-sponsored threat actors have been blamed for compromising a U.S. federal agency by taking advantage of the Log4Shell vulnerability in an unpatched VMware Horizon server. The details, which were shared by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), come in response to incident response efforts undertaken by the authority from mid-June through mid-July 2022
Hackers tied to the North Korean government have been observed using an updated version of a backdoor known as Dtrack targeting a wide range of industries in Germany, Brazil, India, Italy, Mexico, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the U.S. "Dtrack allows criminals to upload, download, start or delete files on the victim host," Kaspersky researchers Konstantin Zykov and Jornt van der Wiel
A China-based financially motivated group is leveraging the trust associated with popular international brands to orchestrate a large-scale phishing campaign dating back as far as 2019. The threat actor, dubbed Fangxiao by Cyjax, is said to have registered over 42,000 imposter domains, with initial activity observed in 2017. "It targets businesses in multiple verticals including retail, banking,
Elon Musk is still causing chaos at Twitter (and it's beginning to impact users), are scammers selling your house without your permission, and Google gets stung with a record-breaking fine. All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning "Smashing Security" podcast by show more ...
